Andreas: Man of the House

Ok so last Saturday my roomies Anya and Rachel left (Anya was staying four weeks, but she discovered that one of her classes started earlier than she thought, so she needed to get back). Now, there are only four of us - Esther, Renee, Andreas, and I. Esther and Renee have been sick last week (I kind of felt sick for a day or two but I got over it, then they were getting sick, and theirs stayed around all week). Anyways Esther got better by Friday for our weekend in Lencois, but Renee still felt sick this weekend, and she still isn't feeling better (she's got a cough and all), so she changed her flight last night to leave tomorrow morning. Today is Renee's birthday so we're going to go out and celebrate, then she's leaving :( and it'll only be three of us! Ah which is so weird since this house is so big, but also kind of nice since that means a small group. We'll miss Renee though! And I miss my roomies - ah my huge room is so empty now!

Oh but so anyways my point in writing this entry is to celebrate the manliness, the strength, nay, the power, that is Andreas, who is the man of the house (and has been now for a week and a half!). He is sitting across from me in the common room, also updating his blog. Just now, he all of a sudden stopped typing and totally killed this mosquito that was out to get us. He has the reflexes of a puma! And I never even notice when they're on me, sucking out my blood slash prob giving me diseases, let alone when they're buzzing around nearby. Ah he is ALWAYS killing mosquitos. When we've been in Morro and Lencois for the weekends, sharing a hotel room, we'll all of a sudden wake up in the middle of the night to loud slaps of Andreas killing mosquitos that have unfortunately (for them) decided to take a quick break a nearby wall. I just think it's pretty funny. One time last week, he had been trying to get one, and it landed on Esther's back (she didn't notice) and he totally slapped her back... he ended up killing it but she was not too pleased. Nor was her back, which had a huge red handprint for the next 30 mins lol. But it's great to have Andreas around, since is very good at killing mosquitos, while the rest of us either a) have awful reflexes and really just don't stand a chance against the mosquitos or b) at this point just have given up caring about the mosquitos, as we realize that we already look like we have chicken pox, with our number of mosquito bites [so a couple of more won't hurt]. Or perhaps it's a combination of the two.

This really isn't too exciting but just wanted to let you know some of the little things that happen at our homebase, day to day. The ongoing war between Andreas and the mosquitos. Man vs. insect.