tormented

last week i discovered a new roommate, of sorts, that had been hiding in our apartment. early one morning, i decided to open up with curtains in our bedroom to let some sun in. with a swoop of the curtain, a creature flew out and landed square on my foot! by the time i knew what had happened, it was already scurrying off. but i saw enough of it's tail as it crawled under our bed, to realize it was another gecko.

you may remember a few shorts months ago, we had another gecko, also in our bedroom. after two crazy hours of unsuccessful chasing, we FINALLY caught him. but once we caught him, we weren't exactly sure what to do with him... so... we opened up our 7th floor window and dropped him. the fate of that gecko is unknown. but now i'm thinking that this new gecko was a cousin of our former gecko and that he knows how we threw him out the window to his imminent death. now the cousin is here tormenting us!

i know it might not sound like much. i mean it's just a harmless little gecko. you might be saying, "it's just a gecko. it can't bite you or hurt you." and you might be right about not biting us. but hurt us it might! every time that little lizzardy creature darts across the wall, or scurries across the floor it nearly gives me a heart attack! and it's not ONLY in his presence. a slight shadow appears on the wall and i jump! lance makes a sudden move, and i jump! i can't even open the windows anymore without fear that he is hiding somewhere in between the folds just waiting to jump out at me again and scare me. i'm a jittery, anxious mess! anyone know how to catch a gecko? or better yet, anyone know how to keep geckoes OUT of our house?!

hampton blog 2.0

As many of you are aware, our previous blog wasn't renewed and now leads you to a Hampton Inn somewhere in South Carolina. So.... we found ourselves with a couple of options. Say goodbye to blogging forever, or with a renewed spirit return to the blogging world. obviously we've chosen to get back on the horse. We hope to use this space to enlighten you (and i use "enlighten" very loosely) on the comings and goings of our lives here in taichung. In the past we often wanted to blog, but we didn't feel we had much to report. The life of a full time language student isn't very thrilling. But we've realized after many emails asking us to update our blog, the world wants to know more about our adventures overseas. Ok... maybe just our moms want to know. Even if it's just them reading, we will blog. So this is our return. Stay tuned (mom).