In essence, the character played by Murray is reliving the same day over and over and the movie captures how he handles that situation and is quite hilarious. Over time, he continually improves upon each day until he ends up with the perfect day!
Well that is how I feel teaching five sections of the foodservice lab this semester so far. The alarm goes off every day at 7:30. I go through the same routine to ready for work and drive to campus. I walk into the back of the house of our restaurant and there stand 16 to 20 fresh faces, depending on the day, ready to open up a restaurant for the first time. Many have never even made Mac-n-Cheese from a box and in an hour or two they will be wielding a French Knife to prep for service, setting tables, etc., so that we can open our doors to the public at 11:30 AM for service. Like the Bill Murray character we do our best to make each day in the lab progressively better and so far so good; by the time we get to the Friday lab we know the best things to say and do to have a successful lab for that day in the front- and back-of-the-house. And then we arrive back to Monday with a new rotation of fresh faces to repeat the day's lessons for the remainder of the week to reach perfrection on Friday. So it goes.
Alas, the life of the lab instructor! I am sooooooooooooooo glad I took on this assignment to teach the foodservice lab for the fall semester. I can now feel the pleasure and pain that many members have been experiencing at culinary arts programs and walking in their shoes will help me be more responsive to their needs through FELC! Can I have an Amen!
2 comments:
Not sure if it is an amen but we mix it up here and have h.s and adults coming and going at all times. Talk about ADD it is amazing what a self pace competency program can be and how rewarding and strenuous all at the same time. I just finished reading "Beaten, Sauced and Seared" by Johnathon Dixon. Who by the way mentioned Ezra as a great teacher in his book. But it is a good read about being a student and how effective and ineffective yelling and the F-word is in inspiring students and co workers.
-Rex
Awesome, I will read that book!
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