my school? yup. today is school #1's birthday, which meant another day off. you might remember school #2 had it's birthday a couple of weeks ago... and school #3 had their birthday today too... how come the schools' i attended never had birthdays? and even if they did, it didn't mean having a day off!!! just another crazy (good) thing in korea!
so i spent the day cleaning my apartment from top to bottom - literally. i killed a cockroach the other day. it was the second that i've seen since september... so i'm not worried about an infestation, but i also want to make sure that i don't have to. some interesting facts about cockroaches:
- Cockroaches are some of the most ancient insects. Fossil records show their relatives have been around, virtually unchanged in appearance, for over 350 million years.
- The popular Latin American song "La Cucuracha" means The Cockroach.
- The common German Cockroach can survive for over a month without food, but less than 2 weeks without water.
- Cockroaches have been found to carry, on their bodies, the pathogens that cause tuberculosis, cholera, leprosy, dysentery, and typhoid, as well as over 40 other bacteria or viruses that can cause disease.
- Cockroaches will feed on people!! They feed at night when people are sleeping, consuming protein materials such as
eyebrows and fingernails.
this is like the one i killed
and don't forget, they can survive a nuclear explosion!given these facts, i certainly don't want them to live in my house, so i spent the day cleaning to make sure they know! i'm also gonna get a couple of roach trap thingys next time i'm at the store... just to be sure.
tomorrow is memorial day, so everyone has a day off... thinking of heading down to the beach... i promise to update more regularly... i've been getting really lazy about the blog...
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