My Computer

Sorry it's been so long since my last post. My computer this past week got a virus. The really horrible kind that make it impossible to even log on. When this happened I basically had a meltdown but thank goodness Alex was able to talk me through it :). That very same day I finally got my package in the mail with all of my books and my pictures!! I looked up computer stores on the family's computer and found one about two blocks from my home, which I thought was odd since I live in a very upscale neighborhood that is surrounded by embassies and such, no stores really. I went there and I either couldn't find it or it doesn't exist sooo that stunk. Then I went to a different one much farther away from my home and after wandering around for a bit I found that one too and it was closed, closed as in it didn't look like it was going to be open for a very long time. Also the neighborhood was a little sketchy. After that I walked to an area I was familiar with and just prayed I would find a computer place and I am not kidding when I say that literally when I turned the next corner I saw one!
This store "PC Gold" was very tiny and smelled really strongly of cigarette smoke, but at that point I didn't care at all. I know very little about computers to begin with and even in English I know only a handful of computer related words so you can imagine how limited my computer vocab in French is, in fact it consists of one word "ordinateur" which is computer. So I ended up saying to them something along the lines of "mon ordinateu est malade" which roughly translates to my computer is physically sick like with a cold or a fever. Thank goodness that broke the ice the guys in there just started laughing and then one of them asked if I spoke English. They spent several days working on my computer but finally it was fixed yesterday!! The wonderful thing is they only charged my 40 euros for the whole thing. To give you some persepctive on how inexspensive that is: S had some guy come look at his computer today to do something minor and charged him 100 euros. They had my computer for days and had to do a lot of work and charged me 40 euros.
Every day I am discovering how generous people are.