so many bugs!!!

although i love having my own room, outside of the volunteer house...it comes with it's down sides as well. the main one being the infestation of bugs i have encountered in my new living quarters. there have been mornings that i've woken up to my floor being covered in ants. this usually only happens when there are other, larger, dead bug carcasses left behind from the day/night before. i have tried to remedy this by sweeping every night before i go to bed. this helped, to an extent. however, over the past couple weeks, a smaller, more annoying species of ants has taken over my room. at first they were just in my bathroom, crawling in and out of the outlet place near my sink. smashing them with my sandals twice daily was getting rather old.

after leaving my brother and sister at the airport, i broke down and bought Raid in the city. so, upon thoroughly cleaning my room, to attack my ant problem, i encountered a scorpion in my bathroom. judging by the fact that it didn't move when i dropped something out of my shower about a foot away from it, i assumed it was dead. but, we all know what assuming does...i began to sweep it up. haha, then it darted right for me. so there i was, chasing it around my bathroom with my broom, trying to kill the darn thing. i finally nailed it (more like speared it because i broke the head off of my broom trying to smash it), and out scattered 6 tiny babies (see the not-so-high-quality photo). good think i had just bought that Raid in the city that very day, it at least killed the babies before they could hide themselves inside the walls of my room.

continuing to clean, i decided to get rid of one of the beds in my room that had been completely eaten away by termites (not to mention, it was one of the most uncomfortable beds in the world). i flipped up the mattress, and hello! out comes another scorpion. running total...8 scorpions in one day. i've been trying to put off calling in the "bug squad" on the ranch to come and fumigate, because that just scares me...all those chemicals...i think i might give in this week, and see what they can do about it.

i've contacted the workshops here on the ranch, to see if they could come in and seal off my door, because between the wood and bricks, there are gaping holes, which allows the bugs to enter rather freely. i also asked them about fixing my bathroom door, because it is ready to fall off the wall, thanks also to termites. it's so bad that the screws are actually falling out already. well, i'm number 23 on the "to do" list for the wood workshop. looks like i have to wait until may for them to even come and LOOK at these things. how perfect.

anybody want to come and visit me??? =) it all sounds to tempting, doesn't it?