to start at the beginning

11 January is the departure date. I am supposed to be headed for Tata, Hungary. That's my understanding, anyway. The envelope with the official letter and all that has yet to arrive, even though it was supposed to be here on the 17th or 18th of December. Did it get lost in a snowstorm? Or is there some misunderstanding? Is this beginning of a bureaucratic nightmare? Will all be revealed in a later program? Right now I am going to just carry on with the issues at hand: laundry (clean everything, sort into Take, Leave, and Who Knows), the kitchen update project (electrical about 95%, countertops are just in the design stage). the wall repair project (plaster repair, then repaint), and the What To Do About The Apartment project. Decisions need to be made soon.