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!!

We're Here...

Hi!

My name is Katie and I’m one of the UGA interns for this summer. I’m really excited to be here at UGA and this first “week” (all 2 days of it) have been great. We’ve gotten to meet a lot of new people and everyone seems really happy to have us here. Julia and I spent Friday shadowing Laura the student manager coordinator at Summit yesterday and had a lot of fun. I got to work the smoothie station for part of the day.

I have to admit thought that I’m a Flordia Gator. I go to the University of Florida and there’s a bit of a rivalry between the schools. I’ve lost count of the number of people who have been asking which one of us is the Gator all week. I didn’t even bring all my orange and blue Gator clothing with me to wear here.

So now it’s the first weekend here and Julia and I are hoping to get to the pool. Hopefully the clouds will go away soon and we can go work on our tans!

Liza and Marcia

We're getting ready to welcome new interns to UGA for the summer, and I'm going to let them redesign the look of this blog in whatever way they choose. I wanted to make sure that Marcia and Liza's beautiful pictures from the sidebar didn't disappear, though, so here they are:

Marcia and Liza on their first night out in Athens:

And Liza and Marcia on their last night out in Athens:
We miss you lovely ladies!

Final Banquet Pictures

Marcia and Liza just left, and I will miss them so much! I wanted to post some pictures of their final banquet. The food was AMAZING - they did such a good job working with the chefs and cooks to create an exceptional menu that the guests were still talking about the next day!

Farewell UGA..

It is our last day... A bitter sweet feeling. Im glad to be going home and getting into a familiar environment, but I have had a great summer and will miss all the great people I have met. Will I miss Marcia?? Of course! I am very thankful that Marcia and I have gotten along so well this summer. We are opposites, each at the opposite end of the spectrum, but it has worked out really, really well!! I have learned so much this summer. Not only about Foodservice Management and how much it takes to keep Foodservice operations running, but more importantly about people, dealing with people, and myself. There are some things I know I will have to improve if i plan to be an effective manager one day. For an example, I highly lack assertiveness. Whether I go in foodservice management or not, everything I have learned I know I will take with me and use wherever I am. This has been a great experience, and I consider it to be a great blessing and opportunity to have been able to work with some great people this summer that have taught me a lot. Not only with their words, but actions. Bye Bye UGA!

Bye UGA

I can't believe today is the last day of my internship, boy has time flown. This ending is definitely bitter sweet I've really enjoyed my time here but i am ready to see my family and friends again. I'm very happy I was given the opportunity to do this internship because i have definitely learned alot about myself as well as management. I also was privileged to meet some wonderful people and try alot of new things while here. I'll definitely miss my roomie Liza we are completely different when it comes to personality and environment but we got along really well and have learned alot from each other. This experience was great and I'm glad i got to share it with her.
Friday night Liza went downtown one last time to say goodbye to some co-workers and then on Saturday I went paint ball shooter with some of them. It was so much fun;I have some bruises to show for but it was worth it!!!















On Sunday Liza and I went to Bolton and helped with prep for our banquet on Monday. We had a little trouble making the caramel lol but we got the job done. It was very interesting to see how some of the Hispanic dishes we served were made and what went into them.!!
Monday was our big day and I think the banquet turned out very well. I was very happy with how everything fell together and I think that all of Liza and I's hard work paid off. I appreciate all the amazing people from the dining halls that helped us because with out them there is no way it would have been as successful as it was.
Thank you to everyone, Good Bye UGA!!