The First Day of Class

I'm officially a student. Know how I know? I have homework!

I had to be at school at 0730 for orientation to the "distance learning" course on Sanitation. Funny - a meeting to teach you how to use a class offered on the internet. That took all of 30 minutes and then I didn't have my next class until noon. So I went back home and piddled around. Took myself to lunch and then off to school.

The first day was so exciting! Chef Paul Ashman went over the syllabus and then we got to tour the bakery and the kitchen. We share a kitchen with the cafeteria and we were introduced to Chef Stu who is in charge of the cafeteria. He welcomed us and then proceeded to tell us that his pet peeve is a soured mop. To please, please, please, rinse out the mop before you hang it up. Do NOT, under any circumstances, leave the mop in the bucket and let it sour because you WILL get yelled at the next day!

Chef Paul also talked about uniforms and knife sets. They have arranged with a company to get our chef outfits for a very reasonable price. The webpage should be available for ordering today. As far as knives go, he is going to bring in his personal knives on Wed. and let us handle them. They are a very expensive Japanese set and way out of my price range. He also had some websites where knife sets are inexpensive. We have until Sept. 10th to purchase all these items. I'm psyched!

Today - Tuesday - I have Business Math class and then Introduction to Hospitality (with Chef Ashman again). I have a ton of reading to do for my Basic Food Prep class (the Monday & Wed. class). I've got to buckle down and get my homework done!