stinkbug

monday was finishing up like any normal day of teaching. I was in the last 15 minutes of a high school class of boys. i had the window open a bit to have some fresh air and not use the air conditioner. a little green bug flew in.. i quickly grabbed the fly swatter and prepared to swat, when my students yelled "STOP"!! i looked at them and asked why. they told me that it was a bug that smelled very bad.

well over the next few minutes, the bug flew around the room. a boy, who plays on the badminton team at his school, took the fly swatter and tried to hit the bug out of the window. it didnt work. the reactions of the other boys were great. they were screaming and running like little girls! hahah. at one point, my coworker came in to see what the noise was about. when we told her there was a bug, she screamed and ran into the other classroom.

finally i had the genius idea of turning off the light in the classroom, thus making the bug fly to the hallway, and eventually out of the front door. (my school is really small so the front door is about 2 feet away from my classroom. it worked. the bug few out into the hallway and landed on the ground. we put a box over it and put it outside in the box. then i made the students go back into the room or the last 5 minutes of class

and boy oh boy did it smell. it smelled bad. we spent the next 5 minutes talking about kamemushi-stinkbugs. looking at their faces, trying not to breathe in deeply, i started laughing and told them to get out of the smelly room and go home. we all felt a little nauseated. its amazing how a little bug can stink up a classroom so bad! one student told me that if someone were to put a stinkbug in a small box, it would die due to its own stink. and if you touch it, you cant wash the smell off for awhile. interesting.

anyways, we left it in the box overnight and i hurried to work on tuesday to see what became of the stinkbug-but it was gone! so i wonder what happened to the bug and to the person who found it!