One Month Anniversary!

I've been gone a month!
Already!
Its gone fast, but at the same time I feel like I've been here forever.
The terrible "newbie" feeling has mostly worn off, and even though I still haven't explored much of the property, I have a much better sense of where everything is. There are still staff I haven't met, but with such a large crew and such different hours and areas of interest, I think that is inevitable.
I've made some good friends among the kitchen/serving/housekeeping staff, and I am enjoying my chef and fellow cooks very much.
My instructor from school called my chef today, and apparently he is coming up some weekend to check it out! I suddenly got kinda nervous. I can't believe my "practicum" flew by so fast! I feel like I haven't been learning enough...I'm going to start reading books on gluten-free, vegetarian, and vegan diets now so that I will be all knowledgeable when he comes.
We have 2 more weeks of buffet-style cooking for school groups, and then everything changes...which makes me excited and anxious at the same time! When the summer season officially begins, I will be doing more of al a carte style cooking for guests who come to stay at the lodge. The food will be a little fancier, and there will be "plating" involved, which has never been a strong point for me and my shaky hands!
I am excited to be stepping it up in the culinary department though! As much as I love the buffet cooking, it gets a little redundant after a while.
In my free time I've been doing a lot of reading (supplied by my friend with a personal library...BARB!), facebooking, hiking, visiting friends, watching hockey games, and hanging out. Its a blast. This whole month has been fantastic and I am so excited for the rest of the summer.
Also...my lovely mother just sent up my laptop cable so now I have my own computer in the staff room, and you know what that means....PICTURES! I've just uploaded a bunch to my facebook, so go ahead and take a look. You can see a little bit of what I've been up to on my days off, and I'm also putting up some videos of Tim's hockey and such. Check it out!