[ WP ] You 're a foreign exchange student in the U.S. when suddenly on the evening news the host screams in your language : `` We have a code 19 ! '' The whole country is confused , but you know what to do .

I love my American family, but I do not understand them. I do not understand how it is that they can worry so much about that which is trivial, yet are very oblivious to that which stalks them everyday. That is why I am here, though, to understand my American family. 
 
 I sit between my new sister Joanna and my new brother David as we watch the news. I study their faces carefully. 
 
 *An access control point in Afghanistan is targeted... * 
 
 *A new flesh eating bacteria is discovered in... * 
 
 *CEO of Othas Group going to trial... * 
 
 They watch because their parents are watching, but they do not care. I wonder if my American family is stupid. I watch the parents, but they do not care either. New Father loses interest until the news confirms that the god-damned Democrats are indeed god-damned - nothing else matters. New Mother watches for human interest and smiles when she sees that kittens continue to be saved from trees. 
 
 *We have a code 19! * 
 
 I do a double take. Yes, the American anchor just spoke in my tongue - and he told me it was code 19. My new American family - whom I love - stares at the screen in confusion. No time to explain. 
 
 I leap behind the couch and retrieve the knife I had hidden underneath upon my arrival. I turn to the back corner of the room first - and I strike! It takes guesswork to fight the invisible - but the feel of flesh being pierced confirms that I was right. I pull back the blade and strike upward, penetrating the lungs. I hear the thud and the wheeze and quickly retreat to the American family I love. 
 
 They're laughing a little... they do n't seem to realize that the knife was real, nor that I was not fighting thin air. New Father laughs until he realizes that he must go to bed now to get his required sleep. New Sister Joanna laughs until all of the texts on her phone overwhelm her and she must go impress and insult the right people. 
 
 I looked at the invisible corpse in the corner... understanding that American family is not stupid. Stupidity is not being able to see. American family is weary - because they look at too much. They choose to not see everything, because that is how people drowning in information must live. I only hope that one day I can show them that all is not well, because I love my American family and do not want them struck down by something they can not see.
