Two nights ago, after brushing my teeth, I noticed a large, overturned beetle failing around on the wet floor of the shower. Unsure what to do, I slid the door, trapping it in. The following afternoon, I returned from class to find the beetle gone.
That night, after turning out the lights and getting in bed, I heard a weird scratching noise and turned on my phone flashlight. The beetle was back and on my bed, only a foot away. Realizing now what it was (I had been previously unsure whether it was a beetle or a cockroach and thus unsure of how irrationally afraid I should be), I got out a notebook for it to climb on and relocated it to the balcony. Beetles and I can coexist, but we cannot share a bed.
Today there was another Saturday reading club, during which I confirmed what I thought I had previously only hallucinated. Tayde’s ringtone in fact is Still D.R.E. by Dr. Dre. I don’t know what to do with this information; suffice to say it really complicates my picture of her.
We read another Rosario Castellanos short story about the struggles of indigenous Chiapans. I really like the way Castellanos writes, but once again the subject matter was pretty depressing. Especially when you consider that the indigenous people of Chiapas were pretty lucky compared to those who lived in what is now the US.
I had contemplated going to San Cristobal today, but I decided to stay back, in part because I was tired, and in part because I begin teaching in nine days and don’t really have any lesson plans yet. two days ago, Tayde gave Sherrill a set of two keys to open the classrooms and the resource room at the school (I was supposed to get a set as soon as they found another). Yesterday, Sherrill gave one of the keys to me because she said they were the same and both worked. This evening, after eating an absurdly large hamburger, I returned to the school, only to find upon arrival that the key I had did not open the resource room. I’m pretty sure there are a bunch of lesson plans in there that previous teacher left, but I don’t know for sure, because I can’t get in. Resultantly, I didn’t get much done, but I did get to spend more time with Chibi the cat, so not all was in vain.
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