A Lizard on my Wall

I think I forgot where exactly in the world I am. I mean, of course it's obvious that I am in Brazil...but all that tropical stuff I guess slipped my mind. How else would the sight of a harmless lagarticha (lizard) come to me as such a shock? I mean, it's not like it os just chilling in my bedroom, on my wall, like it belonged or something... oh wait, yes, yes it is. It's not like I haven't seen a lizard before, but things that crawl and I do not get along. At all.

Right now, it's 2am...I've got nothing but time, (and to wake up at 6am for school,) so let me go ahead and explain to you the events of tonight and the alligator attack I barely survived. It was a night like any other night. Well not reallllly, because it is Independence Day here in Brazil, so instead of school and basketball, I've just been home with the family all day. The night began to dwindle down to an end at about 9:50 seeings as how my little brother Lucas and I log off our computers and head to bed at 10. As I walked in my room at 9:53, to put on my pajamas and ready myself for bed, I noticed something on the wall up in the corner. It's odd that I noticed it because I never look at my walls...just my closet and bed. But yeah, what is you ask...a lizard. An ugly, let's say about 5 inch long lizard. Not all that big, I know...but big enough to gross me out.

I quickly opened my laptop and waited as patiently as I could for everything to load so I could get on google translate and figure out how to say "there is a lizard on my wall!" Of course, my internet failed, so I just rushed into the living room and awkwardly asked my mom to come to my room since my father was in his shower. She I think felt as awkward as I did as she followed me. As she entered my room, I immediately stopped her and pointed up right to where the lizard was standing...is that the word...still on my wall. It hadn't moved. She giggled. No actually, she laughed. Legit laughed at me. I felt awkward again. She said it's name and told me it eats bugs in the house and was suprised I hadn't seen one before. Stupidly, I asked her if she had one in her room too. Once my dad was out of the shower, my mom brought him in my room to find me sitting on my bed, wide awake, with the lights on, watching it. They both laughed and told turned the light off saying it would leave in the dark. Leave in the dark?...hm, or end up in my mouth. At this point I was desperate to get our of my room so I asked my mom to sleep on the couch. She said "no," laughed, and when she realized how upset I was she jokingly said that it would probably be on the couch by morning. AWESOME! So, I went back to my room for a date with the lizard. I don't think I blinked once in the 27 minutes while I watched it on my wall. Once I was sure everyone was in bed and the lizard was not leaving, I quietly made my way to the living room...where I am now. It is 2:23am and I think I am ready to try things out in my room. I hope the alligator left and doesn't try to attack me again. I mean, hopefully this isn't my last blog post, but I guess we won't know until...

Nah, just kidding, I just checked and it's gone. Sleep. At. Last. Goodnight (to you.) Me, well, I'm going to be having nightmares for weeks now.