It's past midnight now.
I'm so exhausted and yet I'm not sure if I'll be able to sleep.

Apart from all the crap that's going on at work right now .... plus all the busy times ... there's a typhoon coming now!
I barely managed to ride my bike home.

I had my balcony door open because I didn't know there would be a typhoon.
I was worried the whole time.

When I finally came home and turned on the light.....


... I saw a cockroach quickly disappearing behind some boxes.

WTF????!!!!



It's the first roach I've ever seen in my life.
They are quite rare in Germany.
And it wasn't too long ago that THAT HAPPENED!!!

After coming home from work at around 22:15pm, it took me until 22:45pm until I finally managed to "get" it.
I had no idea they were so fast!!

I tried to hit it a few times, but no chance. Finally it hid in a huge teabag box and that's when I grabbed the box and put it outside on my balcony!
I hit against the box a few times to make sure the roach was in there and then closed my balcony door.

I have NO idea how that thing came into my apartment!!!
I have NO idea for how long it has already been here!!! And if there are more!! I doubt it, though.
I always come home at night (when it's dark) and when I turn on the light, I might be still be able to see them disappear quickly or at least HEAR them.
As you know my apartment is small ..... actually it's only ONE ROOM!! The kitchen and my bedroom and ... my bathroom ... it's all in ONE ROOM!!!!
I probably would have realized earlier if I had them for a long time??!!!


Now .... as I've never seen one, I have NO IDEA WHAT TO DO!!!!
It's so late now and I'm sooo tired and exhausted. I hope I'll be able to sleep.
As soon as I have time = this weekend, I'll empty all my closets and shelfs and move them and try to clean everywhere I can reach.
There are some spots I can't reach no matter what, though.


But what I'm REALLY worried about is my food!!!!
I have no idea what roaches can do and can reach?!
Do I have to throw away everything that was not in the fridge? Can they eat through plastic packages like noodle packages or cereal packages???

WHAT SHALL I DOOOOO??????????????????????????????????????? HELP!!!!


I still had roach traps luckily. I never used them, because I thought they might just attract them (if you don't have them).
But now I've spread them throughout my room. I hope they're not dangerous for me, but I think they have to eat it in order to be killed, so as long as I don't eat the traps I should be safe??!!

That's what I'm using right now. Do you have any better ideas?

I also tried to kill the monster with an insect spray, but it didn't work!! Only on me, I don't feel well now, but luckily I only used a little bit and turned on the air conditioner afterwards.

What about their eggs? Is there any way to find them???


So, I know quite a lot of you who live in Japan already had problems with those little monsters here. Any tips?
Anybody else who can help me??????

I'm trying to reasearch in the internet as well, but seriously I am sooooooo tired, I really should go to bed and try to sleep for now.


Seriously what's going on lately?? Gimme a break!!!!