My Worst Fear Come True

I haven´t posted too much about the showers in Nicaragua and Guatemala because my parents read this blog and I didn´t want to freak them out but this story is too good not to tell.
So remember, Louie the Lightning Bug, and how he taught us to never mix elxctricity and water, well he didn´t make it to Central America yet. My first experience with an electric shower head was in Nicaragua. Tim got out of the shower and warned me because he knew I would be freaked out to see all the wires coming from the wall, attached to some crude machine, that spurted out water. Plus, he touched it while the water was running and got shocked. That was one of the quickest showers I ever took. I just could not wrap my mind around getting in a shower that mixed electricity and water. It defied all common sense I have. I had to do one more in Nicaragua and could not wait to get to Antigua to not have to worry about that. WELL....my shower head is electric and it seems to me to be the worst one of all. One of the first days, a tube popped out and water went everywhere. I had to yell for Sylvia and she kept telling me how hard it was to fix. Later that night, Marvin taught me how to balance turning on the water just enough to not blow the tube but still get hot water. Patty kept smelling smoke come from her shower head while she was here so it took me a while to get use to it. But now I can honestly say I no longer have thoughts of paranoia dealing with the family finding me elctricuted in the shower.
This morning I was in the shower and I hear Sarah (the new housemate) yell half in English half in Spanish "Oh shit! Um, um FIRE FIRE FIRE! Sylvia, Marvin, FIRE" and then a small scream.
Then I hear Sylvia respond back, "It´s okay" (before going to check). So I just kept taking my shower. Well, one of Sarah´s wires popped and then sparked and caught on fire briefly. She had to use my shower to finish getting the soap out her hair when I was done and Marving is replacing the shower head today. After, Patty left I almost switched to her room because the bathroom is attached to the bedroom and mine is down the hall. I didn´t because that room doesn´t have closets and mine does. Thank goodness for that decision. I would not have been as "calm" as Sarah and would have ran out out streaking the whole family!!!!
Sylvia said the shower had sparked before with another student but this was the first fire. We laughed so much at breakfast.