A Traveler in the Foreign Service: Ding Dongs and danger pay in Kosovo

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Hi Will! For the record:

1. I don't have a big American car. I have a small Japanese one. (one shared for my family, not 2 or 3)
2. Foreign Service Officers spend a huge chunk of their careers studying languages at the Foreign Service Institute. Most that I know are fluent or near fluent in several languages. Many diplomats from other countries receive little or no language training at all before they are posted to other countries, so actually the U.S. record on this score is pretty good.
3. Macedonian food is good, no doubt, but you still need to buy groceries. When I lived there, from 02-04, there were two supermarkets in town, Vero and Tinex, and the selection at Tinex was even more limited than Vero. Just my two denars.

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