Half way through

Oh my Gosh I am done!!
Today, was the last day and I came through the practical with a high B so that is great!! Apparently, I can make great pies, cakes and not so great Eclairs they were to big - so sad otherwise I would have gotten an A
The written test was yesterday which to be honest I really did not study for ...well, not as much as the last ones. I am just burnt out. Over it - and tired. I did great - I guess - not studying works better for me.
Well, I am at work now so I better get back to the bread - plus, it is hotter than shit in this bakery. It is after eleven pm and still around 100 degrees - not great bread making conditions.

Miss you all - I have pictures that I will try to post soon
Half way through - trying to decide where to go next snow or beach?

See ya all soon
Love ya

Just finished my written final - UGH!
It actually wasn't so bad consideeing the melt down I had yesturday and how I am just burnt out. Won't really now until I get the test back which is hopefully tomorrow. My practical is tomorrow and I am not looking forward to that - especially, since I work tonight.

I can not wait to come home and visit I miss everyone so much!

As a few of you know already some of the girls I hang out with are quite young and it is very interesting to watch them go through life experiences trying to figure out who they are - what they want - and what seems to be a battle growing up but yet still trying to hold on to ones parents. I have such a different viewpoint I am so far removed it was so long ago and I keep telling them that it all works out and that they are great humans but when your in it it seems so much worse which i understand.

Image of ones self is so scewed. Any way, last night this classmate of mine, Julie, who I think pretty highly of was telling me...how she looks up to me and wishes she could be a better human... like me...woooow! And how I am so patient and have a good attitude about life. So funny do I see that in myself, not at all. Good thing she didn't meet me a year ago. Or even a few months ago when I was being dumped by friends for being to complicated. Perceptions...yours mine it all comes down to perceptions.  

Break can not come soon enough! So now that I have free'd up my weekends by working nights I have been working with the Garden Club a lot. Which I love, it is a pretty big spot they have and it isn't to far from home base. I walked over there last Sunday and hung out for a couple of hours and then walked back. I had no idea but I was burnt to a crisp and I had used sunscreen. I actually feel helpful and knowledgeable as well which is nice since for a change.

Yesterday, I made donuts it was kind of fun jelly filled, Boston creme, powdered and chocolate dipped and then...it was over a hundred degrees in the bakery and I was standing over a350 degree vat of oil frying donuts - and the sweat was running down my legs - it lost it's appeal.
The last two nights at work have been interesting Wed night utter disappointment - my bread was well, flat! I wanted to jump out a window. Then last night..it was beautiful! I love watching it rise in the oven it is magic every time it occurs. Apparently, with such high temps in the bakery I needed to use much colder water like down around the fifties who new? Now I do. I even got home early... one am.

Today we are going to practice lattice topped pies and make cookies it should be a nice Friday.

Things have been crazy busy since taking on that night job ...a lot to get use to being a wake at 3am ...and it has nothing to do with alcohol.
I have two weeks left before summer break starts yippeyy!! It could not have started - soon enough! I could have started last week.
As I suspected I did pretty bad on that last written final - but what do you expect when the teacher writes test questions that were not in lecture or demos? I did really well on my practical thank goodness - so I will end up with a B in the class.
This week in we learned how to make creme brulee and creme caramels, creme cakes, pies next week donuts. Team mate wise things are much better thank the higher powers!!!
I can not wait to come home and chill, sleep, be outdoors in day light ...I am not asking for much ;-)
Get ready!

Happy Birthday!!!
Vanessa
Love you & Miss you