Day 4.5 Happy New Year- A near kiss from a bat.

I thought today was fairly low key until about five minutes ago. I woke up to hear a fluttering sound in my room. Using the light from my phone I realized there was a bat in my bedroom. I called to Mbondo while under my mosquito net but he didn't hear me. I continued to watch the bat until somehow it got inside my net in order to announce the New Year with a kiss. I'm not ashamed to say I yelled like a little child and jumped out of the net as fast as I could. Mbondo finally came in thinking a robber had broken into the house only to learn it was a bat. He just laughed at me. He and Francis (the house caretaker) trapped the bat, posed for a picture and released it to the wild. It all happened at about midnight and will probably be the most memorable way I have welcomed the New Year for some years to come.