EIGHT MORE STAGES OF POSTING

Disclosure time: I'm about to be re-posted! Like, tomorrow!!! And, just like my previous posting, there's an exhausting amount of work, preparation and stress that I have to go through just to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

hope?

This is what's gone down

1. Visa Application

Securing the correct visa in time for your scheduled departure is the most important thing, of course, but the host country's embassy understandably will not be rushed into issuing it

not for hip-hop battles, certainly not for me

2. Registration of Accompanying Dependents 

 tip: it's helps in the review process if y'all look alike in the submitted photo IDs

3. Unpacking

 you heard me: UN-packing. as in all the crap you brought home from your first posting but never managed to take out of the balikbayan box

4. The Return of Sudden-Onset Cheapness

 yeah, you BETTER learn to cook. eating out abroad be expensive

5. Stocking Up on Essential Pinoy Tech

 not available in any so-called "developed" country

6.  Completion of Online Courses on Contingency Planning and, uh, Other Contingencies

wasn't aware not having the right beauty consultant abroad constituted a disaster. so much to learn.  

7. Giving Life and Parenting Advice on a Social Media Star's Channel, As One Does.     

 I may or may not be hoping her followers are also into dorky diplo-blogs

(they're not)

8. Get Health Clearance to Travel

pictured: the world famous st. luke medical stress test

So where am I being posted? Well, the zombie apocalypse is no longer a concern, but a dystopian future may still lie ahead.

  BRING IT!