Friday, February 19, 2010

Bunnies, boyfriend and bats

Here is the skinny on the past week or so. I've been super busy but I wanted to share a few things. First of all, just the other day I was confronted with a tarantula in my kitchen sink. It was huge I'm talking the body was the size of 2 quarters. I was not happy about said tarantula, but I was way too freaked out to take care of it myself so I yelled for my host sister to come and help me. She is crazy, let me just say that. She comes in and says, "what, what happened, oh, it's nothing" She then proceeds to try and pick it up with the bare hands, she got it into the air and then dropped it and it went behind/under my sink. I now live with a tarantula somewhere in my kitchen. As long as he stays there and leaves me alone, I'm okay with it. Okay, so the same day as my spider friend paid me a visit another wild friend decided to move in. I was laying in bed already traumatized when I here the bat squeaks and hear a bat flying around my room. Great. Don't get me wrong, I love bats, I just don't want to live in the same house with them. Bats outside, Laura inside, all is good and in order. So, I didn't know what to do, it was too late to call my host sister to come and help and I thought maybe mister bat would see that I was a bad roommate and leave. Days pass and I don't see any signs of the bat...until i lift up my bag off the floor and what do I see, mister bat has been with me all along. So, I call my host nephews, Alfred who's 13 and Joel who's 8 to come and help me with the bat problem. It was really funny, here I am jumping around and yelling a Spanish/English mix and the boys are trying help find a bag and I'm trying to sweep the bat into the bag with a broom all the while all three of us are periodically screaming and jumping. So, finally we sweep the bat out the door. I'm thinking he's not going to want to come back after that, I was wrong. Apparently once they think a place is their home, they go back to it. So, the next day I'm sitting with my boyfriend Deivin when mister bat returns. I get all jumpy and am yelling for Deivin to kill it and he grabs is and hit's it once and let's him go out the back door. I ask him, why didn't you kill it? and he says "es que, me da mucha lastima" or, it's just so sad. So, what happens a few days later? You guessed it, the bat is back, this time just like the friendly tarantula he's in my kitchen sink where it appears he spent the night. I decide it's time to call in the big guns and go and find Bereno. Bereno takes one look at my little and friend and killed him. I was sad to see him go, but the relationship just working out. He couldn't be house trained and I didn't want to be bitten. One of us had to go. Okay, onto the bunny.
So, for valentines day Deivin comes over to my house after he get's off work and tells me that he has a surprise for me. I'm thinking, oh, how nice, a surprise. He says it's something to keep me company when he can't be with me. I'm thinking, okay.... Then he hands me a gift bag. I look in the bag and suddenly a little white rabbit pops it's head out of the bag and scares the crap out of me! I almost threw the bag across the room, it's a good thing Deivin still had a hold on the bag, otherwise the bunny would have had a wild ride. So, I collect myself and meet my new rabbit friend. I've never had a rabbit before and I don't think I had every planned on having one, but we're working out. I got him a nice little cage and named him cadbury. I let him run free in the house in the mornings and he's actually pretty cool, he's used to humans and runs around. What did I get Deivin you ask? I'll tell you, I made him some brownies... Okay, that's a quick update. I'm sure you are sitting here wondering Boyfriend, when, how? Well, I don't have enough time for that. Another day. God bless.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Another quick report.

Since I've been back a lot has been going on. I'm super happy to report that after totally giving up on the idea, I actually think the computer lab is going to happen. Construction on the new building with start in March and then I can start the process of getting the computers. Life will be soooo much easier when we have faster internet and computers in town. I'm gearing up to get started with Guias y Scouts. At this point the Junta or board of directors need to be trained which can take around 6 months and once they are all ready to go it will be time to find some kids. Finding the kids will be the easy part for sure, already whenever I walk down the street kids are asking me when it's going to start so they can join. I'm trying my best to get motivated and started on my english class again. I'm only going to continue on with one and they are a great class, it's just a process of me contacting all of them, collecting money for the books and then placing an order for the books. So far, I can't seem to motivate to do it, tomorrow... Otherwise things are going better than I ever could have imagined. Everything is falling into place.