scorpion in my shower, OH MY!

The past two days at the home again have been wonderful. These posts will probably all sound very much the same because our plans don't change much from day to day. But for my keen readers I'll keep a postin'!

Yesterday morning Jody and I took four of the older girls to Kollegal town for a little shopping. We were looking for "push back" pants and I was on the hunt for chocolate. For most travelers they go through a time of sugar withdrawal. You see at home you have easy access to baking--cookies and what not. Here, you have biscuits. On my 3 weeks of travel I have come well acquainted with which biscuits are the best, and actually my favorite came from a man on my train. They are called "Chocolate Nut Good Days" and let me tell you, this cookie has made many of my days "GOOD DAYS." Anyways, the past 4 days I have basically wanted to inject sugar into my veins. Jody went through the same thing earlier in her travels. BUT DANG!! this is just crazy. I have eaten tons of biscuits, added sugar to my coffee, eaten sweet fruit--IT JUST DOESN'T DO IT! I think i am nearing the end. I can stand having just milk and coffee now, but when i get home i will eat a good brownie and a few muffins for sure. and chocolate milk. HOW I MISS CHOCOLATE MILK... ok, ok. sorry i love the food here but i am on a sugar hunt. You're not here, don't judge me. haha

We watched wizard of oz, one of my favorite movies, and asked the girls some more questions. They are really great at discussing the answers and helping each other out. As well, they are all spelling on an average level! yay!

NOW FOR THE BIG STORY YOU'VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR!!!
Every night I have a shower..yes, it's true. Our bathroom usually has crawly creatures, so i am used to frogs and what not hoping around my toilet as I dump a bucket over my head. (yay bucket showers!) As I am going to my room I see this huge, black blob. We've had some trouble with rat poo but i have never seen anything this intense in my life. it almost looked like the roggie ball we had for supper which has a great similarity to elephant dung. ANYWAYS, I look a little closer and SCREAM! THERE IS A 4.5 INCH SCORPION IN MY SHOWER!!!! Jody had her i-pod on so the indian man in our dorm told her to go check on me. Quickly he comes running in with this bamboo stick and crunches the thing. it just twitched and twitched. I actually had to leave the room because the crunching sound was SO HORRID! the only way i can describe it is like... nails on a chalk board mixed with all your ribs breaking.. SO GROSS. i had a really hard time sleeping, not because of the scorpion, so my night wasn't that great. such is life. too much sugar, I suppose.

Today Jody and I organized all the textbooks. It took about 2 hours to see what kind of books we have and what we can use. The shelf looks so beautiful now, and now the books can actually be used. huzzah! Every third day we are planning a mandatory english workbook hour. They can do math, english, grammer, spelling, science, social studies or cursive. It just has to be an hour of being immersed in English. Today we made decorative envelopes with the younger girls for three hours. One girl made a little picture book. *sigh* I love my job!

We ate supper, which was great again. Rice and an egg daal. Jody and I planned all day to make rice pudding for dessert so we brought back rice and drank coffee. I'm off to shower. I hope no scary creatures join me tonight.

God bless.