ANTS ATTACK!

It was Tuesday noon on our recess week. In my dormitory, some of my roommates were playing computer games or surfing the internet; some of us were still asleep; some of us were reading novels. We were all enjoying this relaxing holiday. But, some thing unpleasant and unexpected was about to happen…

At that time, I was sitting at my desk. Jacky was surfing the internet. Suddenly, Jacky stand up quickly, shouted, “Ouch! Ants, they bite me!” Hearing the noise, we gather around Jacky’s desk. On the floor, we could see large amount of ants moving forward in lines. Maybe Jacky disturbed their march by accident, so they all climbed up to his leg and gave him some punishments. Living with ants could be very uncomfortable and disturbed. As early as we first arrived in Singapore, unties had told us about this. We decided to end these small insects. Jacky kept jamming on the ants. Hundreds of them were dead under his slipper. However, this war didn’t end. More and more ants came out. They climbed up Jacky’s slipper. These creatures were small but had strong mandibles. Jacky screamed under their attack. Killing all of them seemed to be impossible. Then, Jacky wanted to destroy the ants’ nest. Following the line made up by the ants, he found a hole on the floor which all the ants went into. We could not do anything with this hole. As a result, Plan B ended up failure. At this time, Jacky realized the ants must have found some food. He removed his stuff under the desk. At last, he found some fruit there. That was ants’ target. Throwing away the fruit, we fought against them again. This time, one of our roommates suggested putting some laundry powder on them. That was really a strange method for me. I didn’t know why, but it seemed work. Although the powder could not kill the ant, it made them lose the way. At the end of the war, most of the ants we could see had been killed. We all thought we win.

I went to play basketball after that. An hour later, when I went back to my room, another roommate was hitting the floor crazily. Ants came again! My roommate lost his temper. He used everything he could find to cope with the ants: powder, water or even the perfume… I thought he was so funny. But, at my desk, I knew how serious the problem was. The ants had found a new way to find food and that way was move across the floor under my desk! I had no idea. I was defeated by this little troop. The only way was to avoid disturb them when I was doing my own things.

Now, I should think about buying some insecticide…