Kinshasa - Post Report Question and Answers
If you move here, you can leave behind your:
nice belongings that you don't want damaged or stolen - May 2024
expectations, all of them... - Aug 2022
expectation that everything will go according to plan. There's usually a bump in the road somewhere (figuratively and literally). - May 2022
Expectations and inflexibility. Adapt as quickly as you can - don't push against what can't be changed. - Aug 2019
Sense of urgency and desire for things to be organized. - Apr 2019
Winter clothes, disregard for emergency preparedness. - Dec 2017
Cold weather gear, dry clean only items, road rage, and picky eating habits. - Mar 2017
High heels. Between the grass, steep staircases, and horrible roads/sidewalks, you want sturdy flats or wedges! - Jan 2017
Most valuable possessions, and any uptight pretensions you have. - Sep 2016
Entitled attitude, winter coat (and all other winter garb), white shoes (cause they will get DIRTY). - Apr 2016
Winter clothes, high heels, inflexibility, expectation that your car, clothes, or belongings will come through unscathed. - Jan 2014
anything that you would be devastated if it were to be stolen, broken, ruined, lost, or pillaged. Also leave behind your belief that this will be Africa lite. It is a hardship post. - Nov 2012
Warm clothes. - Feb 2012
winter clothes - Nov 2011
Skis - Aug 2011
winter clothes and your ideas of Kinshasa being anything like you would think of Africa. There is no "Out of Africa" here. - Jan 2011
prejudices; dreams of taking safaris. - Oct 2010
Credit cards. - Jan 2009
