Our school has
some pretty nice facilities for Africa.
We have separate buildings with a long outdoor corridor that connects
the buildings. Behind them there is a
playground and a nice outdoor pavilion.
The pavilion is
open with a thatched roof. It is rumored
to have owls, but not much else. Owls
are thought of as really bad in many parts of Africa. In Kenya and in Malawi, when an owl is
present outside a building, they think someone is going to get very sick or die
there soon.
Well, that has
never happened, but on the first day of school there was an interesting
assembly. It was for all of the middle
and high school students. The principal
was up speaking about how he had to adjust to drinking tea in Africa, and
suddenly the students started screaming.
He thought they were just shocked at what he said, so he continued. Yet, the screams also continued and they
started pointing at him.
Suddenly, a
teacher ran up to the principal and hit a huge TERANCULA off of the
principal! As he was talking the huge
spider had landed on him, crawled over his shoulder, and started going for his
neck! Now this, gives me the heebie
jeebies!
Yet, when I was
talking to my co-workers about this, I was warned of another spider that is
about as big as your hand and called the camel spider. This huge spider is more unusual though, see
it is attracted to SOUND! So, when
people scream, it actually comes towards them!!
Let’s just say, I am not looking forward to meeting that spider any time
soon! EEEKKK!
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