The Last Goodbye

Well it has been a busy couple of days here at Tauernhof. Trying to discover the ways of the kitchen and making myself useful, while trying to get myself adjusted to actually doing something during the day and not dying from exhaustion, to attempting to learn everyone's names as I introduce myself to loads of people each day, and lastly all the students leaving tomorrow morning. Today was crazy for us kitchen dwellers. We made breakfast as per usual, then made a rather nice lunch but it was soup so there were tons of dishes as now there are bowls as well as plates to clean, then a big fancy dinner-banquet thing as the Last Supper. Plus of course beautifying yourself before the big fancy dinner but of course the sky decides it wants to rain so you have 40 girls all running around outside like chickens with their heads cut off trying not ruin their hair. Don't worry though. It wasn't like a stampede, they were all running at different times. It was such a nice dinner. The Austrian man who works in the kitchen is just the sweetest thing! His name is Lothus (Lo-ta) and he is an older generation.. to put it nicely and so his english isn't very good. But he tries to explain what he wants you to do but there will be one word that he doesn't know so he confuses himself trying to figure it out. Then he thinks of another word or you list them trying to discover what he meant. Its great. :) So tonight was the big grad night! We all went to the lecture hall and they called out people's names and we clapped and they walked up and got a paper and sat down. I love it, everyone is just one huge family and it is so nice to see and be around. As sad as it is to see the students leave I am excited at the same time to become a family with the staff members that are left behind. :)