Feeling sick, cisterns, and driving
Kendra here. I've been feeling kinda sick with stomach issues for almost a week. long story short, I ended up in the ER last night. The docs there think it may be related to drinking the tap water here, even though we'd filtered it.
All the rain here is collected in a cistern. I don't totally understand how it works, but my basic understanding is the rain water collects under the house and then stays in the cistern until we need it. Then when we turn the shower/tap on, the water pump gives us water from the cistern. This is the only source of water here, so we definitely have to conserve it. Also, when we have power outages - which seem to be frequent here - we have no water because the pump doesn't work without electricity.
Anyways, maybe there wasn't enough bleach in the cistern to keep the water kendra-friendly. But in the meantime, I'm on a bottled water, gatorade, apple sauce and jello diet. yummy! Hopefully I'll be all better soon so I can start enjoying Dave's cooking again! He's bbq-ing steak tonight for himself. Have I mentioned our amazing deck and awesome view?
We should have our household goods on Thursday. They were picked up in CA the last week of June, so, it's been awhile. We were hoping they'd have arrived while I was taking the bar exam so that Dave could have us all moved in by the time I got here, but no luck. Once we have our stuff unpacked, we'll get some photos up here.
Our car got here last week, and we've both taken turns driving here -- on the left hand side! I believe the USVI is the only US land where people drive on the left. Also unusual is that the cars here are standard American cars with the steering wheel on the left side.
Dave knows his way around much better than I do, but now that I've driven a little I'm learning my way around. The road signs and lines on the roads seem to be more suggestions than rules. People here are pretty patient drivers and very kind too. Drivers on busier streets actually slow down or stop to let someone make a turn across traffic that would otherwise take a really long time.
Time for some plain chicken broth!
All the rain here is collected in a cistern. I don't totally understand how it works, but my basic understanding is the rain water collects under the house and then stays in the cistern until we need it. Then when we turn the shower/tap on, the water pump gives us water from the cistern. This is the only source of water here, so we definitely have to conserve it. Also, when we have power outages - which seem to be frequent here - we have no water because the pump doesn't work without electricity.
Anyways, maybe there wasn't enough bleach in the cistern to keep the water kendra-friendly. But in the meantime, I'm on a bottled water, gatorade, apple sauce and jello diet. yummy! Hopefully I'll be all better soon so I can start enjoying Dave's cooking again! He's bbq-ing steak tonight for himself. Have I mentioned our amazing deck and awesome view?
We should have our household goods on Thursday. They were picked up in CA the last week of June, so, it's been awhile. We were hoping they'd have arrived while I was taking the bar exam so that Dave could have us all moved in by the time I got here, but no luck. Once we have our stuff unpacked, we'll get some photos up here.
Our car got here last week, and we've both taken turns driving here -- on the left hand side! I believe the USVI is the only US land where people drive on the left. Also unusual is that the cars here are standard American cars with the steering wheel on the left side.
Dave knows his way around much better than I do, but now that I've driven a little I'm learning my way around. The road signs and lines on the roads seem to be more suggestions than rules. People here are pretty patient drivers and very kind too. Drivers on busier streets actually slow down or stop to let someone make a turn across traffic that would otherwise take a really long time.
Time for some plain chicken broth!
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