Final Countdown

At the flag ceremony next Tues., we all find out where in the world we'll be going.

I was pushing for posts in Asia where I'd have to learn a new language, like Chinese or Russian or Laotian, but I have a pretty solid hunch that I'm going to India with little-to-no training in Hindi or Bengali or [insert language here that you've never heard of but which is spoken by more people than live in the state of California]. There, or somewhere in the Americas, pretty much nothing like India at all. So, I'm not getting too stressed out by this process-- my anxiety ended when I handed in that list. And I'm not trying to out-guess the bidding process either--I have no idea who in my orientation class had the same favorite posts that I did.

I'm just hoping that on Tuesday, during the Flag ceremony, that when they hold up that flag, I'll be able to contain my glee when they call my name and walk, not skip, down the aisle to pick it up. I hope I at least recognize it.