Attack of the Alacrán

June 25, 2013 

So this wasn't actually as scary as it may seem. It also isn't much of a story... but for the sake of being in Peace Corps I must document every sort of bug encounter I come across. I woke up this morning to my dog barking like a maniac in my bed so I sit up ready to throw him across the room and turn on my flash light to see why he was freaking out and guess what I found in my bed..... SCORPIONS!!!! Woohooooo- did you notice that was plural? Yup there was a Mama scorpion with a bunch of little baby buggers on her back, so what did I do? I screamed, jumped out of my bed, ripped my mosquito net from my bed and searched around for something hard to whack the crap out of them. I settled on my heavy peace corps binder. I removed my sleeping bag slowly from my bed, placed my puppy outside and took my sheets carefully off my bed and dragged it to the front patio area, then took the binder and threw it down as hard as I could on top of the happy little family.... and then I jumped on the binder several times for good measure. When I lifted up the binder the majority of them were dead but some were still squirming a bit so I fumbled around in the semi-darkness for one of my abuela's machete's that she leaves sitting about and I took it and chopped up every single one of those suckers. It was something of a massacre really... and I felt a little queasy afterwards so rather than going back to the scene of the crime I took my dog on a walk around the neighborhood. When I came back I checked my phone to see what time it was and naturally it was only 3:20 in the morning so rather than going back to my bed I took a bath in my mosquito repellent and fell asleep in the hammock outside. I woke up the next morning to my abuela picking up her machete curiously and looking at the mess I had created to which she just gave me a warm toothless smile and said "buen hecho" (good job). Needless to say, I have never been more proud than I was at that moment.