Public Speaking can BITE ME! & Why do kiwis have SO MANY seeds?

This weekend was great! It was very productive and I felt very relaxed and I got most of my homework done! Friday night i stayed in and hung around with the girls. It was really nice. We watched two movies and just chatted. I played a game (or 5) of UNO and then went to bed.

Saturday I had to go to the Boost Africa gallery and work. I was so excited! I love it there! It is such a great environment! Mary, the director is from Canada, so it’s nice to talk to her about American stuff and she understand me! Plus the gallery is right on the beach and the view, wow…you can’t get much better! I got there at 10am and stayed until 4pm. I thought that I was going to be there alone all day and able to get some homework done, but Mary was there as well and we worked the whole day on getting an application ready to send to the UN. We are asking a Women’s Guild for money. So that had to be competed and sent in by the end of the day, so it took up most of our time.

At 4pm, Emily came and picked me up and I was able to have a WONDERFUL evening with her and Greg. We went to the movies and saw The Book of Eli. Have you seen it? It’s AWESOME! I really loved it. Greg didn’t believe me when I said that Eli was blind…he didn’t get that part. Whatever! I was right, and I know it! =)

Then we had some GREAT pizza at a little restaurant. It was half outdoors and it was a beautiful night. I love this city!

I got back to the campus right as they were starting UNO. So I quickly put my stuff away and joined in on the fun. We started playing about 9pm. And at 12:15 we were told to hush up, so we moved to another part of the campus. Where we played till 1:30. So FUN! You would think we would get tired of it, right? But no, we just want more! The only reason we stop playing at night is because usually most of us are avoiding our homework and then someone becomes responsible and decides to leave, which triggers all of us to leave. This was a Saturday night…so we just kept on playing! The guys walked us girls back to our dorms, like gentlemen, and then we called it a night.

I got up the next morning, Sunday, and grabbed my homework and went into the lounge. I popped in a movie and started working.

I got about ½ a page in one notebook read the WHOLE DAY! But I did watch 6 movies. So that might have hindered the homework thing. I watched some of the stupidest movies, but we have a selection of about 10 movies total. Lame. The movies that I watched today were as follows, in order of appearance, The Last Holiday, College Road Trip, Brown Sugar, Cheetah Girls, The Beauty Shop and Bratz. Like said, not the best selection. At midnight, the last movie ended and I decided to go to my room to do my homework, cause, well…obviously, the lounge was not a productive place for me!

It’s now 1:45am. I have complete one of 4 subject’s homework. I will get it done in a bit.

While I was here on the computer, checking an email, I head this little noise behind me. I could not identify it. So I quickly turned around and looked at my bed and there was a HUGE beetle on my blanket, where my pillow is. (who had come in from my open window above my bed) This thing really was huge! Like nearly the length of my pinky finger. I thought for a moment that I would just leave it, but then re-thank that and realized that if I finished what I was doing on the computer, and then went to take care of him and then I couldn’t find the beetle, there was NO WAY I would have gotten into bed. I don’t do beetles! So I got up and walked toward my bed.

At this point, I am not knowledgeable enough in beetles to know if they fly, or do they jump or do they just crawl like as fast as blink, like some bugs? So, since the beetle stopped moving, I stopped moving, not knowing what it was going to do. I thought about grabbing a book and smashing it, but then I thought, “no Heidi, you LIKE your blanket, and don’t have the energy to go wash it tonight from the beetle juice” so then I grabbed a flip flop and was going to try and smash it on the side of the bed, you know, like hit it from the side and push it through the air to the side of the bed ? (yeah, I actually thought that might work for second) Then I just KNEW that wouldn’t work, so grabbed my trusty water bottle, thinking I would trap him! Like Leonard, who never returned, sadly) so I had the bottle in my hand and I kind of hovered over the bed, mostly scared, but also telling myself “Heidi, you are a billion times this bugs size! Get over it! Just get him already!” I am BAD at pep talks! But I did it! I shoved the bottle on him and put the cap on! I picked up the bottle and…no beetle. WHAT?!?!!?

The beetle was GONE! He was not in or on the bottle, he was not on my blanket anymore, and I didn’t see him fly off or jump off the bed. You know what the only option was? That he crawled UNDER the cover! Do you know how much this GORSSED me out? SERIOUSLY! Now, for sure if I didn’t find him, I was not even going to sleep in my ROOM , let alone my bed! I pulled the blanket off my bed slowly, just in case he decided to jump at me! I still had my bottle in my hand, so I was ready! (at this point, the bottle was upside down in my hand like a bat!) I pulled the blanket all the way off the bed and still, no bug! I checked under my pillow, no bug. I checked on the floor, no bug. So, it had to be holding on tight to the blanket on the underside is what I decided. I slowly sort of semi kicked / tapped the blanket with my toes. Nothing. So then I got real brave and was going to pick up the blanket and shake it. I know crazy huh! I grabbed my Public Speaking book, just in case, and quickly grabbed the blanket, shook it and threw it! There he came, the beetle I hated! He started to run towards my dresser so I just dropped the book on him! SO SATISFING! A.)I killed a bug! B.) I got to throw my Public Speaking book! C.) I was able to STOMP on my Public Speaking book, which then CRUSHED the stupid bug!
I left it like that. I went back and finished my email and then wrapped things up with my computer and then did some homework and then decided to go back to it. I picked up the book and looked and the bug. They are SO UGLY! I don’t understand the point of them! God could have at least put a little colour in them! Ugh! I grabbed a tissue and picked him up. Then I took pictures, cause, I knew you would want to see! Am I right?



See..he’s ugly huh!

He is now in the trash. All wrapped up tight in his little tissue. I bet he didn’t know when he woke up today that I would be taking his obituary photo! Don’t mess with me bugs! I WILL KILL YOU! Get the word out!

Here is my dilemma. It is HOT in my room. So I need the window open. And I have the fan in my window, which blows the cold air in, but that means that I have to have my curtain open as well, and I have my dorm light on. So it attracts the bugs. My windows open outward, so if I figured out how to put a screen up, it would have to be a removable one that attaches from the inside…hhmm…I will have to think about it some more.

In other news, I was asked to make a ladies wedding invitations today. She wants 200. He wedding is in June. I have NO EXPERIENCE at all. She just saw a card that I made and thought I could do it. HA HA HA! We shall talk tomorrow about it and I will update you with details.

Ok, I need to finish my homework and go to bed. I have classes in 6 hours! Pray that I can sleep and NOT dream about scary oversized beetles!


Oh, and why DO kiwis have so many seeds?