Made a Friend!

July 12, 2013. 4:05pm.

Well I just got back about 15 minutes ago, so we didn't end so early in the patisserie today. But I had a lot to do! I had to make 10 more coconut strawberry desserts by myself today!! (all of them - and I just discovered that there are so many more coconut strawberry dessert orders than anything else because it's the dessert that comes with the menu) The presentation was a little different today. And it required a different kind of decorative streaking with the raspberry sauce, which I practiced a few times on the counter, then did kind of badly on the first plate, but he said it was fine. And the KILLED on the rest of the plates! Hehehe okay maybe it's not that impressive, but it really did look pretty and I was proud of myself!!!! :D

One thing that I discovered today, though, is that...with Tibo's faith in me and his allowing me to do advanced things comes...responsibility and expectations. Up until today when I did something not quite as well as him or a little worse than it should be, he didn't give me any shit for it - he said I made the macaroons as little too flat, and when I said sorry he said no don't worry, it's your first time - it's normal (and they weren't unusable at all, just not great - plus a couple were not very good circles). Today, I was making the coconut meringue sticks again - I made them yesterday, with him. Well I stopped the mixer first to go get and add the sugar. He frustratedly said never to stop mixing - measure the sugar separately and add it while it's still going. Then I stopped it a little later to check if it was done. He immediately came over, kind of slammed the mixer back down, and put it back on, saying it's not ready. Then let it stay like 5 more minutes. Jeezus. Whoops. I don't really know how mounted various things have to be though!! Errrgg. Then I was standing in from of the sheets on the tray thinking about whether we needed to spray oil on, and he firmly put the spray tin down in from of me as he kept doing his thing. Finally, when I started squeezing out the merengue things...well, I thought we were making macaroons..oops. So I started with four macaroons, asked him if it was okay, and he kind of laughed, but in what sounded a little like an "oh my god I'm exhaperated and she's stupid" manner, told me no, it was for the meringues, now I need to put that batter back in and start making the meringues. I had to ask him to repeat the sentence because I didn't understand the putting the batter back the first time. Oh man. See the problem though is that particularly because I can't understand French, as well as because they all just have a tendency to look and act worked up about anything that goes wrong, I can never tell how upset someone actually is, and how upset someone is WITH ME in particular. Oh boy.

But at some point he asked me to measure out a bunch of things from a recipe. I was just finishing measuring the last thing, when he came over, thought a second, and said, shit, we need two times the recipe. I smiled, happy that he made a mistake, and he said sorry, then kind of laughed. Later on he did something else wrong, though I really have no idea what. He seemed a little peeved, and I'm not happy that he was annoyed, but I'm happy he made a mistake (it wasn't a ver =y big deal or anything, otherwise I wouldn't have been happy) just because it makes me feel better.

OH! As for my friend! Well during our break after lunch today I was talking to Mila about the weekend, we both said we didn't have plans, and she asked if I would like to go to the beach or stand-up paddling at a nearby lake with her!!! :) I said of course! It's not certain yet, but I'm really excited that...she's my friend/she invited me!

Speaking of friends, the woman Julie who I met at the café and I have emailed a little now and we're probably going to play tennis Monday evening!!! I have people to hang out with here!