Time for Tea

I am in Cook training again this year.  It is going really well.  It's nice being in there round two because I know how things work and what I am capable of in the kitchen.  I'm having lots of fun and I get more and more cooking experience every day. 

When your in the Cook training class, sometimes you get to go on special feild trips  or you get to do some catering for some special events.  Today we got to hold a tea at the end of the school day for the seniors of the community to come by and visit our school and have a tea with friends.  How nice!

We have to sign up to help at these events.  I decided helping at the tea party would be fun so I signed up.  We didn't get as many volunteers this year as we did last year, but the ones we did have worked really hard and were really keen on making the seniors happy  and talking with them and getting them what they wanted.  Everyone worked really well together.

I had a great time.  I love social events where I get to see people I know and mingle.  My job was to be the greeter and welcome people to the school and to help set up.  I also got to serve some tiny sand witches.  Then, of course, I had to help with the clean up, which isn't every ones favorite job but it had to be done.   We were busy!  We were always on the go!  We had lots of fun and we had a great teamwork system going on.  I love to see visitors at the school.  I get along very well with all the adults in town.  They are all so sweet to me so I love seeing them once in a while.  I think it's great for them to come to our school and see how our cafe works.  It' quite the system we have with all our local, healthy food that we cook.  To have a  school cafe that is run by students and  serves healthy food is quite rare, so we're very lucky.  The more people we teach about the cafe by having tea times like these, the better.  I think all schools should have a cafe like this.  It gets the students involved and it creates a healthier school day for everybody. 

Anyway, all the seniors had a great time.  You could see them mingling with their friends and the students and it was really nice.  It's awesome that we can have activities to do like this, because we get to interact with the elderly a bit more.  Their generation is not going to be around for much longer and if we don't interact with them they we won't hear their stories and we won't have anything to pass and the history of our elderly will die.  We don't want that to happen.  Events like these helps us stay connected.

It was a great day.  Thank you to everyone at school who helped and thanks to all the seniors that came.  We all had such a wonderful time.  The seniors want to do it every week.  We figured that was a little much for us but we're glad  they enjoyed the party.  Thanks to everyone that came and we hope you join us again next year for another cup of tea.