Madame Secretary

This last week featured Secretary of State Hillary Clinton coming to Manila. She is my boss. Her trip was quite a production. I was a "site officer" which meant I scoped out one of her meetings with Filipino government officials with the advance team, and arrived early and made sure everyone went according to plan. Luckily, no major disasters. It did involve a lot of standing around and waiting though.

The next day Secretary Clinton came to the Embassy and gave a little pep talk. She then came down and shook a few hands.

Working the line

Here, we were all told to pose for a picture, but the Secretary is posing for a different camera.

Someone got a shot of me shaking her hand.

It would have been a better shot had that girl in front of me not jumped in there about 20 seconds before Secretary Clinton got there, but what can you do?

She was very personable and very gracious to spend some time in Manila.  It was reportedly the first US Secretary of State visit to Manila in 7 years.