yesterday I had my first interview with Tim who owns a local coffee roasting business, Ritual Coffee. Tim supplies coffee to "Full a Beans" along with 60 odd other cafes in northern Tasmania. I had a great time there, first I asked a few questions about the business, then Tim shown me around, explained his plans for the training area, told me about the retail shop they are opening and explained a hand full of different brewing methods. then we talked about "cupping" and the conversation rolled into all of the steps that are taken from growing and harvesting to presenting the final product to customers and so much can go wrong! there is a heap of trial and error that goes on especially in the first few steps, this includes roasting small batches of coffee sourced from the farms, playing with different extent of roasts, cupping the coffee to find any flavors that shouldn't be there, and then repeating that for every harvest.
I was probably there for 30-45min but I learn't sooo much! I have retained so much information and I can see masses of potential for and LTI and how I can find in my school work.
Monday, 27 February 2012
Sunday, 26 February 2012
what a wonderful weekend full of coffee coffee and more coffee! none of which I drank of course, but i did indeed enjoy it. I worked Friday Saturday and Sunday (and again today) and to my joy I was making coffee the entire time :D
when the new employees came in and the old ones left I very quickly gained more responsibility and this weekend I got a great chance to show it! on Friday I had a meeting with my trainee provider and we went over the two units that I had worked on and I received two more to complete over the next two weeks. I then closed the shop with one of the new staff members, shes great to work with and has picked up things really quickly. I then worked 8-2.3 Saturday and Sunday and wow, am i tired! from the moment we opened on Saturday we were flat out, in two hours all i got to do for my food make up was sanitize the bench and buy some bread (when usually it takes me 1-1.5 hours from start to finish). we were crazy busy all day and it wasn't until 1.30ish when it started to die down. sunday was a bit different to this, it was dead in the morning, i probably made 5 or so coffees during my food make up which was a bit of a relief after Saturday. it was funny because as soon as I had whiped down my benches we were flooded with orders again but this rush only lasted 1-2 hours.. then Nathan came in! its funny, as soon as Nathan came in we were dead quiet and it stayed like that for the rest of the day. it was a good change from the day before and although there wasn't much to do i was surrounded with good company and quite enjoyed the day.
tonight however.. Mondays have been a bit of a struggle lately, I've been closing with another one of the new staff and he hasn't really got much pace yet. add that with me doing the till which I have only done a few times and we tend to get out late. its hard because I've generally got a lot to do myself but I constantly try to help him, then I need to finish 15min earlier to allow enough time for the till and we cut it very fine, all i can say, is wish me luck!
when the new employees came in and the old ones left I very quickly gained more responsibility and this weekend I got a great chance to show it! on Friday I had a meeting with my trainee provider and we went over the two units that I had worked on and I received two more to complete over the next two weeks. I then closed the shop with one of the new staff members, shes great to work with and has picked up things really quickly. I then worked 8-2.3 Saturday and Sunday and wow, am i tired! from the moment we opened on Saturday we were flat out, in two hours all i got to do for my food make up was sanitize the bench and buy some bread (when usually it takes me 1-1.5 hours from start to finish). we were crazy busy all day and it wasn't until 1.30ish when it started to die down. sunday was a bit different to this, it was dead in the morning, i probably made 5 or so coffees during my food make up which was a bit of a relief after Saturday. it was funny because as soon as I had whiped down my benches we were flooded with orders again but this rush only lasted 1-2 hours.. then Nathan came in! its funny, as soon as Nathan came in we were dead quiet and it stayed like that for the rest of the day. it was a good change from the day before and although there wasn't much to do i was surrounded with good company and quite enjoyed the day.
tonight however.. Mondays have been a bit of a struggle lately, I've been closing with another one of the new staff and he hasn't really got much pace yet. add that with me doing the till which I have only done a few times and we tend to get out late. its hard because I've generally got a lot to do myself but I constantly try to help him, then I need to finish 15min earlier to allow enough time for the till and we cut it very fine, all i can say, is wish me luck!
Thursday, 23 February 2012
future map
so we've been back at school for a few weeks now and one of the tasks we've been set is to do a future map. this is a task that was done last year through the who am I project and we were asked to complete a second one so this said, I am making this my "second" future map. okay, so its more like an extension of my last one, okay, maybe its just a post about how I shouldn't have to do another one but still..
when I think about my first future map I'd say I was pretty spot on! it had a kitchen aid mix master on it (tick!!) :D, lots of things to do with cakes and cafes (since which I have scored a part time job at a cafe so -"semi tick??"), and then it had things like planes to symbolize travel, my ideal house (located in Melbourne of course), and various other things. all i can think of that I would want to add is William Angliss and maybe an LTI or two on the mainland! I feel really lucky that I know what I want to do in my future and i think it is a great advantage especially being at a big picture school.. I'm going to be unstoppable!
when I think about my first future map I'd say I was pretty spot on! it had a kitchen aid mix master on it (tick!!) :D, lots of things to do with cakes and cafes (since which I have scored a part time job at a cafe so -"semi tick??"), and then it had things like planes to symbolize travel, my ideal house (located in Melbourne of course), and various other things. all i can think of that I would want to add is William Angliss and maybe an LTI or two on the mainland! I feel really lucky that I know what I want to do in my future and i think it is a great advantage especially being at a big picture school.. I'm going to be unstoppable!
Did I tell you??
Did I??
I dont think so.....
well here goes....... I got my camera!!! YAY!!
im so happy, I've had it for about one and a half months now and it was worth every cent!
Its sooooo much fun, only thing is .. I can no longer do anything remotely cool without documenting it in multiple photos! so without and further adue (although they've been on FB for ages!) here are some of my first pictures taken with my baby :)
i love playing around with the depth of field, light exposure and photo subjects. I have already found that my niche is in close up and I am very excited to eventually find some time to watch the cannon tutorial videos with my camera in hand :)
I dont think so.....
well here goes....... I got my camera!!! YAY!!
im so happy, I've had it for about one and a half months now and it was worth every cent!
Its sooooo much fun, only thing is .. I can no longer do anything remotely cool without documenting it in multiple photos! so without and further adue (although they've been on FB for ages!) here are some of my first pictures taken with my baby :)
i love playing around with the depth of field, light exposure and photo subjects. I have already found that my niche is in close up and I am very excited to eventually find some time to watch the cannon tutorial videos with my camera in hand :)
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