After spending an eventful day with my clan - a day full of cooking chickens and sharing a time of prayer - I was ready for bed. I headed for bed at 10:30 pm, but was concerned about sleeping in my room because it still had a thick scent of BOP (like Raid) wafting through the air. Earlier that day I had sprayed some pesky termites in the room and thought all would be well by evening.
After an hour and a half of sleeping I woke up coughing and had a runny nose. The odor (and probably poison) was too much for me to handle.
I thought I should skype my family back home (while they were having a New Year's Day party) while I set up a bed in the living room. I grabbed a mattress for the spare room and after a wonderful skype call I crawled back into bed. It is now 12:45 am. I needed to finish a novel to clear my thoughts of home... especially after one aunt asked if she could come and visit. I was imagining all the wonderful things we could do together. I've never had a visitor from home, so it would be a grand adventure. Then I realized I couldn't sleep, and I needed Bones, my teddy bear to cuddle. When I tried to get back into my bedroom the door wouldn't open. That has never happened before, but just realized that I have never closed the door from the outside before. So at 1:15 am I am fiddling with tools and taking apart the whole handle so I can get back into my room. I finally get Bones and crawl back into my temporary bed.
I am almost asleep when a mosquito buzzes around my ears. I hate mosquitoes and knowing that it might carry the malaria virus I had to get up again and set up a mosquito net tent. Why didn't I do that in the first place? Ai Yi Yi.
2:30 am and I finally start to fall asleep peacefully. Oh, Happy New Year!
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