Albert

Hi all. Sorry it's been so long since I updated!
Really can't believe it's been 4 weeks since we first got here.  Everyday things are sort of approaching something like a routine except that we leave our host families so soon/uproot this routine.  So it doesn't really matter. I have a feeling that the next four months are going to fly by, and not stop flying.

I've told this to almost everyone I've been able to talk to, but am writing about it anyway.  Yesterday at like 2:30 in the morning, I got up to go to the bathroom.  When I came out, I noticed, from the light shining on the curtain that separates my room from the next room, a spider on the curtain.  The spider was as BIG AS MY HAND.

I considered trying to catch it but realized that nothing I own is big enough to securely trap a spider that  big, especially against a curtain.  I also considered taking a picture of it, but realized i didn't want to startle it, or make it seem any more real than it was by immortalizing it through a camera.

so in the end I decided to just turn off the light and let it be, but turned into a pathetic basket case, jumping out of my skin whenever I saw a piece of tape on the wall.

Now it is nowhere, but I decided it was probably the Huntsman spider, which in retrospect is probably a good thing to have around.  But STILL.  I got up later that morning, expecting to see it perched at face level every time I turned around.  God.  I asked my dear friend Britta, who is in India, what I should call it to make it less scary, and she advised Albert. Which I guess makes him a boy, though in the land of the ladyboy I guess I shouldn't be quick to label.

Today for Crossfit we had to, among other things, do 100 overhead lifts with a CANOE.  there were three people to a canoe and our instructor let us stop after 70, but following the workout I could barely pick up my shoes, or for that matter, lift my hand up to my face.

Time to go shower and hopefully not run into Albert.  A littler, nicer spider has moved into the bathroom and I really hope Albert doesn't annex the area or eat the little spider and take its place.  Because it is MUCH easier to deal with at 2:30 in the morning than Albert would be.