Last night I attempted my first
layer cake. Chocolate cake,
chocolate mousse and a raspberry sauce, with frosting to make it look
even. It came out ok, will out
some pictures up later. But was a
good experiment, I find that layer cakes require patience, which I don’t really
have when baking and also I ate a lot of chocolate mousse and cream.
To
make up for that this morning I chopped the rest of the trail from our house
down to a mountain biking path running down the ridge. Now we should be able to make it from
the back door to the top of the Wa’ahila Ridge national park. I was going to try and do that today,
but I am just not feeling that right now.
The
mangoes are coming and they taste great.
It is nice have fruit trees right next to the kitchen; I don’t see why
more people don’t do that.
Finally, I finished my training with Ala Ka’I Na Keiki, so I
think next week I will be a fully credentialed skills trainer. I am not sure what that really means as
it seems they will take pretty much anyone and if you are willing to go through
the training then you’re all set. But that means that I might start working again,
as a sub and part time. But I am
not sure yet how I am going to respond to working with kids. It really will depend on the ages that
I work with. From the China
experience, working with older kids can be a lot of run and rather rewarding,
but I remember teaching the little shits in swimming can get old real
fast. I am interested to see how
this turns out.
I
finished my first term in the CSPP online classes. Still waiting for the final marks, but I should have gotten
at least a 93%, have to see how the last assignments are graded, could have put
a little more effort into them but after the final paper it is hard to stay
motivated in the class. A week off and then the next term starts, two classes
this time. I am also going to be
doing some volunteer work through UH as a research assistant on some psych
projects the students there are working on. After next week, between work, study and volunteer time, I
could be doing something like 40-50 hours a psych related stuff a week. I hope I like it, because I am going to
be diving into it full steam. Along
with the boxing and working out, I should be able to keep myself pretty busy
without spending too much money.
And hopefully maybe even have a little coming in.
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