Hello, and welcome in. I am Tolu Adebanjo and this is Two Suitcases and a Visa, the show where one person tells me the whole story of leaving home, not just the headline. Today I am with Marisol, a nurse from Cebu who went to Riyadh in 2014 on what was supposed to be a two-year contract. She is still there. Eleven years, one daughter raised mostly through a phone, a brother put through university, and an Arabic vocabulary she learned entirely from patients on the night shift. We talk about the agency fee that ate her first year, the remittance ritual that her whole family planned their lives around, and the graduation she nearly missed. Stay with us, it is a good one. You are listening on Witspeak Podcasts.