Okay so I know this isn’t exactly a tale of awesome
adventures or cool places, but this has definitely been a part of my experience
in Germany that I feel needs to be documented.
So here goes. What is this wonderful
topic you might ask? Spiders. Lots and
lots of spiders.
Okay really just one more spider of late, but it was HUGE
and RED and HAIRY and CRAWLING ON MY BATHROOM FLOOR. I came into my bathroom after dinner all
ready to dispose of my kidney excretions when I noticed something crawling by
my foot. This spider was at least an
inch long and hairy. It was like the
monster cousin of those spindly ones I had to crush in my shower. Fortunately I was able to swallow my scream
and quickly trap it under a cup. I am
not ashamed to say that I avoided touching this one and instead chickened out
by asking my host mother if she was good with spiders. She laughed and got a piece of paper to slide
under the cup to pick it up. Apparently
her sister-in-law just picks them up with her bare hands. We both agreed that was a little crazy. Anyways so thankfully she took care of it for
me and I held open the door as she dumped the spider outside. As my dad would say, that spider is right now
probably recounting the tale to his friends of how he made his narrow escape. I would have squished it, but now I guess I
don’t have to worry about its friends organizing revenge. There is one disturbing thought though. According my host mom they don’t have spiders
like that in Germany. This leaves the
question of how long that spider has been wandering around watching me and
where in the world I brought it back from. I certainly hope that the rate of
spider appearances in my bathroom is not mathematical. The rate has been decreasing but the size has
been getting bigger. I could quantify it
and guess what comes next, but I have a feeling my efforts would be better
spent on my biomechanics homework and that I wouldn’t want to know the size of
the next spider in store for me anyways. Ugh I
do not like spiders.
On a slightly happier note, the physiology test is over for
the week! WHOOP! It seems like everyone came out decently intact and no one is
hating their life too much so the world will go on. Tomorrow we get to visit the Beethoven house,
which I am very excited about, and then hopefully I will stop being lazy and
get back into training for the marathon.
I will leave you today with a picture (not of the spider unfortunately)
of our late-night studying for the physiology test. Some of the group chose to stay late at AIB
to study for the test. We were actually
pretty productive despite the ping-pong table and piano and I only had to
dance around the room once or twice to keep myself awake.
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| Note the lovely stick-figure drawings reminding everyone of who presented what condition |
Tschüß for now!
Your-under-attack-once-again-from-spiders-friend,
Megan
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