A crazy series of events

Tonight after I finished teaching at the pharmacy, I felt like going to visit my old host family.  I arrived and all was well.  We sat down to have some soup for dinner when the teenager of the house ran in and quickly mumbled something about his cell phone.  He and my host sister's husband ran out the front gate, picked up 2 big rocks and went running down the alley.  He had been sitting in the bank parking lot next door with his friends when someone grabbed his cell phone and ran.  The man jumped into a taxi (the driver turned out to be a friend of the family).  Of course, the driver didn't know anything at the time and when my host sister called the taxi after, he had already dropped the robber off in a dangerous part of town. The whole neighborhood was standing around outside when the police arrived, of course.

About a half an hour later, the two students that had just left the house to ride the bus to San Jose showed up at the door.  They told us that the bus left them and they didn't understand why.  It was very odd.  So, my host mom called the Spanish school and tried to work out a taxi... they had a flight to catch in San Jose at 7am.  Then, as she was busy with the cell phone thing... I ended up coordinating the rides for them.  The funny thing was that the girl calling from the Spanish school was a friend of mine :]  It really is a small town once you've lived here almost 9 months.

As the two girls were getting into the van... I asked one of them if they had all of their things.  I don't know why I felt like asking that.  I just thought the night was so weird that it would just make sense if they left something.  Then I noticed..... "HEY!!!! You have MY BACKPACK!"  The girl was getting in the van with my backpack!!!!! She thought it was her friend's and was just carrying everything out of the house.  My backpack almost went to San Jose and I would have had no way of contacting them.  I thanked God for helping me notice; all of my things are in there... including the keys to my house and the money I just got paid today.  

After that, I decided this was a night to spend at home in my bed.  I got sidetracked, however, on the way home to eat ice-cream and ended up talking with friends there for another hour.  By the way, the power just went off and then back on ..... I hope that is the last event of the night. 

I think it's time to go to bed. 

As my students say, "thanks God",  for helping me be in the right place at the right time - being open to the signs I need to see.