15th Week

Let me start out this blog by saying i cant wait to get back home, dont get me wrong this place is great weather is a little on the warm side, but i keep on looking at the weather back in the states, and thinking to my self damn last year it was not cold at all but this year it seems like its gonna be cold and wet one :). There is one problem though, when i was packing for uganda i did not pack any warm clothing. I arrive in DC December 20th and i believe it is going to be cold, whom ever is picking me up better bring one of my warm jackets. im so sick of the same freaking weather and rain everyday. over and over and over again nothing changes, its mild at night and warm in the day and rains almost everyday, so freaking predictable. I want that cold brisk weather, when at night its like 20 deg, open the window alittle bit and sleep sooooo good. and omg the freaking moquitoes  that come out at night, i have to sleep under two yes i said TWO nets so i dont get bitten at night. Its like they are attracted to me or something. I just wanna sleep in a cold room with no mosquitoes, no net with no freaking noise. I dont remember if i had mentioned that thursday  through sunday nights the clubs are allowed to play music as loud as they want, and to make things worst, there is a church right around the corner from my house, 630 am sharp every sunday the preacher or what ever is on the loud speaker talking or praying or preaching. 630 in the morning? Jesus will be there at 8 or 9 and he can hear you, you dont need to be on the loud speaker yelling. As i said before i cant wait to get back to my home and have peace and quit. I remember sitting out side sometimes at my parents house thinking to my self its too freaking quit here, believe me i dont think that anymore. God bless our neighborhood.

I only have 4 more weeks left here in Uganda, things are starting to get a little crazy. coffee orders coming in left and right, nile coffee is doing pretty well. I just sold a ton of coffee to south africa and im bringing back 2 tons with me so our factory is on over load right now trying to meet the local demand and the export demand, im a little worried about how things will run once i leave here, while im here everyone is behaving and pretty much listening to our instructions, but when i leave i cant watch them, these people are lazy and will do what ever it takes to not do anything, and now i dont trust most, couple of days ago i had 200,000 ugandan shillings stolen from my room, its like 90 dollars which to us is not much but 200k is alot of money here, average salary here is 500k. Edmund had some electricians working around his house and i guess they had to go to my room, even though the money was not in plain view (i had it under some clothing) they must of found it and took it. Edmund was furious, so now i have to lock my room even though i dont keep anymore money there but my passport is hidden in that room so im worried about losing my most precious item.

I have completely moved into my new office, and its nice still needs alot of work but for uganda its nice. everything happens here on a pace so slow that its starting to get to me, for example we had to build a partition dividing the office so customers can not just walk right up to me, they first talk to my secretary. building that partition or divider would of taken me and my brother 2 hours tops to make, its been almost 2 weeks and its still not done. the are no tools, no electric saws, or drills everything is done by hand and a screw driver which the carpenter did not have so i had to provide him with mine. so you can imagine how frustrating it is for me, since i know how to do pretty much all this stuff and im watching this poor guy trying to make this thing, struggling to level it, paint it, secure it. I am so glad im around people back in the states like my uncle and my brother who are very talented when it comes to carpentry and regular house hold stuff.

I know i have been bitching but had to get somethings off my chest, now my office is right next to UCDA and every morning i go there to have coffee, and my god the cappuccino's here are fantastic. I have never been a fan of cappuccino's till now. specially when the coffee is freshly roasted, and i make it my self. mmm mmm mmm so freaking good, i hope i can make the same when we open up our own coffee shop. Whom ever is reading this be ready because in the next year or so, we will have opened up a coffee shop somewhere in the DMV area, but first we are opening one in brunswick GA. anyways thats all for this week.  all is good and i hope all my friends and family are good too. oh i forgot to mention that i found an iranian restaurant, with authentic iranian food, i had sabzi polo mahi friday night, and the week before i had loobia polo...here are some pictures of some places i have visited