the art of the bucket bath

For those of you who may be bucket bath naive, we thought we would document for you the art of taking a bucket bath.

Step one, fill your bucket about 1/4 full with water from the jerry can sitting outside of your hut, placed there oh so nicely everyday by the workers.

Step two, carry your bucket along with your towel, toiletry bag, and clean clothing to the latrine/bathing area.

Step three, hang said belongings on the few nails on the door of the bathing stall (using extra caution to secure them well- especially if they happen to be of white color)

Step four, scoop the water out with the cup and rinse off the first layer of dirt.

Step five, lather with soap (one would normally do this without clothing on but because Hannah's parents will likely be reading this blog and it is a family friendly blog, we opted for clothing on for demonstration purposes).

Step six, repeat steps four and five multiple times, concentrating on the areas normally closest to the red dirt of Uganda aka the feet.

Step seven, attempt to put on clean clothes without them falling in the wet/dirty floor.

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Our thanks to the lovely Hannah Bingham for the free use of her modeling skills for this learning experience.