The Copeland Ramblings/

Haircuts!

All three boys needed haircuts! So this morning I decided to finally try my 110V buzzers on our transformer. Most American items take 110 volts but also 60 hertz. Here in Senegal the power is 220 volts and 50 hertz. We have voltage stabilizers in most of our rooms, which protect whatever is plugged in from power surges (this happens MANY times a day). The stabilizers also transform the power from 220 volts to 110 volts. But it does not change the hertz. This can result in ruining whatever you plugged in, but most things can still run on 50 hertz. They will usually burn out sooner than if it was running on 60 hertz, but they should still work.

So today I finally decided to try out the buzzers. I was afraid that it would work at first until was half way done with a hair cut and die on me… I decide to go ahead… its not may hair!! Haha!  I did Canaan first, since he is more wiggily and would be best for me to get his hair buzzed, Norm can sit through a long laborious scissor cut! I am so slow and not very good at scissor cuts. I quickly cut Canaans hair and had no problems. Then I sat Norm down and it wouldn’t turn on! Oh no! Haha… it had fallen out of the plug. I get about 1/3 of the way done with Norm and it shuts off… uh oh! Haha… unplugged again! =) Thank you LORD!!

Then Emmaus woke up from his nap. He has thin thin baby hair! Canaan and Norm have thick coarse hair… they do really well with buzz cuts. If I buzzed Emmaus’ hair…. well… I don’t think it would really be possible… I sat him down and snipped away. He sat there pretty well. The cut didn’t come out amazing… but not too too bad. At least his hair isn’t hanging over his ears anymore!

As for me… I have yet to hear of anyone who does cuts here in Dakar… (White people hair I mean… ) I know they are out there… I just have to find one. That will be a whole other post! =)

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