Le Cordon Bleu - Winter Garden

The Winter Garden is a strange place within Le Cordon Bleu.

The overall function is to give students and guests a place to sit. Drink coffee. And eat lunch. In actuality it is overcrowded. Supplies bad coffee from a machine. And is always out-of-stock of water.

A place that is deathly hot in the summer. Humid from plant water. And stuffy from no air movement. While the skylights give light during the winter. They also bring cold. The room gets so cold that your fingers numb and breath forms when you speak.

This is our lovely little place we call, the Winter Garden.

Nonetheless. We gather to recall last night’s events. Ponder what will happen in the day’s demonstration. And sip coffee, hoping the caffeine kicks in before class.

Above all. The Winter Garden has the bulletin board. A place where administration attempts to communicate to students. Displaying the week’s schedule. Final examination times. Details about up coming events. And. Of course. Our grades.

Finally posted this morning, written exam grades are out. My 83% on the written exam was bettered by the recipe fill-in-the-blanks’ 100%. Since the later is added to our final practical grade it carries much more weight. This 100% will help out in the end. As for the written part, it is what it is. Its importance is less than 10% of the final grade, so no real worries here. Happy overall.