Hi Ho, Hi Ho, its off to work we go!

Well last week we all went off to work experience! Apparently the school was really quiet for the week without us TYs tearing around the place! I was working in Ballymaloe Cookery School and Restaurant, with the Irish chefs, mother and daughter Rachel and Darina Allen. It was really cool to see her in the flesh , and I saw how hard she works to be where she is. It was really eye opening. I got to cook lots of new recipes, and best of all I got to taste it which I loved! yum :) If anyone has any interest in becoming a chef or just likes cooking theres a 3 month course at Ballymaloe, where you learn everything from milking a cow to making puff pastry from scratch!
After spending the week there I'm dying to go back, (but I better start saving as its kinda pricy!) I'll try drop a few hints in time for Christmas! :)
I think the best part about work experience was how genuinely nice they were to me, it's a family run business and it was really good to see how all the family were involved - from working in the kitchen to the office. When I spoke to one women, she said she had worked there for 39 years - which was really nice to see! There was also a lot of young people worked there too and it was really fun!
If there's anyone who would like to go there for work experience aswell - I would recomend it! They treat you really well and they show you all areas of a career in food!

TMI - TOO MUCH INFORMATION!!

So much has happened since I last posted so this post is going to be overloaded with whats been going on! I'll try and make it somewhat understandable :)
- in art we're working on jewellery making, and it's supposed to be based on harvest and halloween festivals, we're using wire and paper maché!
- in geography we're still doing our round the world trip so we have to work on our presentation so im looking at mexican dishes to cook for my presentation in class! any suggestions?
- in science my group failed to get into the BT Young Scientist Competition :( but we've set our sights on Scifest instead that we can enter our project into :)
- in english we're reparing a drama, so right now we're writing the script and then we'll start to act it out
- soon we'll be going to the opera, :L Don Giovanni , hopefully it will be good , i went to the opera once before , but i was like 4 so i dont think it counts :)
- in Home Ec we're creating an outfit from a plain white t shirt and trousers, the colour is black and white so we're doing half a bride and a half a groom in one outfit !I'll post pictures when its ready

- and most importantly next week its WORK EXPERIENCE! I'll be working in a restaurant / hotel called Ballymaloe House and I cant wait to see what life as an actual chef is ! Im so excited !

So as you can see Im pretty busy, you can see why i haven't blogged in so long!!
hanks for reading :)