Foreign Service Officer Test

Yesterday, Sen. Barack Obama gave a speech in Mt. Vernon, Iowa. He said, among other things, that:

"... loving your country shouldn't just mean watching fireworks on the 4th of July; loving your country must mean accepting your responsibility to do your part to change it. And if you do stand up, I promise you that your life will be richer, and our country will be stronger. We need your service, right now, in this moment - our moment - in history. I'm not going to tell you what your role should be; that's for you to discover. But I am going to ask you to play your part; ask you to stand up; ask you to put your foot firmly into the current of history. I am asking you to change history's course. And if I have the fortune to be your President, decades from now - when the memory of this or that policy has faded, and when the words that we will speak in the next few years are long forgotten - I hope you remember this as a moment when your own story and the American story came together."

Today, I took the written exam to join the Foreign Service. I'll use this space to let you know how I did. I fervently hope that this will indeed be a moment when my own story and the American story come together.