Monday night my house was robbed. I was out to dinner with my host mom and sister for my moms birthday. When we got home, at about 9:30, we saw that the enormous steel garage doors had been bent apart and the chain had been broken. We walked into our house to find broken glass everywhere and tons of things missing. My room is on the 2nd floor (my mom and sisters are on the 3rd) and I couldnt even walk into my room. The walls of my room are big closets and drawers where my mom stores a lot of things and every single drawer had been emptied out and thrown across the room and all of the closets had been torn open the things pulled out of them. It was so scary to know that people had been in my room going through all of my stuff. After cleaning my room, i found that my computer, my camera, my backpack, a small bag with some of my makeup, and my US cell phone charger (but for some reason not the phone) had been taken. I was very luckly that they left my passport and credit cards. They also took about $40 out of my wallet but for some reason left the wallet with the credit cards in it behind. Also, in my bathroom, i had two small makeup bags - one had makeup and one had $150 in cash. For some reason they took the one with the makeup and left the one with the cash. Luckily, I had my ipod in my raincoat pocket and they didn´t think to look there. From my family they took 7 large and expensive paintings, two plasma tvs, some jewelry, and my mom and sisters passports which had American Visas in them which are really hard to obtain and very expensive. Luckily I have insurance on my computer so my parents are going to buy me a new computer at home and bring it when they visit in 3 weeks. So for the next few weeks I will get lots of reading done because its not like I can just walk down the hall to borrow a friends computer.
Even though what happened was very unfortunate, we are all very lucky that we are ok. My host mom kept saying "thank god we werent at home" because in Ecuador when people rob houses, they always bring weapons. If it hadn´t been my moms birthday, I probably would have been home alone which is a very scary thought. We have an alarm system for the house that we never really used before (unless we went away for long periods of time) but now it is always turned on which makes me feel much safer.
I am so thankful they didn´t take my passport because I am going to the Galapagos on Saturday!!
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