From: zhu lili <iluhz@yahoo.com>
 Subject: Chapter 7: and frizz frazz she fried
    Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 13:26:54 -0700 (PDT)
      To: anp8@columbia.edu


 showering can be.... interesting. but,
a new water heater has been installed in the
dormitory's "showers" (actually the "shower is a pipe
coming from the ceiling and a drain in the floor).
(Think Bayi hotel in Changzhi, except it's cleaner,
and doesn't have a shower curtain.)

Water heater.

It's electric.
Electricity. Water. Electricity. Water.
There's an electric plug hanging in the author's
shower. While showering, she remembers her mommy's
wordsof wisdom: "don't bring electrical apliances into
the bathtub." She wonders, "do the same rules apply in
China?"
Not if you have a Zen bubble.

...but what about that small electrical fire that
started in the firedetectorless dormitory the other
night? The one that prompted this sign:

Important Notice:
NO SHOWERING SUNDAY OR UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE>
We are having problems with our electricity and it is
currently not safe to use either the old or new
shower. Any questions, please see.....

Hmmm....



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