Creepy Crawlers

Well…

I thought my only concern with creepy crawlers would be the kind with eight legs or wings. I was sooooooo wrong. Today I had an unwanted visit. A LIZARD!!! Just the other day I was telling one of my host sisters how lizards don’t bother me because they are beautiful to look at and don’t bite. Well, I spoke to soon.

As I prepared to do some light reading this afternoon on my hammock in my office/kitchen/living room, I noticed some poo on my hammock. Before I could ask myself “what is that and how did it get there”, I noticed the lizard (the size of a gecko). It scared me so bad, and I was contemplating what to do. I obviously couldn’t/wouldn’t kill it b/c it had done nothing to me. At the same time, I wasn’t going to be able to pick it up because it was way to fast and that’s just “icky”. The next logical thing was to call for backup.

I called my host sister, who quickly called my 16 year old host brother to come help us out. I told him I didn’t want to kill it, but I was afraid if he didn’t move fast enough to catch it, it would move somewhere in my “condo” and we’d NEVER find it. Of course as he lunged for it, he missed and we had to then meticulously look through everything in the area where we thing it went. After searching long and hard and moving things out of the way, we STILL couldn’t find it. The only logical place it could have gone was into my bag-o-bags. My brother searched through the bags outside and out came the lizard.

Needless to say, I thought something was crawling on me the rest of the day!

This morning and Tuesday morning was like Christmas and my birthday all in one b/c our water came on each of those mornings! My host mom woke me up to let me know I should bring my buckets to refill while the water was on. It was on super duper low pressure, so I just left the buckets there while I drank my morning coffee and ate breakfast. I didn’t care how long I had to wait, I was just happy the water came on.

The alternative to running out of bucket water is putting as many buckets as one person can into a wheelbarrow and pushing it to the nearest house that has running water, wherever that may be. Then you must wait in line for you turn to fill up the buckets, and then use all your energy in the world to get the wheelbarrow of buckets back to your house. So as you can see, I’m always VERY excited when our water comes on. I’m not looking forward to the tedious task of “going to fetch water”.

Till next time ….