Dear audience,
now that the obligatory apology if the long delay seems to have already become my trademark, I am adding to this hereby added a little explanation: I had no leisure to write simply. Many pundits would argue they've been lacking the inspiration or time. If not me. I had plenty of both. I was not writing simply in the mood and I'm just swimming against my own expectation of electricity.
Since I no longer remember all too long to dwell among Paraguayans, I think it is now appropriate to let's hear something from me. And so the story takes its course ...
have in the past few weeks I started to see the crime and personal safety in a somewhat different light, especially my own safety. It's been quite interesting if you look towards the end of the stay again retrospection bears in mind how clumsy and ignorant but you at the beginning of the year abroad in relation to some of life has been even.
How often am I long after dark, alone, wandering in foreign climes, sometimes under the influence of certain short-chain carbohydrates. Apparently I had, at least so far, but always a guardian angel who saved me from all evil (if I even have come with no money in the pockets of home, so this was definitely no one blaming others).
by little I have heard repeatedly from smaller or bigger crime in my immediate environment. Whether it be the cleaning lady had cleaned up at a friend's thoroughly or that a friend boarded the bus while using mobile phone, but again left without. All this while I'm
stored unconsciously, worked for me but otherwise left no bigger Beunruigung. Usually I just tell myself that the affected people are just simply too careless or just hopelessly naive. Since such an accident happen, but each can, I try to always make it clear that I am the greatest caution and vigilant eye on the wood can not completely protect against a asalto , so an attack. In view of this, I can appreciate me very happy so far to be spared.
Since I'm from a very small village in Germany can do and in my U.S. school in a very safe area used to have, that time is actually been a completely new experience. Even the super-rich can not be outside of their house to hide from the crime. I want to say do not mean that lurks on every street corner, a delinquent, but rather would like to point out that self-protection here has a different, much higher importance than for example in German Kleinstaedten.
Diese Behauptung moechte ich aber nicht nur einfach mal in den Raum werfen, sondern auch an ein paar persoenlichen Erfahrungen genauer auslegen.
Zunaechst noch einmal kurz zu den allgemeinen taetlichen Uebergriffen: Es wurde bisher kein auslaendischer Freiwilliger oder Austauschschueler ernstlich verletzt oder gar getoetet. Ich lehne mich sogar soweit aus dem Fenster und sage, dass dies zumindest mit AFS hier in Paraguay noch niemals bisher vorgekommen ist. Je nach Definition muss man vielleicht meinen Mitfreiwilligen Nic als Ausnahme sehen, dem eines Abends an einer eigentlich belebten Strasse beim kurzen Austreten eins mit einer Pistole ueber den Schaedel gebraten wurde und dann auch seine Wertgegenstaende aushaendigen musste, wie er uns told.
What I am reporting now, I give back as a third person. For the accuracy of all statements I can not guarantee so. However, I have tried to tell me to, in my view, to reduce the relevant facts.
took about three weeks ago one of our employees afternoon my little brother up from school. About 200m away from our house, they were threatened by a unvermummten young man with a gun and forced mobile phone and money be returned immediately. While she did as her gehiessen, was my 10 year old baby brother, completely frozen in shock, standing next to her. What this experience has caused fear in his young mind, I venture my mind boggling. It's really a shame that such things with impunity at all possible here, where the offender must still strive not even a motorized means of escape or a ski mask. The police are often powerless against it because inefficient, understaffed and often corrupt. This experience has made clear to me that I would like to expose my children never had such an environment, most people here, no matter how kind-hearted.
When I about half an hour later came home and told me the story was still hot, could I grasp the whole, hardly. Actually, I did that day still run to the gym, I bit back then but the. As much as I wanted to tempt fate but then, if or probably even the perpetrators should still be close.
