Friday, March 9, 2007

Beginning

Le Cordon Bleu’s commencement ceremony actually takes place at the commencement of the course, unlike American schools where the commencement ceremony congratulates students for completing a course. Needless to say we gastronomy students felt smug and elitist compared to the culinary arts and hospitality students also in attendance. After a brief ceremony, we were free to mingle as waiters poured wine and passed pupu’s around the banquet. We sipped our wine, slurped oysters, and crunched fried scallops, all the while getting our pictures taken by the various papers in attendance. Ahh, the good life.