Independence Day

Happy Independence day! This has been in my top three independence days ever! We slept in, and then woke up in time for the continental breakfast, but this was no ordinary hotel breakfast. When we arrived at we were seated, and our order taken. Coffee and orange juice were served immediately. It was just like going out to eat, except after the meal there was no check to pay. Too bad Cassie and I were still stuffed from the late dinner the night before and couldn't eat more than cereal and a muffin. Tomorrow we will take advantage. After breakfast, we

called Shawn to ask for directions to the beach. He directed us to the Atlanic Beach and Fort Macon. The beach was fun, and then we checked out Fort Macon. We headed back to Beaufort, and checked out the ubiquitous Front Street shops. The shops were fun to look through, and had a lot of good souvineer/gifts. We shopped until we spent too much, then headed back to the hotel room to drop off our loot and change for dinner and the fireworks display. We met Shawn, Jill, and their son Ian at The Net, a local seafood restaurant. I tried what Shawn called the classic Beaufort seafood meal: fried shrimp, cole slaw, and french fries. I know what your thinking, 'what kind of dietitian eats that food?' Well, every kind of food can be included in a normal person's diet. So this was my splurge for the trip, and it was worth it.
Next event, fireworks! We drove down to the neighboring (and much larger) city of Morehead to see their display. It took a while to find seats. We ended up sitting on the end of a dock directly in front of where the show was going to be. We couldn't have asked for better seats. Before Morehead's fireworks display began, we were able to see the two neighboring cities fireworks from across the water. Ian was telling Cassie and I about how every year during the fireworks display at Morehead, the uninhabited island where they set them off at catches on fire. This was supposed to be a bonus to the regular fireworks displays we had ever seen. So when they finally started,

we were not surprised to see some light behind the treeline. Within a matter of minutes, right across the waterway from us raging flames were topping the trees. Soon the flames had made their way across to the island's beach and then spread both left and right heading toward each end of the island. All this time, fireworks were still being deployed from the back side of the island. I don't believe anyone was really watching them though. Next, everyone on the dock was asked to move back to land. Firefighters with hose in tow were running down the dock. My first thought was "there is no way the flames could jump that far across the water to this dock, and why aren't they making the boats out there move further away?" Then it all became clear when a police boat pulled up to the dock and the firefighters jumped in and headed closer in to apparently get the flames under control. I guess they can't really have a plane come and dump water with all these fireworks going up into the air. By this time, the fireworks finally was visible. That was the shortest, yet most interesting fireworks display of my life.

Photos are of Fort Macon in Atlantic Beach, North Carolina. It was used during the Civil War first by the Confederate Army until surrenduring to Union attacks in 1861.

Tuesday, July 3

At 8 am we arrived at the Diet and Fitness Center (DFC) to observe a resting metabolic rate (RMR) test that clients can recieve at an additional cost. The RMR is measure of how many calories you expend in a day without including any activity. There are several ways to measure this, but the method they used was a machine connected to a computer that you breath into it. It tracks the amount of oxygen that you inhale which the computer can determine from this the amount of calories you expend at rest. The dietitians give all clients an estimated RMR using a formula. Many people think they have a slow metabolism to explain being overweight, however many tend to be in the normal RMR range. After the test, we went to observe the basic nutrition class new students attend. It was interesting, and the clients seemed to find it extremely informative. Next we went to work front of the house in foodservice. This means we were out with the servers trying a new method to get clients served quicker. After lunch, we each observed a counseling session. This was educational to see, since rarely are students able to sit in on one on one counseling sessions in a private setting. Next it was off to the coast! We left the DFC early to pack up and hit the road for Beaufort, North Carolina. The next 2 days we'll be at Duke's Marine Research Lab. The drive took three and a half hours. When we got there, we found our hotel, The Beaufort Inn, right on the Bogue Sound (a waterfront). Our hotel room was paid for by Duke. We walked the three blocks down to Front Street where all the restaurants and
shops are in Beaufort to meet our Shawn, our Duke Marine Lab tour guide. He and his wife showed us around and took us to a great restaurant for dinner called the Blue Moon Bistro. We had a 3 course meal that was simply fabulous.

