chocolate

i'm really getting into a horrible habit

of not writing on this thing

and i'm not even wanting to anymore

but i will do it for the sake of you! :)

well monday was our first wines class

and i think i'm going to quite enjoy it

don't think it's going to be easy

but definitely really interesting

i learned how to properly open a wine bottle

don't let the cork pop!

tuesday a chocolatier came in

and he completely blew my mind!

the things he did with chocolate

and how easy everything looked was incredible

he showed us how to table, pour moulds

and how to make multiple chocolates with couverture

he finished off the session by making a chocolate center piece

my mouth was open the whole time this was happening

i had never seen anything sooo cool

he made the most incredible flower

all out of chocolate all melted together

wow, i want to do that now!

so for our pastry arts class

we were working with chocolate

and made our own chocolate box

it was a pretty tedious process

but nothing too difficult

and i was very happy with my product

and an 80% as a final mark

today was our first day serving in the dining room

everyone was freaking out hardcore at the beginning

but once stuff started rolling we calmed down

fortunately i wasn't actually serving today

i was the maitre d's assistant

so watched over everything

and made sure all went well

and took charge of delegating

over all everything went excellently for our first day

i was very impressed

tomorrow i'm the actually maitre d

and i'm sure things will go just as fine

but with a lot more tables!

stressss!

it has only been one week

and we are already feeling the stress

this semester is definitely a lot harder than last

there is a whole bunch more reading to do

and the work is just so different from last

accounting, law and math

they all speak for themselves

in saying that the are extremely boring

this semester our class is working in the dinning room

and i am terrified for it and so is everyone else

we had 2 days to go through everything we need to know

which is A LOT!

how to carry a tray, how to serve, which utensils are needed for what

how to do cash, how to set up and take down the dinning room

it is a completely overwhelming feeling

to know we are in business on thursday

and me and dan are the maitre'ds

which means we have to oversee everything that goes on

make sure customers get their food on time

that everyone is satisfied

to keep in contact with people in the kitchen and the servers

please wish us all luck

because we're freaking out!

the other classes aren't too horrible

we only have one cooking class until march

which is pastry arts so basically baking

except stuff is a little more fancy

i'm pretty excited for that

it'll be strange if steve and i aren't working together

because we were together most of last semester

a pretty boring chill weekend

kelsey and i hit up the wall for the first time in ever

and it happened to be 90's night so that was fun

we went grocery shopping on saturday

which was lovely cause i was really lacking food

and today [sunday] has been laundry and homework!

tomorrow should be a reasonably chill day

we have an hour break between almost every class

and we get to start wines which i'm super excited for

our teacher kim is apparently super crazy and awesome

that's it for now

i have a feeling i won't be writing as much

because it won't be as interesting!

bienvenido

so i'm back in the cold north

and boy is it ever cold!

my winter break was well spent

with time with the family

and a sweet adventure to ottawa and montreal

but now it's back to the grind

one in which i'm not really looking forward to

i was just able to check my schedule today

and boy does it ever suck!

starting class everyday around 8/830

and go till at least 430 every night

boy am i going to be tired all the time!

production and pastry arts will be good classes

along with wine [obviously!]

but there's a lot of boring ones this semester

law, accounting and math don't seem too fun..

it's going to be pretty different on res this semester too

a couple of my good friends from across the street

aren't coming back to canadore for different reasons

i'm not really sure what i'm going to do now!

i was there are a bit in my spare time

maybe i'll be able to get more work done now!