When we first came to Namibia we had to lie to get into the country. We had to say that we were simply tourists, and could not mention anything about volunteering or Project Trust. We were all able to get our three month tourism visas....which expired at the beginning of December.
When we first got to Windhoek we saw our in-country rep and gave him our passports. We explained that we needed our visas ASAP as we were planning on going to Botswana. We didn't get them in time. So we couldn't go to Botswana. From there our plans changed quite a lot.
First we planned to go to one of the other girls projects, however it turned out that we couldn't go there as her host was on holiday and she didn't have the key. Then we planned on going to the boys project, spending a few days with their host and a few days at a farm where we had all been invited. Yet that couldn't happen either, as by a bad coincidence both families were away on holiday. So we decided just to stay in Swakop for a bit longer, enjoying the beach!
A couple of days before we were going to leave for Cape Town we travelled down to Windhoek. However, we soon found out from some of the other volunteers that all of our paperwork had in fact, been lost. So the next couple of days were spent frantically calling our in-county rep and hoping that the situation would get sorted out.
It didn't. A couple of hours before we were meant to be leaving for Cape Town we got the news, we would not be getting our visas. We couldn't leave the country.
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