baggage, luggage / unwelcome burden

overseas travel (to Western countries); going abroad

preparations

prepare

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

reserve fund

of a shop, the state of being closed, that is, not open for business

mental readiness