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Yesterday, friday the 13th we (my class) were at the big kitchen making food for the whole school (about 300 people that is). The only catastrophy that happened was that Teea cut a minor wound in her finger. I was the one responsible for making the salad. I had great fun grating 10kg of carrots (of course using a vegetable cutter machine, not with a grater). The main course was sausage soup (siskonmakkarakeitto) and spinach soup for vegetarians. We baked some potato flat bread (rieska) and people found it so delicious that we actually ran out of it eventhough there was a rather large amount of it. Then there was chocolate pudding for dessert and some fatties would have thought that they have died and are in heaven after seeing 200l soup kettle about half full of it.
After school I went to Helsinki with Piia, first we went to a shop called Kokkipuku in Mannerheimintie, Töölö to get some new equipment. They sell professional clothing and shoes mostly for kitchen staff. I bought a pair of classic pepita pattern cook's trousers (my older work trousers are plain black), a cook's hat and another set of silver buttons for my cook's jacket as I have lost a few buttons. Piia bought the hat and the buttons as well. My trousers are actually men's/unisex size XS because the women's trousers were more expensive and didn't have any pockets and I really want to have pockets for my keys and phone.
After visiting the shop which had very polite staff (I probably annoyed them very much by trying on about 50% of all their trousers) we decided to go to Kamppi. We could have taken a bus or a tram, but we were sporty and walked as it was a nice day. We randomly wandered around Kamppi and visited different shops. We spent endless time in K-Supermarket trying to find triangle sandwiches and finally found them when we had already stopped searching and just grabbed something else to eat. Piia admired some skirts and shoes in Morticia and told me about her desire to have gothic shoes one day. We laughed at a granny bag in Vero Moda, seriously it looked like an old lady's bag. A bit like this (but without the bow). Then my scarf still mells of Chanel's Mademoiselle Coco perfume after our visit to Stockmann Beauty.
We visited in Ruohonjuuri and they had some organic chocolate tasting there. They also had samples of tahini on some plain biscuit and almond milk for people to taste. That tahini was very tasteless actually, but the chocolate was nice. I bought organic honey waffles and went to sit on the two chairs outside Ruohonjuuri to eat them. Then when we went to Tennispalatsi to visit Kukunor and use the free toilets, Piia got an idea that we should go to see The Unborn, some horror movie. First Piia had to go to home to get money from her dad though. So to Leppävaara (Espoo) we went by train. Piia lives in quite a nice flat near the Sello shopping center with her dad who was on a sickness leave because of a shoulder injury. We had our cook's hats on when we went there and he stared at us a bit.
Before we went back to Helsinki to the cinema, we decided to visit Lidl in Sello where our classmate Saija works part-time. She wasn't at work then but we bought some sweets to eat in the cinema and Piia bought a large bottle of lemon soda. When we arrived to Tennispalatsi, we realized that the movie had already started (Piia remembered the starting time wrong) and the movies showing in the near future were crap, so then we walked to Kinopalatsi. They had no good movies showing around 7 PM either. So we just decided to go home as we didn't want to wait for 2 hours to a decent movie to start or to go to watch Pink Panther. Haha, we were wearing our cook's hats all evening (we put them on in the Tennispalatsi toilets when we first went there) and some drunken man in front of Kinopalatsi commented "What the hell are you wearing on your head?".