setback…

Where to start…? Last week was quite the rollercoaster. The days in Zanzibar were wonderful (I will write about that in a separate post) but the trip was topped and tailed by some unfortunate experiences…As the old saying goes ‘bad things happen in threes’ and it really has.

It started a couples of weeks ago when my laptop screen cracked! Not possible to fix here but the laptop works so was not the end of the world.

Then on Monday last week I had enjoyed a lovely sunset with friends on my last night in Iringa – it was a beautiful sunset as well – but on the way back my phone was stolen. This was the phone with my UK SIM card so if you have texted or WhatsApp’ed me on that in the last week, I did not receive it, sorry! Anyway, made a police statement and my friends have put word out in Iringa that they are looking to buy an iPhone… but no luck yet!

And finally, I arrived back in Arusha on Saturday to the news that the Airbnb house I had been living in and was due to stay at again, had been broken into. I had left two bags in storage there, and sadly my large rucksack which had ‘half my life’ in it had been taken.

So today I’ve been to the police again! Another theft report – it was a long list of stuff – and I made the police officer laugh because I only have two names – not sure why that was funny!?! Haha

The last couple of days I’ve been contemplating what to do… the most important thing that I lost is my contact lenses, but there were also clothes, toiletries, souvenirs from Ethiopia, books I took for work, pens, plenty of post it notes, shoes, my family photos and much more…

So tomorrow morning I’m heading back to stay with friends in Moshi to recover from my misfortune, as it has affected me quite a bit. I have a work proposal to finish and will just be lovely to see some friendly faces.

And even though I have struggled with it, because it feels like ‘giving up’, I have decided to come back to Europe for a few weeks. To get the laptop fixed, get my SIM card replaced, make insurance claims and to just restock on the important stuff. So I’m naming it a re-grouping trip instead of ‘giving up’. Some good has come of the unlucky events though… my mum, dad and sisters are very happy that I will be home for Xmas! 😊

Anyway, enough misery from here and even though it is a setback in my plans, it should just be a temporary one, I hope.