Thursday, October 14, 2010

Beatles

I was walking to a Rotary meeting this week and I though I heard rain. I felt nothing but could hear it start to pick up. Then I realized it was not rain but massive beatles flying into the ground. The more I walked, the more of them there were. Crawling and flying around, it felt like a scene from Birds. I found out they're attracted to light when I finally got to Rotary and walked up to it's glass doors, which were letting it shine through. After getting through a field of them, I got inside, sat down, not knowing what the hell I just saw. I asked my English-speaking Portuguese teacher what was up with them. She said they were "like flying cockroaches that appear when it rains". My host dad has since told me they live underground and surface when it rains to have sex. Rain season has started so they'll be around for a while. People at the meeting didn´t mind them at all. They would either step on them (killing them with a crunch) or pick them up and throw them at eachother. I'm cool around them now but that night, I was slightly rattled. They're only harmless to an extent since my host dad (a doctor) had to answer four calls tonight about the ´flying cockroaches´ crawling into kids´ ears.

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