I took the Foreign Service Written Exam today in Phnom Penh. First and foremost- I'm dying to know how much the Embassy spends on electricity as the Air Conditioning was on so high I was shaking and had purple fingers when I left. First time I've ever been cold in Cambodia! :)
Otherwise, I felt things went smoothly. Everyone at the embassy was nice and helpful, and I enjoyed speaking with one of our proctors after the test about how she had gotten into the Foreign Service and how she'd ended up in Phnom Penh. She said she had signed up to take the FS exam years earlier but never went and ended up avoiding the process by joining as a security specialist later. Very interesting! Now I'm wondering what I could "specialize" in as a means to an end.
Our two proctors had not taken the test themselves and were slightly unsure about the timing of things and whether or not we could take breaks. It was a little unsettling to be told something contrary to what I'd been led to believe by the registration information. They said that we had three hours exactlty to complete the entire test and were to keep time for individual sections ourselves (which was not true). Each section has it's own time limit.
In addition to myself, four other people were taking the test that day at that location. I enjoyed chatting with people in the same boat as myself (excited and nervous!).
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