Today is the last day we will be in the city of Granada and like I told you in a previous blog we have been staying at a hostel. I feel pretty comfortable staying here except for one night, it went just a little differently then all the rest.
As my eyes opened I could see only the darkness of the night surrounding me. I then heard someone calling my name and the presence of them standing next to the bed. It was my teammate Jessie and she was asking me to wake up. There was a terror in her voice and as soon as i recognised the situation I was immediately wide awake. She then told me that she thought there was something in her bed and that it bit her. I share a room with about 15 girls so I calmly told her it was probably a spider and that i would check it out for her. I grabbed my flashlight and quietly walked over to her bed not trying to wake the other girls sleeping. Jessie is deathly afraid of spiders so I told her that if we find anything to not scream. A gave her the flashlight to hold, and began to pull back the blankets I didn't see anything in the bed. So I decided to check under the pillow and as i began to slowly lift it off of the bed I began to see the silhouette of a dark figure and this was no spider this thing looked big! Horrified I jumped back and dropped the pillow back onto the bed. I then asked everyone in the room to wake up that this was an emergency. We turned on the light and as we looked back onto the bed I saw this creature slowly crawling out from underneath. It was a bat! and it was the ugliest thing I have ever seen. We then ran and got a group of guys that captured it for us. We concluded that this bat must of flew into the ceiling fan that is placed directly above Jessie's bed. When it fell it landed in her hair and was crawling about since it had been injured. When Jessie woke up from it all and felt it by her neck she tried to hit the creature and the process she was bitten. We were definitely all a little creeped out by the situation and checked, maybe double checked out beds before getting back in. Jessie that next morning went to the local hospital to get the bite looked at by a doctor they concluded that it was good that she had come in to get checked out. A lot of the time with bat bites it won't appear as any skin has been broken but it's only because the bite is so small that usually we can't detect it. They also told her it was a fruit bat and that she will be fine thank goodness. That this type doesn't carry the diseases that are serious. And so far so good because she hasn't had any problems and it's been about 4 days since the incident. We all just learned a huge lesson. Bats are now a possibility of being found in your bed. Ahhhh
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