My Atlanta-based company keeps an apartment for the many people traveling to Bangalore to see our India counterparts.
My quarters are large and comfortable - I have my own bathroom, and my room is spacious and high-ceilinged with a bed, some large cupboards, a desk, and a flat screen TV i haven't used.
There are 3 other such suites and a large, minimally furnished common area - i like it a lot.
There's wifi and running water (although I can't drink it), although showers are interesting:
The running water isn't heated. To bathe I have a switch outside my bathroom to turn on a little overhead water heater. I turn it on about 20 minutes before i shower.
It only holds a couple gallons of hot water, and most of that comes out the lower spigot instead of the shower head, but I have a large bucket and smaller pitcher, so the shower goes like this:
My quarters are large and comfortable - I have my own bathroom, and my room is spacious and high-ceilinged with a bed, some large cupboards, a desk, and a flat screen TV i haven't used.
There are 3 other such suites and a large, minimally furnished common area - i like it a lot.
There's wifi and running water (although I can't drink it), although showers are interesting:
The running water isn't heated. To bathe I have a switch outside my bathroom to turn on a little overhead water heater. I turn it on about 20 minutes before i shower.
It only holds a couple gallons of hot water, and most of that comes out the lower spigot instead of the shower head, but I have a large bucket and smaller pitcher, so the shower goes like this:
- Turn on water, adjust to temperature
- Put big bucket under spigot to catch 80% of the water and use the shower head to get mostly wet and warm.
- Turn off water as the bucket is nearly full and the hot water is nearly gone.
- Soap up.
- Pour pitcher after pitcher of water from the bucket over your head to wash off the soap/shampoo.
- When done there might be some more water heated up, so you can get about 30-60 seconds more shower in.
It's definitely not as luxurious as an American-style "stand there with hot water pounding on your back" type shower, but it has a simple pleasantness. Cooling down when the water is off is interspersed with the pleasant wave of warm water you pour with deliberate slowness. It's a briefer experience, but I at least am more conscious of it.
i'll be glad to have my normal shower back, but as inconvenient as the manual shower sounds, it's really not too bad. I find the greater inconvenience trying to keep the water out of my eyes and mouth.
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