… spending a fortune for a flight, equipment, cloths, medical checkup, medicine – not to mention the costs on the spot; just to fly to a place where the sun burns your brain, the rain wets you to the bone, leeches and mosquitos suck your blood, snakes bite you in the foot and three days of diarrhea might await you in every carelessly chosen meal. Right now I wouldn’t mind if a giant snow storm closed down FRA for the next two weeks.

However, let’s have a look at my checklist, maybe there’s some hope in it:

• Working ’till the last day’s night to increase the likelihood of missing something? Check.
• Leaving students with big questionmarks in their faces? Check.
• Not having bought a sleeping pillow for the flight? Check.
• Having no time to get some domestic money beforehand? Check.
• Skipped buying additional cloths and anti-leech-socks? Check.
• Not informed grandparents that there will be no birthday-party this year? Check.

Yep … looks like we’re well prepared and good to go.