Thursday, July 30, 2009

10 workers of the plantation quit their jobs

Yesterday, 10 workers came to my father's office room, but only one could come in at a time so the first one to come in was my best friend of all the workers, they called him Calimbo, he went into my fathers office and room and started talking to him about what has being happening, and that his salary was to low, at the end he sed in the name of every one out that door waiting i say us 10 we quit, that how i lost a good friend, but i did not care much because my father hired a new worker and he was a nicer person.

Some donkeys escape the farm

2 days ago one of my father workers left the entrance to the stable open, and conchita my father favorite donkey escape with some of the other donkeys. We notice they left afther one hour later when I went down to the stable do give the donkeys some food, thats when I notice that 5 donkeys were missing including conchita, I went running back to my father and told him that 5 donkeys were missing, he right away called the authoritys and posted a reward of 5 million pesos to who ever find were is Conchita. After 3 hours we had heard at least 1000 calls sayng they had found the donkeys, but my father workers found the donkeys 1 mile deep in the hacienda.

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Who is Juan Valdez?

In 1959, the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia selected the advertising agency Doyle Dane Bernbach to launch a campaign for Colombian Coffee. The agency then created the fictitious character Juan Valdez, to symbolize and personify the more than 560,000 hardworking and dedicated Colombian "cafeteros" (coffee farmers) that depend on coffee for their livelihood, and are part of the Federation.

Information gained at http://www.juanvaldez.com/MENU/advertising/juan.html

My father picking coffee beans

This morning my father woke up very early because he likes to go and pick his own coffee, i woke like 20min after him and i saw him down in the coffee fields getting some coffe for me and my mother, i took my video camera and started recording him picking coffee, later that day my father took me down to the northern part of the coffee field to help him pick some coffee and he always tells that one day this coffee field will be mine.