Baking

I love to bake! I love everything about it. The smells and the getting dirty, the creativity and the warmth. Most of all, I love when I have people to laugh with while I am doing this. This is why I fell head over heels in love with my placement at The Working Center. I have already finished my required 18 hours of volunteer work there as part of my Beyond Borders class but I am sooo going back again...especially when I come back. I was/am baking with Mark and the lovely people of Murietta's kitchen who cook all the food (vegetarian and vegan) for the Queen Street Cafe across the street. If you live in Kitch and you want super great cheap food that is fresh and wonderful, go there!! Amazing! I am in love with this place because I would bake everyday if it wasn't so expensive, and here I can bake whatever I want, all day, and someone else provides me with all my ingredients.

Most of the other BB people have been talking about their placements and how they are meeting all these new people and getting to experience great relationships and self discoveries (I especially recommend Krista's blog for this). I however have had no such experiences, epiphonies or anything of the like. Now while I don't feel cheated in anyway, I'm not sure I can relate my baking experiences to anything of importance to my trip. But I can say that even if I didn't learn any life experiences from baking there, I did learn how to make things I have never gotten to try before and I love the fact that the food is part of the whole Working Center wheel. All the food products are donated, or bought with donated, earned money. Then the food is made and resold in the cafe and it continues so on. I was going to post some of the recipes that I have made (I rocked the biscotti- that was exciting) but I have not been able to fix my blog structure yet so it will have to wait. I can't even say that I have learned team playing or anything like that because Mark just lets me do my own thing. I pick what I want to make, when I make it, how much, and how long I stay. So I really enjoy the freedom of that.

I just wanted to mention the lovely time I have baking there and hanging out with the kitchen people is awesome. Wish I had a big revelation to share like some others have, but at the same time, I can say that not having a revelation was just as nice. Nice and calm. Yummy...baking

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