Many things have felt out of our control lately. We’ve received news of friends who have had medical emergencies and car accidents in the States. We’ve had another rejection from the ministry of foreign affairs; this time it was our applications to renew our ID cards. We got a taste of what’s to come in the election season over the past weekend when a protest not far from our neighborhood caused us to stay home and cancel all our plans. We sat for days in the US embassy and
