Hot Showers!

My Shower Head -- Yeah, I seriously put a
picture of it here.

A day of revelation. I've finally learned how to provide myself a HOT shower--follow me.

The shower head in my apartment is a self-heating unit that uses an electric heater to heat the water immediately before it comes out of the shower head. When I first saw a line covered in black electrical tape running into the same shower head that dumped water on me, I was pretty skeptical. Never have water and electricity gone well together in my books. Even worse, the second shower I took gave me quite the shock. Well, 2 shocks. The first being the cold water that refused to heat, and the second coming from trying to adjust the heat on the shower head. It gave me a nice little zap. The funnier part was when I described what I did to my friends, they acted like I was dumb for touching a shower head while I showered. "Yeah, don't touch it when it's on," they said.

My New Room

Anyway, today when I complained about never having hot water in the shower, Laís told to keep the water pressure low so the water could heat before falling out of the nozzle. Genius, huh? I would have taken cold showers for 3 more months and never have thought of keeping the pressure low. I still find it funny that everything is so obvious to my friends and so new to me. When I showered at my friend's house a few days ago, he told me their water was really cold. He was absolutely right. No hot water. I guess it wakes you up pretty well each morning. I feel so lucky to finally know how to get hot water!