Well, Amy survived her first day of doubles and still has a sense of humor. For the next 2 weeks she has doubles M-Th, so that will be the real challenge. I think I'll just copy her e-mail update so you can read it for yourselves....it's rather humorous and I'm not sure I can do it justice by summarizing in my own words.
"It was as exciting as it sounds. My day started at 5 am, same as always, and I started Purchasing and Product Identification (commonly known as Storeroom). The first half was so boring that everyone kept falling asleep, so Chef Kester (who isn't actually a chef) let us all take several breaks. The second half of the class was just filling all the requisitions for the other classes. I did learn that JWU spends approximately $10,000 per week on food for us to work with in class. Explains a lot about tuition.
Kester let me out at 11:45 so I could run and change into my dining uniform. For those who don't know, I'm taking doubles right now, which means I have class from 6 to 12 and then 12 to 6 to make up for the classes I missed when I was sick a while back (or whatever you want to call it). Then I started Mixology with Stebbins, who I had for Essentials of Dining Room Service back after Thanksgiving. She's really cool. We learned about the basics of Mixology today, and then we focused on coffee. We learned coffee service, coffee pours, types of coffee....you name it, we learned it. Then we spent about an hour trying different kinds of coffee (Brad had to drink mine for me--each time I took a sip I thought I was going to hurl. I don't know how you coffee lovers do it....). Then Chef had to go to a meeting so we went to dinner service and then we got to leave about 45 minutes early, which was great.
Overall the day was fine, but tiring of course and dramatic. In AMs, an 18-year-old girl in my class ran away to Vegas last weekend and got married. Kester made sure she understood how he felt about that, too ("I'm glad you're happy but I think you're stupid" something along those lines). Then Brad's girlfriend of 4 years dumped him so he's been really down lately, too.
Other than that the day was good....I'm going to go take a shower, ice my feet, and then go to bed.
Ames"
So there you have it. I'm really proud of how hard she's working to keep up despite the pace.
On another note, Laura & Ian did a big presentation yesterday for their Middle Eastern Development class and it went really well. And today Ian did his presentation for his senior project, and he was pleased with how that went as well. Everyone seems to be wrapping things up as this school year rapidly comes to a close. Just a little bit longer...the end is in sight!
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