School, the beach & a spider

I started helping in the school, Primary 3/3rd grade. I pretty much just graded papers today; it's difficult for the kids to understand my English, and there are no text books, the teacher has a couple small books but I feel like hardly anything can be accomplished because she walked around to show every child a picture of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden (it's a Catholic school), then she just had them draw the picture, and that was one lesson that took a half hour. Three children from the orphanage are in the class, one of which is Liky, one of my best little buddies who gives me a thumbs-up sign every time I look at him! Another boy from the orphanage, Peter, was bad in class and he got caned (they use a stick to hit the children when they misbehave).  The teacher caned a girl too, and the girl cried for a good 5 minutes.

Henriette (from Holland, who helped build the orphanage) took the kids to the beach and I went too. It was great fun, but the waves were big and the current strong. The smaller children could barely go in, and I always had at least 3 children clinging to me so they wouldn't get swept away. The kids were so excited but it wore them out, because that night after we all ate ice cream, we were watching Charlotte's Web and Liky fell asleep in my lap, so I sent him to bed. Then Florence came and fell asleep in my lap, and by 9pm I was fast asleep.

 

However, the next night I didn't sleep too well due to the enormous spider that was on my ceiling. I can deal with mosquitos. I can't deal with a spider the size of my palm. I could see it's hairy eyes staring at me when it was all the way up on the ceiling. I couldn't kill it either because it was so fast. After I knocked it from the ceiling it almost fell into my suitcase, then it ran up the leg of my bed before I smashed it with my shoe.

I had nightmares about this spider that night. I sprayed my bed and myself with bug spray, tucked my mosquito net under my mattress and prayed there were no more in my room. I’m pretty sure I have already been bitten by a spider that size because the size of the welt on my leg is bigger than a quarter and it left a decent size scab!