A Brief Introduction to the Animal Kingdom of the DR

I have a family of lizards that live behind a picture of Jesus that is hanging in our family room. The other night while my technical group was studying we saw an enormous spider crawling on the wall. About as soon as we saw the spider, papa lizard saw it too. He ran out from behind the picture of Jesus and opened his mouth and sunk his teeth into the spider… bye-bye spider. It was like seeing a wildlife show in person. The 5 volunteers were amazed- my host father was laughing. That same night papa lizard went after a cockroach but it managed to fly off the wall before he could get to it. Then my host father Kiko took off his shirt and tried to swat and kill the cockroach. It's somewhat of a pastime. He is a big help in ridding the house of creepy crawlies. But I must say I have much gratitude for the family of lizards that live behind the picture of Jesus. Hopefully when i move out on my own I will have a family of lizards living with me there too.

October 10, 2007