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The lunchtime slow cooker hadn't been slow enough overnight, causing the whole restaurant to smell of burnt steak when Allen had got in this morning, so while I was opening the restaurant he was spraying about 3 cans of air freshener around, and getting Fernando (lunchtime head chef) to walk around with pans of garlic and onions. Alice had her first shift being bossed around by me (although the only thing I boss people around on when opening is when to go home).
I was chatting to Dane (evening head chef) afterwards in the kitchen, and he let me have a scoop of the chocolate ice cream that goes with the profiteroles. I had caused outrage by buying Aaron an Easter bunny chocolate to say thank you for buying us Crunchie Easter eggs, so I stopped by Coles to pick up a bag of chocolates to give to the rest of the kitchen.
In between the lunchtime and evening shift, I started doing some online Spanish lessons to try and relearn everything me and Alice have already forgotten. No doubt we will need another brush up just before we get to South America!
Dane had said he would cook me the other chicken breast he brought that he hadn't eaten, so I came in early for work (as I wasn't sure when he was cooking it). He hadn't cooked it yet, so I preoccupied myself with Facebook and swapping shifts with Emilie the Swede, so that I can go to Cape Tribulation with some people from the hostel on Wednesday.
There were two guys sat on one table me and Alice served, one of them who was very chatty. After Alice had left, we were talking about how I did Maths at University, and I gave them my email address as I may tutor the chatty guy's son, and the non-chatty one, as he's doing a course for work that involves maths which he's having trouble understanding. The idea of tutoring has scared me a bit, but again I've decided to just go for it, and given that I was thinking about doing it, I can't really turn it down when it's offered to me, especially as they were offering something like $35 an hour for it! Even if nothing comes of it, the chat was worthwhile, as it resulted in a $28 tip! It's made me really grateful to Josh, as not only as putting me as lunchtime manager (a position I didn't even realise was the description for what I do) but also put me in a situation where I've met people interested in me tutoring, both of which will really enhance my CV.
The chicken that Dane had cooked for me was very delicious; it was Asian style and marinated in chilli, honey, soy sauce, ginger, etc., and served on mashed potato with some curly capsicum (pepper) and spinach.
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