Settling in...

I haven't blogged in awhile...mostly because I was at home for Thanksgiving and have been working on unpacking since. As of this evening, I'm down to 3 more boxes left to unpack. I'm still working on finding homes for everything that I've already taken out of the boxes, but it's slowly coming together. I'm hoping it will all get done in the next 3 days because Chris is coming for my graduation ceremony on Thursday.

I can't believe that my initial 5-week training program is just about done! This Friday I'll find out where I'm heading for the next two years of my life. We've been warned that they're having problems placing all 60 of us right now, some some of us will be getting US flags at the ceremony and finding out our assignments later. I know that the agriculture group is among those that are having problems being placed, so I have my fingers crossed that someone has claimed me by this Friday.

I've been spending most of my time outside of training working on the apartment, so I don't really have any exciting stories...

I'm sure everyone has heard about the debacle of WikiLeaks publishing thousands of cables from U.S. Embassies around the world. Since the published documents are classified information and we've all signed agreements not to utilize classified information outside of approved methods, government employees are prohibited from accessing them on WikiLeaks, so I've only seen and heard what's been reported on the news. It's been a big topic at our training lately because it will severely impair our ability to interact with foreign governments, not to mention it endangers the lives of both US government employees and those who have been working with us. I can understand people wanting the government to be more transparent, but the way that this was done is going to have a huge impact on how the foreign service agencies are able to do their work. It angers me to think that someone single-handedly endangered the lives of hundreds of thousands of foreign service workers, most likely without even thinking about the consequences. But anyway...

Photos of the finished apartment to come, as well as graduation pics...visit my Facebook page to wager your guess as to where I'll be assigned! The winner will receive an undetermined prize from me!