"Your 5 minutes were up 5 minutes ago..."

After a day filled with sweat, dirt, grit & grime, fiberglass and more sweat one is looking forward to a nice, calm, relaxing shower. One staying at Parkway Presbyterian Church will not receive this.

There are no showers at the church we are staying at, you have to walk a block and a half to St. Matthew's Methodist Church to the "shower shack". Boys shower on the even hours, girls shower on the odd hours. The "suggested" shower time is 5 minutes, which many do not follow.

Anyways, the 8 of us in Lee's group crammed in the minivan at 2:00 pm. As we sat in traffic we watched the minutes tick by. The boys in the group (Lee, Sam and Simon) strategized about how to get a shower before 3:00. In the end, we pulled up to the church and they peeled their wet bodies from the van's seats. Sam bolted from the backseat, not letting the middle row get in his way. He flipped the middle seat down so he could escape, not blinking an eye as the seat folded with Anna in it. She fell to the floor in pain, but Sam was already on his way to the showers. Marit, Natasha, Sarah K., and Kendall watched in disbelief as Lee, Simon and Sam bolted down the street without a second thought of Anna still lying motionless in between the seats.

After seeing the chaos and rushing involved with trying to be first to the showers, Marit, Anna and Natasha came up with the master plan. Wait until everyone is finished and be the last people to shower, therefore having no time limit or people nagging for you to hurry up. The three exhausted, dirty young women waited in line for 30 minutes to be the last ones. Finally, we got into the showers. With no one else in line behind us, we rejoiced the fact that we could have long showers. After 30 seconds had elapsed, we hear a shrill, piercing voice over the sound of the roaring waterfall of the showers:

"Just to let ya know... there are three other people out here waiting to take showers. So hurry up!!"

Our moment of peace was over, and the mad dash to finish quickly was on.

Love,
Marit, Anna and Natasha

To Clara:
I disagree. Sharing is the key to success. Time with Anna is limited.
-Anna