Friday, August 23, 2013

Lions, and Tigers, and SPIDERS oh my!


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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