Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Eating in Hellandgone


Or: Every night is a Picnic!


The dining hall is Full. We have 80 guests eating in a space that should fit 60 comfortably. When the tables are empty, it looks like a cozy but inviting eating space. However, when all the girls are seated for dinner I'm pretty sure that their backs touch. See this diagram I made?
The dining hall has built in benches along two sides. That's the heavy grey line. There are eight tables in 4 rows--the yellow boxes. These all have their own benches--the pastel colored skinnier boxes. The turquoise box in the bottom left corner is my kitchen hatch.


There are 4 rows of tables in the main dining room and one more set on the back veranda--which used to be an open porch but now has walls. So all in all at max capacity I can fit 94--with people sitting on the ends of the tables and several extras on the back veranda it's possible to squeeze another 14 in.


Because the dining room is full, the staff have to eat on picnic tables on the porch outside my kitchen. It's a sad arrangement because being in the dining hall is a lot of fun, and also because it's been so miserably cold and rainy. It was about 40 degrees outside last night.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

reading back at this makes me laugh. although by the tone- you werent at the time. i dont think we were either.

good times