Bonjour!

Hello cowboys and cowgirls! Or something like that. So, a brief update: We're now on our mid-semester/Easter break (halfway through the year? Whoa.), which goes from now until the beginning of May (also whoa)! Class has been going fine, we had our first two pastry classes and a couple of fish classes too. We have a competition coming up in the first two days of May, and I'm *probably* going to be participating in the cheesecake and fruit flan classes. Although the fruit flan one is still up in the air...I'm at least going to be doing the cheesecake one. So I have lots of time to practice! What else have I been up to, you ask? WELL. Uh. Not much? So the volunteering thing isn't going as quickly as planned, but that's ok - one place is full up, and the other's volunteer organizer guy is on leave at the moment so I have to hold my horses until he gets back. The most irrelevant and kind of exciting and scary news is that tomorrow I may be playing in a field hockey game. What? I don't even know the rules of field hockey. It'll be great! Some background: I had been talking with a couple of local field hockey clubs because I figured it would be kind of neat to join a team and just play a bit...I was hoping to be able to learn the game before playing in one, though. It'll be great! I'll let you know how it goes tomorrow! Also, I ate one of these by myself last night, which is probably the most exciting thing to happen to me in a while: http://onlyabox.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_0274.jpg It's called a "Hoggies Rocky Road Sundae", and the description from their website goes a bit like this: "4 scoops of creamy vanilla ice cream and 4 scoops of strawberry ice cream, on a pile of warm chocolate mud cake drenched in chocolate fudge sauce, plus marshmallows, strawberry topping, whipped cream and toasted coconut. A spectacular dessert to share, or go solo if you dare!" The Hog's Breath Cafe is basically a NZ version of the Outback Steakhouse, minus the Australian stereotypes because Australia is a lot closer to NZ than the US. Ok, I'm going to go read up on field hockey so I don't show up totally clueless to the game tomorrow. More updates this weekend!