Water

February 25, 1983; It´s still very hot around here, though it is almost the end of summer. I don´t mind it, except that we have to wash ourselves several times a day and even that isn´t enough. The shower in my Tia´s bathroom doesn´t work and there´s no money to fix it. On top of that, the water supply in this part of the provincia de Buenos Aires is rather iffy. How can people live like this? When we lived here before going to the U.S. we didn´t have this problem. In fact, when we got to California, we were always surprised when people asked us about life in the slums of Argentina. We didn´t live in one, we´d answer. San Vicente is nowhere near a slum, but the water could be better. I certainly don´t want to run into Padre Luis on one of our errands and have him think that I don´t care about hygiene.
Maybe I could give English lessons and pay a good plumber to fix the shower.