Week 8: Zuckerman's famous pig.

This was the song I had stuck in my head all week as we fabricated cut after cut of pork. Poor Wilbur. Or Wilbur's cousin, I suppose. For whatever reason, pork seemed a lot simpler than chicken. Or more straightforward or something. Here's a few highlights from the week:

1. My plate finally got more than 3 votes in the nightly "popularity contest." 15 in fact! :) I've had a harder time with plating than I was expecting, so this was particularly exciting (pictured).

2. I got to help with a catering project the school was doing. I went in early to class two days last week to chop a half gallon of celery, bread 185 chicken breasts and brew up a huge vat of delicious tomato sauce. It was so fun working with the chef that I'll have next term (next week!) and getting to produce such a large quantity of food.

3. Doing decently well on the final T1 Knife Skills test (91%). I didn't do as well as the last time (95%), but we couldn't use our size cards and we had one less potato to work with this time. I felt pretty good about it overall.

4. Finishing my proficiencies. We had a list of some 35-40 odd "proficiencies" to finish before the end of the term and I wanted to get them all done before this upcoming week (finals). I was able to finish them off Friday evening in class.

5. We spent a couple days last week preparing for our final menu project. It was so fun thinking through what to put on a menu, getting a whole day to myself to decide what to cook and being able to design and organize our group's menu. I tried to restrain my Monica Gellar nature and not boss everyone around, but I'm pretty sure by the end of the week, they were real tired of hearing me talk. Oh well, hopefully it will pay off. We'll spend four nights cooking each of our four meal selections this week and I'm already feeling a little nervous.

Four more days left in my first term. I'm almost a quarter of the way done with school. Crazy!!!! But I am looking forward to moving on and learning even more in T2.