Break-in

Hello everyone. Just a quick update to let you know that my flat was broken into last Wednesday. Sue and I were not home as it was the middle of the day, but were both quite shaken-up when we arrived home in the evening.

Several items were stolen, including my laptop, eye glasses, two rings that my mom had given me, Sue’s digital camera, Sue’s clarinet which she has had since she was nine and has sentimental value, as well as some other smaller items. I think we are both doing pretty well. It’s a bit traumatic to think that someone was going through your stuff – both of our rooms were a mess. They broke in through the back gate… actually bent up a metal gate and kicked our door in. I will put pics up at some point in time of that. I am currently at the church, and will probably not be wonderful in keeping up with emails and such as I am house-sitting (an amazing house with a great alarm system and have use of their ’94 Camry!) for someone who doesn’t have Internet access. Sue does have a laptop, so I can keep up with that while I am at home.

One absolutely amazing thing is that my stuff is covered under my mom’s homeowners insurance since that is my permanent residence… such a blessing! My mother has been absolutely amazing and has already gone and picked out new eye glasses for me and will be shipping them over this week. Thank you so much!!!

I am overall doing well. I met with our church counselor on Friday and she walked me through some of the feelings and stuff that I would go through and am going through, and I am meeting with her again on Tuesday. It was so good to talk about it. It’s funny because it is quite normal here for stuff like this to happen, so when I was talking to friends here about it they would make comments like, “When that happened to me…” or “Last week when my dad was hijacked…” or “When I got mugged….”. After speaking with people I kind of thought that I was making this a bigger deal than it was, but when I woke up on Friday I came to the conclusion that it was a big deal and it’s okay for me to be emotional about it.

People here have been absolutely amazing… very encouraging and Sue and I even had some people stay with us in the flat for a few days. I am so blessed to be surrounded by this amazing community here and am so thankful for it.

Love you all.