So after the lovely experience of being sick and just generally out of commission for a week, my laptop was stolen. Out of my house. PRETTY FREAKING LAME if you ask me.
It wasn't even just my laptop. My roommate's was taken too, along with her purse and another girl's purse in my house. And of course, Ghana being the incredibly modern/civilized/efficient/developed/really insert any word here that is used to describe Ghana place that is, a great investigation was started straight away.
Now at my house we have 24 hour security guards, an alarm system, and a CCTV (or something like it system). And at NYU in Ghana we have this lovely (ineffective) guy named Victor in charge of security (and community service at which he had already proved himself incompetent). Victor and our security company, G4S start a crack investigation, which five days later, had resulted in them not yet watching security tapes and essentially looking around our houses to make sure we didn't misplace our computers. Okay, seriously NYU? I've gone so far as to refer to my laptop as my baby...I totally just misplaced it.
This whole experience has also allowed me to get acquainted with the Ghanaian Police Department. If I had to choose one word to describe their investigation tactics, I'd have to go with illogical. After Leah and I gave statements saying that our laptops were Macs, they call us in to see if a Sony laptop that they confiscated from our security guard's house (it was his roommate's) was ours. Seriously? Yesterday morning, I'm woken up to find our investigator at our house who tells us that she's there to "help us look" for our laptops. Again, seriously?
Blah. The whole this is just really frustrating. Luckily, my dad took out what I'm convinced is the greatest insurance policy ever and my laptop was covered by it. Now I just have to deal with the extreme inconvenience of having to write multiple papers and finals without my computer or any of the information on it. So much to do for the two weeks that I have left here.
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