Airline Joins the Countdown

I received a rather superfluous email this morning. It was from the airline I’m flying with and the subject line said, “Reminder: Your flight is departing in 7 days’ time!” Thank you, airline. I was hardly likely to forget!! Although I still can’t believe that this time next week, I’ll be up in the air… :-)

The Countdown Continues...

In today’s countdown news: it’s 30 days (exactly one month) until I leave!! I’m starting to get just a little bit excited… And also a tad impatient!

After having been busy with practical preparations for several months, it feels strange to only have a short list of small jobs left to do. Sometimes I worry that I must be forgetting something important. Surely there is something that I ought to be doing! So, not knowing what else to do with myself, I have busied myself with Christmas preparations.

For the first time in my life, I have completed all of my Christmas shopping, wrapped every gift, made my Christmas cards and begun writing the cards before the beginning of December. (I’m usually the one complaining if I so much as see a Christmas decoration or hear a Christmas carol before December!) I must admit that I shall be glad to escape the pre-Christmas stupidity that seems to descend upon our shopping centres in a manner beyond all reason!

So I’m not sure how I’m going to occupy myself during the rest of this month until I leave, but I guess it won’t be in preparing for Christmas. Perhaps it will include more adventures such as the one my friend and I had today, during which the most frequently used phrase was, “What could possibly go wrong?”! 

The Countdown Is On...

The countdown is on… It is now 53 days until I leave!! I realize that 53 may seem like a rather random and insignificant number; it’s just the day I happened to get around to updating my blog! :-)

I have been tracking the weeks until I leave for a while now, because I leave on a Sunday and it’s often on Sundays that people ask me when I’m leaving. I have only begun counting the days, however, since accomplishing two important tasks:

1) I managed to get all the necessary stamps, seals and signatures on my paperwork to allow me to apply for a working visa in the Philippines. This was no small feat. I spent four days walking around the city before I was able to successfully obtain what I needed.

2) I sealed up my packing boxes and said goodbye to (some of) my stuff. My boxes should be part of a shipment that leaves this week. Hopefully they will arrive in Manila at approximately the same time I do.

...and so the countdown is on!!