Originally Posted by aromulus
Well...
Last night I Xoomed to Jet 400 quid for the flight...
Gave her, also, a full set of instructions for what to do monday...
ie.
CFO sticker collecting...Short trip to the local Qatar Airways office, to book her seat for the 20th...
And if there is a slight chance, to book an earlier flight.
I got her to print the itinerary and the charge from the Airline Website $597 one way...
If there is a leaving party at all, to keep it extremely low key, as I don't really want to feed the 5000, exclusively close family.
I suppose this will be a little out of the question, because Filipino like to show off a little, and if they have a chance to make somebody envious of them... They will take it.
Fortunately, Jet is not like that, but, dammit, she likes parties and fiestas...
So the saga is nearly over, soon she will join me here in the land of milk and honey, high taxes, speed cams, fortnightly bin collections, cold weather,and what have you...
What will she think of the UK...??? Will she miss home?
Obvious.
Thinking ahead, I did leave a pc with her, in May last year, with full broadband.
So that we could communicate every day,without her having to resort to walk ,in all weather, the local internet cafes.
Will it be enough for her to keep in touch with the family...??? I dearly hope so.
Thanks for all your good wishes, guys and dolls.
I really appreciate your sincerity.
The pc left over there as your im sure aware needs to be kept up to date with os updates and the same with any av or anti spyware on the computer. Is there someone ok with doing that? Also make sure the broadband bill is payed as and when, not always the highest prioty for some families.
Also not sure of the family setup etc, but make sure the people who use it realsie its a communcation tool not a games centre. A few times my Wifes younger Bro and Sis have had to be told off for loading on manga screensavers and games etc.
Also my Wifes sister younger sister goes to a posh school in manila and when we were last over she had to load on files to the laptop from her usb stick only used on the school network computers we had a few nasty virus suddenly pop up.
Your still need a cheap way of ringing via landline and mobile as its unlikely they will have on the pc all the time plus your wife will need/want to speak to other realtives who don't have pcs trust me.
