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Midnight
Posted by: Natasha Chiang | June 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment
June 15
Last night I was awoken in the middle of the night by a loud screeching and a flurry of jumping or convulsing coming from the roof above my room. Two days ago we had ‘waged war’ against the rats, and we set up a couple food stations infused with poison. We hear them at night, scurrying about and scratching at the plastic bottle which we used to set up a shelf to keep our food on, and we noticed that some of the food disappeared. The screeching from last night sounded like anger, or maybe it was despair and pain.
Then there was a torrential downpour like none we’ve ever experienced here before. Our ceiling is cement, and usually we do not hear the rain patter as loudly as those who live directly under a tin roof, with no ceiling filling. The rain pour down, and completely engulfed our house. There was also quite a strong wind that blew against our house—all in all, it felt like a scene from Wizard of Oz.