Day 20

I have finally encountered it. The one thing that I have so amazingly avoided thus far. But there they were, scurrying across the concrete floor of the latrine - cockroaches. Nice big, healthy cockroaches that have that lovely tint of clay brown on their bodies. I stomped but it didn’t scare him, in fact he came closer to my foot. He was headed towards the same thing I was crouching down towards – that lovely hole in the ground. I just couldn’t do it! The urge that had brought me to this place was suddenly gone. I myself scurried along, back inside to Anna to get some sympathy. But not much was to be had – her response – well yea, don’t you have cockroaches in your latrine? This is Africa. Fair enough. I talked myself up and boldly went back for round two. My latrine is looking like a luxury suite at this point. It has no permanent residents of any kind, thank goodness!