I made it, I am here!

I’ve been here 3 weeks now, and it feels like longer.. In a good way! We slipped into a routine amazingly easily and smoothly after the first week of ‘holiday’. I have the house to myself in the morning, to do stuff that needs doing (like making butterscotch fudge to frost a cake, or cookies to give to my wonderful bank manager! Or less fun stuff like ironing) and leave about 2 to go to the bus.

I think the walk to the bus everyday is helping me to acclimatise to the heat and dryness out here, and then I get an hour and a half sat on the bus. Now I know the route I’ll probably start taking a book or mp3 player to keep me entertained.

I arrive at school early so have taken to sitting in the library and reading for a while, a book or my course book depending on what I’ve got that day.

Finishing school about half 10 I get picked up by DmentD and we get home around 11 to have a short while to relax together before bedtime comes round and a new day starts all over!

I am loving school! The first few days were not so fun, health and safety and knife skills. But I passed the ServSafe exam with flying colours so I don’t need to worry about it for another 5 years (1 if I end up back in the UK as my English one will have expired by then). Since then we’ve been cooking everyday. The class starts with a demo mixed with theory and then we make whatever was demonstrated, either in pairs or on our own.

The first unit is only a week away from being finished with is somewhat scary, we had the first theory and practical exams fir it this past Thursday and I did much better than I thought I did, an amazing 353 out of 360 combined, lets hope I can keep it up. The theory wasn’t too bad, the practical we had to make chocolate chip cookies, buttermilk biscuits and almond macaroons. The macaroons took me three attempts to get them to a state I was remotely happy with (after making them perfectly first attempt in class) but my Chef thought they were good, just a little undermixed.

Now to keep you entertained until I update again (or update the gallery.. that’s going to take some time to get everything up there and sorted) here’s some pictures of what I’ve made at school