November 16, 2008
Stupid Bugs and a Wonderful Weekend
I just found myself saying ‘Well you should die too seeing as all of your brothers are dead you will find no pleasure in life, and you will feel awfully full and probably extremely guilty after digesting your dead brothers and sisters.’ Please environment & animal/insect loving friends, don’t judge my actions until you too have been woken up from a Sunday afternoon nap because of a very quiet, odd sound, and you realize that it’s about 30ish giant biting ants running around and munching on the cockroach that you had killed earlier when you were half asleep… I did the only thing that would make me feel at peace- sprayed the bundle of them with RAID until I could feel it in my lungs. I watched their little bodies wiggle and squirm in pain, I believe they suffered greatly for about 30 seconds, I thought I felt guilty enough about killing all of them that I would never pick up the RAID again, but then I saw an ant that got away, and I’d be lying if I said I did NOT get immense satisfaction when I stepped on him.
I have a great many bites on my body; fleas, mosquitos, flies, ants, spiders… I don’t know! Many different kinds and it is all the more apparent now that i have shaved my legs (for the 2nd time since my arrival 3 months ago), it’s annoying, but thankfully I found some kind of cream (I don’t know what its called, everything is written in some kind of not nice sounding European language) to smother my bites in, and it soothes the itchiness.
Ah, I am SO thankful that I have a bed off the floor, woo hoo!
I just wanted to share that I had a wonderful weekend : ) Colleen, Georgina, and Sarah were all away house-sitting different houses (not that I don’t enjoy their company, it was just different), and Ella came over. Ella is a lady I met a while back, and we’ve wanted to get together but things just didn’t happen… but this weekend she came over for the whole weekend, woo hoo 2 slumber parties in a row : ) On Friday I made some kind of delicious pizza creation, and Ella, Tania and I enjoyed pizza, good talks and then we watched Napolean Dynamite. Ella also enjoys music immensely, and we spent many hours this weekend just relaxing listening to songs… that’s when you know you’re meant to be friends hey? She’s a blast, we headed into town and walked around and when we found ourselves caught in the rain we wondered into a French Cultural Center where they are doing an exposition on the UN’s top 20 or 30 Human Rights – we ended up watching a French Documentary about the migration of birds from all around the world (it was a nice encouragement to not eat meat). Ella doesn’t speak French (she is from Indonesia, so she speaks Indonesian, and English), but that was just fine because there was almost no talking at all.
This weekend God gave me an awesome new friend, and provided me with the means to buy 3 kilograms of lychees. God is good…. (and now you say)
ALL THE TIME! (I’ve kind of being going through a phase where it seems like most everything is futile, and I’m not quite out of it yet, but His goodness and grace never fails me)
This was perhaps not very interesting for most of you to read, but I thought my parents and maybe church might like to hear that I am making friends and enjoying myself out here and maybe somebody else would like to hear about it too!
Ah but before I conclude, I HAVE to share the most PERFECT playlist for a rainy day (like today has been out here):
Ben Harper – Forever
Ani Difranco – Welcome To
Great Lake Swimmers – Track 09 (Unfortunately this is the ONLY song I have from them, and I don’t even know the name!)
Hawksley Workman – What a Woman
Ben Gibbard – Carolina
Sarah Harmer – Don’t get your Back Up
Serena Ryder – Weak in the Knees
Pete Murray – Opportunity
Lindsay Jane – I can’t Rescue You
Sarah Harmer – Around The Corner
Ben Harper – Walk Away
John Mayer – Slow Dancing in a Burning Room
Cat Power – I don’t Blame You
Jennifer Knapp – A Little More
Ani Difranco – In the Margins
Xavier Rudd – Green Spandex
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