Today I reported for my first day of K.P. :) arrived at 9 for helping in the kitchen, but they were actually kind of busy with a bunch of breakfast orders, so I kind of hung around for a bit til David had a minute for me. Met the folks in the kitchen - Franklin and Patricia (pic tomorrow I promise) - and started dicing pineapple. Then, pretty much just helped out as I could as orders came back. Essentially that meant I assembled fruit salads (the one complete thing I learned) and watched toast so it didn't burn. ( "I carried the watermelon" . . .)
of course the real craziness happened on my lunch break. I headed out to finally get some Ecuadorean food and on my way back, who should I run into, but Liz (the woman my brother is dating) and her business partner! So much for Quito being the 2nd largest city in Ecuador!!!
We hung out for a bit and they came back to the cafe (think I ensured at least another handful of Kallari purchases - I really am earning my keep, huh?)
Spent the rest of the afternoon helping out in the kitchen, getting to know Patricia and Franklin; going over slang expressions; talking about recipes. I am looking forward to getting to introducing those guys to some stuff that I like to make. It was actually really cute cuz David wanted to bake tomorrow and Patricia made us promise to wait until Friday cuz she is off for the next two days. Not a bad first day.
Oh yeah, and by the way, I figured out how to make better hot chocolate and have already at least gotten Franklin to change the way he makes it (two full squares of chocolate, plus a little sugar, 100% improvement over yesterday).
all in a day's work . . . .
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