cockroaches are misunderstood. haha.

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A lot of people here in the Philippines are afraid of cockroaches. Even boys are afraid of them, especially when they are flying. When I was younger, I wasn't really afraid of them, even the flying ones. Whenever I saw them, I would chase them with a slipper and try to kill them. When I saw them flying, I didn't care because I thought to myself, what are the chances that the cockroach would land on me? Right? Well that's what I thought when I was younger. When I entered college, both of the dormitories I lived in had several cockroaches running around the vicinity and I've had the worst experiences with them. In my first college dorm, there was a time when a cockroach was flying around. Holding on to the belief that I mentioned earlier, I didn't care at all. BUT then! Voila! the cockroach landed on my face! shaaame! I panicked and screamed and tried to remove it from my face as fast as I could. I remember even feeling its hairy legs on my face for a second or so. GAAAAA! To make it all worse, this happened to me twice during my stay at that dormitory. My second dorm was not any better at all. Cockroaches were creeping at its outside, literally. The worst experience that I've had with it was a time when I was just hanging out with my friend and was calmly talking about random stuff. Then suddenly, I felt something creeping on my back. NO, NOT ONLY ON MY SHIRT BUT ON MY BACK! Normally, I panicked and my friend panicked too. Being the best friend that she was, she tried to get rid of whatever it was that was crawling on my back. Soon enough, she discovered that it was a cockroach. UGH. TALK ABOUT BAD LUCK. She tried to get rid of it by shaking my shirt while I was all over the place. Eventually, she was able to shake it off and to my relief, had never happened to me again. AT least so far. I'm hoping that in the dormitory that I will be staying next in, there will be no more cockroaches so that I won't have to get the same experiences. Anyway, cockroaches are misunderstood. People always say that when they get a weird something on their face the morning after they sleep, they were bitten by a coackroach. But when I studied parasitology, I learned soon that cockroaches are not capable of doing so. BUT! They are still the culprits. The hairy legs that cockroaches have actually carry tons of bacteria in them, so when they make a journey on your face, that's when they cause the weird something on your face to grow and make people eeek when they see you. Haha. Cockroaches like to eat cardboards. That's their main source of nutrition. So when you take parasitology and when it is asked if cockroaches are blood sucking vicious creatures, simply answer, NO and you'll get a lower chance of getting a zero. :) EEEk to Blatella germanica and the Periplaneta americana. :)