OK, scratch that goal. The violence did escalate: a church was bombed and a security warning of suicide bombers in schools went out. Sri Lanka made headlines twice on Yahoo! News...not a good sign. I emailed the ELF people at Georgetown about withdrawing from the post. I was really nervous about how everyone was going to react. I wrote the email on Saturday night (called Magdalena on Monday afternoon). She was so cool and seemed to really "get" where I was coming from. It was such a relief to talk to someone who was so "human" with me. It was great. She mentioned Philipplines and Mongolia as possibilities, but the rosters had already gone out and she didn't know if they had chosen yet or not. She also mentioned Ukraine and Armenia. Joe and I studied the sites last night and emailed her our choice of... Kiev, Ukraine.
Today I called her and confirmed that she did send my dossier to Ukraine. We chatted a bit about my withdrawal and she mentioned that the PAO and Richard were concerned. I read an email from the PAO which just reiterated that everyone there was "worried about the situation". So I sent a message to Richard summarizing my reasons. Hopefully, he will know that I really want to be above-board and professional about everything.
Luckily, I will have a chance at another site. We'll see what happens once again... it would be great to live in Europe again, wouldn't it?
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