Wildlife

India is so full of life! If I had been afraid of bugs before, this experience has snapped that right out of me. From sharing my bathroom with frogs to having a rat run into the side of my foot, I think I'm getting pretty comfortable with the animals here.

We have been experiencing all types of animals here lately, escpecially since monsoon season set in. For example, the crab that we found on the Pathway of Hope. We aren't really sure where a crab came from. It isn't like there are any beaches near or large bodies of water. Right next to the Pathway of Hope is our water well and none of us know how deep it goes. So we were laughing about how the crab has been on a long journey from the shores of California and somehow ended up in our well. He just climbed out and accepted the new culture.

Butterflies, fireflies, etc. Large and small are everywhere. This is a secret, but sometimes I feel like I am in a movie when I walk out on the beautiful, green path of the green house and have like 4 butterflies fly in front of me clearing the way.

The other night, I was pretty upset because I had to watch a snake get beat to death. Granted, it was a cobra. But I should'nt have watched it! What was I supposed to do when John, the security guard, asked me to hold the flashlight for him while he beat the life out of the cobra with a stick? It was really cool though, because he hit him once and the cobra lifted up into the air, turned it's head, and flared it's hood, hissing. I am just lucky that I haven't seen a crate snake yet, they are all over the campus.

And you've all seen Charlotte, the spider outside the Greenhouse. Well, she has been out there, spinning away every night for the past 2 weeks. Rebecca and I sat and filmed her weaving her web one night for about a half hour. It was so incredibly interesting.

Frogs are everywhere! You can't walk around without a frog jumping in your way. I was running through the rain one night and a frog jumped on my foot, I kicked it off and it went flying. My roommates all said that it was on purpose because I keep joking about wanting to "punt" a frog one of these days. My favorite frogs are the little baby ones. My roommate, Rebecca, caught this one up in her hands.

And of course, the bulls. Gotta love the bulls.