‘Mosquito nets’ are now called ‘bet nets.’ PCVs spend a lot of time under them. I’m sitting under mine now blogging in the afternoon. It’s double-sized and held up by my four bedposts. Bed nets are quite necessary because no one wants malaria, which got a colleague of mine during the school break in April. He caught it in time, so he took medicine and was able to return to teaching right away. Others are not so lucky. Malaria still kills a lot of people. Bed nets also keep other critters besides mosquitoes out, too, so there’s a sense of security under them. Luckily, Rwanda does not have a lot of critters, but I have seen cockroaches and spiders in my house. My bed net was stolen during the burglary in April, but the police recovered it. In the meantime, Peace Corps gave me a new one. My nearest volunteer neighbor, Sandra, requested my spare bed net because her Kinyarwanda tutor did not have one.