June 6, 2011

Hello Everyone,
I don't have very much time to write today. Sorry! But I did want to send a picture of our cockroach! Yesterday morning, Sunday, we said our morning prayers and I went into the bathroom to take a shower. Little did I know I was not the only one in there! There was a GIGANTIC cockroach crawling around on the ceiling and walls! I started yelling and screaming for Hermana Dollahite to come look too.
I know what you are thinking: I am always the brave one who kills the spiders and other crawly things. Well...I have no response, except that it was so big! Hermana Dollahite was not about to kill it, so I grabbed the air freshener from the toilet and climbed up on the counter to hit and hopefully kill it.
I don't know if I am the only one who didn't know this, but cockroaches have WINGS!!!!!! It flew at me and I swear it was baring its scary fangs or whatever it has too! So I jumped/fell off the counter and of course it decided to land on the floor and attack me! I was jumping like a lunatic trying not to let it get on me. Meanwhile, I am yelping and screaming and Hermana Dollahite is screaming and laughing at me! Finally, I decide the air freshener is a TERRIBLE weapon and take the gigantic and (key word) LONG broom out of Hermana Dollahite's hands.
Meanwhile, the cockroach has climbed under a bathroom towel. I started pounding away at it as hard as I can! I lift up the towel and it falls out. I think, “Oh good, its dead. Yeah!” Then it starts twitching! Let’s just say after a few more screams and beatings from the broom, and based on the guts spread on the floor, it was dead. And I was close to a heart attack!
What must our neighbors think of us? (This all happened at about 6:40 AM.) Based on her laughter, this had to be one of the most hilarious things that ever happened to Hermana Dollahite. She took to calling me the Cockroach Killer for a few hours and her stomach hurt from laughing so hard...serves her right. Anyway, it was pretty funny. And now I am very much on guard when I go into the bathroom by myself. What an adventure it was!
Love you all,
Hermana Levanger
PS We cleaned the bathroom floor with bleach!