The Foreign Service Journal, April 2016

74 april 2016 | the foreign Service journal local lens By JANICE ANDERSON n SELES, ANGOLA Please submit your favorite, recent photograph to be considered for Local Lens. Images must be high resolution (at least 300 dpi at 8” x 10”, or 1 MB or larger) and must not be in print elsewhere. Please include a short description of the scene/event, as well as your name, brief biodata and the type of camera used, to locallens@afsa.org. W e stumbled upon this scene during a three-day weekend enjoying the cool, mountain- ous, coffee-growing region of Angola. Near the town of Seles, a group of children were gleefully playing on a tank, scrambling all over it and bouncing on the barrel, which still moved up and down. The pink tutu and the children’s laughter made a powerful contrast to the remnants of the civil war that had torn the country apart from 1975 to 2002. n Janice Anderson joined the Foreign Service in 2006 and has served in Rwanda, India, Denmark and Angola. She is heading to Iceland this summer. Her husband, Jerry, is the captain of an 800-foot commercial cargo ship that carries everything from circus animals, Christmas trees and fresh produce from the United States main- land to Hawaii, Guam and China. She took this photo with a Canon point-and-shoot camera.