For the last month or so I’ve started working exclusively in the microbiology lab here at AACRI, which I absolutely love.  The lab is where we cultivate fungus and bacteria to make organic fertilizers (hence the name ‘organic’ coffee) and treatments for coffee and cacao plants.  We don’t actually grow cacao here, but we sell our products…

24 May, 2012

(This story happened sometime in November. I’m sharing it now.) Okay. So every morning my mom and sister leave about an hour to a half hour before I do to go to work. We bought 5 piglets from our neighbors yesterday and it happens that the bars on the cage door are just slightly large…

21 May, 2012

Hola, everybody, I first want to apologize for being so slow to update my blog. I’m sure all of you are wondering where the heck I am and what the heck I’m doing.  The truth is, I have been busy having the most amazing time of my life, and I have been bursting with things to tell…

08 November, 2011

When I was little, my family lived in Prince Edward Island, Canada.  One of our family friends was Québécois and whenever his family came to visit they would speak mostly in French.  Being so little at the time, I had no idea what they were saying, but my then-outgoing self decided to speak up anyway…

05 July, 2011