NYOKA!!!

It’s hard to explain the feeling you get when your roommate screams SNAKE the moment she steps out of the front door. But let me tell you it’s not a good feeling…

“SNAKE…NYOKA…SNAKE…SH*T…SNAKE”

So you run outside, scared for you life, examine the ground, and don’t see anything…Is she crazy? Doubtful. I am blind? I don’t think so. So then where is it???

OHHHHH you mean that, right there…yep….ok. that’s not good. OH that’s really not good at all. It was camouflage green, two feet long, and in the rocks by our front step. If she hadn’t seen it, I would have certainly stepped right on it.

So the girls that were cutting our grass come running over, and upon seeing the snake, immediately start pelting it with giant stones. After several good blows, the snake was deemed dead, picked up via sickle, and tossed back into the bush.

Right. I still am in shock over this. And it has also been determined that it was most likely a very poisonous snake and probably very dangerous. Awesome.

Considering the night before we had an invasion of army ants in our courtyard that penetrated our back door, I look forward to the day when every creature I encounter is not highly dangerous. Luckily some closed toed shoes prevented instantaneously biting of the toes and some boiling water poured in the doorway stopped further penetration into our house. Yeesh. The things we deal with here in Muyenzi…