Good o Thursday, Feb. 2

G’day Mates, today I had to wake up early but it was worthy for a special event. I was invited to attend a Rotary Club breakfast meeting at South Hill’s Golf & Country Club in Fond du Lac. I was the nominated student of the month for Moraine Park Technical College for my leadership skills both in and outside of the classroom, and being involved with various activities. It was an honor to meet and connect to the President of the club and other members in the community. Some of the members I recognized from my previous school at Marian University. The meeting started with a buffet style breakfast, followed by the opening of the meeting. Shortly afterwards I gave a short speech to the members about myself and the future goals I plan on doing. Speaking in front of people gives me the opportunity to share my experience and encourage people to try new things. After my speech the meeting continued with the agenda followed by a video presentation about a soy cow program hosted in Peru. Soy cow is program that assists the less privilege by passing out calcium products to the community to improve their diets. To find out more information, check out the website at http://www.dreamcenterperu.com/projects.htm. This is an excellent program started by a member of the Rotary Club. To find out more information on Fond du Lac’s morning Rotary Club check out the website at http://www.fdlmorningrotary.com/.

After the meeting I headed off to school for my ethnic restaurant class. We went over costing sheets and menus for our restaurant day. As a reminder my restaurant day is on May 3, 2012 at Park Terrace Restaurant at Moraine Park Technical College’s Fond du Lac campus, and my cuisine is South Korea. If you have the opportunity to come my restaurant day I recommend and it will be an honor to have a great turnout on my restaurant day. After class I basically got some homework done before I DJ’ing at Slim and Chubby’s later that night. There was a good turnout of people that came and danced the night away. I love to DJ because it gives me the opportunity to learn and play songs from different genres and make sure people have a great time! After an early morning and a late night, it is time for me to sleep because Super Bowl weekend is ahead, and I am looking forward the commercials and entertainment! Ciao!

Cheers,
Lee IV

DJ Thursday

January 19 was the day I gave my friend Tyler a tour of Fond du Lac. We started the day off by going to Qdoba because he’s never been there, and I figured Qdoba is a great way to start the day off with a fresh burrito. Once we finished our food we headed across the street to Forest Mall. We talked about how small the mall is compared to the malls located in Chicago, but it was soothing to go somewhere that was not loud and crowded. We looked at different stores to see if there were anything good on sale, but we didn’t find anything worthy to purchase. At this moment we felt this was a great opportunity to spread the news about our DJ debut at Slim and Chubby’s to our friends. This promoting came in handy to draw attention, and hopefully bring in a good crowd. Afterwards I showed Tyler MPTC’s campus, and gave him a glimpse of the typical day of the things I do at school. He was impressed how the campus is all connected; which is very beneficial during cold weather months. I also introduced him to some instructors and staff around campus, and showed him people here are friendly and very helpful. Once we left campus I told him if you come to Fond du Lac then you must see the lighthouse on Lake Winnebago. As we approached the lighthouse he was impressed because he never saw a frozen lake before, and seeing people walking across the ice blew his mind. I guess since I was used to seeing the lake frozen I took it for granted, but I laughed and said welcome to Wisconsin. If you’ve never been to Lakeside Park you are missing out; the best time to see a beautiful scene is at dawn. Shortly afterwards we headed back home to get the night started. We listened to some music to get an idea for our playlist for the night, and then at ten o’clock it was time for us to DJ the night away. It was a slow start but then people kept coming in and danced the night away. I was learning some new techniques from Tyler since he has been doing this gig for two years, and the crowd loved the music selection. I could tell everyone was having a good time, even when it was time to close people didn’t want to leave, but they had to go home. Afterwards the bartenders and the owners said we did a great job on the stage. I hope next week I can utilize the things I learned and improve my DJ skills. Well after another epic day, that is all for now. On my next blog I’ll be writing about first day of classes! Ciao

Cheers,
Lee IV

New Month New Fun

Thursday, December 1, was the new month which only means more fun lies ahead. This is the day I have been waiting for because in my salad class we were having our salad competition. After waiting for two months for our spinach and lettuce to grow we had the opportunity to display and sell our salads. Each group in my salads class has very creative ideas which give the competition more of a challenge. Once everything was done we had to display our salads in the cafeteria for people to sell. It was a slow start, so I decided it was a good idea to play music at our table because if our team name was Party Rock we should play music, and it worked, one person bought our salad. So that was a start but not enough to sell the rest of our salad, so then I decided to go around the school and tell people to check out the competition, and it worked. People saw how unique each group designed their salad, especially since everything was freshly grown at school and locally. At the end the results were in to see which group made the most in profits of selling their salads, and the winners were my friend Angel and I. We sold five salads for $6 each with the grand total of $30. At first we hesitated about pricing our salads, but everything worked out well and we did a good job. Overall each group did a wonderful job on their salads. There will be more competition soon so stay tuned!
Later in the night my day got even better because I had the opportunity to DJ for the first time at a local bar named Slim and Chubby’s located on Main Street in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. I was a little nervous because it was my first debut and I wanted to do a good job. So I told some of my friends to come out and check out the fun. Once I got to the bar the owner showed me the basic concept of using the computer and lights throughout the night, it wasn’t too hard to learn, but the challenge is to keep people happy and having fun. Although there weren’t a lot of people out, my friends came to support me so that meant a lot and we still had a lot of fun. We rocked the night away by singing and dancing, it wasn’t a bad start for me. My next DJ night is on Thursday, December 15, at Slim and Chubby’s, so if your 21 and older come check out the fun! Well that’s all for now, check you later!

Cheers,
Lee IV