Picture is of Beaufort from Duke Marine Lab across Bogue Sound.

Sunday, July 1

Today was orientation at the Duke Diet and Fitness Center (DFC). This old renovated YMCA building is now host to people from around the world who come to learn about making lifestyle changes to obtain a healthy weight. Sunday is orientation for the new group coming in. People come to stay typically 2-4 weeks (up to 3 months) to change their behaviors to lose weight and keep it off for good. Cassie and I sat in to observe, and somewhat go through the process. We only get to be here until Tuesday which barely seems like enough time to scratch the surface of how it works. What I understand so far about the center is that people come and live in a building across the street. They are fed three meals a day along with three snacks all prepared at the center (by Bon Appetit). There are many activities and services available including, doctors, nutrition counseling, psychology counseling, weight room, exercise classes, pool, cooking demonstrations, and massages. Several non-health related activites are accesible like water coloring, movies, baseball games, museum visits, etc. We ate dinner there with everyone else and to my surprise the food had no taste at all. The sodium restriction is 1500mg a day, approximately 1/4th the sodium the average american consumes daily. I thought they would have food with more flavor for people to understand that food can taste good without a lot of sodium.

Saturday, June 30

Didn't do a whole lot today. I Spent most of the day on the computer. For the evening Cassie and I fancied ourselves up and went out to Brightleaf Square for a late dinner. We chose an authentic Italian restaurant. I felt like I was back in Italy because I couldn't understand the waiter who was speaking Italian, we were seated outside in a little square, the food was delicious, and there was gelato! Even a violinist was playing in the square. The only thing we were missing was the wine.

Friday, June 29

Our last day at Student Health, it was hard to leave. We wrapped up the Devil's Choice, and most of the Merchant On Points (MOP). We will have to send the completed MOP later, because we don't have all the necessary information yet. One of the restaurants will have a new menu in two weeks, so we have to wait to complete it. Around noon we went with Lindsey and Karen from Student Health to the farmer's market held by the hospital every friday during the summer. Everything looked good. The most interesting thing was the lavender lemonade. A rather interesting concept, combining something that generally you like the smell of with something that taste good. Anyway, after the farmer's market Anna took us to lunch on behalf of the Student Health department. We went to her favorite restaurant in Durham. It had a nice ambiance and was very tasty. After lunch we went back to student health for about an hour, and just talked to Anna. She showed us a few more tools she uses like the food record and the levels of care.

Thursday, June 28

This morning we checked in with Anna, and then headed over to The Lobby Shop to finish our list of food items to be included in the Devil's Choice. We had completely finished this by lunch. We checked out yet another on campus restaurant called The Loop. The food was great! We ran into Jim (Foodservice Director). He said he was working on us going to the Marine Lab sometime in the next week. We'll see if it works out. After lunch, we headed back to Student Health to type some things up. While we were there, the staff had an advisor's meeting which Anna invited us to attend. All of the advisors to the various student health educator groups were there to discuss things for the fall semester. Whole foods was for dinner and ate it there. They have a really great salad bar; I'd venture to say the best I've ever had at a grocery store. After dinner, we got directions from a grocery store worker to the Durham Bull stadium. After a few missed turns and a trip down the highway, we got a great parking spot just oustide the front entrance. It was hotter in the stadium than outside because of the shape and roof over the seats. No wind either. But it was nice to get out and see some people in Durham. There were a lot of people there for a Thursday game. Unfortunately, the Bulls were playing like the Royals and losing 12-0. So we left in the 8th inning. We will have to go again.

Wednesday, June 27

Today began at 9:00, with a walk to the Student Health Center. Anna gave us a ride over to East Campus to sit and work in the Oasis room. Cassie and I worked on the booklet for late night meals while getting massages in their massage chairs. That is THE WAY to work, let me tell you. We stayed there until about 12:30, then headed over to the marketplace for lunch. This was our first lunch over there since we worked there the first few days. The line of campers and dancers was stretched clear out the door, down the steps and into the lawn.
After lunch, we took the bus back to our apartment, got in the car, and finished up going to meet with each of the Merchant on Points for our late night meal guide. It was very helpful to go to the restaurant and talk with the managers about how they prepare their menu items. It's interesting that all chains or franchises have this information available and none of the local places have any nutritional information on what they serve.
Then, to the pool to end such a nice day.

