Goodbye Pastry School, Hello Externship
This week has been a ridiculous whirlwind of awesome things. Today is my first real day to breathe since I finished my training at ICE on Wednesday, and started my externship at Oceana on Thursday.
I can't believe I'm actually done with school. Our final project was a wedding cake that we put the final touches on Tuesday.
We had a reception on Wednesday where our friends and family could see our cakes, and we would receive our fancy new Chef hats and a new book. ICE also gave out a few awards and I was incredibly honored to receive the Top Toque Award for exemplary skills.
I'm already missing my fellow students and Chefs at ICE, but I'm incredibly excited to have started my externship. I'll be working there Thursday-Saturdays, totaling in 20 hours a week. Thursdays and Fridays will be interesting, as I'll be working 9-5:30 at my day job and then running over to Oceana for 6-11pm. Saturdays will be my 10 hour shift. This week has been utterly exhausting, but I've already learned so much. And today is time for rest.