The Black Hole

Have you ever sat down on a couch and sunk into a hole and been unable to get out? That is my mattress. I even have two mattresses, unlike everyone else, because when we moved in Bojana didn’t want to sleep on the mattress instead she is sleeping on a sofa, so I claimed her mattress. Yet, despite the numerous positions I have tried sleeping in, I always end up in the mattress hole. I switched the bottom and top mattress and by the second day I found I had created a new hole in approximately the same place. So then, I rotated my mattress and somehow the hole simply expanded. I don’t know how to get out! I’ve started thinking of my bed as a cocoon-- with the mattress hole and the mosquito netting overhead.

I woke up recently and a large, spider-like cricket bug was crawling inside the mosquito net—the wrong side by where I was sleeping…I was scared because I hate killing bugs and I never know what danger these strange bugs my pose. But, I got it out of the net and killed it with a shoe. I try to rescue bugs if possible in order to keep my bug karma in order, but as this strange creature violated my space I was obliged to kill it. UGH!

Life in Jijiga can’t get more exciting….three more months to go!

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