Welcome

Welcome to the first of many articles written for Great Diversions blog. I started this site in order to share with my friends, family, and soon-to-be-friends the highlights and lowlights as I undergo my training in the Foreign Service of the U. S. Department of State. Getting to this point in my life has been a development years in the making and if I can make it half as interesting to my readers as I expect it to be for me, then you have found a place on the web to kick back, learn, and day dream.

Of course, that all said, I did choose to name the site Great Diversions and I reserve the right to spout off about a few time-wasters of my own. So in addition to discussing the Foreign Service lifestyle and travel in general, I hope you’ll forgive me if I waste a little bandwidth on classic films, high literature, and pop culture. After all, I can only write so many stories about processing visas for foreigners and living in countries with frequent blackouts before you’ll be begging me for some random movie trivia. Not to mention the State Department actually frowns on its employees blogging in too much detail about work (what, with all the nuclear secrets and all.)

Oh, and if you have no idea what I’m talking about with all of this Foreign Service talk then you probably ended up at this blog due to some sort of computer error, but, have no fear, I’ll explain it all in a later post. If you can’t wait that long then read more about it at the State Department website or head over to Editfish’s blog and read about it from the perspective someone in the middle of the hiring process.

Thanks for reading.