User:Davidkroeger

Bio
My name is David Kroeger I'm 36 and I live in GIG HARBOR. I am a first year student at AIS in the culinary arts program

Always Wanted To Schedule

 * Topic: Starting off my own catering buisness


 * Research Component: Catering companys,restaurants,catering websites/done


 * week 1:Make appointments with catering companys,surf the web/done


 * week 2:Interview catering companys;find prices,equipment,etc./done


 * week 3:Get idea for buisness cards,fliers,etc./done


 * week 4:Make buisness cards,fliers,etc./done


 * week 5:Buy basic equipment for buisness/ done


 * week 6:Inquire with banks about buisness loans


 * week 7:Put ad in local newspaper/ not doing it


 * week 8: Did catered lunch for first client/ done

Midterm Assignment 1: Taste & Aesthetics
THE ART THAT DID NOT DO IT FOR ME!!!!

Well I went to the Olympic Art Park and saw a lot of Art, some of it was good and abstract.

Some of it was just weird, but the one I liked the least was Mark Di Suvero's- Schubert Sonata.

I thought it was an eye-sore and had no place there. Until I did some checking through some

Art web-sites, and other sources. I was surprisingly enlightened with the Art and it's maker,

I discovered Suvero was in a very bad accident and went through a lot physical therapy, yet he

still held onto his dream and did these huge, monstrous steel sculptures. The one I thought

was an eye-sore-Schubert Sonata. Was a tribute to local symphonies and music in general, which

I thought was very cool, because a lot of Seattle's culture is centered around music and different

musical styling. And I was also impressed to find out that the exhibit actually moves, much

like music in the breeze. I look forward to coming back to the exhibit and seeing it in a

different light.

Well it's a beautiful Tuesday morning, and I went back to the exhibit sculpture full of hope, promise and an open mind. I figured

from all my knowledge of the artist and the knowledge of the sculpture, I was ready to see it and have angels singing in the back-

ground, and the sun would hit it just right!!!!

BUT NO!!!!!!

I still thinks it's incredibly ugly, and it still did not do it for me. I do however have a greater knowledge of Mark di Suvero,

but I still believe, something definitely better could of been put there. So bottom line: I appreciate seeing a part of Seattle

I've never seen before and I appreciate all the art I saw, But I could not convince myself to like that piece.

Self-Assessment
Well Steve this is the last time I'll be writing you. I have

enjoyed your class a lot; This is my first time in school for over

13 years, and it was a very scary, overwehlming experience at first,

but I got used to it. What I like about your class, is that you

thought us to think outside the box, which I believe is important

to people just starting their college life. I will admit though, at

first I didn't know what the hell your class was or what it was about

all I knew, was that I had no homework and got out early, which was

nice!! But as the the quarter started going along, I slowly started

getting it. I believe the point was, to think and figure stuff out

for ourselves, in a way, unteaching us to think like drones, doing

everything we're told and having tons of homework, while still not

being able to figure out are own personality. Your class not only

taught me to think outside the box and explore my educational

creative side (which is important in a school like AIS), but your

class also taught me very valuable computer skills, such as;

learning how to access information web sites, before I went to

college, I always prided myself on being the ultimate Punk Rock

Fred Flinstone, I don't own a cell phone, and I swore I would never

need to use a computer. BOY was I wrong and ignorant (which I now

believe is part of being Punk Rock), any way I really learned a lot

not only from your class, but from all my classes this first quarter.

THANKS STEVE and I wish you the best. If I don't see you again,

Have a Good Life My Friend, and thanks for everything.

DAVE KROEGER