We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

- Mother Teresa

August 20, 2010

Bichinhos...more bugs!

I came home from the end of a weekend once to find that the inside of my house was absolutely infested with ants. They were grouped together stuck on the walls. It looked like they were making eggs. Not in my house! I’ve never used that much raid in one day. I’ve never seen so many dead ants in piles on the floor like that either. It was pretty gross. Then that happened again a few months later. I shouldn’t complain. They could have been cockroaches or rats.


The other day I made a sandwich. I was about to take a bite and noticed a small beetle was crawling out of my bread. I just picked it out and threw it on the floor and didn’t let that stop me.

One day my empregada made me feijoada-which is basically bean soup. It had been sitting on the stove for a few hours by the time I heated it up. After I heated it up I saw these black specks on the surface. At first I thought oh cool my empregada is finally learning to use my spices. Until I picked one up and saw that they were one of those annoying little flies that hang out in my kitchen. At least they were boiled.

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