{"id":740,"date":"2010-03-21T13:18:15","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T19:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=740"},"modified":"2014-12-29T20:36:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T02:36:44","slug":"and-then-everything-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=740","title":{"rendered":"And then everything changed"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>The week started out great. Last Sunday morning we drove over to Richard’s apartment for bruch with a small group of friends – good food, good conversation (Richard is an outstanding host). Then John got an email about the murder of a Consulate employee in Juarez<\/a>. We immediately commandeered Richard’s computer to find details.<\/p>\n

To our horror, the woman who was killed, Lesley,\u00a0was a dear co-worker of mine in the American Citizen Services section – we had just been emailing the week before. I wish I could convey what a wonderful, beautiful person she was, inside and out.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, all of us associated with Juarez are in shock and still trying to understand what happened…and why.<\/p>\n

The rest of the week seems sort of irrelevant after that news. We studied a lot. Wednesday, our Hebrew class had an interesting trip to the Israeli Embassy here in DC, where we met and listened to their diplomats.<\/p>\n

Thursday we went to two different happy hours. The first one, in Chinatown, was to meet one of the local staff from the Embassy in Tel Aviv. He seemed like a great guy, and I look forward to working with him later this year. The second one was with our A-100 classmates – it was good to laugh with them.<\/p>\n

We also managed to squeeze in a few movies. “Stolen<\/a>,” a documentary\u00a0about the Gardner art heist; “The Lemon Tree<\/a>,” with our favorite Middle Eastern actress<\/a>; and “A Serious Man<\/a>,” the Coen Brothers’ new movie, which we really enjoyed (mostly we appreciated the scenes of the boy in Hebrew class, as Pam predicted!).<\/p>\n

Flavie continues to come out a bit more, and has even started to play again and sit in our laps some!<\/p>\n

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With Lesley at the Consulate Christmas party last December<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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