CHEER.chou

I feel so embarrassed to talk about this here. but since seldom of you really understand English, I'll just say it. This evening I've done something very stupid. and to talk about the story, we'll have to turn back time to this afternoon.

This afternoon, I was walking to Santa Lucia, the most famous romantic scene in Santiago. and when I was still on the way to there, one guy and two girls stopped me, and started to talk to me. I don't really know what they're talking about though. it was something about poetry and education problems in Chile. after we talked for 5 or 10 minutes, they finally told me what they want. they want me to donate some money to support their actions to approve Chile's educational problems. The guy even show me his student ID of University of Chile to persue me. 

I don't really want to donate anything but they keep bugging me. and they say.. one dollar will be fine too. and so I think, well.. if one dollar can buy you off, that's quite ok though. so I said, ok one dollar. and I started to search in my bag. I have two wallets with me, one is with the cash (chilean pesos) and another is with the US dollars and credit cards. but I can't find the one with the dollars.... "HOW COME?" I think. and they are still around waiting like lions around a poor sheep, so I take out the cash wallet and gave them 1000 peso (almost 2 dollars) to pay them off.

But since then, I can't get this out off my head. "did I really bring two wallets out? or the wallet was stolen when they're talking to me?" I wasn't really sure if I keep my eyes on my backpacks when they were talking to me. and I wasn't sure if one of then had walked away from my sight and put her hand in my backpack either. 

I can't stop thinking about it, even there's a possiblity that I didn't even bring it out at all. so after dinner, I went back to the hostel, and I opened my locker and get everything inside out, BUT I DIDN'T SAW THAT WALLET!! OMG!!!! IT WAS STOLEN!!!! WHY DIDN'T THEY TOOK THE ONE WITH CASH?!!! so I went to the counter and told them my wallet was stolen and I need a computer to skype out to cancel the cards. the host right away got me a computer to use. and I was so so nervous that I even think about cancelling the rest of the trip.

Finally, I cancelled all the credit cards. and I can't stop being nervous, so I went up the find through all my package again. and magically, it appeared!! not in the locker, not in the backpack, but under my blanket......................................................................................... 

as I said, I was so embarrassed. I even have the people in the hostel and on SKYPE worry about me, just becuse I am so careless and so nervous, and I made a mistake like this. and now I have to call to the banks again to re-open the cards. 

and when I do so, I realized that how "not-user-friendly" CITIBANK is. it doesn't have a cancellation protection. which means, once you cancelled, you cancelled. you can't re-opened it by phone, it'll just send a new one to you and charge you 1,000 NTD. and what's even worse, CITIBANK card wasn't placed in that wallet at all!!! IT DIDN'T EVEN LOST AT ALL!!!!!!! 

I HATE CITIBANK FOR MAKING ME HATE MYSELF MORE!!!!!!!!!!