Mitch's Work Day

What do you do when 35 people are running low on safe drinking water? You need to select a willing victim to stay back in the air conditioned apartment. Today the victim was me. The punishment was watching water boil. While waiting for the first 10L pot to boil, the lunch crew and I discovered that the bread which was to be used to make sandwiches was still frozen. Even though we enjoyed the coolness of the bread we knew the bread needed to be thawed in order to spread peanut butter on 150 sandwiches. The bread would take too long to thaw inside, so we decided to throw it in the Jamaican heat. But, the bread needed to be protected from the resident dog, Sheila. The solution: hang the bread on the clothesline. This bread soon became not only thawed but sun toasted. 

When the water came to a boil, I preceded to filter every drop of the water through a coffee filter. This process was slow but well worth the effort if it means no one gets a bug. I repeated this slow process three times for a total of six jugs (2L each) of clean water. Clean water is a lot of work but it is worth it.