Pictures!

So things are slowing down, as I thought they would! Well, "slowing down" in the sense that it's not much exciting. No trips to security areas, no buses leaving me stranded in stinky towns, so on so forth. The only newsworthy thing is that I had my first in-kitchen assessment on Monday, and I passed all of the dishes!

Granted, they weren't *that* involved, but we had time limits and such. Every item had to be served 15-30 minutes since the last one was, but you could start with the first dish whenever you wanted. We had 4.5 hours to do the whole thing (weigh up, cook, clean, etc.), and the dishes were the following in this order:
1. Rice Pilaf (not very involved)
2. Bookmaker Sandwich (fried steak and egg sandwich, kind of involved because you had to do everything as quickly as possible to keep the sandwich warm)
3. Pumpkin Soup (not too involved, set it to simmer and ignore it for a while!)
4. Macaroni and Cheese (the most time-consuming thing, because making the bechamel/cheese sauce from scratch takes a bit of time)

It was more stressful than difficult, really.

SO.

Other than that, not much exciting has been going on. Just day-to-day living, nothing new *yet*, may have one or two things on the horizon though. They're not exciting, it's not like I'm announcing I'm running from the police or anything, just may be volunteering and there's a slight chance of another job coming into the picture.

So anyways, these pictures are backwards from the order I was hoping to show them, because I uploaded them in the wrong order, but that's ok!

First, the restaurant on campus (Scholar's Restaurant) where we'll be doing lunch and dinner services later in the semester:


The production kitchen, which is where we'll make the food for the restaurant:


The training kitchen, where we do everything else:


The entrance to the building where I spend most of my time on campus!

The entrance to campus, with registration in that little building in front and the ESL building looming over it - also where the international office is:

The gym across the street from campus, where I spent a bit of time! The little shack in front is a bus stop, which is for the bus going to Hastings.

Hm, I was hoping you'd be able to see the EIT logo a bit better, but this is from the driveway to the student villas - right across from EIT (you can see the top of the ESL building). That driveway on the left is the driveway for the gym - everything is nice and close!

Our villa's common room! From left to right we have Benny (I think), Peter, Effie (in the pink blanket), and Mike. Effie and Mike are villamates, the other two live in other villas!

I was trying to find an angle where the tree wasn't in the way, when I realized that wasn't possible. Seeing the villa from the other side is also boring, so I'm sorry about the tree in the middle of the picture! Basically, it's just a U shape when looking at it from above - my room is on the left wing (in the picture), but it's not either of the blue doors you can see in this picture, it's on the outside of the U.

So there are some pictures!

Hopefully there will be more exciting happenings soon, and I'll start posting some food pictures as well! Pictures are almost always more exciting than text.