Two weeks of cakes down, one left. I’m really enjoying it so far, picking up some new techniques and getting better.

We’ve had a busy week making carrot cake and banana cake, a triangle cake, amour de polenta, pineapple upside down cake, sacher torte and an alhambra cake for the exam. It was fun making a cake for the exam that we hadn’t made before, we had to research what it was supposed to look like, what soak the sponge needed etc. and chef gave us some fairly obvious tips. It’s been a good week, there’s some cakes I’m really happy with, some I’d like to change bits of, but mostly it’s all turned out good.

I discovered that I should take tests when ill more often, last week’s test, I aced! I don’t think I did so well with this one, at the very least therre was one bonus question I couldn’t answer.

It was a good, albeit quick, weekend. Saturday we went up to the school to have a look at the gingerbread competition. I didn’t enter it in the end, but it was nice to look at all the entrants.. especially the ‘professional’ catagory with the houses entered by the chefs.

In the evening it was the Christmas ‘do’ for the hospital. So DmentD and I dressed up and went along. It was at the Texas History Museum. Therre was some good food, met a few random people! And the museum was open so we could have a wander round. It was alright, nothing special really, there was a wall of what looked like anti-Bush propaganda, and the orignial statue from the top of the Capitol building looked like a drunk man in a toga (with fake breasts) to me *grins*

Sunday was our usual grocery day, we went bowling in the evening… I didn’t do great, but I didn’t do too badly.. it had been a while since I last went bowling!

We finished up by going to the Armadillo Christmas Fair.. lots of local artists, nice to stroll around and have a look. We bought some mugs, I got ‘Goddess of the Universe’, and DmentD got ‘Lord and Master’ I was trying to persuade him to get the one saying ‘King of Absolutely Nothing’ but he wasn’t having any of it!

One week of school left! Then it’s the Christmas holidays.. and then when I go back it’s onto the Advanced units which makes me a little nervous.. I’m sure it’ll be fine