October 24, 2007

I woke up at 8, went to the gym for my full workout and then came home and made some coffee. It's freezing outside and FINALLY the heat has been turned on in my building! However the elevator is out of commission so it's a pain to come home to (pun intended)! Anyway, I got dressed, made myself breakfast and then went to the post office. I then went to class. Today we had a LONG day. One demo and 2 practicals. We did a mish mosh of stuff. We did some making of mousses and assembling of cakes as well. That's what practical was like also. I offered to make the pears cause they were easy and I like to cut :) Chef also let us out at 8:30 which was super nice of him. We were all pretty exhausted because we were making SO many cakes. I mean there are 8 of them and we made 6 of each kind....so that's a lot of cakes. Some we even made more of! Needless to say...we were all ready to go home. I walked home and i'm about ready to pass out. However, I'm on day 3 of no elevator and I have to say the stairs are almost getting easier! By next week...i should be a pro! hahahaha. nite

October 23, 2007

And yet another busy day. I decided to go to the gym again. So i woke up at 8 and went to the gym to do cardio. I came back home and got dressed because I had class at 12:30. Today we learned the jellies for the cakes. So during practical we made those. Manuel and I got to make the caramel and one of the jellies. It was much smoother than the day before and I was in a much better mood :) After class Manuel and I walked home and made a few pitstops. It was nice to be out at 6 pm. I came home and made lunch/dinner for the week which consists of couscous with salmon! YUM! I then sent out emails that I've been procrastinating on and then eventually at 10:30 I went to bed. I'm busy...but i'm enjoying it and that's all that matters!!!

October 22, 2007

BUSY WEEK! I set my alarm for 7:30...but that didn't go over well...so I reset it for 9. I went to the gym around 10. However my day wasn't going so well. After that I managed to keep myself busy doing stuff around the house til I went to school at 3. This week at school is Entrements...which are cakes. We are learning how to make 8 different kinds of cakes and at the end of the week...yep you guessed it...i take home 8 cakes! AHHHH!!!! FAT!!! hahaha....im gonna distribute them...ok...i'll keep one :) Anyway, today we had one demo in which we learned all of the biscuit type stuff for all 8 of the cakes and then in the practical we, as a group, made them all. However, I woke up on the wrong side of the bed today, so I was REALLY behind. Well, me and manuel were behind. Other people had to help us. It was embarrassing to me. Anyway, class ended at 9:30 and Manuel walked me home. I went to bed around 10:30.

Le Week-end

Well this weekend must have been roomate bonding time because now that I look back on it, I spent everyday with Liz! Friday in the morning I went to the gym then the rest of the day Liz and I went shopping. I came home and then used my internet to catch up on a lot of stuff. Went to bed at 12:30.

Saturday the intermediate students at school(like liz), plus some stragglers as myself, went to the town of Meaux (pronounced Mo) to this Artistique National des Metier de Bouche faire. It was a big faire around town, but a big section was devoted to pastry and food. One of our teachers was doing a sugar demo so thats why we all went. We had a nice day walking around, only the school didn't warn us that it was outside, so we were a bit cold! We got home and went grocery shopping for sunday nite's dinner and then came home and we watched Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares...my new favorite show...check it out!! I eventually went to bed at 12:30.

Sunday was the Salon du Chocolat! Liz and I walked there are 10 and a TON of people from school were there. Being a part of school we got to go to the professional one and not the one open to the public. We got to watch the World Chocolate competition (which is prolly on your food network as I type!) And we also paid to go to the general public on which was JAM PACKED! However, I made TONS of good contacts and i actually got to see one of my teachers from chicago pastry school!!!! It was SOOO strange! I loved it though. He was one of the judges! Anyway, it was an amazing day! We spent from almost 11 to 6 pm just watching competetors and eating free chocolate...what could be better?!?! Then we walked home and I picked up last minute groceries. I came home, cooked and Alex came over and the three of us had a nice meal. At 10:30 I went to bed!

GREAT weekend. BUT next weekend in Disney is going to blow the roof off of this one :)

October 18, 2007

Today was the transportation strike in Paris. Luckily I live within walking distance from school. But most people had to walk or ride bikes or wait over an hr to take the metro! but those are the crazy people!!! Anyway, I made coffee this morning cause Manuel had to walk so I brought him some. We had 8:30 class and for the next 6 hrs (with an hr break) we made different types of croissants and stuff with croissant dough. Basically the same amount of stuff we made yesterday! WAY too much again. I still wound up taking home 3 boxes! hahaha. Liz loved it though!

Anyway, i get home and about an hr after the internet guy comes. Long story short, he tells me that MY computer doesnt work and i need a NEW wi-fi card. Well guess what Mr....im on my internet as i type so YOU WERE WRONG! meaning...I HAVE INTERNET AGAIN!!!!!!! (after 2 weeks of no internet...this is a blessing...come on...you guys know me and my computer!!) So yes I have internet again. Anyway, the guy left and i figured it out myself! he obviously fixed something but not it all. Anyway, after that liz and I went to Monoprix to do major shopping because starting monday we wont have an elevator for 5 weeks straight and we wanted to buy household products that we couldnt lug up the stairs in our carts. And then we stopped at Mcdonalds :( yes i know...shame on us cooking school students. Oh well. We then came home and sat on our internet all night. And that is where this blog ends ;) Feel free to call my skype, email, or read my blog cause i am BACK IN ACTION!!!

October 17, 2007

I woke up at 9:30 and cleaned up my room a bit because Manuel was coming over today. At 10:30ish I walked to the gym and Manuel eventually met me there. I did my nice workout (which was a hard one today) and then the two of us came home. We showered and got dressed (wow...we sound like a couple huh?!?!) and then we ate lunch. We ate the chicken salad that I made the night before and the banana bread! Yummy. Then we went to school early so I could check my email...as usual...no internet! At 3:30 we had Practical which was working together as a group. Chef would split up the dough and we would make what he told us to make. By the end of the practical we had SOOOOO many type of brioche people were taking home 8 boxes worth of stuff. I only took home 3 so liz could try some of the stuff. the rest i gave away or threw out. WAY too much food...but tasty. Here is a slide show of what went on!

October 16, 2007

I woke up at 7 for my 8:30 class. Poop. Do I really have to go through this again? Anyway, we finished learning the last of the ten recipes and I ate so much sugar I thought I was going to puke! At 11:30 we took a break and Manuel and I sat in the computer lab looking up some prices. Then at 12:30 we had another demo, but we kinda did a practical/demo where we measured some things. It was nice to not be sitting for so long. Then we got to leave at 2:30 instead of 3:30 which was great! Then after class Manuel and I went to FNAC to buy tickets to DISNEYLAND!!!! We are going for two days Oct 27 and Oct 28! I can’t wait. We are getting a hotel room and gonna go out sat nite and stuff! It’s gonna be great! YAH! After that I went to Monoprix to get some more groceries. I decided I was cooking more so that’s what I’m doing tonite. I came home and first made lunch for the week which was chicken salad! Then I made banana bread cause I had bananas left over that were bad. But I didn’t have a scale but it still came out. Then I made dinner which consisted of pasta with 4 types of mushrooms and scallops with infused garlic oil! It was DELICIOUS! Then Fernando came over to eat dinner cause he owed me some money. We then watched a short movie and he left. I read a bit and then went to bed around 11:30.