Morning Visitors

So every morning I am waking at the crack of dawn with the sound of the roosters....They seem to be everywhere, their sounds coming from all directions. I then can´t fall back to sleep because I am putting together spanish sentences in my head - and I find it diffcult to stop...

This particular morning, my room is dark when I get up to use the bathroom. I am sitting on the toilet and all of a sudden a cockroach scrambles on the floor from in between my feet. Anyone who knows me well, knows I DON´T like bugs. I know, I know... I visit these tropical climates and I am asking for it. Boy could he move fast!! And I´m not talking about a little bug - he was BIG. I corned him and started wacking him with my shoe. He finally stopped moving and I flicked him outside the sliding glass door. Where was Bryan when I needed him....? You can bet from now on I´ll be scanning the floor pretty constantly.


My second visitor was a welcome one. There are three cats who live on the grounds of the school. During classes, they are climbing palm trees, chasing things in the grass, and lazying in the summy spots - fun to watch when I´m supposed to be trying to decipher what my instruction is saying. Two who are completely white with long hair and the most gorgeous blue eyes, the other white and black tabby. They are very friendly, and as I sat down to write this post, one of the white ones who has taken to me jumped up on my lap. So, as I type this, there is a beautiful white kitty curled up in my lap keeping warm. It´s helping to get my cat fill while I am here and missing my babies at home.