...and ants, and silver fish, and flies, and unidentifiable critters...and BATS!
I cannot say enough how sick and
tired I am of going on bug killing sprees before I get ready to go to bed! I wake up to critters, come home to critters,
and it seems as if each night I've been cooking dinner...FOR CRITTERS! It's like they know I'm afraid of them and
they keep coming back just to mess with my psyche! The spiders are...HUGE! They scale my walls
each night in search of a meal, I'm assuming.
I've given up on trying to kill them all because for one, they move
faster than the speed of light and I'm 100% uninterested in having one chase me
around the house in an attempt to seek revenge on me for trying to kill it or
its brother. The cricket roaches...
(yes, cricket roaches!) I don't know how or why a cricket and a roach would
have ever thought that it was okay to mate, but these ginormous crickets with
roach legs and the inability to jump very high or far are DISGUSTING! I feel like as soon as I kill one, three more
find their way into my house! Every
night, after killing about 6 or 7 of these little monsters, I finally give up and retreat to the safety of my
mosquito net, making sure to tuck every loose piece of the net underneath my
mattress so that I am not attacked in the middle of the night and awoken from
my dreamless slumber.
When I first moved in, I thought to
myself, I can do this...it's not so
bad. But as the days and nights come
and go...and the bugs only seem to be getting worse, I'm not so sure. If it were only spiders and cricket roaches,
it wouldn't be so bad. But to add to this living nightmare, I have an
infestation of ants both inside and outside of my house. And these are no ordinary ants. They are super
ants! These HUMONGOUSLY SUPER SIZED
ants (compared to the ants in America) can swim, they DO NOT sleep, and they DO
NOT die! I don't care how many times you
step on these things or how many ways you try to squish them...they somehow
still manage to squirm and run away with not much more than a hurt leg or broken
antennae. On top of these are silver
fish, which just so happen to always
find their way into my fresh veggies even though the veggies are kept in tupple
ware and the tupple ware is in
plastic containers. This is a double
barrier so can someone please tell me how in the heck these things are finding
their way into my food??!
And now the flies...
All I will say is that they are EVERYWHERE
and I'm starting to believe they were put on this Earth just to make my Peace
Corps latrine experience a LIVING HELL!
I can't forget to mention the millions (that's what it seems like) of
unidentifiable critters that squiggle and squirm along my floor, walls,
ceiling, and try to fall on me from the ceiling as my welcome home each day
after work. My greatest fear in Rwanda
so far?? COMING HOME! I'm always a little apprehensive to open my
door because I'm not sure what might
be waiting for me on the other side!
Love and Peace Corps,
Dametreea
P.S. The bat I mentioned in the
title of this post wasn't in my house (Thank God!) One of my volunteer friends had the bat in
his house. With that being said, I think
I'm in a much better place than he is right now...at least the bugs can't give
me rabies if they decide to bite.
(Written
on 7/25/12 at 8:44p)
Uh oh! Command those bugs to stay out of your house in Jesus' name! Bats eat critters too!! I miss ya!
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