The Sound of a Cockroach (Cucaracha)

As I have shared with people before… Living in Costa Rica is an experience where I have come to terms with the fact that I live among bugs. I share my room with hundreds of ants that I can see and I am sure hundreds more that I cannot see. I can count around 20 spiders in my room and I am sure there are more of those too. On more than one occasion I have had to carefully move centipedes to the outdoors, and this is okay. . . . However, there are other times- like when I bit into a fresh Guayabana and it had worms…  where feel I must draw the line.. and it gets worse.

I don’t know what the biggest Cockroach you have ever seen is… but I’m pretty sure I won’t top my recent experience any time soon. A few weeks ago I had a rather large cockroach in my room at a hotel, I thought it was ginormous. Compared to a few nights ago, that first one was NOTHING. I recently encountered a MONSTER in my bedroom. I am going to name him Oscar. Oscar was about the size of a small mouse and I could hear his legs move as he scuttered around my room. Unfortunately I felt the need to kill him because Cockroaches carry diseases and I was afraid he was a she and would lay eggs or something… That night, I had 3 nightmares and woke up many times. I can still hear the sound of him in my mind.