Random Stories

Please forgive the long silence. The internet has been up an down here lately - well, mostly down. At first I thought it was because we were getting more rain, but now the rain has stopped and it has turned hot again, so I don't know what the problem is.

Anyway- here are a few random stories:

The other day the cleaning guy mopped the floor in my room and left the door open with the fan on so it would dry. A wasp decided to take the opportunity come in. Now, I'm generally hesitant to go around swatting at wasps because if you don't kill it right off - now you have an angry wasp in your room which is much worse. So, I thought I would attempt to encourage it to move on first. I opened my windows and hoped that it would decide that it looked nice outside. At first I thought it had worked because it flew over to the window. But instead of going out it just sat on one of the bars on the window. Now, the wasp isn't leaving and a bunch of other bugs are saying- gee, it looks nice in there. So, when the wasp flew back into the room, I just closed the windows and went in search of a fly swatter. I found the cleaning guy and asked if there was a fly swatter which, by the way, is REALLY hard to explain using sign language. So I motioned into my room and showed him the wasp who had moved back to one of the bars on the now closed windows. The the cleaning guy went and got a broom and I'm thinking- that is not going to work. So, out of wisdom or cowardice (you decide) I thought it would be a great time for me to go get some more water because boy was I thirsty. When I came back, he was leaving and explained that he had let the wasp out the window. Then he takes me over to my window and shows me how to open it. Once I had demonstrated mastery of this new skill, he left and I thanked him.

I have a new room now: 309 instead of 102. The move was precipitated by the painting they have been doing here. I think the original plan was just to move me next door while they painted my room, but I took the opportunity to explore the hostel (Most of the rooms were open with all the painting) and find my favorite room. So here are the things I like about my new room:
1 - I can see the sunset and just have a better view in general being higher up
2 - There is a big tree outside my window that the pigeons like to hang out in. (See Mike's blog for a good pigeon story.)
3 - It is quieter up here and I generally have more privacy
4 - It is in the far corner away fro the stairs so again - more privacy
5 - I now have easy access to the roof. When (if?) the weather turns nice I expect to be spending time out there.
6 - There is more light from the courtyard because I am up near the roof opening.

There is this odd thing they do here- in many places, they don't let grass grow. You will see the landscapers with hoes scraping at the grass to dig it up. It is so dry and dusty here that you would think grass would be nice so Mike and I didn't understand what was up with this. We wrote it off as Indian logic - which is our explanation for everything we don't understand. Well, I found out today that is is because insects like the grass so they keep grass away from the building. So pretty smart really.

PS Listening to Grisman's Dawgnation

PPS Do you like the peacock feather I found?