Exciting Updates

I officially start my internship at Restaurant Daniel on Wednesday. I'm very excited about this. It was a pretty intensive application process - I had to submit my resume with a cover letter, had an HR interview, then got a call back for an interview with the Pastry Chef, Dominique Ansel, then went in for a trial day (12 pm-12:30 am), then the internship offer... On my trial day I worked for 7 hrs in the kitchen doing prep-work and then 5.5 hrs doing actual service. It's a high stress job working service in a restaurant like Daniel!
I'll be interning every Wednesday after school for about 6 hours and every Saturday for 12-13 hours between now and graduation in mid-June. For the month of April I'll be interning from 7 am-7 pm on Saturday's and for the month of May I'll be interning from 12 pm-12 am, which usually means till anywhere between 12:30 am earliest-1:30 am. I'm hoping to learn a ton from this experience.
Special thanks to Raykha for letting me stay with her while I intern!!!

Some more exciting news - George and I will be living in Chicago for most of the summer! George will be doing his internship from June 2nd - Aug 8th. His first week will be spent in NY for training, but after that he'll be in Chicago. I graduate on June 18th and will move out there the following week.
I was originally planning on staying in NY for the summer and continuing my internship at Daniel, but at that point George and I will have lived apart for 6 months and I don't think I could take it much longer.
I won't be able to find a paid pastry position since I'll only be out there for 6-7 weeks, so I'm looking for another pastry internship for when I'm out there. Hopefully I'll have an update on that closer to graduation.