Night-Crawlers.

Lot of critters here. Things that we found in our hut last night- First was a crazed bat. It circled the hut for 5 minutes while Lauren, Liz and I took turns hitting the deck. Liz screamed. Lauren laughed. And I spent most of the time half-dressed curled up in the fetal position on the ground. The only way out was the door. We blew out all the candles and opened the door, while Amber attempted to lure it outside by dancing around with flashlights. The bat caved and joined her at the disco. Next was the spider. Bigger than a deck of card, smaller than my foot. Amber and I were searching for water for a shower (at which we failed). Amber comes running out of the room screaming "huge spider, huuuuuuuge". She is jumpy with spiders so I went in to decide whether it was "huuuuuge" or not. It was. I grabbed the can of DOOM Insect poison (the same can which I mistook for insect repellent and liberally applied to my entire body 3 days earlier. My skin is starting to look normal-ish), I went and DOOMed the heck out of it. A heaping, 30 second stream of poison directly on the beast. I assumed that would do it. Wrong. After we finished high-fiving each other, Amber and I went to take a picture of our kill and it was gone.... it had made its way to the other side of Liz's room. I was shocked, but also just figured it was making its last run, so I DOOMed it again and went to find the camera for the "victory shot". Wrong again. The damn thing was across the room again. Plan B- I grabbed my shoe and gave it a mighty bop. 1 down, 50 billion to go. Adventure is not over yet. Immediately after, still searching for water (this time to brush our teeth, hopes of a shower were long gone), we went up to the main house and found an abnormally large cockroach on the counter, it quickly disappeared into the wall... I can only imagine whats happening in there....
Dear God, do me a solid and vanguish the african critters until December. Thanks, Kial.