Holidays are here!!!

I practically spent my first week of holiday in school. How ironic is that. CCA 3 times a week, TD sci projects with crickets.. Thinking of that,it really freaked me out.

At first.......

my first impression of them are cute and jumpy and I didnt know that they are brown in colour. We went to the pet shop early in the morning to buy crickets and the shopkeeper specially open the shop for us then. When he opened the metal gate, we were taken aback by the creepy animals there. LOTS OF MEALWORMS, FROGS, CRICKETS!!!!! My hairs stood on ends and zx kept jumping and running about. Kim remained composed. We stood there as the shopkeeper brought out a container of crickets and he bravely opened the container and put more oats inside for them. KIM HELD ON to the container and tank while we went searching for magnets. The sound of their chirps made my mind go crazy.

THE NEXT DAY.......

The experience of just transferring 4 crickets into the container took kim and I 1 hr to do so. We protected our hands with plastic bags and rubber bands while kim held the penknife like a surgeon as she cut the container. I presumed that we seem like 2 surgeons doing an operation in front of the gardeners and cleaners in my school then. It was unforgettable. kim and I was practically anxious and frightened as we pry a hole open with a fork and wait as a cricket wriggle out into the tank. The 1st one jumped out and crawl around the walls of the school building. Kim found a sweep and swept it down into the tank. WOW that almost took us like 15 mins. We managed to put 4 crickets inside and letting 2 of them escape into the school compound. After all that nerve-wenching operation, we realized that we sweat terribly under the beating rays of the hot sun for exactly one hr around the red brick road. When we are packing things up, kim saw something that looked like a cricket and jumped,however, we laughed and realized that it was just a speck of dustmite. LOL It was such a scary and frightening experience for both of us. We wonder how are we going to tranfer 20 or more of these crickets for the actual experiment. 5 hrs??? I really wonder how some people are not afraid of them, their legs and feelers looked exactly like cockroaches to me.

THE NEXT DAY........

ZX and I went to check on the 'cockroaches' and realized that one of them was DEAD!! I suppose it got stuck into the bread and suffocated. I felt sad for them. They seemed tired and not active. Their chirps are soft or unheard of at all.

THE NEXT DAY.........

WE LET OUT ALL THE CRICKETS.> SHH.... It was rotting inside the container and it smelt terribly because there was too much water. PF told ZX and I to let go of the crickets somewhere. It was a final moment we cant forget as we are letting these American crickets to freedom. It was a terrible experience as I opened and overturned the container of crickets with the oats and the egg thing inside it. We ran for cover. To Where?

THE MOMENT of freedom.

The sight was indescribable as they crawled out and started to chirp super loudly that I thought that almost everyone near the classroom block could hear it.It was rather weird as they werent chirping that loudly in the box. They crept around the container and into the Grass like going for a cricket war. The crawled all over the area and you can see some of them popping out of nowhere. The chirpings got louder and they seem to be FINDING US FOR REVENGE. I felt guilty about it though and my mind keep on hearing their chirps even outside. CrIcKET PHOBIA? I cant as i will be handling more crickets in time to come. Luckily we will be leaving the school compound after all. I really hope that the crickets will quickly leave the place so that the next school who comes will not suffer the fate. It took as about less than 45 mins to get all the crickets out. ZX and I ran towards the grass separately, one to take the plastic and one to take the tank. We ran out!

FINAL

We went to the toilet and gave the tank a wash. It was finally over but far from the actual experiment. We havent even started it and we were already freaking out. I really hope that from this experience I will be able to deal with them better. One container out but another container to come...

BUYING MORE CRICKETS ON MONDAY.

Hope I will be able to rest in peace in the weekends. See my latest facebook update. FACE THE CRICKETS WAR!

Lots of homework to complete in the holidays. Hope the crickets will be able to rest in peace. Fingers crossed. I apologise to the animals in the eco-foodchain. The crickets will sure disrupt the foodchain.

I guess that after everything, I wont dare to work on crickes anymore. this is just the starting!!!!