What a couple of weeks! I spent a full week touring with Duende, a Latin Jazz Quartet! It was incredible. Sometimes I can't believe I'm getting paid to to do my job. One night they received two standing ovations. They held jam sessions, conducted children's and Master's workshops, and gave performances throughout the island. They even performed at the prison! We were given a tour of the Cypriot K-9 unit. They were covered in all the media, and I even ended up on a talk show. That was pretty wild.
We did some sight seeing around Limassol and Kyrenia, too. We visited an ancient Roman amphitheater that had such perfect acoustics that you could whisper and be heard several stories up. The vista was breathtaking. We kept driving around in fields and then pulled up to this castle out in the middle of nowhere-- but Cyprus is kind of like that. Of course, Kyrenia Harbor is beautiful as always. One of the guys liked it so much he skipped lunch and went hunting for a job!
Two days after packing Duende off to the airport, we launched a traffic safety initiative with a press conference. Wow. We received an incredible response. Full-page articles, requests for national interviews, meeting requests from other Ambassadors...we definitely struck a nerve.
I'll post some photos in the next few days.
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