{"id":94,"date":"2007-11-04T13:35:54","date_gmt":"2007-11-04T18:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=94"},"modified":"2014-12-29T20:37:09","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T02:37:09","slug":"habla-espanol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=94","title":{"rendered":"\u00bfHabla espanol?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In costume at ConGen graduation on Halloween, with Kristin (Liberia, usually a blonde)\u00a0and Leslie (Guatemala)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

This was a busy week. School-wise, I finished ConGen (no purple robe for me, whaaa) and went on to begin Spanish classes on Thursday. At ConGen graduation, your class is expected to do a skit of some kind, so our class sang “Monster Mash” with the words re-written for consular work – very cute, since we were graduating on Halloween!<\/p>\n

I thoroughly enjoyed my day and a half of Spanish class – I really like the teacher and the 3 other students. We have class for 4 hours each day – my schedule is 10-12 and 2-4. I think I’m going to enjoy it.<\/p>\n

On Thursday night, the gentleman who’ll be our boss in Ciudad Juarez was in town, so John and I threw a party for him. It was a good opportunity for him to meet or re-acquaint himself with most of the new entry-level officers going to CJ.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Friday night, we\u00a0visited with John’s former co-worker Lucien at a\u00a0happy hour downtown. Lucien worked in Lima with ALLTEL and came to see us several times in Costa Rica; he, his wife and baby live here now.<\/p>\n

Saturday afternoon we were back in hosting mode – John did a coffee roasting\/tasting demo for several folks from our A-100 class. Last night, we went to a going-away party for our friends Leslie and Trey who are heading off to Guatemala soon.<\/p>\n

Some of you may have heard about the announcement of directed assignments for foreign service officers to Iraq. John and I are not affected; it’s really geared toward more upper-level officers.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0biggest news of the week is that it looks like Mom will be moving into a garden home in Hot Springs. I’m thrilled because it means a nice, level lot on a quiet street – I really think she’ll be happy there, and she is very excited about it (believe it or not!). If all goes well, she’ll move later this month.<\/p>\n

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John talking about coffee with Richard, Marcy, Jimmi and Joe<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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