I’ve been racking my brain trying to think of the next blog I wanted to share with you all. I have several ideas still brewing in my brain but then Thursday night happened, and well I think it’s time for a blog that shares what a simple evening with Team Torch might look like.
So here we are. It’s our free evening, we get two free evenings a week to add up to one of our off days. Team Torch is full of Pitch perfect fans and I am the only one here who has not seen the second or third movie. So I decided it was finally time to see these movies. I began with the first movie with the majority of the team sitting on the couch/ ground/ within earshot because who can resist the sound of a cappella?
As the movie continues some drift away. From afar Sarah yells something in response to Jesse’s singing in the competition and it’s only me and Nikki sitting on the couch pretending to sing to each other and swooning over Jesse. Sarah even makes a comment, “Courtney, I’ve never seen this side of you.”
And that’s when it happens. The songs are over. The next scene has hardly started with the older guys singing after the competition and that’s when Whitney frantically bursts into the room. Her face is terrified and she screams, “THERE IS A RAT IN THE ROOM!”
We look up from the movie confused and see that she doesn’t mean the usual rat who lives above their heads in the ceiling, but she means on the ground in the room. She tells me it’s time for me to look for the rat. Somehow I was dubbed the least scared for some reason…
I squat down and look under the bed with my flashlight and see no rat. There is a bed sheet in the way though and they want me to move it to look better. It takes me a minute, but I get the nerves up and move it quickly and then jump back. Still no rat.
Sarah comes in and Whitney begins moving things around. Due to the people in the room I back up and stand just outside of the doorway. That’s when Whitney moves her bag and things moved in slow-motion for a second. I hear screams and see a dark creature running straight at me. Nikki and Sarah scream “like little girls” and reach for each other but instead punch each other in the face. They both jump into the air and the rat runs under them. At this point I have found the miraculous ability within me that I can in fact fly. I jumped from the door to the couch, a solid 6 feet away. I landed and look up to see both doors slammed shut. The rat had ran into the room I was in and everyone closed the doors to keep it out. Locking me in the room with the rat.
After some convincing the door opens and Sarah comes out, just to jump onto the couch with me because we are convinced the rat is under it. All of this commotion doesn’t rise any suspicion to our Rwandan family that lives ten feet away. Whitney comes out of the room to look under the couch as I shake the furniture. Nikki stood in the doorway with Tiger, our Rwandan dog. Nikki then makes the statement that all of us involved knew to be true about ourselves as well: “I thought I was a man, but it turns out I am a little girl.”
Eventually we are convinced it is not in the room we are in and that it must be in the other room. That is when Whitney went to go ask for a broom from Mama Mary and she came out with her to help us out. When she came in she began moving everything around to scare the rat out. Half of us stood outside with Tiger who would protect us and Mama Mary walked through our rooms shaking our bags and laughing. She thought it was the funniest thing ever. It was like she was daring the rat to come out. After she was very convinced she had shook everything she said we were safe and walked away. We all came in and decided to just go to bed, not that we fell asleep right away.
A few minutes later, as we were all crawling under our bug nets Moses, our Rwandan Dad comes out to check on us. We told him we were okay and that Mama Mary took care of us and he said okay good night.
So there you have it. I little insight to the excitement of our Thursday night. The night we all decided we are a team of little girls who think they are tough but will scream when a rat comes running towards us.
I hope you enjoyed this narrative.
We are all loving Rwanda, rats and all!
