Too School for Cool

Daily schedule: Run/work out, breakfast, bus to school, four hours of intense spanish instruction, lunch break, hour to two hour instrumentation lecture, two to three hour lab. As if there were a chance to get bored during the day, you can always count on the ticos (Costa Ricans) to ruffle your feathers.


On Tuesday, two Costa Rican guys were accidently buzzed through the school gates under the guise of asking for information about spanish lessons. Not realizing how many people would be in the school and how astute the head of the school is (she subtly but clearly let them know that she knew why they were there), the two would-be robbers were visibly spooked and fled the scene with 2 other guys in a getaway truck and motorcycle. We're not longer allowed to bring anything but books in plastic bags to school.


I don't mean to worry anyone by telling the story because I know that we have taken the necessary precautions and we will be just fine. But I think it is worth reflecting for a minute how "fortunate" we are, as a developed nation, to be able to deliberate Eve Carson's and Abhijit Mahato's deaths tragic and inexplicable rather than ordinary or inconsecuential. I think I've just gotten a better appreciation for how liberating it is to feel safe in your surroundings.