It was a long journey from October 2009 through to London in June 2010. Many long days, roasting and frustrating cupping sessions, frustrating espresso's which simply were not up to scratch, hundreds of run throughs of my presentation, finicky hours experimenting with the espresso the Cappuccino and the signature beverage, days in the garage building contraptions for the signature beverage and serving trays etc etc. And the help of many awesome people, I would not have even made the semi finals if not for Emily Oak, Saxon Wright, Andy Simpkin, Tim Jones, Simon James, Paul Geshos, Phil Mknight, Gwilym Davies, Tim Wendelboe, Klaus Thomson and many others. In London the 3 days of competition and the week before hand getting over jet lag, looking for milk, tasting my coffee was one of the hardest fortnights of my life for numerous reasons. But mainly because on the Saturday before the worlds I fell very sick and ended up vommitting that night all night and I was nautious and weak for the next few days, the greatest challenge here was trying to practice and taste while being sick and weak, all I wanted to do was go to bed. I did not have the drive or desire to do anything but go to bed but Simon James was there and he drove me to keep working. In the end we sorted our milk and it wasn't until the night before my heat that we were finally happy with the coffee. Now that I new the Kenyan Mbee was on I could get a good nights sleep before my heat.
