Yesterday morning I woke very early to start getting ready-I was very fashionable in my black and white checked blazer and pink button down. I met some other nervous but very nice Foreign Service Specialists on the shuttle to the Foreign Service Institute. We all gathered (about 65 of us) in the lobby for our swearing in service. I began looking around and realizing that the State Department "uniform" does not include pink shirts much less black and white checked blazers, it is much more of a muted dark suit, white shirt "uniform"! I stood out like the only Human Resource Officer that I was, my fears were substantiated when the speaker stated he always liked to see a class of dark suits, then he knows that the evaluators have done a good job of recruiting the best and the brightest! I could only imagine what he that of the fashion don't in the back of room in her checked blazer. Needless to say today I am wearing a lovely dark brown suit-but I still have a little bit of fashionista in me and I am wearing (gasp) a light blue button down!
There are a number of Foreign Service Agents (Security) a couple of Diplomatic Couriers and quite a few Office Specialists. Everyone is very friendly and we are al in the same boat which makes for some bonding.
Well I had better go-I have to make an introduction of an ambassador today-no pressure (but hence the brown suit!)
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