Prayer

Dear Readers, Just figured I would write to let you all know that yesterday morning at 8:25am Morgan and I were leaving our new living space to make our way to the bus stop for a long day of teaching down at the school. After we locked the gate and stopped to talk to our neighbor for a second, two men came up behind us with a gun and just proceded to take the bags we were carrying right off our bodies. While calmly pointing the gun at us and not saying a word, took our bags and walked down the street like nothing had happened. This attack was no coincidence. Morgan and I are the only two white people "Greengos" in the city, which makes us easy targets. Our attackers knew our schedule and where we lived. We assume that they followed us because we are always carrying bags that have our teaching supplies in them, which they assumed would have money in them because white people are considered rich as well as arrogant. The two boys were around 18 years old and wore the colors of a local gang. They happened to be lucky on this day because they made off with Morgans two bags which contained her laptop as well as wallet with $500 that she planned on wiring home, 20,000 in colones, Insurance card, NC Drivers License, Debit and Credit cards. They also took my bag which had my camera, wallet (credit/debit/license), and passport as well as some of my music books. (all my cash was stored in the house), to which they did not ask us to go into. The most important thing is that we walked away unharmed. Your prayers would be greatly appreciated and hope that we make the best decisions about our very near future. With much love…roman.