The situation is getting dire

Today I spent much of the afternoon running around with the little kids after my family returned from my host niece’s First Communion. It was, needless to say, exhausting (but still fun!). We played Super Banco (a Costa Rican version of Monopoly), escondido (hide and seek), volleyball and a host of other games. I adore kids, but I was so exhausted from the afternoon I promptly passed out around 4:30.

Then I woke up at 7, after which I closed my drapes…and found this:

A huge, gross, slimy beetle. 4 hours later, the thing is still chilling on my curtain and I don’t know what to do. There was nobody home when I woke up from my nap, and I can’t even bring myself to try and kill it for fear that its gross bug guts will get everywhere. This is 2103498230x worse than yesterday’s silvery cockroach dilemma, and it’s preventing me from going to bed, because it’s right above it!! I did manage to go to the kitchen to fetch a Tupperware and lid, with the idea of trapping the beetle within it and tossing it outside in the backyard. But now it’s late and all the doors are locked and if I do that, I’d have to keep the beetle residence overnight until I can let it loose in the morning. Blechh. Just the idea of it grosses me out, but imprisoning it seems like a better option than letting it roam freely around my room.

… Well, after a 10-minute freakout, I managed to contain the giant beetle into the container. It moves A LOT faster than I anticipated, AND DID I MENTION ITS GROSS AND SLIMY-LOOKING?

Not sure if you can see it, but it’s peering out at me from the corner in that picture. Currently debating on whether to really leave it in my room for the night, or set it out in the hallway for my host family to find (hahaha). Wishing there was a way I could set fire to it or strap a bomb and watch it explode. Something gratifying. (I’m honestly not a real violent person, but in this case I am at war with all bugs that choose to invade my room now).

All disgusting bug business aside, life in Costa Rica remains the same: easy and stress-free. It’s starting to feel a little monotonous, I feel, maybe because my classes aren’t too demanding and I don’t have a real job (other than my library volunteering) to keep me busy (or to keep the income rolling in, that’d be nice!). I don’t really seem to have very many close friends either around these parts, so life gets a bit lonely sometimes when I don’t have anybody online to talk to. Everyone’s divided up into cliques, and I hate cliques so, as is usual, what ends up happening is I find myself as the outsider because, did I mention? I hate cliques. Why can’t we all be friends? More importantly, why doesn’t anyone want to be friends with me even if I don’t pledge loyalty to their little group? I miss my friends at home. At home I’m free to hang out with whomever I want. Here, it’s a tad more difficult.