Nothing too out-of the ordinary has happened since Monday, but I keep thinking of things I meant to tell you! So time for a little randomness... these things are, for the most part, completely unrelated to one another. Firstly, I have given up all hope of evicting the ants from our house. No amount of constant cleaning and supervision can stop them. I have decided that I must simply live in harmony with them. With the ants come spiders and dung beetles to eat the ants, as well as geckos and the odd cockroach. I am beginning to embrace the flourishing insect ecosystem that exists in my bathroom. Secondly, teaching is so fabulous! The past couple of days between classes I have been sitting outside at some tables under the palm trees and often the best
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