Horrraaayyyy!!!

So, today, FINALLY we have gotten a response from the Embassy!

They've granted me the Visa and my passport and documents are being posted back to me today. Praise the Lord! Talk about leaving it to the last minute... les than 48 hours before I fly! lol! Am feeling much better, lighter now, feels like a ten tonne weight has been lifted off my shoulders!

So now its getting down to doing all the packing... for some reason my suitcase wont close... It needs to be flat on both sides but it seems to bulge in the middle when we try to push the sides together...should have gone with an expandable suitcase! Oh well... guess I'll just have to take some things out....!!

There's supposed to be lots of sunshine there at the moment. I looked up the weather and it said it was 29 degrees on the day I'm due to arrive, 26 today, 27 tomorrow... it's gunna be warm, me thinks!
Am hoping the people I'll be staying with are nice and that we'll get on ok... am wondering if there'll be any Brits there or if everyone will be American. I hope there may also be some other new people there so I'm not compeltely new and everyone else is fully established etc...:-s

So... about 60 hours to go... countdown...

Stress!

So, I'm starting to get really stressed out about my visa and passport etc. The south african embassy has had my stuff since the 12th August, and they've not replied to any of my emails , calls or answerphone messages. I have 12 hours to know if I will need to pay a whole lot more to change my flights, and if I need to do that, when for and how much longer theyre going to keep all my documents and passport, bank stuff and everything... The website says it will take no more than 10 days to process everything, so why has it so far taken them 21. Twice they've asked for other stuff and I sent it immediately, so why won't they send everything back to me.... really starting to lose all hope :'(