Cricket in my shoe

Cricket in my Shoe

March 27

I was getting ready to head out to school the other day. Now my shoes aren’t in the house unless they have just been cleaned. No one wears shoes in the house here, we mostly go barefoot inside. So I was on the front porch getting ready to put my shoes on. Now for some reason I decided to shake my shoes to make sure there wasn’t a beetle in them.  Well, no beetle, but a cricket came out and jumped away. At first I was startled a little, and then I laughed cause how often in life do we have a Cricket in My Shoe.

The other day I was home alone, well not really Ednah was home but she was in the other house watching some stupid Nigerian movie on the tele. Anyway, I went down to my bedroom got what I needed and came back towards the dinning room. Well, low and behold there is a cockroach skittering down the hall. What do I do? Get a shoe and smash it? Nope.  Run away screaming in terror? ME? screaming in terror? Hardly! What I do is create a brand new game for everyone to play. I call it “Kick the Cockroach”.  What fun it is too!  You kick the cockroach down the hall and see how long it takes to kill it!  It’s quite fun and entertaining to boot! HEY what can I say, this town is pretty much dead when it comes to entertainment. A girl has got to keep her mind occupied least we go insane. lol

OH and I swat at the flies on a hourly basis as well. I use my fan that I bought in Liberia, and it works really well for the purpose of killing flippin’ flies.  Ednah told me that there is a wasp here that if it stings you, you will sleep for 2 days.  So far I have not experienced this and I’m praying that I don’t either.