fuck.

one october morning i woke up, i had been sleeping in my girlfriends bed upstairs from my apartment, she was asking me if i had seen my room mate's laptop, as soon as she asked me that i knew something wasn't right and i got dressed and made my way downstairs, our friend adam had just arrived the previous day to visit with us for the week. when i got down everyones laptop was missing, besides mine. i thought "no way, we could not have been robbed, my stuff is still here, this has to be a joke." later i realized my laptop or ipod had not been taken because they were obnoxiously covered in stickers. after looking for my things i realized my camera had been taken, after further examination we all realized what we were missing. i was astounded, i couldn't believe this had happened, the worst part is that the night before i was putting my camera away after taking pictures off of it, "maybe i should hide this" then i thought"what an odd thought it is safe in plain sight on top of my bed" i regret not hiding it now. i had my camera, inscribed white gold ring my girlfriend had given me, watch, and backpack from high cascade with all of its contents were taken (including 8 postcards i had written to friends and family). my gross revenue of stolen items totaled upwards of $1800. i was relatively lucky, adam who was visiting just had his laptop taken (later we found out beer too), and ironically was the most optimistic out of all of us. my room mate evan had his laptop and camera stolen. my other room mate eric got it the worst, his macbook, wallet, american phone, irish phone, and a bar of chocolate were taken from him. when garda (irish police) appeared on the scene, they told us they would send over a detective. when he arrived he told us they they had climbed up a gutter pipe shimmied on a windowsill and hopped onto our balcony and came in through our window, he was able to lift a print off of the pipe. he told us he would run the print but we were informed form the get go the chances of us getting our stuff back was slim to none.

so if this was a movie, this would be the low point where everyone needed to pull together to overcome obstacles.

later i realized i didn't have a camera and that i was going to oslo in less than a week, thankfully, adam had brought his point and shoot camera and said he would let me borrow it for the semester

this was without a doubt the low point of the trip