Bad Things

November 3 2007

Well we have been back for just over a week - in fact we leave for the UK 3 weeks today but I won't start ranting on about that because it's all Jon and me have been able to talk about for the PAST 3 weeks ha ha!

Some bad things happened to me since getting back I will tell you about them.

The first bad thing is that upon returning to our family's house in Kathmandu we found out that it had become infested with rats due to some broken window incident... I can tell you that rats in Nepal are somewhat bigger than the local farm kind in the UK and at night we would have to lock the bedroom doors, barricade them and then sit inside listening to the rats screech and fight and try to claw their way into our rooms.. mmmm nice. When we woke up (as if we slept) and needed to go to the toilet it was a two-person mission to make sure that neither of us got bitten and that none of the rats got into our room.

On one of the nights it had gotten a bit much so one of the volunteers
took matters into his own hands, grabbed one of the little critters and then promptly spiked him with a trekking pole. Yes very nice.

After that little episode you can imagine that we were quite glad to leave them to sort out the rat problem without us whilst we swanned off to Pokhara. So we stayed in a hotel in Thamel the night before we took that HORRID eight hour bus journey again AND... that is where the second bad thing happened.

I got EATEN ALIVE by bed bugs. I can tell you that being eaten by bed bugs is an extremely unpleasant experience. The little bastards bite you very hard and the lumps and swellings do not go away (nor do they stop hurting) for one week!! I actually had almost twenty bites just on my neck and Jon did not have a single one! So as I sit here now I am itching and scratching away in pain. I have a photo, evidence of my suffering which I may put on here.

The last bad thing is that yesterday I gave myself food poisoning - some little twit down the road tried to poison me with a rotten egg so I spent the day puking in my toilet.....

Well they do say bad things come in threes.....

Caroline x