Greetings!
We are still alive... Just lacking in Internet data!
We arrived safely in Cotonou last Sunday after a wonderful last weekend in Kandi with our dear friends. Since then, we've been to the local Adventist church, visited the market and craft centre a few times to buy some souvenirs, sorted out our visas (the system at immigration is now working!) and slept... Lots. Like 10 hours a night and then a 2 hour nap during the day. That's been really good!
Left on the agenda for this week is attempting to get back the 'repatriation deposit' of about £300 that we paid to the Bénin Treasury back in November. Immigration currently has our file and they need to give the 'ok' before we can go and see Treasury and ask them to give us the money back! In November, Treasury told us to allow one week for the process. We allowed 11 days. What they didn't tell us was that there was a process before the Treasury process. And that process involves Immigration, who are notoriously slow. So if we're lucky, Immigration may say 'ok' tomorrow afternoon, and then Treasury will have 3 days to give us our money! We've been praying about the whole thing for a few weeks, and at church yesterday, the 'Welcome' guy asked if he could pray with us after the service and we shared this problem with him. He prayed with us, then told us that he has a friend who works for the Treasury and said he would make some phone calls for us. That's given us a bit of hope!
Apart from that, we'll be visiting the pizza restaurant down the road to make up for our lack of cheese and mushroom intake over the past year and sleeping some more !
5 days until we're home!! :-D
We are still alive... Just lacking in Internet data!
We arrived safely in Cotonou last Sunday after a wonderful last weekend in Kandi with our dear friends. Since then, we've been to the local Adventist church, visited the market and craft centre a few times to buy some souvenirs, sorted out our visas (the system at immigration is now working!) and slept... Lots. Like 10 hours a night and then a 2 hour nap during the day. That's been really good!
Left on the agenda for this week is attempting to get back the 'repatriation deposit' of about £300 that we paid to the Bénin Treasury back in November. Immigration currently has our file and they need to give the 'ok' before we can go and see Treasury and ask them to give us the money back! In November, Treasury told us to allow one week for the process. We allowed 11 days. What they didn't tell us was that there was a process before the Treasury process. And that process involves Immigration, who are notoriously slow. So if we're lucky, Immigration may say 'ok' tomorrow afternoon, and then Treasury will have 3 days to give us our money! We've been praying about the whole thing for a few weeks, and at church yesterday, the 'Welcome' guy asked if he could pray with us after the service and we shared this problem with him. He prayed with us, then told us that he has a friend who works for the Treasury and said he would make some phone calls for us. That's given us a bit of hope!
Apart from that, we'll be visiting the pizza restaurant down the road to make up for our lack of cheese and mushroom intake over the past year and sleeping some more !
5 days until we're home!! :-D
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