Ok so I am definitely having an issue with Bangladesh right now! It can be expected... I have been here just about a month! :) Ok so I have been sick with the flu for two days (+ chrone's disease is never fun...even in Canada), and I'm pulling through that but am now up late (it's midnight right now) preparing for my lessons tomorrow as I haven't been able to for the last few days...and that is fine, but I just walked into my room to grab a different colored pencil to keep working on paper since the power and internet have been down (making lesson planning quite difficult) when I reached for a pen and a cockroach skittles across my desk! Lovely! So I screamed and grabbed my trusty bug-spray that advertises "Instant death!" and begin to spray this thing since it is larger than most miniature cucumbers and I figure if I hit it with anything I end up with roach-juice and body parts all over my desk and proceed to empty nearly half the can of this "death spray" before the thing falls to the floor and begins to twitch for nearly 20 minutes! Meanwhile, I now have a sore throat from ingesting enough of this toxic chemical that I figure I will be twitching by the time I leave this country and now my items on my desk are also covered. Even more lovely! So I proceed to "get over it" because this is Bangladesh after all, realize that I still have at least 2 hours worth of work to do even though it is midnight and the bus comes at 6 am, and decide I should wash my hands, grab my pen that I first went in there for, and get back to work. Alas, go to my sink...no water. Lovely. So anyhow, I finally decided that the roach, now laying dead on my floor next to my desk (although his legs still twitching.... silly death spray...), should probably be removed from my room or I know I will never sleep.... so I went hunting for a stick, managed to find one in the broom closet (praise the Lord there were no more roaches), and slowly managed to push his corpse out of my room into the laundry area for our housekeeper to take care of tomorrow. Alas, now I am back to work... a typical night in Bangladesh that sometimes really just makes me want to go home! :)
Just thought I would share that with you... :) Much prayers for sanity needed...