As of Now

Mixed messages all around. Alarmists are trying to find a way out of the country, but that is what the embassy has advised us to do. We can't leave, it would break our contract, we wouldn't get paid, and I don't want to leave this way. We live far away from the airport and there is no army tank to escort us, even if we could get a ticket.
However, I went outside to exercise this morning and plan on going running with 3 other ladies tomorrow morning. Yesterday we went swimming and Kristie's and over to Tom's for pizza. Today we had a joint birthday party for myself and 3 others who have their birthdays in the next week. We still don't know if it will be safe to resume school. One minute I am panicked, the next just fine.
I will try to update as we find out more. Meredith and I are cutting the tres leche cake Ann made for the 4 of us celebrating our birthdays. The other shot is Tom's pizza party-we all played Cranium after gobbling down the food. Tom is an excellent pizza baker! My sad offering was what I dug up out of the freezer. I have found people will dip anything into salsa, especially if you cut it up into bite size pieces, have a tooth pick sticking out of it, and put it on a colorful dish!