A sad day in Colombia

So yesterday I tried to burn the pictures from my camera onto a CD, but the computer was a lost cause so I gave up and decided to wait until after lunch. I locked my room, went to eat lunch and came back to a room with no more camera :(

The hotel owner searched the other hotel rooms, to see if the person who picked my lock hadn`t left yet, but we soon realized that it was a shady character who was visiting some one of the other hotel guests. Of course, the person didn´t reappear at the hotel. It is a big disappointment, but I am thankful that it was only my camera that they stole. In the end, materials come and go, what is most important is that I am okay, and I still have my passport and my cello. Here, the local people say that when something bad happens to something that belongs to you, like if I had a pet that got sick or lost something important, that in reality, something bad was going to happen to me, but that event was intercepted by the belonging. That means that my camera getting stolen prevented something bad from happening to me... and now I have two locks on my door.

The good news is that before I went to lunch I had taken out the chip that had the pictures I had already taken, so at least I have something from that camera to remember. When I get to Bogota, I will buy another camera in one of the contraband markets and everything will be okay. Until then, no more pictures, but if anyone would like to donate towards the new camera fund.... ;)