THE WORLD AS MY WITNESS

Hey, it’s me! Sorry I haven’t posted in awhile! (Said in a high pitch voice like the Youtube vloggers do). It’s been awhile yet it feels like no time has passed at all since my last post. But a lot has happened. The last few months I was gearing up for my big project. So my company is about partnering with smallholder farmers such that they provide their land and labor and we provide everything else they need to plant trees (training, seedlings, water barrel, access to timber market). They need to plant before the long rains which starts in April. My big project, even though I am in the Expansion dept, was to help the Field Ops department where I managed the inventory management, logistics, and fleet management for Tree Deliveries LR2018 (Long Rains 2018). This year we partnered with about 5000 farmers all along the Kenyan coast (Kilifi and Kwale) and I had to make sure each farmer got the right thing, and everything that left our facilities in transit to the farmer delivery sites ...

I spent December eating great food in Ethiopia, taking long bus rides, going on a safari, and attending the Kilifi New Years festival in the middle of a bush! Where did 2017 go?? At least one year closer to end of Trump's presidency... So EAThiopia (get it??). I LOVE Ethiopian food. I've only had it a handful of times in America, but every. time. was. delicious. Plus I heard from my two travel mates they had beautiful women there. Ethiopia has a strong culture and history (first place to have grown coffee beans)- they pride themselves in not having not been colonized (woohoo! good job!). Also, religion has a strong presence here - Orthodox Ethiopian. People come here as pilgrimage and also it's been told the Arc of the Convenant is here.  I'm very grateful for my last job (though I know all my former coworkers are like really?) but really I am cause even though I did not enjoy the work, I DEFINITELY enjoyed the perks. Since I flew enough to get status this year,...