This week might be the best week I could have. One reason being, I finally got three days off which since I work overnight, I actually have two days off because I don’t have to sleep during the day to get ready for work and speaking of work, it has been crazy. I never knew you could work four different shifts in four days back to back. I don’t even know when I should sleep anymore, or how am I working without collapsing.
I have learned the remaining shifts I was supposed to learn at the beginning of my program and I actually understand how the flow of this kitchen is. Overnight works on the baked gods we can bake during the day when culinary needs the ovens. When you work 4am you basically are basically prepping and finishing what overnight couldn’t do, as well as prepping desserts for lunch and making a few breakfast items culinary uses. When you work 6am you decorate all the cupcakes that need to be done by lunch if it is late you are in hot water. On specials days there is a mid who will come and assist with anything that has to be while also doing a few tasks as well. When you work night and come in at you work on all the filling, decorations, and topping that needs to be used for our desserts. The way the kitchen flows shows me you don’t get to see the finish product but only the parts you have to do in order to get the final product done. Learning all the shift has showed me the flow of the kitchen I will soon need to know about for the future. However sleep has been one thing I cannot learn to get used to.
This week is also amazing because I was able to go with friends to Clearwater Beach! Since there was no school due to spring break and the demand for worker was high they gave us two weeks from school. This was the perfect opportunity to visit the beach and get away from Disney. The beach was beautiful and I didn’t want to leave. As we returned to the complexes it poured and we saw lightening, seemed like a creativity way of saying, “Welcome back!” I hope it wasn’t a sign of things to come.
Let’s see what happens next on my journey here at Disney
