Thanks everyone who replied... some of you were very helpful. I?m making one last effort to find my stuff today by heading with a friend to the surroudning compra ventas.
The real shame in this, ultimately, is losing my digital recorder, just because I have no way of getting another one in this country (from what I can tell) and need it for work. Not sure what to do about that.
But is it just me or are the people who post on this board evenly divided between wonderful, sensible people and racist, trigger-happy, paranoid, souless assholes? I understand comments like "you are stupid to go into a barrio with anything of real value" (probobly true), but things like "Let the people in the barrios kill each other"? Why would you live in this country if you hated the people here? Even having been robbed in Villa Mella, my time spent in the barrio Mata Los Indios remain my fondest memories of the country, studying music there, spending lazy days playing dominoes and drinking cafecitos, swimming in the river with the local kids. I never had to pay for a single thing there, even though the people were maaad poor, they always provided food or anything else I needed. I guarantee that barrios are not exclusively filled with murderous drug addicts, but some of the best people you will meet.
The fact that I was attacked was the fault of my own carelessness. I?ll be more careful from here on out, but I refuse to spit on the poor of this country like many do on this board.
The real shame in this, ultimately, is losing my digital recorder, just because I have no way of getting another one in this country (from what I can tell) and need it for work. Not sure what to do about that.
But is it just me or are the people who post on this board evenly divided between wonderful, sensible people and racist, trigger-happy, paranoid, souless assholes? I understand comments like "you are stupid to go into a barrio with anything of real value" (probobly true), but things like "Let the people in the barrios kill each other"? Why would you live in this country if you hated the people here? Even having been robbed in Villa Mella, my time spent in the barrio Mata Los Indios remain my fondest memories of the country, studying music there, spending lazy days playing dominoes and drinking cafecitos, swimming in the river with the local kids. I never had to pay for a single thing there, even though the people were maaad poor, they always provided food or anything else I needed. I guarantee that barrios are not exclusively filled with murderous drug addicts, but some of the best people you will meet.
The fact that I was attacked was the fault of my own carelessness. I?ll be more careful from here on out, but I refuse to spit on the poor of this country like many do on this board.