It's Manila!

Pam and I got the word today - we're going to Manila! There'll be a much shorter time in DC this round - probably only a month of training (area studies and a bit more consular training). We'll also have a month of home leave, location(s) TBD, before arriving in Manila in March 2011. We'll still have to figure out exactly when we leave Hyderabad, but something right around the new year is most likely. Back for Christmas? Maybe. We'll have to work out the precise dates.

Anyway, the most important thing is that we're going the same place at the same time, and that we can take the boys and the dog. Both of us will be doing consular jobs, which, while not ideal, is also not the end of the world. We both like the (relatively) regular schedule. And in Manila there's much more immigrant visa work and American Citizen Services, so there should be some change from the straight non-immigrant visa work we do in India.

One more day of training before we move on to Maryland for the weekend, then Pennsylvania next week. It's nice to be home, even for a few days!