FIRST DAY......

Today was my first day at Le Cordon Bleu.  WOW!!!  This is going to be a GREAT year and a half.  I am really excited about this.   My instructor aka Chef is really awesome, he keeps it real and he is really funny!!  I know I am going to learn a lot from him.  The school has terms which is 28 days and there are 2 terms in a semester.  So every semester I will have had 6 classes.  1 of the classes, which is my College Success and Career class, I only have on Wednesdays. Today we got 4 of our books, tool kit, and a bag of tools.  Which is awesome, but I walk to and from school (which is just under 2 miles one way) loaded down with some heavy stuff.  Luckily Chef told us what we need to bring to class so that will lighten my load for sure.  Chef also showed us the proper way to wear our uniforms (I look damn good in mine, if you ask me) and pretty much all of us were wrong.  First we have a cap (has a french name too and that is what we are suppose to call it) all hair has to be completely tucked or stuffed in that hat.  If not then you must wear a hairnet under the cap, then we have a necc (is the fancy word for a sweat collector) which is similar to a bandana, which wraps around our neck and gets tied off like a neck tie.  Then we have a chef jacket, solid white with the school logo.  Then its white and black checkered pants and then the most uncomfortable shoes in the world.  On top of all that we wear a waist apron that is tapered and has to hit mid calf.  One more thing is 2 white hand towel one on each hip, tri-folded and tucked. All jewelry must be taken out. Everything HAS to be ironed and very neat.  Every morning we have to lined by 7AM for inspection.  If something is wrong Chef tells you to leave.  If it is something you can fix there, you have to go out of the room go fix it and come back and then you are tardy so that mean automatically 25% of your daily grade.  So, needless to say I am leaving my house at 515AM to make sure I get to the school early so I can use the school's iron.  After we went over uniforms and such we got to go through our kits to make sure we had everything.  That was awesome because we "purchased" some really amazing knives, tomorrow we get to start working with them.