Hello everyone!
How are things?
Sorry about the delay, there was a gross situation involving paperwork and fees and loss of library use and it was very bothersome and took way longer than it should have and not all of that was my fault.
Or at least I'd like to think of it that way.
Anyways!
Brief update about how things are going:
Classes are back in session, thankfully! Break was a bit bothersome with no job and a busted foot. It was nice to have some time off, but it seemed a bit excessive. Without it, though, number 2 probably wouldn't have happened!
Volunteering is happening! Finally! Well, for the most part. My first day at the hospital as a “Friend of the Emergency Depatment” is in a week, from 10-2. Woo! I feel slightly out of place because most everyone else doing it is almost or over twice my age, but it's still nice to help and I'm glad I'm doing it. Another volunteer thing that's starting up is with the Coast Guard (I know, right?), where I'm learning to be a radio operator. I figure it's absurd enough that I went from bio major in MA to cooking school in NZ, so why not continue the trend? It's also pretty neat even though I don't really understand a lot of it yet. Another plus of these volunteering things is free training, so yay. I'll be getting a radio operator's license through the Coast Guard, and I'll be able to go to first aid courses and things like that through the folks who do the emergency department thing.
Unfortunately, I haven't gotten much word about the third volunteering thing, Big Brothers Big Sisters. I'll be calling in a week or so after having sent a couple of e-mails over the past couple of weeks to see what's up with that.
Also unfortunately, no job yet. A lot of people have my CV, though – I feel like my CV in all of its various incarnations is responsible for at least a fully-grown tree, if not more than one.
Back to the plus side of things, my foot is ok! As a result, field hockey is back on! Now I just need to get better at the whole sprinting thing.
I think that's about it. Even though it's only the first week/almost second week of classes it already seems a lot more promising in that we've already done things that were way more interesting than first semester. Examples: Prawn Laksa (a Malaysian curry) and sweet chili sauce (so good!) on our first day, and we made spaetzle on our second day (along with some fish and some soup). Spaetzle is essentially the German version of pasta, to be honest, except instead of little oganized shapes it's little clumpy/stringy things because you don't roll it out, you just pipe the batter into boiling water. Also yesterday we made pork dumplings/potstickers/wontons!
Ok, that's it for now! Have a good until next time!
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