Tuesday, June 26

Cassie and I headed over to the Student Health Center to finish our second 'Eat Breakfast' Bulliten board to go up in the Wilson Recreation Complex. We gathered our materials and headed over to Wilson to put it up. The board looked great except for one missing k in Breakfast. It is a mystery where the K disappeared to, but we then had to head back to the health center to get it. I realized that I didn't have my ID badge, so we made a pit stop by the apartment. We have to swipe our ID badges to get lunch. On the way back I pulled the cord on the bus to tell the bus driver we wanted to stop, and he go irritated with me for pulling it when he was in front of another stop (one that I have never seen anyone stop at yet). That aside, I got my ID and we went back to student health. Anna was there, and Cassie asked her about something we had discussed the day before regarding drinking your calories registering differently than if you eat them. She got us the article, which was from Nutrition Action Healthletter. The healthletter is from the Center for Science in the Public Interest, who aims to give the public sound nutritional information and research that is not funded by any companies or government agencies. The article, and the whole healthletter was very interesting. I plan to get a subscription as soon as I get home, which is only $20 a year.
We were then invited to attend a meeting the health educator staff were going to at the Oasis to meet with other health educators from the neighboring colleges and universities. We grabbed lunch at Subway and drove over to the Oasis center. The Oasis, to remind you is the relaxation/stress relief room for Duke students. The meeting was great. There were the health educators from NC State, UNC, NC Central, and of course the Duke staff. This was only their second gathering. The idea is that they get together and exchange ideas about what is going on at their school for health promotion and to get ideas about programs that are in the works.
After the meeting Cassie and I went back to put the K in Breakfast at the Wilson Rec Centerthe Bryan Center to do some more research in the convenient store. We are listing the actual items in the store that meet our criteria as a Devil's Choice. At about 4:30 we started getting hungry from looking at all the food, so we headed home for the day.
I spent about a half an hour sitting next to the pool, reading a book. This is summer :). We then caught the bus over to East Campus to eat at the Marketplace for dinner. After dinner, we explored that side of campus a little more. We found the rec center there, but it was so small we headed over to Wilson for the third time today. I showed Cassie how to use some free weights and machines to tone her upper body. It was fun to have another girl in the gym to lift with who isn't afraid doing a bit of toning is going to make her look manly.

Pictures: Duke Chapel and the Oasis

Sunday June 17

We woke up in time to go to church at the Duke Chapel. It was about a 15 minute walk including some walking through the gardens. This really is a beautiful campus. Church was fairly similar to the Catholic masses. Since it is an interdenomenational mass there were some differences to. We said the lords prayer, did scripture readings, and sang songs. It is really cool to be in a church that they still use the organs during church service to sing along with. They are so loud it is hard to follow along and hear where everyone is at. The church reminds me a lot of the churches in Rome. The architecture is so detailed, and the stain glass windows are very large and pretty to look at. Not at all what the churches at home look like. They all are modern buildings with very few stained glass windows. I plan to spend some time just sitting in the chapel.

Later in the day we headed out to Bright Leaf Square I for some reason kept referring to it as Green Leaf Square. The restaurants and shops are supposedly one of a kind, and the buildings are old tobacco warehouses that have been renovated. the square is very small and has a few neat stores that we plan to go back in visit later in the summer. It reminds me of the riverside shopping area down by the Arch in St. Louis. Cassie and I had fun exploring the shops and restaurants.
In the late afternoon, we went and hung out by the pool. Today there were quite a few families and students down in the complex pool. This is the first time I have seen so many people in our complex, other than the guys who play basketball nearly every day. We left the pool early and headed over to the Marketplace for dinner. After dinner the only exciting thing I did was figure out how to get into and operate the laundry machines.

