If you left Burundi tomorrow, what would you most miss? I’m realizing that in just five short months of being here, there are plenty of things that I would miss! I would miss hearing my oldest spew out French words with a perfect accent, seeing the mountains in the DRC across Lake Tanganyika, the friendships we have made, but most of all … I would miss working towards our giant coffee-covered dream of helping coffee farmers. We are here to accomplish a goal.
How often do you visit the states? How regularly do you get to see friends and family? One of our best friends from South Africa, Thobe, has made it up for a visit, and the film crew is about to make its fourth trip out to us. They are going to arrive with an assortment of cheeses, South African wine, and chocolate. We can’t wait! We try to get to the States as much as possible, but with the price of tickets
for our family resembling the price of a new car, we end up getting there about every other year. On a good stretch we make an annual trip. Being Midwest kids, we usually try to make it there during the summer to avoid the chill. This year marks the first time we will be bringing the kids home for Christmas. Our kids have never seen snow, so we can’t wait to go sledding and beat our kids in a snowball fight … our two year old is going down!
Burundi is home to 800,000 coffee farmers laboring under some of the poorest working conditions around the world.