May 21, 2008

We finished teaching our business principles class today. Three of the students have attended all of the classes and worked with us in the field for the past week, I think they have potential to fit in nicely in the future. We have enjoyed our time here in Mozambique and enjoyed the working with great people. We feel we were able to develop a good business plan and start some of the implementation, we hope that the managers here will be able to carry it out and make it successful. Not only, is there a market for the product, but we feel this business will benefit the entrepreneurs and the gardeners on multiple levels.

I’ll have to admit that it took about two weeks to overcome the initial culture shock of Mozambique, but Dave and I have grown quite fond of some of the things. The crowded streets are great and the Vodacom cell phone ads make us laugh – the slang “bazza bazza”. One of the Vodacom ads has a picture of a Mr. T looking guy saying “bazza bazza” – we think we have the phrase figured out, but I prefer to just say it in a deep voice and let it mean whatever I want it to.