Week 2

End of week 2. 

Our team is working well together, especially with the help of our student volunteers. Our appliances also seem to be working (mostly) which is a great improvement from last week.
Thursday was our first Pizza Day. We purchased the whole wheat dough from a local store and made the pizza crusts, as well as the sauce from scratch. All in all, we made over 40 pizza on Thursday morning. The line of students waiting to purchase pizza seemed never-ending! I guess just about everyone loves pizza!

Friday was an interesting day. The school needed to be evacuated at 9:30 am due to a natural gas smell in the building, for about an hour. Of course, this cut into our lunch preparation time significantly! However, the weather was beautiful and it gave us a chance to talk to some of the staff and students. What a great bunch of people! The students are eager to help and we have our volunteer list for the upcoming week is now full. They also asked if we would teach a cooking class sometime. It's is such a great motivator for us, to see their enthusiasm! We feel very welcomed at Notre Dame.

So, once we were allowed back into the school we scrambled to get lunch ready. We started serving at 11:25 and at 11:35 the school was evacuated once again. We were told that we could stay in the building to clean up the kitchen but that the students would probably be going home. Jed and I cleaned up and were just getting ready to leave when everyone came back in and wanted lunch! So, out came the food again, and we just about sold out. 

Students and staff also sampled roasted chick peas and apple chips which most people seemed to like.  We will try to make these available each week for healthy snacks.

We look forward to upcoming week and whatever challenges and discoveries it holds!