Day Nine—Bukoba (5/29)
We woke up this morning to an awesome storm, with wind and rain and fantastic lightning. We managed to collect some rainwater, which we later filtered and boiled. Alas, we still had no running water, but continued to make do. We filled buckets with lake water and used them to fill the toilet tanks so that we had useable toilets inside the house! We also did laundry with the lake water today. A few of us were sitting outside on the back porch just reading and relaxing when a resounding cry emanated from inside the house – “Water! We have water!” I’d never realized just how nice it is to be able to have water flow freely from a faucet! We ended today by having a beach bonfire in front of the bandas, which was very nice.