It has been an exciting and eventful time in PreK as we continue to branch out and learn more about our AFS community and our neighborhood community. This week has been particularly enriching as we hosted community helpers ( SPCA Visit), walked to Fill-A-Bagel, walked to Alverthorpe with friends in our AFS community and visited our AFS cafeteria.
Nick welcomed us to the cafeteria early in the morning and we had the opportunity to have a behind the scenes tour to see how the kitchen operates early in the day as everyone is busy preparing lunches for the day. Nick told us that the cafeteria team prepares between 300 -400 lunches daily! What a big job.....
We were introduced to all of the staff that are part of the AFS food service team and we learned about each of their jobs. We learned how important it is for the team to work together in order to be able to serve our larger AFS community. Nick showed us the vegetable garden where he gets lettuce, peppers, tomatoes and spinach from daily. The children were fascinated with our vegetable garden and were excited to see the spinach that had just been picked and placed on the salad bar for todays lunch.
We walked all around the kitchen where the team was working and we saw all kinds of really cool kitchen equipment. The bowls and pots and pans were huge and the place where the dishes are washed is also very large! We had the opportunity to ask Nick questions about his job and how he became interested in becoming a chef. He said that " as a little boy he always liked to make pizza with his father for his family. .." He relayed a personal story which the children seemed to really identify with and by the end of the conversation we had set up another plan to visit with Nick and make pizza together in the real AFS cafeteria!!!!
Our photos capture the feelings of wonder and curiosity that the children felt during our visit to the cafeteria.
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