Spider Fighting

Last Friday afternoon we went back up to Kanghumaod and stayed a night with a family we got close to. When we got there, we were visiting with the ladies that had taken care of us before, Ate Leny and Ate Beny. Jester started sharing with them in Cebuano, so we left him to it, and went to talk to some of the kids.

One kid, Dave, brought Cory a stick with two spiders on it, then he made the spiders fight each other! It was really cool to watch, one spider was noticeably larger than the other, but the smaller brown one was whippin' the bigger black one. Eventually, that wasn't enough for Cory, he wanted a fight to the death! 

So when they weren't killing each other, he took matters into his own hands. He smashed the black one with the stick, then wanted to light the brown one on fire. I'm not sure why, but we were all in agreement that it would be fun. This was all just a bad idea from the start. It gets so much worse. 

Cory had to go find matches, and this one little boy kept asking for the brown spider, so we let him hold the matchbox we had the brown spider trapped in. When Cory came back with matches, he got the spider back from the kid, and we set up his death pit. We lit the pit, and put the spider over it, waiting for it to burn (the whole time, nobody seemed to think this was weird!). That little boy kept trying to blow out the fire, and pull the matchbox away from the fire, but we wouldn't let him ruin our fun! A couple minutes later, that spider was dead. We torched it. 

Then we got the bad news... That brown spider wasn't just some random spider the kids had found. It was that little boy's pet! We found out because he ran off crying! And not just letting tears run down his face, but audibly, loudly, crying! Cory felt so bad! I know it's bad, but with this situation unfolding before us, Blake, Joshua, and I couldn't help but laugh! Cory ended up giving the kid a whistle, some candy, and 100 pesos!! He bribed him for silence!!! But the kid's mom said it was ok anyways, and we didn't need to worry about it. So that's our ridiculous story for the week!