Sep 27, 2011

Ticks!

Isatou Pippi taught me the Pulaar word for tick and described how they will drink a dog’s blood until their body gets big. She asked if Levi had any ticks. I said he did not.

I tried to continue the conversation with an attempt to describe Lyme disease, which is all I really know about ticks. The best I came up with was “America also has ticks. But in America if a tick drinks your blood, you will be sick.”

Isatou Pippi had nothing more to say.

Neither did I.

Ticks make for really boring conversation.

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