Today I spent all day in classes and then all evening studying. So by the time night (or early morning) came, I was more than thankful for the roof of the building.
It's really nice up there at night. You get a great view of Gwei-Shan and it's relatively quiet.
But there's one problem – the wildlife.
I'd snuck up there to eat lunch earlier and as I passed through the fire door from our floor, something caught my eye. I turned around and totally jumped out my skin. There was a pretty sizeable, semi-transparent gecko on the back of the door. In Taiwan, they call them wall tigers, and this one certainly lived up to it's name. They're speedy wee things, so when it started to move, so did I. As quickly as I could up the stairs to the roof.
So when I headed up there later, a lot of careful stealth-like checking of my surroundings was in order. Tentatively went through the first door, checked walls, roofs, crevices, nothing. Crept up the stairs (paying careful attention that nothing was waiting to fall onto my head – imagining lizards getting tangled up in my curls and biting off my ear and finger tips as I tried to free it.) All clear. Went through the last fire door leading onto the roof and there it was on the step.
The gecko had lost it's tail.
I felt a little sorry for it (for a split second) but decided it was safer that way, figuring they couldn't run as fast without the balance from their tails.
They're cute behind glass, or in books, or in other countries, but not in dorms.
Not even a little.
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