Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Don't Drink the Water

It has been raining a lot here lately. When that happens, the water in the apartment buildings turns brown. We have all learned to cope with this and head over to campus with empty water bottles to fill up from the triple filtered water fountains. That is exactly what happened yesterday and as usual you could see everyone stocking up on campus water to take home and use. Unfortunately, this afternoon we all received an email with the following title in bright red:

Drinking Campus Water Advisory Warning!

Basically it said the water on campus has not been safe to drink, cook with, bathe in, etc for the last 24 hours. Great! This would have been nice to know 24 hours ago. So now I probably have giardia lamblia or something. I guess I am going to be spending some quality time with the toilet tonight. There is a picture of him above, isn't he cute. Too bad he causes diarrhea.