week 2 almost over

First, here are some shut outs. Miss Emily, Happy Birthday from Auntie - I love you so much!!
Mandy, Happy Birthday to you! And to my little man Jordan your getting so big a Happy Happy Birthday to you as well.

So I am almost at the end of my second week. And this school is tough! They were not kidding when they said you should not work for the first three weeks - I don't see how you can and get all of your assignments done. I have not turned the TV the whole time I have been here (right before going to sleep doesn't count w/ sleep timer) to busy studying and getting homework done. Even on the weekend I had to study for my midterm and now this weekend will be the same ...but, for my final in Math and Science which are on Tuesday. I think the science one will be OK but the Math ...word problems definitely not my forte(sp?) One thing for sure you have to get over being the kind of student that wants all A's. In this short amount of time it is just not happening, at least not for me.
The food is kind of funny it definitely goes in cycles of what the hot side students are learning. Like this week at the beginning was smoked stuff - cheese was OK other things not to much (to much smoke flavor) and the rest of the week has been a lot of pork and sausage and some of it not so good. Maybe because the Pork Board is here as well. Desserts this week are from around the world and let me tell you why would anyone think that chocolate and curry go together? It was gross! I didn't mean to try it someone was asking what it was and looking at it I thought it would be lemon or an herb like Verbena no such luck.
I have met some really nice people in my class mainly girls. Apparently, baking and pastry lends itself to a student body of mainly females but, the hot side has mainly men and some cute ones at that. I study a lot with some girls that are in the same dorm and in my class there is Abby from LA, Anna (which we call Bananas) from San Diego , Sandy from Mass, Krista from Minn, Kristen from Mass, and Kristin & Julie from NY. The dorms are interesting the walls are very thin hence the TV with sleep timer. You can hear the person next to you talking on the phone and most of there conversation - weird. The bed is a lot to be desired I miss my bed that is sitting in storage. You can kind of feel the springs poking you definitely, not like my pillow top. The maid is pretty awesome - I do love that - she makes my bed once a week!
I have been looking for a job and there are some very well know bakeries that are hiring but they are kind of far (Napa, by car 20-30 min) so trying to figure out transportation has kind of been a pain. I think I might have to settle for a bit and just get anything until a bakery position opens up around here, St Helena. So I have applied to a couple of wineries and for a few positions here at Greystone.
My scholarship and grant search has paid off! When I got here I still owed 21,000 and now I am done to 15,000 so that is pretty amazing. :-)
It is very overwhelming & stressful at times and I am hoping that by the time we are out of the classroom next week that it will be more like I imagined cooking school to be. Cooking and baking stuff.
Love to you all miss you lots!