Last week i had work placement :D
Monday- i think ive posted it before, however heres a brief summary of Monday.
-did 3 hours at 41 restaurant, got to know the staff, got a tour around the restaurant
it had the most beautiful view ever, and the dinning area was MASSIVE!!
Got home around 5, did some bumming around the city :P
drove to school (in casual cloths) at 6pm and arrived at 6.15ish and met with Macca (teacher) Scott and Wes. from 7-12 did night patrol, met a man by the name of Pete and told me his story and gave some helpful advice in NOT taking ice the drug. However its ok to smoke pot once in a while. Got home around 12.30am and slept, after taking a shower of cause.
Tuesday!
9am met with Henry at Wollstonecraft station, got to city by 9.20-30ish ate breakie at Hungry Jack's. 10am started work placement. Today i got to work at the pastry section with a chief named Eve or "Frenchie" He wasnt in a good mood that day so i had to cop it, o wells i got to dice strawberry's into tiny cubes and make cookie dough :D
got help from Henry, Sam and Nick (Sam and Nick are also on work placement from a school which i have forgotten..FAIL!) in rolling up the cookie dough into even cylinder shapes for storage. Got home around 4.30ish and had tutoring at 5.40 till 6.40. Went out to help my Godmother with her new restaurant at Chatswood.
It was a lonnnng night, it was due to open the next day for some 'blessing' cause she 'believes' Budaism. Shes actually a christain so i dono why she needed the 'blessing' thing. Anyway i had to help clean the floor, move items up and down in the restaurant, as well in buying equipment from close and Kmart at Chatswood Chase.
got home around 10pm after walking from chattie.
Forgot to include that 41 gave us work placement kids a FANTASTIC LUNCH! Which was a steak that was mid rare, chips, pork belly, mushrooms, salad. Sure it doesnt sound impressive but DAMN it was good food!
Wednesday, same thing in the morning.
worked at the cooking parts of the kitchen, made cauliflower and pea puree. Which is just a fancy sauce that is cooled so it dosnt move on a plate, made it with a chief called Near or Nea (dont know his spelling to his name) after making the purees i packed them into plastic bags. Worked with Jo a NZ chief who is a great chief with a awesome personality, overall SHES great!
Got served a nice grilled fish on top of a good serving of mash potatoes with peas and other vegies.
Got home, was supposed to help godmother but she never called so i didnt go, and just slepted at around 6.
Thursday- same thing in the mornings, worked with Jo all day, prepped food, and errr GOT TO PLATE THE FOOD !!!! i was like OMG!! wow reaaaly? you want me!! OMG OMG OMG!!
i was so happy that my hands were shaking, it was an awesome feeling.
got served with paster with pumpkin stuffing, served with a creamy sources that i dont know the name of, overall great feed.
went to bed early again.
Friday- helped all over the kitchen, talked heaps more since it was the last day of work placement, i was so happy that it was the last day! so i made the best of it, i sad my good byes, Sam and Nick left at 2 after lunch cause they had to catch a flight to Tas for a party, i did jobs here and there after lunch, joked around with the chiefs and left 41. However on the lift down!!! since we were on the 42nd floor Henry and i did something in which you should never do on a lift. Jump (forgot to mention that we jumped on wed and thurs too) anyways, Friday was special, just as we jump when the lift travels down, the weirdest feeling is felt(eg i didnt know how to word the feeling) i just started out laughing, until 10 floors down some worker enters also, still laughing i try to stop my laughter by putting my hands over my mouth, it failed and we got the weirdest stare all the way down after.
On the lift experience in which i had isnt something that i can put into words, ive tried my best to explain it.
Got home put cloths into washing and helped godmother with her things.. sigh a good Friday savo wasted.
So heres some memorable things that happened during this week (mon-fri)
got to meet Chiefs-Dane, Jo, Nea, Andrew, Anthony (owner of 41) Dave and Kabe.
on tuesday while makeing cookie dough cylenders as well as though out the week.
"opens box of dark chocolate" Jo walks by 'O fuck yes chocolate' "takes a handful of chocolate and eats".
Cookie Dough made and is being prep for storage. i ask ' Jo would you like some cookiedough'(there was too much!) " o fuck yes! err what did you say?" i replied 'o i asked if you wanted to have some cookie dough' she goes " no thanks goes to her bench and keeps working"
i tried to hold back my laughter.
some other times while she said the phase 'o fuck yes' was when i was making other foods at 41. Got to love her passion for food :D
Monday- Andrew just starts putting gas to full on a bottle that is used to brown dessert and other dishes. cries out " see you in hell mother fuckers" flame is point up to avoid danger. "Massive flame flame appears"
wed-Fri
preeping prawns,"peeling shell, cutting off bad bits, repeat." Nick did "cut in middle, remove guts"
Anthony walks by, 'hey you, this is why im paid with the big bucks. You let him(nick) do his whatever wigglely thing that he does and when you see him down t the last couple, you cut as your ass depended on it'
it was the way in which he said it was funny.
Andrew's everyday behavior, it was some of the most randomest things yet he still kelpt doing his job, as well as the things which he talked about.
Dane on Friday. Im helping him make 'peaking duck spring rolls' he said' come one bro its in your blood, the way of the shogun bro, you have to at least make one to serve'
i replied that i was Chinese not Japanese and that it was bloody hard trying to keep up with a pro. We laughed it off and he got me to wrap it so they stayed freash and wasnt sticking together after.
thats about it, the week was interesting, good and i loved most of it. Helping my God mother was alright...
Saturday..wait wasnt this form Monday to Friday!? NO im including this too!
Alvan's Godmother special rant!
So after helping her during the weekdays she asks for my help on Saturday, i had to accept due to the fact...well her 'restaurant' was far from it, the upstairs toilets went installed, and only the kitchen had running water.
i was supposed to be a waiter, how ever i ended up being some kind of apprentice plummer who was installing the toilets. My clothes got dust all over them, which was a pain wince they were black. i was told to help from 11-4 NO i had to stay till 6! from 2-3 i had to just sit there waiting till i could leave since the kitchen staff had left, God Mother was nowhere in sight, Plummer was doing his job, and the damn place wasnt even opened yet...
She didnt want me to leave till my father got there, it was gonna be bad since my dad had a dentist appointment, as soon as he arrived i ran back home not looking back, and F**k it was Hot that savo! i was wearing long black sleeved shirt with jeans...
As soon as i got home My Mum was in a bad mood, i asked wtf did i do wrong. Apparently my dad had a bad tooth ache and was finding it difficult to do some things due to the pain. After hearing that i felt like a ass, cause if i knew i woulnt have left him help my godmother, i would have just stayed there..
and thats about, sunday was alright, got to eat at some nice burger place at crowsnest!
Shit its late 12am.. started typing this at around 11. i stil have a weeks work to catch up on O.o
luckly im pretty up to date with my stuff this year, and did like 4hours after school so its alright :D
TILL NEXT TIME!
ps- didnt get to proof read this
