Whilst this was going on I decided to sit down and draw Mr and Mrs Cabin biscuit. I eat Oxford Cabin Biscuit so much. I only stated buying them because of the packaging, and still feel that it is 80% due to the packaging that I eat them so much. They are Rich Tea and the box is massive.
Eunice, Martha and I had dinner. Eunice went to bed at 9 so Martha and I were just taking tea. Tea of the evening was Milo. This is a Nigerian brand of hot chocolate. I did not like it at first and missed the English brands (like Tesco and Waitrose own.) But what I was doing wrong was not adding enough powder and milk. Milo is actually very nice, chocolate with small malt and it’s slightly nutty. It is better than Hazlenut Options because Options has a fake flavour. Milo is like drinking praline.There was a big noise at the gate and lots of shouting. It looked like a fight. I got my hopes up that it was my lost items returning but I decided it was a bit unrealistic. Then Ouku called me to tell me that my things had come back. A group of Okada boys were all holding on to an ugly looking youth. He was topless so they were holding on to his jeans and his arms and legs to stop him escaping. Most people from Amaudo heard the noise so came out from their houses to see what the matter was. Finding the items and the identity of the thief was such a relief because firstly everyone was worried it reflected badly on their country for me to be robbed. Secondly the thief did not come from the Amaudo centre neither was he a member of the local community. He was an outsider who had been hanging about doing useless things and had been causing trouble to the people of Okopedi for some time now.
People were shouting PRAIIIISSSEEEEE THE LORD!!! Hey, it was none of us, didn’t I say that all along?! Told you so it was an outsider. It’s none of us people. I knew it wasn’t so and so. Wow, what a happy news. Well done. I wanted to have my items back but they had to keep them as evidence. Kelechis brother was holding the bag.
Bro- Are all three your own?
Me- Three items?
Bro- Yes computer, I pod and this face torch
Me- Oh riiight this useless thing. Yes it is my own. Gosh that boy is a useless criminal everything he gathered was already broken. This thing stopped working almost a month ago.
Success- Carol do you want to know when you were robbed
Me- Yes go find out if it was whilst we were at dining or if I was stupid enough not to notice as soon as we got home.
Success- OK I will go ask him
[Goes to boy]
Success- Carol your not going to like this.
Me- Why?
Success- He said he robbed you by 4pm Saturday
[We both laugh]
I was so embarrassed. I laughed and laughed. It means I am so messy and untidy that it took me more than 30 hours to even notice I had been robbed. I felt well ashamed. It was bad enough that when I showed Cecil the cut in my blind and my room he exclaimed “Gosh, not only did he rob you he also trashed the place!”. And I had to admit that actually the trashing of the room was all my own work. It was worsened slightly because of my stirring up my room to look for the missing items. However everyone that knows me also knows how messy I am and how I like to spread all my mess to any place I can get away with extending it to. I am even getting in trouble by carrying useless things into Welfare Officers house to clutter him up like shoes and scarves and tins of food. I half wanted to phone my granny and tell her because I knew how much she would laugh but I was worried that she would feel angry/disappointed that I have never learned to become tidy yet.
The boy was taken into the office to talk to co-ordinator and Cecil. Welfare Officer is away so Martha and I went back to call him. It was getting late and I concluded that I would hear all the news in the morning until I would be sick to death of hearing so I may as well go back to my hot chocolate and hit the hay. We ended up going to bed at 1 so we were even confused where the time had gone.
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