My First Day

Today was my first day of work.

Lets just say, it had its ups and downs. :)

I actually managed to look less than half of an idiot on my first day of work at Lagoon wearing my tight tan pants, muddy converse, wrinkled green t-shirt, ugly hat, and (for once) neat apron. Today, I would be working around six hours. The man at the front desk of the foods office greeted me and sent me off to the station I would be temporary be working at for today. He had told me the food stands I would be working at were next to the Carousel ride, and that the door was off to the side.

I always find that when I am searching for something important, such as the door in plain sight that led into the area I would be working today, I seem to go blank and cannot point out the obvious. I circled the building once, and I tried to get into the building from the back. The door was locked. I walked to the front again and I peered through the window you order and purchase you food to see a manager in their usual dark blue shirts helping a boy work the cash register. It looked like it was his first day of work as well. I went up and asked her how I could actually enter the building so I could start working. She pointed out the obvious door that was about ten feet from where I was standing. Wow. I AM a genius. The boy she was helping tried his best not to laugh and in the mean time, I hurried inside before he did. I found my way to the manager who took me to sign up sheet where I kept track of my breaks and hours and where I would be working.

She then took me to the most luckiest place I could of worked, with the laughing boy. The section we worked in served Mexican food. She showed me the cash register and I handled it like a professional. My self esteem hired ten points when the boy looked impressed. The manager acted, however, as if it wasn't a big accomplishment. I didn't expect her to because she had probably been working there for around six years.

Finally, We got to learn the funnest part of working in the food division at Lagoon, the cooking. It doesn't necessarily take a rocket scientist to prepare the processed food, but it really entertained me. I was surprised how much fun I had when we tried cooking after she demonstrated the correct way.

The work day started out slow. There was barley any customers and it was too early in the morning for any of my friends to text me. I thought the whole day was going to end up like this. The boy and I talked for a while and he seems like a pretty nice guy. As the day aged and the rain filled clouds faded, Lagoon became more busier that I would have expected. The boy and I traded off the cooking stand. I had fun with everything: the cash register, the cooking, and talking to people.

There was only two things I despised so far. One thing was when you didn't have any customers, and the second was the irritating plastic gloves you had to wear and change after each order.

After I got back to my break, the manager assigned me to an Icee selling place across from the main building. It was a small building about 1/4 the size of my amazingly large bedroom. The manager showed me how to make churros, pretzels, and Icees of course. She seemed afraid to leave me alone. She didn't think I could handle the stand all by myself. I was on her side in a way, but a part of me wanted to prove us wrong.

I began to despise the Icee building. The heat of the sun blazed down on the small building and It took the effect of an oven. There was a fan in the the room. What a way to make my day the best! Wait, it was broken. I would of stuck my head under the Icee faucet and started chugging that think until nothing was left, but the manager came in and checked on me without notice.

There was yet another thing that made my day the greatest! There was two metal box-like ovens. One of the boxes had a metal drawer that came out that you would place the churros on Then, you needed to wait seven minutes until they were golden brown before you covered them in mouth watering cinnamon (are you hungry yet?). The other machine had a chain like device such as the ones that are on bicycles, except much thicker. You are supposed to set your salt covered pretzel on the side that faces up, and it would turn until it would fall off the spinning device into a metal container where it would be removed and served. In between the two machines was a cinnamon container where you would coat the churros and a salt container where you would coat the pretzels. I sat there, no wait, STOOD there coating one of the fresh churros when my arm hit the side of the machine and my arm immediately pulled back as I felt a sharp pain on the side of my arm. My arm felt as if a wasp had stung me twenty times in the same spot. I ran across the room,which didn't take long, turned up the sink as hight as possible, and shoved my arm under the facet for the cold satisfaction.

There are two more things I hate about Lagoon. I hate the heat of the sun and the heat of the oven.

Ok, Ok. I am going to stop sounding like a pathetic wining child and describe the great things that happened today.

Well first, as you already know, cooking today was a blast. I got to learn how to make a LAGOON burrito, soft taco, hard taco, nacho supreme, churro, and pretzel. I thought I would be starving the whole time as I dealt with food, but I was having too much fun making it to notice how good it might of tasted.

The next great thing was when you take your half an hour breaks. The Employee Kitchen had really tasty food, believe it or not. The best part, you get to sit down! My legs are soo sore from standing for five hours and If it wasn't for the two breaks I was graciously rewarded, I wouldn't of been able to make it through the first day.

The next ACTUAL best experience of the day, was when I walked out of the office checking out my time card. It was pouring rain. The cool rain drops felt good on my warm skin regardless of how much the temperature dropped. Another plus: I finally finished walking up the sidewalk that leads to the front of Lagoon's parking lot when I turned around. A large rainbow filled the sky. It was quite coincidental overall. I was sore and was getting annoyed by the rain when everything stopped and the sun came shining out. A rainbow stretched across only Lagoon itself.

If this keeps up, I might be able to handle this summer. :)