First day of summer job
So, today I started my summer job at the Cornell Cooperative Extension, working as a nutrition intern. My day goes like this: Come in at 8:30, set up my office with table and chairs, and the ladies in the office donated plants so now I have 2 plants in my area. Next, since the person who's supervising me (6 interns, 6 permanent workers in the nutrition program, we each shadow a permanent worker) happens to be the cook for most meetings and events and classes, I got money from her to go to P&C to pick up vegetables for a salad. I come back, help her prepare lunch, store it for later, and then go to a long staff meeting. We break from the meeting at 12 for lunch that I helped make (broccoli soup, salad with romaine, radishes, parsley, and homemade vinaigrette, sliced apples, assorted cheese and bread plate, and bread pudding with yogurt for dessert) and we ate while finishing the meeting. The meeting finished about 1:30, and then I helped clean up all the dishes. I helped cut up 30 cups of rhubarb for the food we're cooking tomorrow, and then talked to some of my coworkers for a while. My supervisor gave me a lot of packets of information about the 2 programs she runs and I read them so I would know what I'm doing for the summer, and then she discussed them with me, and I went home at 4:30. Tomorrow I'm coming in at 8 and making ratatouille over whole wheat pasta, and strawberry rhubarb crisp for 60 people. This food is for the event the cooperative extension is having on Wednesday, called "container gardening" where we teach kids and their parents how to grow herbs and stuff, and give a lesson on how to use herbs in your cooking to make things tasty without adding mass amounts of sodium, and doing demonstrations by making different salad dressings and veggie dips with different herbs.
Basically, this job is awesome. Its kinda disorganized, so after Wednesday I don't know what I'm doing, and my supervisor says this is pretty normal. Once June starts, I'll help with cooking and nutrition classes on Tuesday mornings 10-12 for poor adults where we teach how to cook healthy on a budget, and we give each participant a bag of groceries to make the dishes we made in class. The nutrition portion of the classes is coordinated by my supervisor and I, while a professional chef teaches the cooking part. And we get to keep all the recipes. I already have some of the recipes that may or may not be used this summer, and for homework, I may have to try out these recipes on my own time. What terrible homework, right? The second program my supervisor works with is community supported agriculture, where customers buy shares of a farmers crops, and they get fresh produce weekly, which helps farmers and poor people. This also comes with free cooking classes where we teach how to prepare the kinds of produce they received. I also get to go to a New York State nutrition conference on June 10th-11th, which is conveniently held at Cornell, where I go to workshops and get free food all day instead of working. This job has so much free food, I pretty much don't really need to bring lunch to work.
Anyway, I have a barbeque/birthday party at bonehouse to go to soon. Just thought people might want to know about my life. Coming home Friday for Lizzy's graduation on Saturday, which should also be fun. Bye for now everybody!
Basically, this job is awesome. Its kinda disorganized, so after Wednesday I don't know what I'm doing, and my supervisor says this is pretty normal. Once June starts, I'll help with cooking and nutrition classes on Tuesday mornings 10-12 for poor adults where we teach how to cook healthy on a budget, and we give each participant a bag of groceries to make the dishes we made in class. The nutrition portion of the classes is coordinated by my supervisor and I, while a professional chef teaches the cooking part. And we get to keep all the recipes. I already have some of the recipes that may or may not be used this summer, and for homework, I may have to try out these recipes on my own time. What terrible homework, right? The second program my supervisor works with is community supported agriculture, where customers buy shares of a farmers crops, and they get fresh produce weekly, which helps farmers and poor people. This also comes with free cooking classes where we teach how to prepare the kinds of produce they received. I also get to go to a New York State nutrition conference on June 10th-11th, which is conveniently held at Cornell, where I go to workshops and get free food all day instead of working. This job has so much free food, I pretty much don't really need to bring lunch to work.
Anyway, I have a barbeque/birthday party at bonehouse to go to soon. Just thought people might want to know about my life. Coming home Friday for Lizzy's graduation on Saturday, which should also be fun. Bye for now everybody!