Sunday, June 6, 2010

At the Lake













This weekend we went to Lake Bosomtwe, a 45 minute tro-tro ride from Kumasi, Well we left Friday after work and came back Saturday afternoon. As you can tell from the pictures, it is really beautiful. We didn't go swimming, but walked into the water for a second and it was really warm.



Ya, that was the spider that was on the bed in the other room at the guest house. When we first got into the rooms, the other 2 volunteers were in a different house than Fiona and I. We had just got into our room and we heard a noise from the other house, so we ran over and seen a huge spider on the wall. After some discussion we got the guy who works at the guest house and he brought 2 other guys with him, they weren't really needed. He eventually just chased the spider out of the room. So Fiona and I just went back to our room, we weren't there for very long when we heard more noise, so we ran back over and they had another spider on their bed. We didn't know what to do with it, so we tried to kill it but missed and in ran away. We had to look for it because it ran under the bed, it took probably 5-10 minutes to find it again. The only way to reach it this time was with a coat hanger, so I tried to hit it again, and it ran away again, it took a long time to find it again. We had to move the bed out from against the wall, as we did, Fiona didn't know we were moving it and she screamed, then the rest of us screamed because we thought she seen the spider, but she didn't.

We eventually found it and decided to call in the other guys again, they came and actually killed it, after a small chase to the other side of the room.

So we went back to bed, and after a quick sweep of the room for spiders, we went to sleep. At about 5 o'clock in the morning Fiona and I woke up to a loud screeching sound coming from above us. It kept going on, so we jumped out of bed and turned on the light, but it had already left. I think it must have been a bat because the guy from the guest house said he's had to chase some out of the rooms before. And their's nothing else I know of the makes that kind of screeching sound. It sounded like it was trying to get up through the roof. Needless to say, we didn't go back to sleep that night, which made for a really long day.

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