One of my more nasty experiences.

So there were a few things that most people would consider nasty that I experienced while I was in Aguascalientes. And I thought you would be amused by some of them. So I'm just going to take one straight out of my journal word for word. And I'm putting all shame aside for a while. haha.

Just to give you some context this was the day of our big outreach event. And we had it in a tiny town and the event was on the basketball court of an elementary school. And at this point we had already been out there for awhile. Maybe an hour. And Jessica and I had just gotten done playing with some little kids while we were just waiting around.

Saturday 7.10.10

"After that (playing with the kids) we all had to pee REALLY bad. But we didn't want to go behind the school and there were no other bathrooms available at the school. So finally we convinced Andrea to drive some of us girls around town to look for a bathroom. We FINALLY, after asking like five other people, found one at a small ice cream shop. It was the NASTIEST thing I've ever peed in. It was in the back corner of this one room shop, and the two walls that formed the TINY room didn't go up all the way to the ceiling. And when I walked, i mean ducked, in I found out why. There was no other light source. So this TINSY tiny 'bathroom' was almost totally dark. It was so scary. And there were so many flies everywhere. There was only a curtain for the door, and you had to duck under a pipe to be able to sit down on this moldy looking toilet. And this toilet didn't flush. So maybe it's a good thing that it was dark. It was so gross. And there was no toilet paper, just napkins. But I'll take the napkins, it's better than nothing!

I'm amazed at people's generosity here. Even though these people didn't have much of a bathroom, they still offered it to five girls. I would think that most people would be too embarrassed by that bathroom to let even strangers use it. I just love the friendliness and hospitality of the Mexican people. And us girls learned our lesson to just use the 'bathroom' available. Because in the end, going behind the school wouldn't have been nearly as gross."