Please Mr. Postman..

Deliver my passport already!

The last two weeks have been extremely stressful as I tried to square up everything before leaving Austin for 7 months. I applied for my visa to Bangladesh weeks ago and sent my passport to Washington along with the visa application. I leave in THREE days (and it’s the weekend already) and my passport isn’t here yet! The Bangladeshi embassy, much like the Indian one, is not only inefficient but also extremely rude. I’ve hounded them with phone calls all of last week to make the process quicker but it hasn’t worked. They recognize my voice now and conveniently hang up on me. I finally got S to call them and yell at them in Bengali. Hopefully that does the trick.

If all goes well, I’ll be globetrotting (hardly) starting Monday. 2 months in Bangladesh, 1 month in India, 4 months in Hong Kong and other parts of Asia (hopefully), 2 weeks in India and then back to Austin in January. For now, I’m busy packing up my life into cardboard boxes.

Pray!!!

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