Wow, a nice diplomat?
By laglen
@laglen (19759)
United States
May 3, 2010 2:26pm CST
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/bizarre&id=7400603
April 22, 2010 (WEST ORANGE, N.J.) -- Talk about diplomacy.
The Zambian ambassador to the United Nations made a speech Wednesday at New Jersey's West Orange High School to make amends for dialing the wrong phone number.
In the fall, Ambassador Lazarous Kapambwe was trying to reach a diplomat from Sierra Leone. But the number he dialed was one digit off. He ended up calling Logan Svitzer, a student who was sitting in his U.S. history class at the school.
His teacher, Robbin Sweeney, was so annoyed that she called the number and got the ambassador. She thought it was a prank -- and spent 10 minutes on the phone with him to verify who he was.
Kapambwe spoke at the school to make up for the inconvenience. He told students about Zambia and urged them to consider diplomatic service as a career.
I think this is pretty impressive during a time we ehar about arrogant diplomats smoking on planes...
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5 responses
@bestboy19 (5478)
• United States
3 May 10
I think it was very nice of the ambassador to come to the school to speak to the students. So, he urged them to consider diplomatic service. He should have also advised them, from his own experience, to learn their numbers. What I would really like to know is if he and the teacher met and how that went.
@Netsbridge (3253)
• United States
3 May 10
Laglen, Africans are naturally a very friendly bunch. Though I have found that about 70% of Africans abroad are often the lowlifes and regrets of their original nations, the Africans in Africa are very nice people (an attribute that often is taken advantaged of by foreigners).
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@danishcanadian (28954)
• Canada
4 May 10
Wow!!! A diplomatic diplomat. Great story.
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@matersfish (6306)
• United States
4 May 10
This story can't be true. 
But it's a nice surprise!
But it's a nice surprise! 1 person likes this
