Week 1...

So we made it through our first full week as UGA interns. I don't know what I was really expecting this week, but we seemed to get a taste of everything.

I got to work the serving lines in the front of the house at all the open dining halls at some point this week. The time definitely goes faster when there are a lot of customers. I am now a pro at making waffles, smoothies, and sandwiches.

I also got to do some prep work in the bakery. Those nice pretty dinner rolls that they serve every day at meals are much harder to make pretty than I thought. I couldn't get them to be nice and smooth or the same size.

There was also a lot of talking to people this week. We spent an entire day doing interviews of various people to get the background of the operation. It was really interesting to hear people define what their jobs entailed. Also it's always fun to hear different people's backgrounds. It just proves that you never know where you're going to end up in life.

Then there was the shadowing of the management people. I learned a lot about how to keep an operation like UGA's running smoothly and also to keep the employees happy and productive. It takes a different mentality to manage people as opposed to being the food worker.

Hello I am Julia! I am the other intern this summer at UGA. Today is our "third" day here, I have been in Athens since Monday but we started our internship on Thursday. I have really enjoyed the internship thus far. On Thursday we did a tour of UGA campus, Kris took us all over and introduced us to the majority of the staff. On Friday we were at summit shadowing Laura, Summits student Manager. It was nice to follow a student manager and understand how they work with students their own age. Today is Saturday and as Katie said we went to the pool and enjoyed the hot weather in Athens. I am from Pennsylvania so the weather is different than what i am use to! I will be a junior in the fall at Penn State University, I am a Hotel Restaurant Institutional Management Major. I look forward to the next 8 weeks to learn about Collegiate Food service Management!!