Oh La Lauren

La Douche.

I have become more French today.

This morning my host mother broke the news to me: she has been seeing water on the main bathroom walls, therefore I need to use the handheld shower head with my hand and may not prop it up on the wall (Note: the reason there is water on the wall is because the shower head sprays it in all directions…I didn’t do this on purpose!). This is the breaking point between American and French shower culture. Who in America even has a handheld shower head? All those things are installed in the wall. The French on the other hand…this must be the reason why they don’t shower so much. It’s not very soothing holding this contraption the whole time.

So I finally came to a breaking point. Here is the hygiene situation in my house: I have a toilet and a shower that I never use because it has tugboats and fish decals and a shower head with no wall mount, then there is the bathroom with the shower and the sink, and then my host parents have their toilet (which I have never seen). I’ve been using the shower in the sink room because it has that wall mount and because I think my shower is gross (it has postal tape around the edges…I don’t know why, the curtain ares are not sparkly white and the basin is not either).

Well between not wanting to parade in front of the construction workers and not wanting to make my host mom mad, Grant decided this morning that the tugboat shower was not that bad. And then I followed suit. I used the tugboat shower, with a shower head without a wall mount. And I’m going to stick to this til the end. That said, I’m not sure my hair will be entirely clean for the rest of the semester. Soo French.