That Friday night, we turned in our 200 questions of ridiculousness and each graded someone else's test. It was a really long, frustrating process. I ended up missing 10 of the 200 possible questions, which was only 5 points, but still. I strive for perfection, so when I don't reach it, I get irritated. Especially when it's due mostly to the absolute crappiness of the wording of the questions. Anyhoodle, we were all fired up and in surly moods heading into the practical portion of our final...which might explain why both teams failed it. Yeah. FAILED. It was horrible. Just a mess. Sigh.
Chef split us up into two teams and off we went. Our plan from the beginning was to have one person working on each dish and time them so we could serve him an entire meal, not piece by piece. About ten minutes in, Chef came over and asked me why the chicken wasn't on ice. Since I wasn't working on the chicken, I didn't have an answer for him. He got on me pretty hard about how I needed to be leading my team, watching over everything. So we adjusted and I became the head chef and periodically checked in with each person, pulling the team together every 15 minutes so that each of us knew where everyone was on their dish and ensuring that we were on schedule. Well, while our communication and planning was top notch, the execution was...well...obviously lacking. I'm not going to go into particulars because I'll just get annoyed again. Instead, I'll let you know I earned an A in both classes (lecture and practical).
Saturday we went through our presentations for the Safety and Sanitation class. Some were fantastic and some were...not. Mine was just fine thanks almost entirely to my friend Blaise. He's a rockstar for helping me out! I ended up getting a 93 on my Serve Safe test (equals missing about 4 questions out of 80) which isn't bad given that I really didn't study or go over anything after the mid-term. Unfortunately, I missed one class so that dropped my final grade to a B. Grrrr.
Saturday night we did a deep clean of the kitchen. I got to work on the spice rack cleanup with the young nice guy from my second group and Air Force. I'm really thankful we had those three hours cleaning the kitchen because most of us managed to make it a fun experience and that's what we left the class with - a final reminder of how much fun we had over the previous 10 weeks.
So that's the first quarter of school wrap up. I start my second quarter Thursday. Well, technically my classes have begun because my online nutrition class (which, thankfully, is only 5 1/2 weeks) has already begun posting assignments. In class classes start for me Thursday though. I'll once again be spending my Thurs, Fri, and Sat nights from 6-10:30 in Rosslyn. This time I'll be regaling you with tales of Baking and Pastry.
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