The Foreign Service Journal, June 2013

114 JUNE 2013 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL LOCAL LENS BY DEBI DEMETRION n LAHORE, PAKISTAN Enter your photography to be featured in Local Lens! Images must be high resolution (at least 300 dpi at 8 x 10”). Please submit a short description of the scene/event, as well as your name, brief biodata and the type of camera used, t o locallens@afsa.org. A little girl rests against the tiles of a pillar during play at the Tomb of Jahangir, the Mughal emperor who ruled what is now Pakistan from 1605 to 1627. Wherever I’ve served, I’ve been fascinated with the children I’ve encountered. Their innocence and love of life, even in poverty, are inspiring. n Debi Demetrion is an Office Management Specialist in the Regional Secu- rity Office of Consulate Lahore. She has served previously in Honduras and Oman. Lahore is Ms. Demetrion’s last posting, as she will reach mandatory retirement age in 2014. Wishing she had discovered this career earlier in her life, she vows to use her remaining 15 months to travel the region, capturing more of the youth of the world with her camera, a Sony a55.