JWU ri week 9

Glad to hear your'e doing well......My entry date at the CIA is Dec 3rd.....cant wait to start....even though I will only be there about 3 weeks and then coming back home for 2 weeks i'm anxious to get rolling. Once I go back there will be no more time off until our 3 weeks of summer break in July, so I'll take whatever time I can get. I guess we get an occasional friday off, but then again we have a saturday class every once in a while too......but other than that its M-F classes week in week out. It works out well though to have a consistent schedule, which allows getting a regular schedule at work too.....some interesting jobs available on campus from what i've been told, working with some of the chef instructors for banquets and parties and such. A rigorous schedule is all worth it though, fitting a four year degree into 38 months, and giving some of the students who are unaware a taste of what it's like to have long weeks of doing nothing but thinking of food. This will be the first Thanksgiving AND Christmas in 5 years that I have been home.....If it wasnt for leaving for school just a couple of days after turkey day, I probably wouldve forgotten about it all together.......no planning for holiday service this year......woo hoo!!!! The only thing I have to do for Thanksgiving dinner this time around is dessert......thinking of making a creme brulee with a buttercup squash I picked up today. Not sure how it will fare though....never used one before so I have a backup plan just in case....a layered chocolate, vanilla and black raspberry one with a side of chambord sauce....then again, havent attempted tha one either, so I might be shooting myself in the foot.......anyway.....good luck on your grades and what not, and keep us posted!