I have a well right outside my house, so I thought it would be easy and efficient to get a lot of water from the well and boil it to drink. That was my first mistake – it took over 3 hours to boil the water, meanwhile my mom had to go and fetch some firewood to make an outdoor fire so we could eat dinner that night while my giant pot of water monopolized the stove. The water didn’t cool until the morning, so I filled my 2 gallon water filter that the Peace Corps gives us to the brim and left for school all day, which was mistake #2. I came home from school to find all my boiled and filtered water on my floor…apparently my water filter leaks from a small hole in the bottom! I spent a good hour soaking up the water with my towel and ringing the water out in a bucket. Luckily, the duct tape I used to repair the hole is working somewhat now.
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