Start of 2nd Month

2 months, wow i can not believe i have been in uganda for two months already, time does fly by when your busy. These past couple of weeks have been uneventful, im just learning the company and getting ready to move into my new office building, finally Nile Coffee will have its own office and i will be running the company :) yikes... its a lot of responsibility, specially now that i am studying the company and realizing how out of date their systems are, for example everything i done by cash here, no credit cards, no checks, well the banks take checks but only the main ones and it they have strict protocols about cashing checks, its not like the US where you have identification and drivers license and all sorts of other methods of checking the ID of someone. Then there is the issue of their books not matching, i have been stuck in edmunds old office for the past 6 days trying to sort out what the hell is going on here, we balanced and were short like a $1000 which in uganda is a lot of money...to give you an idea most salaries are about 400 to 500 a month and that is a good pay. So you can imagine $1000 missing is causing chaos. There is no structure because the coffee part of the company is only 5 months old and they do not have and procedure or structure in place, thats why im here trying to set a certain structure and foundation so that when i come back to USA everything will go smoothly hopefully.

On a bright note, saturday UCDA had ceremony of giving out certificates for R grading robusta coffee, and your truely have passed all the test and i got my certificate and not i am an expert cupper, inspector, and coffee analyst. in one week, all this in one week but it was a hell of a week, but i passed and now i am an robusta expert. Next week on monday i will start barista training for a week, once i finish that im done with training, so next week is gonna be a crazy week too, but atleast it wont be as boring as the robusta training. The barista is actually hands on and we will be learning how to make everything from espresso's, cappuccinos and all the other drink that coffee makes...The ceremony was in a 5 star hotel, you cant imagine how nice this hotel is. 5 star and they mean 5 star, i took some pictures of the inside so check them out. i really dont have anything else to write about for now, i do have alot to say but not yet i got somethings in the works  and once they are final i will write about them.