{"id":1469,"date":"2011-08-14T00:08:33","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T06:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2014-12-29T20:36:18","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T02:36:18","slug":"new-faces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=1469","title":{"rendered":"New faces"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>This week we welcomed two new folks to the Consular section: our new Consul General and a TDY’er who came to help us in ACS for a month. I’m especially grateful for the TDY help – as an added bonus, she normally works in American Citizen Services back in Washington, so I am learning a lot from her when it comes to child abduction, welfare and whereabouts calls, etc.<\/p>\n

I’ve had several phone calls this week along these lines. It’s always, um, interesting <\/em>what people think the US Embassy can do for them or their children.\u00a0I spent a couple of hours last Sunday on phone calls with the duty officer and our consular agent, trying to help a young American citizen who got himself in a bit of hot water with local police.<\/p>\n

John and I made it to Whitehall one night this week for a nice dinner; otherwise, he has been getting home fairly late.<\/p>\n

Thursday I went with my boss to have lunch with two delightful women from the German Embassy. I was sort of dreading a “business lunch,” but I ended up really enjoying myself. It was a nice change from my typical eat-at-my-desk tuna salad!<\/p>\n

Friday we had a happy hour at work with the officers and new CG – always a good way to end the week.<\/p>\n

Saturday night, John and I went to a going away party for a friend from Post. It was fun, and we enjoyed the full moon and cooler temps walking there and back.<\/p>\n

We watched a good movie this week, “Conviction,” with Hillary Swank.<\/p>\n

John is loving his job. This week he went with the Ambassador to see a joint US-Israel military project south of Tel Aviv near the Gaza border – he had a blast (no pun intended).\u00a0See the photo below! Click here for a video about the visit<\/a> – the first couple of minutes are in Hebrew, then he switches to English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week we welcomed two new folks to the Consular section: our new Consul General and a TDY’er who came to help us in ACS for a month. I’m especially grateful for the TDY help – as an added bonus, she normally works in American Citizen Services back in Washington, so I am learning a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3570,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions\/3570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}