After 3 weeks here, we have finally won the war against the cockroaches.
We started out living in our house by refusing to go downstairs past 6/7pm as the cockroaches came out around then and turned out living room into their social space. Living with cockroaches with a pain but they never ventured into our room upstairs so we coped. My mum then told me to buy spray and spray the downstairs and it will scare them off, so we did that... That night turned into a war - 50+ cockroaches against 3 scared girls.
We had sprayed all the exits/entrances thinking it will stop them coming in, instead it trapped them in. One deadly bugger even flew at my leg and I screamed so loud the girls came running down thinking I'd seen a snake. I wish it was a snake. We then tried to ward off the cockroaches with a broom and the spray. It didn't work, it just aggravated the buggers. So we ran up to our room to seek safety.
Then, whilst we were all minding our own business, one little bugger came crawling through the top gap in our bedroom door and my God did we scream. We sat there staring at it for a while not knowing what to do and then we realised we left the spray and the broom downstairs... dun dun DUN. We attempted to open the door and the cockroach ran into Nicole's bed whilst I then ran downstairs to grab the spray and broom and well it all ended in a puff of smoke. By that I mean, tons and tons of spray to kill the cockroach.
The whole night then followed with not much sleep and when I did fall asleep, scary cockroach nightmares! The next morning we all huddled together to go view the devastation downstairs... there were, and I am not exaggerating, over 50 dead cockroaches lying on their backs all over the living room and bathroom. It's safe to say cleaning that was not a fun morning. We even showered at the boy's house in Phana as we couldn't face even more dead cockroaches in the bathroom. The day followed with sweet and sour chicken rice and crushed oreo milkshakes in Phana! We treated ourselves for surviving the cockroach war.
Glad you won that battle against the roaches, but hopefully they don't plan a war! It reminds me when I stayed in university accommodation in London and we had roaches in our bathroom complex. You cannot beat a can of deodorant aimed at the buggers with a lit lighter in between - your own flamethrower! Glad it's all going good now, except for the lack of Apple!
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