Love, Miss C

Worry

7 June 2020

Hi, I'm back. Sorry for disappearing on you for a bit there. Things are quite hectic in my life right now.

Let me explain: a few years ago my family and I moved to Namibia for my father's work on a work permit. This permit was only valid for a few years, and we tried to extend it, but unfortunately we were unsuccessful, as the country does not grant any more work permits for the department of agriculture (my dad is a farmer). Long story short, we had to move back to South Africa, my country of birth, and came to Namibia about two months ago to collect our last things.

Then, the pawpaw hit the fan. South Africa had a huge corona outbreak, closed their borders, and we figured that it was safer for us to stay in Namibia for a little while longer. Now, me and my brother's passports are expiring, school and university is reopening, and my parents have to work. Thus, we applied to repatriate back to South Africa. Now, this sounds a lot less complicated than what it really is. But allow me to explain.

We had to send an application (which included lots and lots of paperwork) to the South African Embassy in Namibia to repatriate. They will provide us with a specific date and time by which we have to meet the South African police at a specific border, escort us from the border to the quarantine location (a resort in Upington, a small town in the Kalahari Desert), and then we have to stay there for two weeks. After all of that, we will have to travel across the country from Upington to Rustenburg, the town to which we are moving.

All of that wouldn't have been too bad, if it weren't for the fact that this whole process will most likely happen during the time that I am writing my first exam in University, online.

This means that I have to study my ass of right now, so that I won't be too affected when we travel. Also, all that I can do right now is hope and pray that there will be adequate network coverage at the quarantine location for me to write my exams online. As if all of that is not enough to cause stress, it is almost me and my boyfriend's one year anniversary, and we will possibly not be able to see each other on that date, and for months to come because he lives in Namibia.

So yeah, this is basically a summary of all of my worries right now.

But, I am fine. I can do this. God would not have put these obstacles in my path if He didn't know that I can handle them. And, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, right?

~ Miss C