thursday + friday of last week.

so long has passed since last thursday - i'm not sure if i can remember everything that's happened..but i have my timetable in front of me to keep you informed! so thursday morning we had the theory of table manners...i think that class was over quite quickly because the majority of us had already had the practical side of it..and also, at breakfast and lunch, if we use bad manners, irene/mcc (who is another one of the teachers) will correct us in a polite manner (obviously!). after break we had the practicalities of table service which involved standing up for an hour and a half. five minutes later i was in the formal dining room preparing to serve everyone else's food, stare longingly at it and collapse in the heat and hurt my feet. i didn't actually collapse, but my feet DEFINITELY hurt! and i didn't finish my lunch until 14h40!! at 17h30, i had my home management class, we learnt about all the different symbols on labels of clothes, what we can and can't do with certain items etc etc, then i handwashed a shirt! that was fun, the class is really small - we are only 3! after that i had dinner outside on the terrace with emily - we had camembert on toast and a salad. it was perfect weather for eating outside so that was nice. i kept meaning to wash my clothes and write my blog, but i wanted to also study for the test (which turned out to be really easy, and didn't involve using my brain, which was a nice change!!).

test day came and we had another practical class in service, we discussed filling out a piece of paper that those being head waitress have to fill in and what they have to prepare beforehand so that the service for the formal lunch runs as smoothly as it can! that class was ok...and it was the first full day that our new roommate stayed in school - she is called sarah from australia and has been here since january (but was at another school at that particular time), so that was nice. the second class to be quite frank was as boring as hell (the contents were at least: "this is a fruit fork, this is a lobster crusher, etc etc etc), but the group is great and we spend most of the time laughing at something..it's a lot more light-hearted than i expected it to be!! we sped through lunch to give those doing the diploma time to study for their extra test and to give us time as well, but i felt like the majority of the stuff was general knowledge..i think most people found the test easy and today (monday) mcc told us we had all passed, but we don't have the results yet. but they went through all the test questions with us in the class - the test is basically the exercise in the book and they pick a few questions and you answer them = no brain power required. friday night, anna-marie, emily and i went to the lebanese to eat, the food was really good! i had a "mixed kebab" and we had some nice wine too. one thing i have noticed about switzerland is that it is very expensive eating out...earlier in the week i ate a salad for about £12, which i mean is ok, but hmmm..it was a good salad though (see earlier post i think...i should really check what i write first). went to bed at like 1.30 which was a silly idea given the long day ahead. (see next post)