Buon Pesce d'Aprile!

This is no April Fool's Day joke, I booked my flight home for the 11th of May. The timing is right for me to end my time here and I feel positive about my choice. The plan is to be in Seattle for about a month then I'll be heading east to Warren, Vermont to help some friends in a new endeavor. They just bought a hostel and they want me to help them run the kitchen and bar! It's too great an opportunity for me to pass up. In Vermont, I'll be gaining massive amounts of experience crucial to things I want to do in the future, ie, owning my own restaurant. If all goes according to plan, a Roman friend of ours, who is a trained chef, will be working with us for a few months so I'll get to work along side him! Working with a real chef would be invaluable. If you can recall, I've worked in a couple different kitchens over the years so it's not entirely new to me but the learning curve will be steep. I'm ready for it though, the move to Italy was just a 'bit' of challenge and this promises to be as well, at least in Vermont I'll be speaking English and have proper legal status!