I never thought I would be so excited to use an outhouse in my entire life.
I believe I broke the toilet 3 times in the first 2 days that I was at my contact’s house… apparently having indoor plumbing is VERY rare in Moldova. Obviously being from America I was unaware of the toilet situation. When we arrived at the train station we were taken to squatty potty’s, which I am totally okay with because I am from Alabama and have a history of partying in the back 40 which little did I know would have prepared me to be able to pee anywhere and be a master of the squatty. Done and done. Right?
WRONG!! When I realized that we had indoor plumbing at the house I am staying at I was totally too quick to move and go number 2. Needless to say me and “mama” became real close the first hour I met her because she had to take care of what I jad just done… With the language barrier on top of my absolute embarrassment this was really difficult for me. She could not stop laughing and then she just sent me out of the bathroom and took care of it and I had no idea what she did so here I am thinking that she has done some crazy toilet operation. So here I am for 3 days just embarrassed and afraid to go potty, until one night I braved up and decided to just re-try and I mean I really just had to go.
The door was locked. Someone had just got in the shower… now what am I supposed to do? I am freaking out and mama just says “I take you outside toilet”
WHATTTT!!!??? The heavens opened up and were shining upon me, they have an outhouse. There is no flushing involved and the toilet is not next to the kitchen/living room!! A huge weight was just lifted off of me and now I am stress free!!
Funny part of the story: come to find out all you do is pour a bucket of water into the toilet and everything goes right on down. Language barriers are ridiculous lol :]
