<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/stories/diplomats-abroad-overcome-pandemic-challenges.html" dsn="news"><featured/><pubDate>03/03/2021</pubDate><title>Diplomats Abroad Overcome Pandemic Challenges</title><description>Despite the waxing and waning of the pandemic’s intensity last fall and early winter, four  F&amp;M graduates reached their destinations abroad and begin their teaching fellowships.</description><author>Peter Durantine</author><image><img src="/uploads/files/749401581537031751-anna-in-the-classroom-2.135.0.3825.2304.full.jpg" alt="As a language teaching assistant through the Spanish Ministry of Educations North American English Language and Cultural Assistants Program, Anna Milton 18 works at a school in Punta Umbria in Andalusia."/></image><image-caption/><tags><tag>Art and Art History</tag><tag>Chinese Language</tag></tags></item>