EER Season, Part 4

Spring brings about a favorite time of every employee in the Foreign Service, their annual evaluation reports. The Employee Evaluation Report (EER) carries a lot of weight. Not just because it matters for promotions and assignments, but because of what it has traditionally required: time, careful phrasing, and more than a little second-guessing. Drafting accomplishment

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Malaysian Adventure

Every April, Myanmar rings in the New Year with Thingyan, a week-long celebration defined by water fights, music, dancing, and a full reset of the pace of daily life. If you’ve experienced Songkran in Thailand, it’s a familiar scene, with similar traditions echoed across Cambodia and Laos. Having gone through it last year, a few

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