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Patience is a virtue... VISA progression & Teacher Jen!

Patience and tolerance is a virtue.

This has never been more pertinent than now, by living in Africa.

To date, my work VISA application has taken 131 days to process (and still counting...). My future employer, Charles Orbach, engaged a specialist VISA consultant to assist with the requirements of obtaining the relevant work permit. We were originally told that the work VISA would take between 30-90 days to process. Ahhh... sometimes you just have to laugh!

Anyway, after a lot of hiccups and delays I should be a working woman at some stage during April. Lack of competence by the VISA consultant appears to be the reason for one of the delays, otherwise it is just a lack of urgency and priority by the Department of Home Affairs. Unfortunate when there is a major skills shortage of professionals in the country.

In the mean time I have kept myself busy with normal day-to-day activities, visitors, and also for the past couple of months by volunteering my accounting expertise to Nomusa. I tutor her in accounting twice a week for a couple of hours each visit. Nomusa is studying matric (Year 12) and is 'under the water' with Accounting. She is in a class of 30 whereby the teacher does not teach. Instead he merely advises which exercises to perform without providing adequate assistance or instruction.
It's been a good challenge for me and something I have really enjoyed. Unfortunate for Nomusa, she isn't really that interested in accounting (beyond passing matric) and can't understand how I could chose to be one!

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