Don't bite me
The bugs are bearable if you wear long pants, long sleeves, socks, shoes, and cover yourself in a generously thick layer of deet. Even then, they bit us right through our pants.
Even worse than the mosquitoes are the huge blood sucking flies, although I must say that as time goes by we are getting better and better at stopping them in their tracks with a deafennig smack before they have chance to take flight again.
The locals here have turned bug smacking into an art--they can grab the right flies out of the air without looking and snap them dead between their fingers. We find this quite amazing.
Masisea has reported six cases of malaria in the month of June, and Carly and I are taking our bitter anti-malaria pills each week religiously. Malaria medicine day is Sabbath, and because the tablets must be taken with a full stomach early in the day, we remind ourselves never to go to Sabbath school without first taking our weekly dose.
Even worse than the mosquitoes are the huge blood sucking flies, although I must say that as time goes by we are getting better and better at stopping them in their tracks with a deafennig smack before they have chance to take flight again.
The locals here have turned bug smacking into an art--they can grab the right flies out of the air without looking and snap them dead between their fingers. We find this quite amazing.
Masisea has reported six cases of malaria in the month of June, and Carly and I are taking our bitter anti-malaria pills each week religiously. Malaria medicine day is Sabbath, and because the tablets must be taken with a full stomach early in the day, we remind ourselves never to go to Sabbath school without first taking our weekly dose.
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