The other law-breaking took place yesterday morning and was so subtle that it had been perceived not only by me, I will be seeing my host father told again today. It happened as follows: My host family was out of office and only one employee was still at home except me. As my person had previously spent the night with some friends in town, fly the next week some of them already back home, I was still in deep sleep and had nothing to do with more. About 11
clock bell rang at the door well and a man stood outside and said that he had come on behalf of my host mother, who allegedly asked him to pick up a chain. Was actually my host mother for a few days on a training. To prove his legitimacy, he asked the seemingly reluctant to help house the phone number of the Lady to her again to call and confirm the surrender. After the entry of the extension, he called and my host mother was actually a call. Only this was completed directly after connecting again, so that the called party assumed an incorrect number. Curiously, was the supposed messenger but the conversation that he had now done by hand to the monologue, upright, in order to deceive even the skeptical listener. After loudly with laughter and practiced mock text to an apparent agreement on the part of hostess fictitious, our maid finally opened the gate and then even the door to admit a complete stranger in the house unguarded. Man I probably would clear up my entire room and I can not even notice it. Such a party-induced stupor, I will avoid in the near future, probably better. The stranger, however, only took the chain from the empleada and then disappeared. Never to return. When my host parents then found out about it, they were driven straight home. Because with my host mother no chain had arrived. She had also asked anyone to have to bring those. Next, then filed a complaint.
Pretty clear case, right?
one would initially think. But criminal energies are often more subtle than you think and you met them in many forms. Even in a small, seemingly defenseless domestic workers.
... wait .. times what?
That was my immediate reaction when I told my host father that he had fired our waitress on the same day. I have personally handing out the Schmucksstuecks simply interpreted as stupidity and naivety of a typical family members of the Paraguayan young underclass. My host parents, wiser and probably richer in painful experiences, but came to a different verdict. Our household has
namely an operating cell phone that is used by employees accessible to my host parents or certain service providers quickly and achieve free. My padres anfitriónes have also always discuss again emphatically point out any ambiguities initially with them before some people will open gate and door. Therefore, it seems somewhat strange that the maid in this case are not, as always, has used the phone to satisfy itself of the authenticity of the concern for her employer, rather than simply pass on their home number to a stranger. It is also, strangely, been extremely well timed, since the otherwise almost constantly present second house employee who happened to buy just the nearby supermarket. Accordingly, to understand, that the evidence is quite overwhelming and not much room for speculation can.
To be sure, consider the case from another angle: The suspect our house and the routines of every single person had previously studied and then slammed into a possible opportune moment when he younger employee for holding the easiest victims. The ill-considered decision to let in the stranger, they might now have cost the job legally harsh.
This interpretation, however, makes me a little scared, because thus I and my daily routines of one or more criminals are under surveillance could've, or maybe still spying. But we do hope that my trained security paranoia here something about the Target overshoot. I'm also not more of it, because the perpetrators knew that my host mother was not in town and such information may not have been obtained without substantial shading, do not justify the cost of a small chain certainly would. More likely is the presence of a mole within the family, ie, the now-offenders, which collaborated with the thief in order to get something from the booty.
Also, I was also in danger, if this stranger would have to create the household made and I would be uncomfortable somehow come between. What would have happened then? If he tries to stun me and then tied up? Or shot? Or he would be frightened fled? Hard to say, but luckily I was at the time unaware of the danger because I actually floated.
Since I seldom actually fooling my knowledge of human nature and myself our employees never criminally or even devious occurred, I assume that they probably have been driven to by certain Lebensumstaende as debt or the like must.
But all these are speculations that are likely to remain just that. Interestingly, however, that was committed in a neighboring household, a similar crime, even with the same mobile phone number of the fake caller, with the difference that the empleada had not played there.
Anyway, even the other employees was against the employ of the defendant Mittaeterschaft further, since the former is otherwise not prepared to continue to live within our budget. But then I found something unprincipled and selfish of her, because the two of them already know a few months and live together, work and tell everything. to ram because of a single, perhaps even verschuldbaren fact, just such a metaphorical knife in the back of one of the most trusted people, I found, in view of which has been lost piece of metal, then a bit unjustified and will not in future, forget about me.
The decision of my host parents, especially with regard to the safety of their small sons, I can understand perfectly, however. My host father has it good to the point when he told me his personal opinion declared: "lesión irreparable de confianza" - irreparable breach of trust
... and it can have a no judge and no jury to acquit the world again.
