http://www.willtorrent.com en-gb willtorrent.com 2010-3-28T00:00:00Z willtorrent.com http://www.willtorrent.com/page7.htm#61592 last weekend saw the Hotelympia competition at ExCel in London. Hotelympia is a major hospitality show that happens every two years and encompasses the Salon Culinaire de Londres which is a collection of static and live competitions. On Sunday I was competiting in my first senior class at my first Hotelympia. Having worked frantically on my tea pastries the week before at work which included a Coffee and chocolate pyramid Passionfruit and Strawberry charlotte cherry and chocolate linzer tart and pistachio choux bun amonst others I was extremeley pleased with my Silver medal position. Getting good constructive feedback from the judges was excellent and I will certainly learn from this for next years Hospitality competition at the NEC. On Monday and Tuesday I was privilidged enough to be asked to judge similar competitions both in junior and senior classes. I thourghly enjoyed the judging experience as I learned lots of new skills which will hopefully also... 2010-3-4T00:00:00Z http://www.willtorrent.com/page7.htm#48628 Last night saw the official opening ceremony of WorldSkills Calgary 2009 and what a show they put on for us and the 51 participating countries Dancers singers extreme motorcyclists fireworks and a Kiss tribute band amongst other acts highlighted Calgarys excitement at holding the 40 th WorldSkills Competition. However the most spectacular part of the ceremony was when Team UK walked on stage with the Union Jack waving in the air cheered on by an extremely noisy army of UK supporters a very proud moment for us all. Today saw day 1 of the competition kick off with a huge number of school children and members of the community viewing the competition. With the added number of people in the halls and the increasing temperatures the atmosphere is certainly very hot and although at times a little draining seeing the members of Team UK do their thing certainly reenergises you as they are all completely in the zone and are flying through their test pieces doing the nation proud Tonight ... 2009-9-4T00:00:00Z