July, 2003
First animals
or how to save your life in the Caribbean
Little cool down from the first impressions in the paradise island,
I had taken a look around and found out that I was living here not alone.
I had taken a look around and found out that I was living here not alone.
Every morning I go to the kitchen to turn on the kettle for coffee and there, on the floor, I see half dead cockroaches around 10 centimeters with long moustaches. What do they do all night? I have no idea. Who do strangle and kill them? I didn't see also (maybe it's my nice brownie). But every day I start from the sweep. At the first time, when I saw these huge wild animals, I didn't scream to my great surprise. Probably, it's seems to me that I am sleeping or another advantages of life outbalance all of that small unpleasantness.
The most difficult things it was to get used to cocks at the morning. Pests! From the five o'clock, when the sun just shows up, to the right the end they start to squeal. No doubt it's so great do not sleep the work, but it's not every day! My parent gave me an advice to eat more chickens, and then cocks will be less. Actually I tried, but they were increased more and more. As confirmation to that: impudent small chickens ran in front of a door and even tried to look by their silly snouts behind threshold. I was forced to cut of my internal signaling.
Also goats make very interesting sounds and squeeze it from themselves "baa-aaa, baa, baa-baa-aaa!". Somebody from my acquaintances couldn't endure and tried loudly to teach them again by repeating more clean tone "baa-baa-baa!". As the saying goes, no every hare can smoke the cigarettes. Likely, attention to the goats is less.
Most of all from this Dominica menagerie I like the lizards: rapid movements, funny paws, black button-eyes. They give me true pleasure, but unfortunately they don't like to be photographed, because of their modesty. Usual meetings with them happen at the evening time. First months they climbed to visit me and I was driving them by swab during hours, trying to expel them from home. But some morning I had discerned the one from them and decided that lizards are so beautiful and kindly creatures. I stopped to drive out them and they do not come to my eyes anymore. I believe, they were to scrutinize to stranger and decided that she is so funny and kindly creature, and calmed down.
More horrible thing was the following event. At the one beautiful morning I was ready to clean my teeth and took a brush, drew toothpaste on it, turn on water and… oh… my Gosh! The huge 40-th foots centipede crawled up on me and extremely quickly crept towards to me. Then I actually woke up in high-speed!
But it's all trifles. At these cases I usually use the favorite phrase of my co-worker, French girl – Julie. She is afraid of various insects and if small grasshopper jumped to the office, she blows away with the wind. How is she living in the Dominica? I have no idea. But at these moments she like to repeat to herself: "I love Dominica! I love Dominica!" :)
P.S.: Most beautiful thing that I forgot about flies, mosquitoes and ticks, or any other biting creatures. Foregoing animal is not usually, but is not harmful… and I believe it will be boring without them.
The most difficult things it was to get used to cocks at the morning. Pests! From the five o'clock, when the sun just shows up, to the right the end they start to squeal. No doubt it's so great do not sleep the work, but it's not every day! My parent gave me an advice to eat more chickens, and then cocks will be less. Actually I tried, but they were increased more and more. As confirmation to that: impudent small chickens ran in front of a door and even tried to look by their silly snouts behind threshold. I was forced to cut of my internal signaling.
Also goats make very interesting sounds and squeeze it from themselves "baa-aaa, baa, baa-baa-aaa!". Somebody from my acquaintances couldn't endure and tried loudly to teach them again by repeating more clean tone "baa-baa-baa!". As the saying goes, no every hare can smoke the cigarettes. Likely, attention to the goats is less.
Most of all from this Dominica menagerie I like the lizards: rapid movements, funny paws, black button-eyes. They give me true pleasure, but unfortunately they don't like to be photographed, because of their modesty. Usual meetings with them happen at the evening time. First months they climbed to visit me and I was driving them by swab during hours, trying to expel them from home. But some morning I had discerned the one from them and decided that lizards are so beautiful and kindly creatures. I stopped to drive out them and they do not come to my eyes anymore. I believe, they were to scrutinize to stranger and decided that she is so funny and kindly creature, and calmed down.
More horrible thing was the following event. At the one beautiful morning I was ready to clean my teeth and took a brush, drew toothpaste on it, turn on water and… oh… my Gosh! The huge 40-th foots centipede crawled up on me and extremely quickly crept towards to me. Then I actually woke up in high-speed!
But it's all trifles. At these cases I usually use the favorite phrase of my co-worker, French girl – Julie. She is afraid of various insects and if small grasshopper jumped to the office, she blows away with the wind. How is she living in the Dominica? I have no idea. But at these moments she like to repeat to herself: "I love Dominica! I love Dominica!" :)
P.S.: Most beautiful thing that I forgot about flies, mosquitoes and ticks, or any other biting creatures. Foregoing animal is not usually, but is not harmful… and I believe it will be boring without them.
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