Unfortunately, our plans to visit Tela (our closest beach... only 3 hours away by bus) fell through due to weather. It rained for about 2 and 1/2 days straight--one of my students told me there's a hurricane near Mexico? Oh well. We decided we didn't want to pay all the money for transportation and rooms just to watch it rain on the beach. Haha.
Saturday night I chatted online with 4 people in 4 different countries--3 fellow SMs in Pohnpei, Palau, and Australia and an ACA student in Spain. It was awesome! What are the odds that we'd all be online at the same time, despite our different time zones? I was thrilled!
The girls in my house and I decided to get our weekly cleaning chores done on Sunday. The cockroaches had to die. I came downstairs from scrubbing the shower and found a small battle raging--Kayla mastered the Raid and Bethani wielded the dustpan, squashing anything that moved. At that point, the cockroach death count totaled 12. Gross. I attempted to help, but only the mop handle remained as a weapon.
I thought the battle ended twice, but the war had only begun. Just when we thought we'd killed them all, more cockroaches evacuated the Raid-covered cupboards. Screaming, flailing, crushing cockroaches right and left. Since I had no real weapon, all I could do was scream and point: "There's one! Get it! Get it!" Bethani shouted, "Kristen, screaming will not kill them!" Without a thought, I replied, "I can't help it!" Apparently I was the only one screaming. Haha! We sprayed so much Raid we couldn't breathe. Then we started counting. 61 COCKROACHES in one day. Gross.
I haven't seen a single cockroach since.
2 comments:
well i must say, im surprised i didn't hear the screaming from our house! wish i did, then i could have run over and seen the battle field in action. well shoot!
lets give it a few more months and open those cupboards again shall we!?
Bahaha! I can SEE the interaction between Bethani and Kristen oh so clearly. Hoo. I laugh so hard that it brings tears of joy (where's the CuSO4?) to my eyes. This is great. I love you guys.
Post a Comment