User:Francinepalmerbenjamin

Francine Palmer-Benjamin== Bio Seattle is my hometown, after graduating from high school attended Lewis & Clark State College (BA/Mass Communications)Served 6yrs U.S.Marine Corps, Worked in Alaska for 8 yrs.in the Seafood Industry (aboard ships)Worked as a Grill cook for the past 3 1/2yrs. This is my 5th quarter attending The Art Institute of Seattle.often times the                                                                                      = Always Wanted To Learn How To Make Artisan Cheese(Mozzarella,Gouda,Cheddar)
 * Topic


 * Research Component Library,Web-Site and Practical Participation (DeLAURENTI)


 * week 1 Introduction to this class


 * week 2


 * week 3 Library Research/How To Made Mozzarella Cheese


 * week 4 Web-Site Research (Paula Lambert/Mozzarella Co. & Italy & Mozzarella)Finish reading Making Mozzarella/Paula Lambert,also owner of The Mozzarella Company in Dallas,Texas


 * week 5 Practical Participation (DeLAURENTI)Meant with Shane Wahlund/Manager on Saturday May 2,2009 to finalized the dates and times for me to come to the shop to learn (Hands own)'How to Made Fresh Mozzarella Cheese'.Making their own inhouse Mozzarella cheese is one of the many reasons,I like so many other Seattlites love shopping there.Now I get the opportunities to learn how they do it.


 * week 6 Practical Participation (DeLAURENTI)Starting Thursday (May 14,2009)morning about 4:30am I will go to the shop to start learning how to make Mozzarella, and learn all the critical things a cheese artisan need to know,regarding making a signture cheese


 * week 7 Practical Participation (DeLAURENTI)Will finalized learning the steps and procedures in the art of making a truly artisan cheese.Saturday,May 16&17 working will DeLAURENTI staff during Seattle Annual Cheese Festival at Pike's Place Market.Saturday,May 23,2009 finalized the second part of research, by actually making Fresh Mozzarella under the supervision of Shanna,DeLaurenti premiere cheese artisan.


 * week 8 Presentation: Will give presentation in front of the class,regarding both the history and what are the techiques in many a fine artisan Mozzarella Cheese.I have finish my project and everything went better than I anticipated,which the exception that she unknownly erased my video of recording thia actually process of making handmade mozzarella cheese, which encluded showing me making two fresh mozarrella cheese under the leadership of Shanna (Cheese Artisan)

== Why Do I Like Being Me:I'M very comfortable in my own skin.I enjoy going to Seattle Art Museum,Benaroya Hall(Seattle Symphony Orchestra)Intiman & Paramount Theatre.Advice reader, Jazz,Runner and love going hiking.I enjoy,as Chief Seattle says Humankind has not woven the web of life.We are but one thread within it.Whatever we do to the web,we do to ourselves.All things are bound together.ALL things connected.Always taking self evaluation is a necessary key in getting to know ones self.The fact that I realized I have yet to reach my full perfection of my own abilities,is the reason that gives me that never quit mentality,and for this reason I know that quiters never win,and winners never quit.I have always enjoyed the fact that I'm less judgemental than my comtempories.I accept people the way they are,rather than the way I would like them to be.

How Am I Manipulated?
I cann't in all honesty say that I can answer the question:How Am I Manipulated.After a certain age and because of specific experiences this becomes a Muse point.One of the many things one learned as you gain and learn life lessons it that what happens in this life,you become the sum total of your life's experiences.at this particular juncture in my life I can say with complete confidence that being Manipulated is so far off the scale of possibility that it doesn't even register.I have been manipulated by Love so many times that you now listen to the warning signs that you couldn't hear before,even if some was using a Blow Horn.My daughter is the only person,place,or thing that can Manipulate me and in a lot of ways I know all here little tricks,but I give in to some of wants because I want to make her happy,without spoiling her.As far as,getting manipulated over money that is something that would be easier for someone to break in to Fort Knox.When I look at what the Bernie Makoff did regarding his version of the Ponzi scheme.He was able to scheme investors out of over $50 billion dollars,mainly because they allow their greed to overrule their common sense.And as any scam artist will tell you,a scam works because most people want something for nothing or for very,very little.

==Self-AssessmentI haven't learned anything about myself that I didn't know before this class nor since attenting the Art Insttitute of Seattle for the past year. I'm now and always has been a young lady who follow her own mind,who is always seeking new challenges and accomplishing those goals. I'm now as always,who is always searching for true meaning of my life.Life,by its very definition is a conglomerations of discoveries,mixed with the many segments of achievements,failures,losses and births.In short,I know why the caged bird sing and I'm aware of thoses who would try to preview me from flight.What I learned in this? I'm not sure exactly what it is that I what to take away from this class. The class in my humble opinion lack a sense of direction.The topics that had been discussed were all elements that I knew before coming to this class.I feel I acomplished each assignment well and in all honesty I don't feel I lacked any ability to perform at my best.This is my fifth (5th) quarter here at the Art Institute, plus I attended and graduate from Lewis & Clark State College,and as a result I feel that made me uniquely prepared for class.Education is a lot like Gold,It is worthless,if not used. Furthermore,it is my belief that education and knowledge will keep ignorance and stupidity at bay.Education is not only useful, but beautiful in its make-up. How did I contributed to my fellow students learning experience in this class?I think the answer to such a question is best voiced by another student in the class,simply due to the fact that most times people are totally unaware of how they contributed to someone elses learning experience.I would like to think that my fellow students learned to appreciate a different point of view, but most of all I sincerely hope that the Instructor also take away a new sense of light because I was a student in his class.