Is the Adventure Over???

I was taking a break from the relentless testing schedule 0f my poor 7 year old students when my house of cards began to fall... I saw a headline on Yahoo stating that the Kyrgyzstan government was officially closing the base here in Bishkek. It's only been rumor thus far, but this time it sounds like it could be for real. The locals at my school informed me that regular TV programming was interrupted last night and the president came on to make the announcement. The president made the announcement from Moscow, not from Kyrgyzstan, giving the local media one more thing to ridicule him for. He has a history of telling one foreign dignitary one story and another a completely contradictory story, thus explaining Gen. Patraeus being told 2 weeks ago here in Bishkek that there were no ongoing negotiations with Russia and no plans to close the base. Who knows??? Russia is offering a 2 billion dollar loan package to the Kyrgyz government if they will oust the Americans. Since the company I work for pulled a fast one on me when I was hired, that means if Karl goes, I go. So, in short, now we wait. Will this be just a tile or two falling off our roof? Or will our cozy Soviet shoebox all come tumbling down...