What is happening to me?

I just caught myself doing something completely out of character, but it’s not the first time it’s happened. As I was typing on my computer, I looked over and saw a bug-like creature sitting on my bed, in semi-darkness. I walked straight up to it and picked it up, without even ascertaining what it was first. It could have been anything – it might have bitten me or something – and I picked it up and put it in the bin. (I still don’t exactly know what it was, but it was dead, so it didn’t hurt me.) As I was writing to AB recently, I actually picked up a moth by its wings and put it outside the other day. And today, I had a number of wasps flying in and around my room. I think there must be a nest just outside my window. I simply continued on with my business (of eating lunch) unphased, but for one cautious eye that I kept out, just in case.

I have come a long way since my first night here, where I camped out under my mozzie net all night, in complete darkness (thanks to “current nei” – no electricity) except for my laptop screen (which attracted lots of micro-bugs) and my torch, which I frantically flashed around every now and then to make sure no spiders had crossed over into my territory. Country life must be growing on me, although I haven’t picked up a frog and put it outside yet, but I do allow them to jump around my room rather than getting Anju or Immam to come and get rid of them.

By far the coolest bugs are the fireflies. Everyone loves a firefly, don’t they? Sometimes when I go to bed I see little green lights flashing around my room. They’re the fireflies. I assure you. I’m not hallucinating or anything.