Our First Scorpion in the Kitchen!

Tonight we are going to bed early in preparation for the two big days ahead of us. I spent the day preparing surveys for the households that we will be visiting. It is interesting to find a balance between thorough, from a research perspective, and not overly intrusive,
from a humanities perspective. I have tried to value both sides of the spectrum, but when you have to ask the number of days that each family member has had diarrhea in the past two weeks, non intrusive just can't happen. Since we will be returning to each home on a bi-weekly basis, some of the pressure is relieved from the family assessment, as we can always ask additional questions during future visits.

As if the day was not interesting enough, we found a scorpion on our kitchen floor after dinner! The battle was a tough one. We screamed a lot, trapped him under a trashcan, then sent Sara (not Sarah) to ask her dad to kill him. He sent her back with a cane that was actually a sword in disguise, and after I removed the trashcan she chopped him into pieces! He actually didn't budge an inch from start to finish, but he did ooze a little when he got chopped up, so I am pretty sure he was real. The ironic part is that earlier in the day we were talking about scorpions and Sara said that she had not seen one in years. So when Sarah exclaimed , "Is that a scorpion on our floor?," I barely even looked.

Now that's enough excitement for one day!!