we had bats, then moved onto rats, now all we need is a cat!

it all started with the incident of the missing tomatoes. we had gone to the market earlier that day, but when we got back from class there were only 3 of the 5 tomatoes on the shelf. i of course jumped to the conclusion that vonnie lost/ate them but being the highly non-confrontation person that i am let it go and didn’t say anything. then a couple of days later we walked into the house and i screamed when i saw a giant tail scurry off the counter and out of view. von was behind me and didn’t see it and decided that I was lying and tripping on malaria meds. i didn’t like being called a liar, but secretly i hoped she was right. then we started finding our missing produce all over the house. it was really gross finding half eaten tomatoes, onions and bulbs of garlic rotting away behind the counters and between the cement blocks and then von finally saw it scurry across the shelves one night. yeah not good… anyway so no major damage had been done and we just started putting our produce in the fridge and then it happened… I mean it musta been really really really hungry cuz it decided that coming into my room was a good idea. one night i got woken up by a gnawing noise in the corner of my room where there’s a desk and i have a large plastic storage bin. the storage bin is pretty hefty so i thought even if it was gnawing at it there was no way it would chew its way in and i was really tired so i decided to ignore it and go back to sleep. i thought HAH as long as it’s not getting into it and it can’t actually get to me(hopefully it doesn’t try to chew through my mosquito net… shudder) so the next morning i checked the outside of the bin and it was unscathed so i ignored it thinking the stupid rat couldn’t outsmart my bin. that night i heard it again so i sat in my bed and shined a flashlight and threw flipflops in that direction hoping to scare it off. it just so happened to start raining then as well so von woke up to put the buckets out to collect (she’s obsessed with it…) so she saw me with my flashlight in one hand and a flipflop in the other and a.thought i was crazy, and b.ignored me cuz collecting water is wayyyyyyy more important. when she came back from putting the buckets out she turned the light to my room on for me and went to bed. i was getting tired too so i threw my last flipflop at the bin in defeat when the rat came running out and went under my bed. i of course screamed and pulled the mosquito net back over me and tucked it under the mattress and put my ear plugs in and closed my eyes – i mean out of sight out of mind right? well after what i imagine was a couple hours later, the gnawing noise was coming from the bin again and there’s a chair between my bed and the bin. so I got outta bed and stood on the chair and was trying to peer down into the crack between the bin and the wall but i didn’t see anything… it was seriously starting to piss me off but i wasn’t about to start a rat hunt at 3am so i got back into bed and barely made it to the next morning waking up to every noise, one of which i thought sounded vaguely like foil… but when i got up to check the bin, again it was totally unscathed, and then i remembered the foil noise… there was only one thing in my room that had foil on it and it was this toothbrush disinfecting cover thing i got, but that particular item was INSIDE the bin. i honestly didn’t think there was a chance in hell, but when i pulled at the lid one of the corners wasn’t completely latched on and when i finally took the lid off sure enough there was the toothbrush cover thing and the plastic and foil wrapper ripped to shreds… gross… i rummaged through the rest of the bin to see if it got to anything else and it basically tore into everything at least once… hole in my toothpaste, holes in the bags of wet wipes that’ll probably dry out now, and holes in other random plastic bags… stupid rat… anyway so i cleaned out the bin and rearranged it so that it would shut completely and all our valuable foods are in the refrigerator. so it’s pretty much over, but since then he’s still gotten to a bag of powdered sugar, some kinda fruit we think is probably some sorta guava but too scared to try, and rice. ok i should go now cuz we don’t have energy at this moment cuz we’re having issues with the electricity company so it’s hot and i need to save my computer energy, but i’ll be writing about school and a special ode to vonnie soon = ]

byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee