Things that keep you up in Pohnpei

So like the title says, this is a small list of things that keep most sm's and/or - JUST - me up at night…

The Animals
Dogs - Of course, even in America, occasionally you get the noisy neighbor's dog that keeps you up but here in Pohnpei, all the dogs here have something to say to one another. A lot of times, it seems like 101 Dalmations when all the dogs are trying to carry a message from one side of London to the other (in this case, one side of the island to the other) but with the frequency that it happens here, I'm pretty sure there arent that many cases of 100 baby pooches gone missing. The islanders do have a way of keeping it from getting out of hand though, they eat dogs here… :T

Pigs - The first time I heard pigs squealing bloody murder, I almost turned to Michael Cain and joked, "Sounds like they're being murdered." then I realized, it's probably true.

Roosters - So you know all the movies you watched as a kid that had roosters? I used to think that they were so useful and that if you had one, you would never need another alarm clock since it would wake you up at dawn. WRONG. These roosters are terrible at telling when the sun is coming over the horizon and like the dogs, they start talking to each other. I'm pretty convinced that instead of the engaging and intelligent conversations that I'm sure the dog's are having (HEY! HEY! HEY! HEY!) they just want to be louder than the rooster that crowed before they did. Fortunately, roosters are being eaten as well :)

Geckos - I kid you not. I have been woken/kept up by these small lizards. They have this funny chirp that probably warns bugs, "Imma eatcha." This however is NOT the worst that they can do. While sound asleep, I had a gecko divebomb my chest. I woke up thinking I was being attacked by a moist towelette but just heard the gecko giggle (chirp) as he ran away. Another time, I was awoken by another moist plop in my armpit. Not the gecko this time though. Lets just say, this gecko was very much like a pigeon and my armpit - a bald man. Goody

Another time geckos startled me was in-class. While I was sitting at my desk, 2 geckos dropped out of nowhere onto my pants. It's like they knew that alone, they wouldn’t have the weight to scare the heck out of me.

The Frogs/Toads - SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!! Lots of frogs, lots of noise.

Bugs- They eat you alive here. There are actually a whole lot more of them here in Pohnpei than in America (at least in Florida). However, the motto for them here is more along the lines of quantity, not quality. With the exception of the cockroach, these bugs are DUMB. I can't tell you how many I've killed by slowly coming up on them and squishing them.

Inside the Apartment

The Room-mate - So of course I have a room-mate here in Pohnpei. His name is Brandon. Funny thing - he doesn’t snore but he DOES sleep-talk. I kid you not, tonight, he brought me out of falling asleep by saying excitedly, "DUDE! DUDE! DUDE! DUDE! DUDE! DUDE! ALL DAY! ALL DAY!!!"

Being sick - So I've been sick for the past 2 days and I slept all day yesterday and today which means that I'm not tired… now.. Yippee

The humidity - humidity means you sweat, your bedsheets hold your sweat, it becomes hard to sleep in something that feels so dirty even though you JUST washed it :T

So all in all, a fun little taste of what Pohnpei has to offer those of you who don’t like going to sleep. For me, I'm going to try again now...