It´s almost one month since we came back from Japan and people is still asking me, how did it go? what happened? how do you feel? are you going to compete again?

 Lots of questions that shows to me, that there are many people who are interested to find out what really happened at the other side of earth.

Well, to be honest, it still feels like a bad joke to me!

After all those dreams and goals and investment of time, work, money, energy and much more, what is really the result? Did all those people that were around helping me, did it for nothing?

For me, it seems that we have two options here. Either forget about everything, like this never happened or…talk about it, find answers and understand if the result is really the mirror or the true facts.

Because I believe that life is 10% what happens and 90% how we react to it.

So, lets me tell you what happened and how I am thinking to react to it.

Although all of us are back to their daily routines and for sure do not think about the WBC 2007 any more(soon is another competition, NBC Gothenburg 2007) I want to take you back to the past for a while, because it is important to find out if what we did  was right or wrong. Should we continue doing it and developing towards this direction or should we start doing something else instead?

Here is where we started from:

                   WHAT IS THE JUDGES LOOKING FOR IN A WORLD CHAMPION?

            1. The judges are looking for a Champion who has a mastery of technical skills, craftsmanship, who has service and communication skills, and who is passionate about the barista profession.

            2. The judges are looking for a Champion who has a broad knowledge of coffee and serves high quality beverages.

            3. The judges are looking for a Champion who may serve as a role model and will be an inspiration to others.

So by having those things in mind, I started competing for some years ago and this year finally won the national barista cup.

This is what I felt I wanted to do before the WBC in Tokyo:

·        Put all the experience I have got the last 15 years working with coffee

·        Go through in my mind, all the inspiration I have got from those baristas I have seen competing the last 4 years and especially from the Swedish barista cup 2007.

·        Choose the right people that would help me on the way to Tokyo

·        Put in action and make reality some of the things that, according to me, can take coffee and baristas to a higher level

·        be myself, make the persons that are close to me proud and finally show to the whole world that Sweden is on the way to the top

·        Make a difference…

How we planned the whole preparation and training you have already read in this blogg.But let me write again the key points and what all that meant to me:

To be continued…