Sunday 3/2

Pete is at a meeting with our administration and people from the embassy to discuss how the evacuation from school on Wednesday and what our next course of action is. We were told that there are organised demonstrations over by the Hilton today and to avoid that area. It was not supposed to start up again until Monday, so again we have no idea how dangerous things are. Hopefully Pete will have more info for us when he gets back.

Meredith, Fred, Marianne and I went up to the closest shop and got more food. Part of the problem is that our refrigerators are half the size of the ones in the US so it is difficult to keep more than a few days worth of food. The store was busy, but at least food had been replenished on the shelves. Our housekeeper has been ill so we actually had to cook and clean ourselves this week. I know, boo-hoo right? It is the dry season and there is a thick coat of orange dust on everything-even my papers I have to grade each day.

These shots are on our patio. We share the building with a UN office. We hope they'll give a us a ride to the airport (yeah right) if we evacuate. You can see the white tanks of our back-up water system.