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| - I once took a class here for an introduction to cooking. I was stoked; it was supposed to teach you basics on cooking for those who are beginners, and I really needed someone to teach me.
So many things went wrong, and I really learned nothing. First, the class was advertised as including food, as we would taste the food we cooked, except we didn't really eat -- it was more like a bit of asparagus here, a sample of egg there. I was starving. We also didn't really cook - we just watched her. Second, there was no seating (no stools, no chairs, no nothing) for the entire time, which was hours long, so you got restless and it was hard to see over everyone standing in a huddled mass. Classes are held in the back of the store, which had no A/C, and so we were all boiling hot.
But perhaps the most inexcusable was the teacher's (who owns the shop) social life which kept trickling into the class. Clearly over half the class was already made up of her close friends, who obviously didn't pay the same expensive price tag I did, because they talked during instruction, and they talked to my instructor about things totally unrelated to cooking. People kept stopping by to socialize, and she would just shift her focus to them and not give another care to anything else. It was a total, disappointing waste of my time. This was over a year ago and I'm still bitter.
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