The Snake and The Mouse...

About a week or two ago now two of the other volunteers, Chelsea and Neil strolled into the house, Chelsea as white as a ghost, Neil kind of smiling. "We just had our first snake scare," Neil announced. We all kind of laughed and said snake scare?? Chelsea replying, "Yes. Scare." and sat down. We all kind of laughed again and Neil went on to tell us that the two of them were walking back from school and cut through our regular pathway. The is a small hut on your right when you are walking home through this path that is vacant at the moment. The hut is made of made and the roof is a straw/stick material. Anyways from what we understood a snake was slithering up the side of the house when they were walking by and when it saw them it kind of fell of the house in their direction and slithered right by them. Chelsea was, and might i say, still is terrified of snakes. That was the one thing she said she didn't want to see while she was here so when the snake fell off the house in front of them she squealed and nearly jumped on Neil's back. She also said she started to cry which we all couldn't help but laugh at. Anyways after this all happened it was time for supper and of course we were still carrying on about it, laughing because of the story and poor Chels' reaction ha ha. Emily even cracked the comment, "Hope we're not having spaghetti for supper!" Chelsea was still mortified at this point and we didn't realized it and Emily said, "Your really scared aren't you." And she did nothing but nod so we had a good laugh then quickly changed the subject.
Later that night, after Chelsea got a little settled down and was able to not think about the snake for longer then five or ten minutes I went into our room. I was just grabbing a ziplock bag for something one of the children had and when I did a mouse ran out from behind the box on the desk down the wall and under our bed so clearly I ran out the room squealing to Chelsea. Hearing me Chels jumped up, two feet on the chair, and started yelling, "What?! What?!" Not even thinking that she was still tramatized from the snake I let out that there was a mouse under our bed. Not even thinking we were like let throw the Chappy in the room (Chappy is our kitty Godwin is trying to make a house cat, cats don't live in the house here). So we did. I then realized, well shit I'm allergic to cats. We needed to get it out of the room as quickly as possible. So we sat for like two minutes trying to decide how we'd get the cat out now. Patience, one of the boarding girls then walked into the house so we told her what was happening and she got the broom. By this time I just wanted the cat out the room so I went in with Patience and jumped up onto the bed while she broomed Chappy out from under the bed. By this point I was so tired that I was like I'm sure the mouse is gone so I'm just going to hop in the shower before bed(Washing every morning and night is a must in Ghana and is rude to not do so). So I hopped into the shower and got powdered all up before bed(Telcum powder, saves me, heat rash is terrible here doesn't matter who you are). Anyways, every night before I get into bed I have to tuck in the mosquito net because at dusk and dawn is when the malaria biting squiters come out. The bed Chels and I are sharing is a double so it's actually quite a bit of work to tuck the net down between the mattress and wood frame so I was right up on top of the mattress in the far corner against the wall and I pushed my hand downward and looked down at the same time and I just squeaked. I tired to be very quiet but Chels heard me and went running and jumped up onto the chair in the kitchen. WHAT WHAT!? She kept saying. Godwin hear this all and came into our room and asked what was wrong and I slowly pulled my hand out. He looked down and beside my hand to the right like a millimeter away was the tail of the mouse that we thought Chappy scared back up the wall. When Godwin saw this he flipped up the mattress the mouse running up the wall onto our desk where he originally was. Then Godwin grabbed Chappy threw him onto the desk hoping he would get the mouse but instead the mouse ran back down under our bed. Godwin then threw up our mattress again. At this point Bwakey, the kitchen lady, had come in with the broom, Chels was on the chair still, I was standing peeking in the door from the hall and Patience was just standing beside me giggling. When Godwin threw up the mattress the mouse ran in the opposite direction of the desk but towards me, Patience and Bwakey and Bwakey hit it with the broom, knocking it out... well killing it. We then started to all laugh but even harder when Bwakey flicked the mouse with the broom under Chels who was still terrified on top of the chair.
But what a day for poor Chels. It was a good laugh for everyone else but she said it was cool if I told the story as long as I called it the snake and the mouse. So I hope you got as good of a laugh as we did.

Oh. forgot to mention the very next night we had a new volunteer come, Jess, and she said she was fine with the bugs the only thing she didn't want to see was a cockroach. Let's just say 5 am that morning she awoke with a cockroach right on her chest and the next night with a mouse in the exact same spot! Ha Ha Ha. The joys of creepy crawlers!