Time to escape that stuffy classroom and get out....to a stuffy hotel! This is the 'off-site', the bonding and esprit de corps-strengthening time when we all go to a moderately priced hotel and eat mediocre food....together!
After a series of team-building exercises (often involving blindfolds) we passed a reflective night of drinking and karaoke in preparation of the next day.
For you see, this morning was the Embassy Simulation. We were divided into our respective sections and given a series of escalating crises to deal with. In the consular section, we had everything from anti-American protestors to fussy visa applicants to distraught US citizens looking for their lost relatives.They threw everything they had at us.
Also the Ambassador had a rabid civet loose in her office. Not a real one, presumably - I wasn't invited to deal with that particular case.
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