Sitting around getting ready for my state department interview next month. When I took the foreign service exam I bended the truth a little, and now I have to read all those books that I told them that Id read, Arab Nationalism, Democracy in China, etc...
And then there was that part where I said that Ive tried to learn Arabic... they're going to want to know about that one.
I can still manage three or four sentences and a couple of phrases from my sadistic Islam prof's class. Not enough to impress them any, but it was more than enough to make the taliban delegation that lived down the hall from me in a beijing flophouse hate me. I came home late at night with a a lady friend, beers in our hands. They opened up their doors and glared at us, as they always did. Saluting them with my bottle of Yanjing beer, I said "Ana al mushirk," I am a heretic.
They were not amused.
Im debating if I should pull that story out for my interview, but I figure its the kind of thing that you play by ear....
And then there was that part where I said that Ive tried to learn Arabic... they're going to want to know about that one.
I can still manage three or four sentences and a couple of phrases from my sadistic Islam prof's class. Not enough to impress them any, but it was more than enough to make the taliban delegation that lived down the hall from me in a beijing flophouse hate me. I came home late at night with a a lady friend, beers in our hands. They opened up their doors and glared at us, as they always did. Saluting them with my bottle of Yanjing beer, I said "Ana al mushirk," I am a heretic.
They were not amused.
Im debating if I should pull that story out for my interview, but I figure its the kind of thing that you play by ear....
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