First Days

On Thursday evening, I headed into London to commence what will arguably be both one of the scariest and most exciting adventures of my life: a nine month Diploma in Patisserie at the renowned Le Cordon Bleu culinary school in London. That evening was fairly chilled out and included spending time with a much-missed friend from home and having dinner at the super tasty Banana Tree restaurant in West Hampstead. The next day, however, was completely crazy; as in... I-was-the-craziest-bag-lady-in-London crazy. There were bags everywhere! Everywhere! In addition to the overnight backpack I had brought because I was staying the night with Erin, there were two fairly huge bags of uniform and general kit, a pretty hefty knife bag containing shiny, sexy new things in knife form and then a bag of shoes that I traipsed twenty minutes or so down the road to buy. Needless to say, my shoulders and back were pretty done in by the end of the day. In terms of what else happened that day - it wasn't much to be honest; we had a few speeches from important people, a funny police lady and got shown around the school (absolutely beautiful and state of the art, but CARRYING THE BAGS EVERYWHERE!!!) by the wonderfully funny Chef Matthew.

Apologies for the poor-quality Instagram photos, but I think they're all I'm going to be doing for now so I can avoid lugging yet another thing around in my (already too heavy) bag. 

Coming in again on Monday was an insanely early morning (on the bus at 6:15am) and involved more formality-type stuff, this time with Food Hygiene Training which was all fairly common-sense (I think!). I better not be too arrogant yet though, as we still have to wait to get our test results back in a couple weeks! 

Today was a slightly more chilled out start - even though I was feeling sick as hell - as I got a bit of a lie-in (ha!) and was on the bus around 8:15am, managing to get in early enough to write this post and have a bit of a chat with my fellow Basic Patisserie Group E-ers. The session for the day is a technical demonstration, possibly in knife training (?) but I'll be finding out for sure in about half an hour!