A1 arrives in Nicaragua

Five days ago I received a call from the president of Sustainable harvest asking me if I wanted to take part in an event called let’s Talk coffee, this year to be held in Nicaragua. At the time of the call I was already on a Vacation, visiting friends and family in Copenhagen and Sweden. My immediate instinct was to say yes! Before I committed, I figured I better check in with Vin and MB. The fresh pot, being amazing, said get your shifts covered and we will get you down there. Four days later and a little shift negation with my co-workers and I am here.
I arrived in Nicaragua around 7pm last night. A friendly Sustainable Harvest representative greeted me at the airport -after a little waiting around in the extremely well mopped and polished Managua airport- I was loaded into a van with Sevan from mystique coffee, a photographer from Portland (who just happens to be one of the people who produced the documentry, Ingredients. A must see film about food), and a girl from Green mountain coffee in Vermont. We had a very dark three-hour van ride up into the mountains to a hotel/ coffee farm called, Selva Negra. After all the traveling and bloody Mary’s it was time for bed.
This morning I was woken up by the sound of geese honking on the lake outside my room, to bad it was 5am -who knew, there’s a lake outside my room. I made my way down to the restaurant for breakfast and found the group I rolled up here with last night and a few stragglers from the seed to cup crew. Sadly I missed the people I was supposed to meet up with. Oh-well, they’ll be back around noon. I think I will go explore.