I share my room with several species of stinging insects and waking up in my room is like waking up in a beehive. Every morning about 6 or 6:30, the first bumble bee noisily blunders out of the nest they’ve made in the wooden curtain holder above my window. Bumble bees are not very good at flying. Basically every bee that falls out of their hive hits the floor before it manages to get itself straightened out. Their main method for getting out of the room is to fly straightish until they bounce off a wall, or don’t. It’s like I’ve got a dog. If I don’t get up to let the bees out, I can’t get back to sleep. Instead I have to listen to bzzzz thunk bzzzz thunk bzzzz thunk bzzzz thunk. Last night I heard a bee hit the wall, and then the floor, and I didn’t hear it get up. Then immediately another one did the same thing. Two bees crashed into the wall so hard they died, one right after the other. In the morning I saw that the ants had carted off all of the soft parts. They left the wings and this weird half-shell exoskeleton thing. They took the heads.
Also it turns out that those big wasps that like to build houses in my room are big softies, so that’s comforting. There’re also these sort of wasp/hornet hybrids that share the window boxes with the bumble bees, and they’re always fighting with each other. They’ll crash into each other in the air and fall to the ground and roll around trying to bite each other.
Since I’m on the topic of bugs, there are also dung beetles everywhere, and they are really cool to watch.
I feel a lot better today than I did yesterday. Everyone was in rosso for session but me and I had a very good one on one with our instructor. And sadly my laptop battery is dying, so I’m probably only going to get one more entry in this week. I can’t wait until I have a steady supply of electricity.
The final language test is in a week or so and I am nervous as hell.
a very dark picture of me and jeneba's (tragically) extremely intelligent host sister