Last preparations

Tons of stuff to pack!

​To be honest I didn’t look forward to packing as I knew that this would be very challenging. What do you take for going away for a year? They also have 4 seasons. Do I take clothes and shoes for all weather or do I buy things in Bhutan? What kind of medicine should I take? Is everything available there in the hospital for emergencies? 
How will I fit everything into two suitcases? At least I have bought two times 30 kg allowance for the first two flights. Which is quite a lot but I also have a lot of assistive devices and physiotherapy material which will at least fill one of the suitcases. And I also need to bring a lot of chocolate and small gifts for the people I work with. All those things take up most of the space and then I also need my personal things.  
And how to do it that I don’t forget anything important which I will regret if I don’t pack it? I decided to collect all the items, sort them by theme and lay them out so that afterwards I could  go through everything once again. Only then I could start the packing. I was worried that I would have a hard time to get everything into the suitcases. But I was astonished how well everything just perfectly fitted and was very glad and a bit proud how well I did. 
But then when I weighed them one was 37 kg and the other one 25 kg - a perfect misfit for the flight allowances. I was annoyed as everything had fitted in so well. Now I needed to swap things over. I got the kitchen scale so that I knew about how much weight I took out and added to the other suitcase. As it was getting late in the evening and I got tired I also got impatient and started to just pull out a lot of things in the suitcase which wasn’t handy as I then had to repack them nicely again. It felt like I was at it for at least an extra hour and I was quite exasperated until I finally managed to have about 29.5 kg and 30.5 kg in the two suitcases. I had also taken about 2 kg worth of stuff out which I couldn't fit anymore.  I left it at that for the night as I would have a few more things to add the next morning anyways. 

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