long time gone...

OK so here’s what’s goin’ on now. I know that it has been a while since I’ve posted… OK a long while. But here is the run down…..

So for a while I had been struggling on what I really wanted to do. I thought about teaching my last year of college. Then I started looking at grad schools do get my masters in American Studies. It just seemed like a likely “next step.” I knew in the back of my mind it wasn’t what I truly wanted to do, and I knew I always wanted to go to culinary school, but never took the dive to go for it… Until now.

Back in January I started working @ City Grocery back in the kitchen. Worked there until the end of August. I did enjoy my time there. Learned a whole lot but know for a fact that I don’t want to work on a line in any restaurant. It is for sure that I want to eventually have my own bakery. I looked into many different culinary schools all along the East coast. Look as far North as Vermont, and Atlanta was about as far South I went. But here I am out West.

I decided on Johnson and Wales in Charlotte, NC. I was accepted but since the program I was accepted for, baking and pastry, was full I was going to have to sit out for a year OORRR I could transfer to either the N. Miami or Denver campuses. It was an easy choice for me. So here I am out in Denver. I love it to say the least. I’ve always liked the mountains and wanted to live near the mountains. The weather itself right now is something to get use to. I laughed today when somebody complained about the “humidity.” The fire over in Boulder is having an affect on the weather here though as well. Crazy to think that now I have to worry about those wildfires you always see on the news.

The program that I’m in is called Garnish Your Degree (GYD for short). Since I already have a bachelors degree, it will only take a year for me to be done. All the GYDs are in the same advising group and we are all in the same classes. Which is great since we are all older and are more focused on our work than the freshmen… All of us have had the college experience. Speaking of being more focused on our work I have to do a research paper and do some ready for class in the morning… I’m in class by 5:45 A.M. and we aren’t done until noon. The good thing is that I’m done at noon.