We’ve entered the rainy season in the DR. It’s very refreshing on a hot summer day to have a downpour of water to cool you down. The only bad part is that when there’s lots of water the Centipedes enter the houses to escape the water.
I spent last night hanging out with friends. We cooked a lambi dinner with fried plantains. (Lambi is conch, the animal living inside a big sea shell. The shells you put to your ear to listen to the ocean. They sell the conch fresh, right out of the ocean here and after a good seasoning it’s delicious!)
After dinner we were sitting around enjoying conversation and a centipede came crawling/slithering along. I’ve ever seen this big in my life. It was like a snake with 100 feet…GIGANTIC! It had to have been a foot long (no exaggeration). During my past year I’ve killed a hang full in my apartment, but they’ve all been 2-3 cm long. Intimidating, but nothing like this. It looked like something out of a Goosebumps book that I liked as a teenager. I have been informed that when a centipede bites it is venomous and when they are that big it is necessary to go to the hospital.
Fortunately, my friends killed this monstrous centipede right away, but left me with a restless night of sleep. The neighbor’s rooster that always sleeps in the trees right by my window crowing at random times throughout the night, moved slightly and I jump out of bed with fear of a centipede crawling into my bed and biting me.
Centipedes...a part of the DR that I dislike most!
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