My three hours without electricity
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Ogata at Heiwa Junior High School

I boiled water for bath with firewood. The trick was to put firewood on something catching fire easily, such as pieces of carton box. After firewood started burning, I was only waiting until water boiled. Finally, I could manage to put fire by newspapers, carton box and dried firewood. I cooked suiton(flower ball) and rice using this fire.
I put rinsed rice and water in a pan. Now I finish preparing for cooking rice. I put a pan over the fire from now. Cooked. It looks tasty. I cooked Suiton (flower ball). I put a lot of ingredients. As I put blocks under a pan, it was properly heated.
I seasoned with soy sauce. Good aroma. It was cooked well, so I ate too much. I boiled water for tea after the meal. I tried BBQ, too. The meat was crispy outside and juicy inside. I washed clothes using water from mountain stream. The water was very cool. As I did not use a water pump, I did not use electricity.
As I boiled water using firewood, it was difficult to adjust temperature. It was too hot! I washed clothes using water remaining in a bath tab. It does not seem to be clean??
As it became dark, I used candles in the house. It was hard to bring them whenever I moved from a room to a room. I got used to darkness. I was eating a dessert.

At first, I worried about what happened in these 3 hours. However, it was easy to cook without any inconvenience. Only inconvenient thing was that there was no space to put cutting board. It was dark in the house because I used only candles. Wherever I went, I had to bring candles in my right hand.It was troublesome. As I used only one candle when taking bath, it was frightened because I could not see well. I think I can survive without electricity as we use firewood for bath and use water from a mountain stream in my house. The biggest problem was that I could not kill time because I could not use electrical goods. However, it was an enjoyable experience.



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