Not only are they HUGE, but also the loudest bugs I have ever heard in real life. During the summers, they at least have the decency to stay outside. However, we also eat outside. So during meal prep and eating, the flies fly around all fly like and touch your hands, face and food. Spreading diseases and bacteria, and giving every PCV diarrhea.
During fall, as the outside becomes colder, they begin to invade your house! They come in and breed like crazy. I must say, living on a farm you see a lot of animal sex, but the grossest is fly sex. It's depressing and brief, and there is nothing you can do about it. You can only sit and watch it happen to you, and then later try to suppress the memory.
For two months, there was a upsetting consistency in my room. I constantly had a single fly in my room. Always one fly. I would wake up, find a few on my window, quickly kill them and then - like a taunting ghost - I would hear a faint buzz somewhere. The next morning I would find that fly and kill it. A few minutes later, the buzz would start again. I quickly felt like I was slowly going insane. I mean you would too if there was always a single fly in your room. Without fail, the fly was there.
So now that its winter, they are more or less dead. I finally have some peace.
Also, here are some pictures from the past few weeks:
Went to a Wedding!
The Bride and Groom looking awkward
For some reason this photo won't rotate. But this is my family!
THANKSGIVING HAPPENED!
I was pretty happy about the food.
These are the ladies. Remember their faces.
At the American Corner in Kant, they had a Thanksgiving celebration
Pin the Tail on the Donkey. You know, a classic Thanksgiving game.
My grandma tried to make me make her food - she doesn't quite realize I am not a kalyen - so my brother helped out. He's the best!
The mountains near my house. Pretty beautiful, huh?
