I knew that I would run across different bugs when moving to Africa.  I just did not expect to have to deal with the Earwigs.  They are these small bugs with pinchers on their back tail and scales that are just everywhere.  The walls of the rest house are covered with them and they crawl into every nook and cranny.  They are also impossible to kill.  You cannot drown them, they can swim and they laugh in the face of being sprayed with raid.   You have to smash them pretty hard for them to die.  Not a light tap of the foot or the fly swatter . . . I have found a heavy textbook works well.  I am just hoping that they will be going away soon and that I will not have to deal with them for my whole year in Africa!