Before we begin this full immersion French press course, you need to know a few facts. This is serious business folks, if you get it wrong Coffee Guy is bound to come to your house and whack you across the wrists with his fancy silver cupping spoon. As you can see, the Carlson house never …
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roadside shopping
Shopping in Burundi can be a very stress-full experience. There is a way to minimize it though, just take the road to Bugarama on your way to the coffee hills and let the vegetables come to you. While it’s not an entirely relaxing experience to have twenty people shouting at your window with their produce …
The pig and the giant
Why is it that sometimes the words just won’t come out? Is it because of the trouble that I sometimes have when I try to see past the bridge of my nose? They do say that when your vision is impaired it can effect your speech. For some anyway, obviously not everybody. Or is it because the words get …
Would you?
Would you be smiling like this if you were making $1.12 a day? I’m not sure I would, but that’s partially why we are here. To see that price change. What can you do to help? If we all buy ethically sourced coffee, coffee that we know the origin of, that’s one step towards this …
Nyungwe Forest Lodge
Sometimes life throws you a breather, a chance to slow down, a minute to reflect. For the past 6 months we have not taken time to breathe. Our lives have just been steaming forward like a freight train. We’ve been zooming past big change after big change and crisis after crisis at the speed of …
today…
Today I lived a little dream and it looked like this… I ate an entire fish for lunch, jumped off a dock, ran screaming across burning hot sand, marveled at the mountains in the Congo, floated in the water until the tide pushed me in, ached a bit to see my dearest friends, stared at …