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I've sat down to write a new post like three times over the course of the last two weeks and each time have found myself with nothing to say. So, if this feels slightly forced or maybe not entirely interesting you have my apologies. I guess another excuse is that the weather has been amazing here (minus today as it's been raining all day - but hey it's not snow right?) Here's a semi boring description of my commuting plans: (this has a point I swear) I live uptown on the west-side and my job is on the east-side. So, in the afternoon when I get out of work I typically take a crosstown bus so that I can just take the train right home, instead of having to transfer trains and such. However, as I mentioned, the weather has been so nice lately that I decided to start walking across town instead of taking the bus. This means that I get to walk through Central Park on my way home everyday. (The above picture is of the big lake in Central Park that I get to walk past.) I didn't have school last weekend so I got to sleep in and go out with some friends which was fun.
School has been good, I really like my new instructor. He taught us some new piping techniques and once again complimented me on my work. We've also made some more cakes, but I think that I only have a picture of one, here it is:

We made Genoise cakes which is just a type of sponge cake, although if you say Genoise instead of sponge you sound much more pretentious (just make sure to use a very French pronunciation.) We made a chocolate one and also a plain one. I don't remember which one this is because I finished them similarly, but the plain one had raspberry jam and lemon curd. I've got to be honest and say that I would probably eat anything thing that has lemon curd on it, because it's pretty much the most delicious thing ever. My chocolate one was layered with raspberry jam, whipped cream and fresh raspberries. By the way I whipped the cream by hand, take that Kitchenaid... That was pretty much all we did at school, it was a pretty laid back weekend which was nice. Tomorrow we have an exam so I'm hoping I do alright.

I decided this year to participate in Lent, mostly because I have never done so, and partly because I wanted to kind of challenge myself. So, for Lent I decided that the only beverages I would drink would be water and tea (unsweetened). So, no soda, no juice, and worst of all - no coffee. So far so good though. Have any of you given up anything for Lent? Also, on a slightly more embarrassing note I have been marathoning episodes of Felicity on Netflix. I never saw it when it aired on tv, but I kind of love it. I've been getting a lot of flack at work about it hahaha. On that note, I am going to go study for my test.Talk to you soon.
Kayla