a day in the life of nancy wu

Monday - Saturday

8:00 - wake up, morning routine, check email, do QTs, eat breakfast

9:40 - walk to work

(street outside the place where I'm staying)

9:55 - arrive at work; change into black suit-uniform

(we're all required to wear our hair in a bun...sometimes I see my coworkers with their hair down and I can't recognize them! hahaha)

9:59 - punch card in

10:00 - stand at the front desk, and proceed to do one of the following: go on google reader, check email, gchat, chat with co-workers and use www.xuezhongwen.net as a reference, or sit and stare at them doing work....

(i'll get a picture of my co-workers later...)

10:30 - head upstairs for lunch!

(we sit kind of segregated =P hahaha)

11:00 - back to doing nothing

(nice lobby area; that room over there is where the hosts work)

11:30 - employee roll call

(only the heads of each dept. show up; also serves as an announcement time. takes place in front of those doors by the purple glass wall)

11:50 - head upstairs, change into chef uniform!

(it definitely gets dirty every day. I have to wash my uniforms every two days. sigh. Also, the other chef uniforms are waaaay cooler than mine. Mine was kinda dug up last minute..hehehe)

11:55 - head downstairs to the pastry room. do a hodgepodge of things, such as: baking cakes, making mousses, cutting cakes made the day before, decorating the cakes after cutting them, washing dishes, assembling desserts on a plate to look pretty for customers, weighing endless amounts of ingredients, asking 298374 questions to my two "masters"

(yep. we used 11 litres of heavy cream for one dessert one time. nasty)

4:30 - dinner time! and chat with my coworkers!

(there's always rice or fried noodles. meat, fish, vegetables, soup, and a dessert soup. their green bean soup is delish)

5:05 - my "masters" return from their "rest", and we proceed with dessert-making

7:00 - get off work & punch card out, unless I stay late to help out. Latest I've stayed is 9:00PM, when the other chefs leave

7:15 - leave work, and either: walk home directly, go buy a bubble tea before heading home, go grocery shopping before heading home, wander around town by myself...

(bubble tea. delicious, freshly made, and super cheap...ahhhhh)

8:00 - shower

8:15 - gchat, write emails, listen to sermons, read, watch gossip girl, play with Bailey....

10:30 - sleeeeeeep