Some Unfortunate Developments (and one really good one)

Moths I can handle. Ants I can handle. Even cockroaches and spiders I can handle, within reason. But when said cockroaches decide to fly in my face or try to crawl on my leg, then we have a problem. Whether its miscommunication, outright defiance, I dunno. But let us just say that had he/she/it not flown in my face, I would have released it into the wild rather than sprayed it to death.

Speaking of spiders. They're everywhere! Most of them are small. There's one annoying one that keeps building his web on my clothes line. They're finding ways into my house, too. And not just the little ones. I made the rather unfortunate discovery that a Large Spider of Some Kind is living in my house. And I mean large. Turns out I didn't have to take Jonathan's suggestion of getting a pet tarantula. This one, while not as big, is still nearly a hand's-width across. I discovered him on the wall next to my bed. Not cool, Spider, not cool. He disappeared shortly after, and I haven't seen him since. And to be perfectly honest, I wouldn't mind so much if he would, I dunno, eat the aforementioned roaches. I almost feel like I should start offering sacrifices to this thing.

But on to nicer things! I just got the sweetest letter from a very quiet, very small 3rd grade girl. It was accompanied by an origami pegasus, which is beautiful. In her letter, which was surprisingly long, she said expressed her nervousness about using English, explained the origami pegasus and asked to see my origami which she had heard was very good, and that she enjoyed the silly things I did in English class (the other day I made them stand on one leg while they read the flashcards). But the best part, I think, was that she had seen my notebook of kanji and Japanese practice. She said she wanted to work really hard to learn English because I was working so hard to learn Japanese. BEST reward for studying a language. Ever. She really made my day.