I was just about to sleep when I heard a knock at my door. I figured if I didn't say anything, they would just go away. I was sleeping in my bra and underwear so I was inappropriately dressed anyway. My door opened anyways and Chelsea popped her head in my room.
"THERE'S A TARANTULA OUTSIDE YOUR DOOR!" She said in her quietest screaming voice.
Well I couldn't just ignore this, because here in Argentina all the bugs are mutant sizes, so I got out of bed, put some clothes on and went to see what she was talking about. Sure enough, there was a spider outside my door by this plant flower decoration thingy. IT WAS HUGE.
Sabrina, Chelsea and Ashley were in the bathroom, hiding from it so I decided to take action. I went into my room and got my camera. So I took a couple pictures so I could put up on FACEBOOK to show my friends and family the monstrosity of animals we have here.
It started crawling towards me so I ran back into my room to find something to kill it with. I found a pair of flip flops I hadn't worn yet and my can of RAID®. (I highly recommend buying this in the summer down here. I might just sleep with it tonight, just in case.) I ran in front of the spider with my can of RAID® and one flip flop, while Sabrina was on the other side of it with the other flip flop. We were going to kill this thing. I glanced over and saw Chelsea and Ashley up on the sink counter waiting for the consequence of our attempt at killing this beast and cheering us on.
"KILL IT!" they softly yelled.
I ran at it with my RAID® and just kept spraying it. Sabrina was ready to squish it. We slowly watched it curl up and die. Now, I sound like a murderous, troubled, young woman finding some pleasure killing this thing--BUT IT WAS HUGE. I mean this kind of spider is one that eats small babies and can bite your toe off. I wasn't about to let that happen!
So we watched it die. I found a pencil and tried to unfold it 'cause I wanted to take a picture of how big it really was. Three girls from CLE (the other learning Spanish program) came out of one of the rooms and wanted to see what was going on. So I proudly showed them what I just killed. Pictures were taken. I found my handy dandy container and put the spider into it. You can see I am quite proud.
We spent the next 10 minutes talking about what had just happened and tried to figure out what kind of spider it is. I still have no idea...I would love to, but paging through page after page of spiders at 2:30 am won't help me sleep any.
So now it's sitting on my desk, all crawly and stuff. I'm going to bring it to my class tomorrow and show everyone. Hopefully, it'll scare my teacher enough she'll have a heart attack and we won't have class. No, seriously that's mean and I would never wish that on anyone. But I really don't want to have class.
Below are pictures that documented the night.
So the fun was over.
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