Lost and Found

4/29/13

Noteworthy events of the day: I got my limited passport in the afternoon and then a call from the embassy in the evening that someone had found my stolen passport! Ahhh, brilliant. Not enough words can describe all of my feelings but I've settled on thinking I've applied for a passport 2.25 years early. So who found it and where? Zahi-Dul, a newspaper chief found it on the streets in Chittagong, which lies in the south of Dhaka, around 260 km away. The complete details will probably be a mystery forever since I understood about 50% of our phone conversation. He asked for my address and said he would arrange for a courier to send it. He even called me back when I texted it to him but forgot to put the area, Gulshan-2, in it. There was a series of thanking from each end but no mention of remuneration. Somehow I feel I will be asked for it some point. Am I too cynical? Anyhow, Chris' roommate, Benedikt, couldn't stop laughing when I received the call. Smh! What else can you do right? I'm just in a constant state of stupor and disbelief in this city. Maybe I should start clicking my shoes and see if I wake up back in NY.

Last event to note is the extraction software for the flash drive worked! Well, for the most part. Some pictures came up with sections of gray. Those are most likely corrupted forever. In addition, I got pictures that weren't even mine, but you could tell this guy loved self-portraits...and Mountain Dew hehe.