The other night I was in my sleeping bag, texting my friends back at Rollins. It was about 11 at night and I started to hear lots of noises by my giant pile of stuff in the corner of my room. I got wide eyed, and well my hands started to sweat but that could be due to the fact that I am still sleeping in my down feather sleeping bag in the summer… Which is very very hot…. Anyways I was scared.
The noises continued and so I walked over to turn on the light. As soon as I turnd on the light a rat which I thought was about the same size as my size 6 foot ran towards me in fear… I screamed and ran in the opposite corner of my room. Because I was supposed to be sleeping I didnt have my contacts in or glasses on so everything was blurry. I was sitting in the corner of my room terrified making up images of random small beasts that could be living in Nepal.
Then I saw these two spiders which at first I thought were frogs, because they were jumping and crawling so fast… But again it was very blurry. I got so scared and I knew I couldn’t sleep in my room that night. My bed is a flat mattress that is about 2 inches off the ground. I kept imagining these frog spiders crawling on my face and the rat biting me in my sleep. I eventually built up the courage to escape this.
I ran out of the room hoping someone heard my scream but no one was awake. I yelled for the new Nepali girl and no answer… I knocked on my homestay parents room and no answer… So the only place with light at the time, Due to load shedding in Nepal, I sat in the bathroom and waited for the timely new born baby to get his midnight bottle break.
Right on time he was he started screaming and crying as always and I knocked on the door whispering loudly, AMALA AMALA… She looked at me obviously very tired, and in fear… I told her something is in my room, she imagined the worse instantly, she thought a man came in my room or something and I laughed and said no a rat!! And she laughed at me for about ten minutes while I sat on the floor still in fear. Then as the baby finished she woke up my pala (my homestay father) who was not too happy he was being woken up.
Then my parents came to the rescue and took a long pole… They both entered my room, and about five minutes later I heard a battle of man vs rat… But living with Buddhist I knew they couldn’t of killed it for I felt really sad, then My AMALA came back into her room where I was and explained it’s finished,
She then said pala shooed it outside she said it was just a tiny mouse, it’s our family friend. She told me how that it was a sign of good luck… And I didn’t believe her but I hoped that was true since my giant paper and presentation are due next week. But since then no frog spiders or giant rats, I am safe 🙂
