I would just like to check - we are in the 21st century, right? A time of great advances in technology, what with iPods, iPhones, satnavs, computers - things that make life a little easier... stuff like that. So, if we can send a man to the moon, if we can enable people to connect to the internet without wires, if we can have a little grey box fire forth instructions on how to get from A to B (including advising us of whether we are over the speed limit, or where the next red light camera is) - then why on earth can't I have a hot shower at home?
Yes, people, for some strange reason the hotwater system here has packed it in, and we have no hot water. And I have my first proper day of teaching tomorrow - when all the kids are back in school. And no shower.
This actually happened yesterday, and the solution was, seeing as I was already at Mel's house for dinner, to have a quick shower there. That was ok, because it looked like the situation would be resolved today. However, upon my return from my first day at school (with Yr 8s and Yr 12s only in school), I was absolutely flabbergasted to find that we still had no hot water - and that our solution was to - ready for this? Go down to the boat and use the shower on there!
Yeah, right. That shower is ok when you're away on holidays, sailing away somewhere, and you don't actually care what you look like because, let's face it, who's going to see you? Or to rephrase, who's going to see you who you will actually see again? Obviously, no-one! But in my situation, I'm meeting my new students for the first time ever, I need to make a good first impression, as you never get to make a 'first' impression ever again - and I will do it after having showered in a cubicle where my hips practically touch the walls!
The alternative? A cold shower in the house.... anyone got any hot stuff please?
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