Beachy excitement in Ro....but first: boys I talked to robbed me...

What they stole: my $140 sunglasses (they were broken and unfixable, so I didn't care about them that much), my wallet with more cash than usual, my CA ID, my Romanian ID, all my credit cards and some numbers and cards, my Keys!, and my Hp sd reader and my camera's extra battery.

Set up: I was playing and teaching golf to the kids in the community. It was actually a headache because the girls responsible for helping me didn't show, and WAAAAAAAAAAAAaay too many kids were there. I was frustrated, I was tired, and I was holding on, but definitely ignoring children at a point.

I had, seriously! about 40 kids with me, just me! no one else really older and responsible (well I had this one 14 year old girl, but she was really quiet).

Anyway, we were setting up, and I had some older boys come and play, and I knew them, so that was okay, but Other boys saw us and then started pushing and beating up one of my students! He's a little slow, but he tries really hard and he's a sweet kid (like Forest Gump). I told that bigger (15 year old? 16?) to leave my kid alone. I told those boys on their bikes to move out of the way of our game. They were up to no good, they were taking our home made golf clubs, and swinging at things and at some littler kids.
They said that was public area, I told them that they can stay here, but move out of our course.
I was frustrated with the, AND I had to say this all in Romanian...gar.
They wanted to play, I said it was only for our students (I really wanted them just to leave).

Later as I help my kids with the game, those bo...I didn't see this very well, my kids caught them doing it, the boys dug through my backpack (which was about 10 feet away from me, and not far from my little kids, but they're little) and stole my stuff and fled, on their bikes.
I had my boys on bikes tear after them, NOT to stop them, but to see where they went.
My boys found my keys, and my pack of 1/2 eaten gum.
I called the local police (no one responded), I called the police police but they don't understand English and hung up on me 2 times (I was told they Do understand English, but apparently not), and I had a girl explain the situation, but they told me to call the local police.
I then had some girls Go to the police station, but it was closed (the police don't live in the village, and they apparently have closing hours).
I called my counterpart (the old mayor) and he told me to call the police.
My counterpart then called the mayor, and him and 2 cars with men in them, went after the boys.

I waited...and they kids watched the boys flee and the mayor and them not going in the right direction.

People have told me that: the mentality in Romania is that there will be a crime going on, and people around it will pretend it isn't happening. This is what I was told.

Today, many adults witnessed what was going on, but only the kids were running and chasing the TEENAGERS who stole my things. These kids grew up here, and everyone knows them.
People told me to go to their houses and speak to their parents....I will tomorrow, but I'm going to give them a chance to give stuff back.
I told the locals Who Live near those boys, that if they SEE my stuff on the Floor, to Please give it to the Primaria, because I don't care about the money, but I do care about that other stuff.

Especially my hpdrive, because without it, I can't load pictures on to computers here. My computer's disk driver is broken, and all the computers here are too old to have scan disk readers.

Even my counterpart told me: why did you call me, what can I do? (I though: you have a car, and you know the people here, you can do a lot more than I can) He did call around though, and he did come out to pick me up and then drive me home.

The most important things: my cellphone was on the strap of the bag, so it was missed, and my camera was with me, and my keys were found, so it's okay. Everything else is not AS difficult to replace.

I've frozen all my accounts and stuff, cause even those those boys are young, it's better to be safe. I've heard those boys have a record of being not good, and ....they're gypsies....which is really not good for the stereotype (I'm not sure all of the, but some of them are).

Asta este (that's the way it is).

I didn't broadcast it, but I did tell some people that this has happened to me before Once when I was in HS and someone stole my wallet out of my locker, and in College (even though 98% of the time it's soooooooo safe at Poly that I actually deserved to be stolen from at the incident at Poly). I told them this so they hopefully won't feel more pessimistic about their people, so they know that it does happen everywhere.

This incident just happened to be outright revenge, than subtle theft.
My kids (my sweet kids) and I are going to go out and look for my stuff tomorrow, and ...I'm going to limit the size of my class so I can keep a better eye on things.

No pics =(...

Let's see what happens tomorrow. I'm going to the Police station tomorrow, and again, it's not that bad really, I'm just sad (which is way normal for having my stuff stolen). I have my telephone, and the keys to my house. I'm not supppppper attached to material things) thank goodness! I don't feel like I am at least ( I won't admit it at least, to myself).

Everything else will take some time to replace, but they're replacable, EXcept the flash drive and the pictures on it. That I'm attached to, so I hope I can find it tomorrow.

Anyway, I was at CONSTANTA last weekend, and it was beautiful and fun, and I have pictures..I loaded them on my computer yesterday, so they're TBP.

goodnight.