Pictures of the Month

It’s that time of the month again. I’ve hardly posted any pictures lately, so here are some that I’ve snapped throughout February.

1. At the beginning of the month, this group of insects would begin to emerge from beneath my bathroom sink every single night at about 8 PM. If I turned the light on, they would all run back underneath though. I began to fear that they would make their way into my bedroom and eat me in my sleep, so I mostly just shut the bathroom door and left the light on all night in order to deter them. I haven’t seen them for a couple of weeks now, so maybe they are gone for good.

Those pictures were taken on 2 different nights. Sometimes I would notice the bugs when they were first starting to emerge. Sometimes I would be sitting on the couch and would see them stampeding around the corner. Ew.

2. Banquet season. This was my favorite banquet invitation by one of my favorite kids TO one of my favorite kids. I teach them both first period, so boy kid came to school early with a toddler that he borrowed and a bunch of red roses. He set up like so:

But after I took the picture, he zipped the jacket up again, and waited for girl. When she walked into class, she saw him standing there with an adorable child waiting to hand her a bouquet of red roses. Boy gave her a minute to realize that this was for her, told the kid to hand her the roses, then unzipped his jacket, revealing his all important question. This was her reaction.

Returning the child. Notice that the back of his shirt has three boxes that say “Yes”, “No”, and “Maybe” beside them. With the roses, he also handed her a permanent marker so she could check one. She checked yes (After this picture was taken, obviously).

3. So one day I was walking out of my classroom as this guy walked in, not at all fazed when we passed in the doorway. Most of these skinks are really skittish and would rather die than be near a human, but not this one. A few hours later, I was typing something up at my desk, and I heard motion behind me. This guy was just chilling on the bookshelf, watching me type. The next day, I was sitting at my desk, and felt something substantial crawling up my leg. I looked down, and saw his tail sticking out from under my pants leg. So I started jumping around and kicking my leg like a crazy person until he fell out. Then he hung around my desk the rest of the day. The skink with no fear…

4. I took some pictures of the rain one day. I had to walk from the school to the second story of the boys dorm for batik class (that’s where the art room is), and right as I got to the end of the covered walkways, this happened. Aish.

And then looking back from the art room. The lawn is turning into a lake within 10 minutes.

But still, I feel like no matter how many rain pictures I take and post, it will never capture the full effect of the torrential-ness of rainy season.

5. Apparently girl cat is very non-discriminating about which of my crafts she will fall asleep on. I was cross-stitching a Russian doll that I found a picture of on etsy, and she decided it would make a nice bed, I guess?

6. The afternoon sun shining in my kitchen window. It is so rare these days to see the sun in the afternoon/evening due to rainy season. So one day I came home from work and found this sight, and I loved it so much that I took a picture to remember it.

7. I keep finding these little things on the outside of my house. They’re some kind of cocoon with a built in chain link fence. Pretty cool if you ask me.

With a termite stuck in a spider’s web.

On my front door.

In my front window, taken from inside.

And then I found this terrifying little guy, so maybe his kind keeps making these things?

8. My little bird. I found him outside my house one night. And by “found”, I actually mean, “took him away from my cat who was about to play with it to death”. It’s an Indonesian sparrow, but it was still too little to fly. So I kept it for one night and gave it food and water. And then it died. Sad.

Yeah… He’s a little bit wet with cat spit. Below is the “nest” I made for him in a laundry basket. And that’s how he would look at me every time I whistled at him.

9. Here is a fact about me. I will buy anything that comes in awesome packaging. You don’t find that often in Indonesia. They’re not really big on creative/artistic marketing of goods. But then I found this soap. From China. In a random little supermarket that just opened up down the street from the school. And I don’t really use bar soap all that much. But I bought this one. Because I’m in love with it. Also, it is sandalwood scented. Yum.

 

10. There are a lot of praying mantises here.  I see them fairly regularly. But I grew up in a place where they are nearly on the endangered animals list, and it was always a huge deal when we found one. So I still get a little bit excited when I see one. Like yesterday.

OK. That’s all now!!