Saturday, June 16

We went to find the visitor center to get some information about the area. It was challenging to get there trying to navigate through the construction downtown. The very nice people at the visitor center explained that there are major renovations being done to the old tobacco warehouses downtown to turn them into shopping centers and high rise apartments. Today we also took some time exploring the area around campus. Nineth street is where the Duke apparel shop is along with unique restaurants. We ate at Elmo's, one of the cute little restaurants on 9th, and a place where Rachel Ray stopped in Durham for her television show, "Eating on 40's a Day". The food was great, but I'm really loving the sweet tea! I could be a southern girl. Then we spent some time at the pool in our apartment complex to relax.

Monday June 25

Today we went over to the Student Health Center. Anna was not in when we got there, so we began working on the 2nd "Eat Breakfast" bulliten board until Anna arrived. I asked her about the Oasis center, she explained, is a place for students to come and relax. From national surveys that duke is a part of every two years stress always comes up as something that affects students tremendously. The center is a very big room with comfy chairs, a fish tank, massage chairs, fountain, etc. for students to come and relax in. They can also study their if the wish. She said she would take us over there on Wednesday to work for all day if we choose. We also may go out to lunch with Anna if her schedule permits it. We then thought up some more questions for Franca before our meeting at 10:30. During our meeting, we got a few more details about the Merchants on Points project Franca wanted us to do. She is looking for us to compile 2-4 healthier options from each of the Merchant on Points(MOP). The idea is that it will be made into a little booklet to give out to students. The focus is on late night eating, and what are some better options for athletes at the end of the day. Next we into asking Franca questions about what her job entails. When working with coaches and sports teams on a collegiate level, I found it interesting that the athletic trainers were her best resource. She said it is important to network where ever you get a job, and to work together (different departments) as much as possible. It makes everybody's job easier. We also went over the "Devil's Choice" proposal we gave to Anna on Friday. Some changes were made, and we came up with labeling scheme for the healthy options. The snack options that meet our criteria the way they are already packaged will go on one end cap in the store with coordinating stickers. Then, for things that make up part of a healthy snack will hae half of a sticker on it to show it is part of a healthy snack. There will be two categories for partial snacks. One half will be carbohydrates (crackers, fruit, etc) labeled with a half blue sticker, the other category is proteins (cottage cheese, peanut butter, etc.) and will be labeled with half a burnt orange sticker. This way students can make healthy snack options. They are hoping to get this program off the ground by the beginning of the school year, and if it goes well expand it to other convenient stores, then the eateries. Our meeting ran into lunch time, so Cassie and I headed over to West campus to grab some lunch from Alpine Atrium. I tried the BBQ chicken wrap. It was great, but it was a little big (like everything they serve there) and made me full. Cassie and I sat out on a deck outside the Union where Alpine is and enjoyed the beautiful weather while we ate.
After lunch, we headed back over to the Student Health Center to continue working on our projects. We printed out the rest of the materials for the other breakfast bulliten board to go in the recreational center on West Campus. I got to sit in on a counseling session with Anna. The it was an international graduate student who was looking to gain weight. The session was very interesting to sit in on. I was able to think back to my counseling class on the methods and techniques we discussed and see how it was actually used. This was a very straight forward session. (Picture of one of the Quads on campus. Since there are no Greek houses, they have the quads and areas of the dormitories with their greek letters and benches)

After the session Cassie and I finished the bulliten board and continued to work on the Merchants on Point choosing our menu options to be included and determining the format. We also plan to include tips on eating out healthy specifically related to the specific menus of each MOP.

Sunday, June 24

Today we went to church at the Duke Chapel again. There were more people today, probably because they did communion today. We took the bus back home, and at lunch at home. After lunch we headed out of town to the Southpoint Mall. We spent the next few hours exploring the mall, and finding quite a few good sales. I'm sure we will be back there again, but hopefully not until after our monthly paychecks. We went to the Marketplace for dinner once again. It was clear the camps had changed, because there were no familiar faces of the campers or staff that had been there the week before. After dinner we went to the rec center, then home to make phone calls to catch up with family and friends.

