First it was a roach that crawled under my bag on day 1 & brave Susan caught it bare hand before it devour my unzip bag. This made us on high alert & placed our bags inside our little "nests", shielded from all invasion possible. See our lovely nests....
BK & i share the first one. Angela & Melissa each took the inidividual. Susan & Cindy share the last nest. Then it was BK's turn to catch. In fact she didnt even catch. The roach was near the dressing table one day & upon the scream of Melissa, BK did a super fast whack on the roach with a bottle of shampoo nearby. It was 100% accuracy. Well done!
Angela was in between the scarety gang & bravo ones. She was brave enough to bathe daily at Eld John's toilet & did attempt to kill if she could. Guess our most unforgettable episode was on Sun night.
We were getting ready to sleep when i spotted a huge huge black thingy hovering above us. i sounded the alarm. Only the brave ones looked up. Melissa screamed & both of us quickly got into my nest, nearest n safest. We saw it landed on top of a wooden beam. Susan & BK approached with extreme caution armed with whatever they could grab. None of us knew whatever that was. Then it kind of disappeared. Strange. Both lady warriors looked hard & us too. We thot it had gone off for good until melissa gave a loud scream that it was inside our nest! The safest haven became the perilous & torturous pit...... I didnt even see it but trusted her judgement. Both of us literally sprung out in lightning speed. If ever there was a trophy for 1st prize, it would be us :) Oh man, i didnt want to stay around to cfm its presence. She ran towards the back while i ran out of the dorm, erh both screaming. It was hilarious, scary n silly!!! Hmmm, guess i wouldnt scream in ctyf presence. Die die also pretend to be brave but not this time. I felt the liberty to release my energy, sound & kinetic.
And so BK got to work. She opened the net & whacked it with slippers i think (not sure). All i knew was when i peeped inside the dorm, creature was all curled up & still on the bamboo floor. It measured so small now in its death stage. Angela took a pic of it with the heroine's foot in position. Ha ha ha ha.:)
We made so much noise that some children downstairs, probably having night bible reading sssh us up. I felt terribly guilty coz we did disturb them, especially me lah. Wow, i am putting my reputation at stake here but honestly, i didnt want to pretend & whatever was that? A giant beetle. When i told Dr lowly, he made me even more guilty by saying this: "Beetle is the most gentle & harmless creature ever"...:( At home whenever Rac n IZ screamed for beetle invasion, i would try to shoo it away. But that night i thot it was an amazon roach invasion! Sigh.
Ok, next to mention would be this one huge insect of what not that stuck on the back of my left elbow during the BBQ steamboat dinner downtown, which happened before this beetle incident on the same night. I felt something at my left elbow and so I used my right hand to feel. To my horror, it felt like 1.5 inch long by 3/4 inch wide. I turned pale & thank God for auto reflex action that swept it away. Phoebe was sitting bet Susan & myself but i didnt want to create commotion in public. My hair stood on ends & i tried not to imagine what it was. Over n done with. Oh my, should give myself a pat on the back huh? Lol.
Killer bee came to our toilet during the day (probably Tues or Wed). Cindy & Susan so determined to kill it that they sprayed an awful huge amount of insecticide, so much so we were forbidden to use toilet because of the fumigation smell! How long we abstained? Maybe 30mins. Both of them didnt know if target was hit. I was the first to use the toilet, i think, & i found it all curled up on the floor, small sized too. Hee hee. Robert has good foresight to buy this new can of insecticide spray for our use & use it loosely we did!
I had one more encounter with an insect, perhaps a locust? I dont know. Or thailand grasshopper but didnt look like one. It was during prayer meeting on Wed night when Eld John was testifying. It flew near me & seemed to come nearer. Then it was Hendrick's turn to share. The creature was still there and seemed even nearer. I covered my ears & started to curl up, looking down (i was sitting on the floor). Good old Susan noticed me & came to my rescue. She came to sit bet insect & me & shooed it away. Hurray!
Last to mention would be about Eld John. He erh, is afraid of roach & so he happily allow angela to use his toilet every night, so as to screen the place for him. U know for someone afraid of roach, it didnt make sense that he would leave his bags all opened up on the floor 24/7! We were teasing him that he most likely would bring one or two into the van on our last day back to chiang mai town. Ha ha. We didnt want that to happen & so check was performed on his bags. His 2 bags passed the QC test.
Whoa, thinking of CtYF NTM to BDC now......insects.....Xiao fen will be my heroine. Yeah!
NEW ENTRY: Oops, i missed out one animal that gave me a little scare..... it was the toad.....a giant toad. It stationed itself at the main toilet in the building for two nights, after everyone went to sleep. In the morning at 6am when i went to bathe, i found it at the entrance to the toilet. That was Wed morning. I stepped on the floor a few times and it hopped away. But Thurs morning was not so. I was actually on the lookout for it and saw it inside the toilet. Oh boy, how was i going to chase it out? As i stepped in, it went deeper inside. I didnt know what to do and decided to go back for the warrior ladies. Susan was in the toilet and BK was somewhere else. Reluctantly, i went back to the toilet & as i walked back, was trying to devise a way to lure it out. BUt i didnt have to in the end coz it hopped out and stationed itself outside the toilet while i was gone for a brief 5 mins. Haha... it knew i needed to bathe and brushed my teeth and so it gave way to me. Slamming my foot on the ground made this toad disappear into thin air and now i could have a good bath...... Eew, i cant imagine if it hopped onto me.....definitely wouldnt turn into a charming prince.....haahaahaahaa :)
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