locked out

The people here are a little crazy about the security of their houses.  There is a fence with bars across the front of our property with barbed wire above it.  I have 3 keys to get into the house: 1 to open the lock on the front gate, 1 to open the barred door (like our screen doors, minus the screen, plus the bars) which you have to turn 2 times to open, and 1 for the front door which you have to turn 3 times to open.

So at about 9:15am, I am home, by myself, and stepped outside to check how warm it is and the wind blew the front door shut behind me.  There is no doorknob, you have to have a key to open it.  If this happened in the states, I would just find an open window and climb in; not possible here.  All the windows have bars on them.  So I thought that I would just have to wait several hours until someone came home or possibly walk to school for my class at 1:00 (I didn't have any money in my pockets for the bus).  Then I realized that my family had put the lock on the gate when they left this morning and, therefore, I couldn't get out.  So there I was, stuck between the gate and the house with no way in and no way out.

I was standing there thinking that I was going to be stuck there for a good 4 hours until someone came home.  I started to get a little panicky because I had a lot of homework to do and I would miss class.  I started looking around their garage area to try and find any tool that I might use to try to unlock the door.  As I was moving some stuff around, a key fell to the ground.  Lo and behold it opened the front door!

Now I am safely back inside, my heartbeat has returned to its normal pace, and I thought I would share my mini-adventure with everyone.

front gate and barbed wire

barred windows and front door