Officially Signed Up for Food Labs

Hello one and all,
I know I've been a horrible blog owner of recently.  To justify but not excuse my behavior, our first trimester is coming to a close resulting in much mayhem and increasingly approaching deadlines.  On a positive note of the trimester coming to a close, I have signed up for my next trimester of classes aka food labs!

I am signed up for five food labs, all of which are from 7am to 1pm, Monday through Thursday: How Baking Works, Intro to Cakes, Principles of Artisan Bread Baking, Viennoiserie, and Chocolates & Confections.  Viennoiserie is a course on making baked goods using puff pastry, such as croissants and turnovers.  As for how to pronounce it, I have absolutely no clue.  Silly french people.  Though I am extremely excited about all of the classes, and probably would be about any food class they put me, I'm most excited for chocolates and confections.  It's very easy to experiment at home with cakes and other such baked goods, but trying to learn chocolates without the proper instruction or equipment, though I have tried, is extremely difficult.  I also have high expectations for artisan breads, though it will be less fun to eat.  Seriously though, kneading bread is one of the most relaxedly focused activities, at least for me.  It is something that puts me at peace.

I'm so ready for all of the classes where I can actually start learning how to express my passion for baking and (hopefully, if I'm good) share it with you.  I only have two more weeks of academics, one of which is finals week, then Thanksgiving break (good noms to talk about), and then I will be back and will hopefully start blogging about labs!  Just so you know, in case you didn't, each of my five labs is nine days long, so I will have about two weeks in each lab.  So, stick with me, because good things are coming.