Still waiting....

Nothing new, phone still works.

Say what?!

George "got" his letter today and can pick it up next Tuesday. One would think this means he didn't actually get his letter today, and there in lies the problem, the thinking part.

I've often wanted to throw my phone while trying to navigate the bureaucracy of each of our countries and have refrained. Self control is overrated....I threw it, it felt good, my phone survived.

Yay!

So George woke me up at 6:00 this morning with wonderful news! I he went back to the registrar (again!) and was told to come back TOMORROW for the letter! I am so happy!

P.S. Happy Birthday lil' bro!

Some hope?

I got some good encouragement from church folks today and talked to George (which is always wonderful!). He's going to go back to the registrar tomorrow and appeal. If that doesn't work, well, I don't know.

And it continues.....

The registrar said maybe in two weeks he'll give George the letter, maybe in March. We're both frustrated, trying to figure out what to do next.

Patience, right?

My patience is wearing very, very thin. I thought I did well with the whole Ghana-time thing, I was totally chill about this, I knew things would move soon enough, and I prided myself on that.....I was wrong.

We have one thing holding up the visa process and it's about to eat my lunch- a letter from the University of Cape Coast. We need this letter to confirm that George does actually go there and will actually return to Ghana (that is a very important thing to prove to the United States!). However, the registrar is on a power trip and won't give George the letter, he keeps putting it off for some reason. George has done all he can do and we still have nothing. I'm starting to think we should play this game their way and resort to bribery, but how wrong would that be? I did track down the man's e-mail address though and I'll see if George is okay with my dad or me sending him a note. Why we think our western influence will do anything, I don't know, but I guess it's worth a try. KEEP ON PRAYING!!

He's baaaack....

George is back from the field and it's so wonderful to know that I can talk to him whenever I want (though I can't afford it, it's nice to know). I've done a ton of research about getting a visa and we've learned a bit from the last attempt. We have almost everything together to get started because the earlier the better! One thing we still need is a letter from George's school, they wouldn't give him one before his trip because classes hadn't officially started (him being on a school research trip didn't count....I'm rolling my eyes). So hopefully we will get that fairly quickly, Ghana time quickly that is, I don't mean tomorrow. :)