Over the summer I worked in U.S. Embassy Colombo with the political and economic sections.  During this internship I was given a lot of responsibility mostly because so many officers, including the economic officer, were on leave for almost my entire stay in Sri Lanka. 

   My main responsibility at the embassy was to send a biweekly tsunami reports back to Washington that updated the tsunami taskforce on what was going on in the country and how the rebuilding effort was progressing.  To do this, I attended government and donor group meetings along with interviewing major players in the rebuilding process.  

   I also worked on negotiating a debt relief package to the government of Sri Lanka from the U.S. and attempted to figure out an efficient way for the U.S. to send tsunami aid to the Maldives.  Overall, working and living in Sri Lanka was amazing and I would love to go back some day.

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Christopher E. Carter, MPP '06