CNN and the New York Times picked this up

The welcome here for 9 straight days was nothing short of superb. You don't know job satisfaction until you teach somewhere that raises teachers up and honors them with all their might, instead of kicking them down from time to time... but now let's go to the feature story.

Tuesday morning there was construction on my street 3:30-5:30 AM. Whoa. Tuesday night they continued at 9 PM. This is my way of saying that I was pretty tired Wednesday morning, and the Benadryl worked nicely as I awoke to my 6:30 AM alarm.

Later I discovered that at 5:30 AM a car bomb had exploded one block west and six blocks north. The blast radius was under two blocks. It was a 50 kilo bomb, not the biggest ever, set off precisely at a time when the street would not yet be crowded. The target was a radio station edifice. Coincidentally timed was the school's emergency reaction plan meeting the same morning. Fortunately I got through the day nicely distracted, and was at happy hour by 2:30 PM!

I'll post video footage to my blog from school, since my Internet is at least a week away. On the bright side, my boxes arrived surprisingly early from Miami, and I'm enjoying hard guava with Campesino cheese every day!