Saturday June 23

Today I started Saturday off right by sleeping in (Cassie got up early and ran 6 miles). We went out to lunch at the Mad Hatter. Cassie had oatmeal, I had huevos rancheros. Both were delicious, and the cafe was so great we plan to go back again soon. They sell cookies, and cakes along with a restaurant menu. After lunch we visited the Duke Homestead and learned all about how the Duke's became uber rich by farming, and then selling tobacco. But they gave back to the community by donating money to build Duke University along with several churches, schools, and libraries. It's amazing to think how tobacco did so much good in this area. For the evening we rented Bull Durham, the movie with Kevin Costner about the Durham Bulls baseball team. I hadn't seen it yet, and wanted to before we went to a game, which we will probably do this Thursday.

Friday , June 22

We started the day at the Student Health Center. Cassie and I turned our proposal to Anna. After we touched base with Anna, we began to do some field work looking into the nutritional information available for the restaurants that deliver to campus. I may have mentioned before that these companies are called Merchants on Points, because they take duke dining points as payment, which is a very cool program. They deliver well after the dining facilities are closed. Some of the restaurants are Jimmy Johns, Papa Johns Pizza, and Dominoes. The rest are local restaurants that don't have chains, and you can see them at http://auxweb.duke.edu/Dining/merchants.html.

We drove around to the different local restaurants because they do not provide much nutritional information. It was fun to go into the different restaurants and talk to the managers about their menues, and the nutrition of what they were serving. None of them had a nutritional breakdown of their menu options, but the were happy to answer our questions about what ingredients were in their menu items. We stopped to eat lunch down on 9th street where most of these restaurants are located at a restaurant that served food from all over the world. After lunch we found a cafe called Francesca's that served homemade gelato and had to stop in to get a scope (scoop, thanks mom). Following our break, we continued to visit Merchants on Points for an hour or two, and not having much success decided to call it quits for the day. We went back to our apartment and worked with the online menues to pick out what we thought were healthier options. We haven't had a chance yet to sit down and discuss this with Franca, whom we are doing this research for. Our meeting is on Monday morning at 10:30. After the meeting we will have a better idea of where to go with what we found.
One of the restaurants we visited, Satisfaction, we decided to go back later for dinner that night. Satisfaction is a bar/grille that supposedly the college kids hang out at. It is in the Bright Leaf outdoor shopping area. We went to eat around 8:30pm and had great food and a good time. To our suprise there weren't very many people there at all, and it definitely was not a college scene. Despite that it was still fun. We headed home after dinner and watched some television.

Thursday, June 21

We woke up and printed off the proposal and attachments and began our walk to the student health center. The weather was beautiful and not too hot. At the Student Health Center we met with Anna and grabbed a laptop to do some research on hypoglycemia. She had a consultation at 10:30 with a girl who wanted information about what to eat to help with UTIs. Cassie and I had done research on it and flipped a coin to figure out who would sit in on this consultation. Cassie sat in today, and I will sit in either tomorrow or next week on a consultation. While Cassie and Anna were in with the client, I began research on the healthier options from the Merchant On Points (vendors who deliver to students on campus using their meal plan). I found information on Papa Johns and Domino's Pizza items. All the others we will be visiting the restaurants to get their nutrition information because they are local restaurants that don't have the nutritional information online. The consultation took a little over an hour. After Cassie and Anna were done, Cassie and I went to lunch. Anna was meeting her mother for lunch. We tried Chick-fil-A, my first time. We got the grilled chicken wraps that were really good to my surprise. We sat outside to enjoy the beautiful weather. Following lunch was yet another to the Lobby Shop to test our Devil's Choice criteria out on some things the store already sold to make sure our healthy snack criteria was accurate. I felt very successful now having completed the Devil's Choice proposal. All we had to do was turn it in to Anna now. We walked back to student health and discussed with Anna the consultation Cassie had sat in on earlier. Then it was time for the Real Deal script revision. There were some Healthy Devils, which is a peer education group sponsored by the student health center where students give presentation to university groups on various health topics. The Real Deal is a series of skits put on by Student Health during the freshman orientation week to introduce the various services of the Student Health Center and to make students aware of potentially health problems they may face during college like alcohol, sexual assault, eating disorders, etc. This was a lot of fun and the two hours flew by. After this we were done for the day and went to lay-out by the pool for a few hours. We headed over the East Marketplace for dinner again. It was very tasty as always and we saw our Kasikstanie friend again.

Wednesday, June 20

First thing today was the all hands meeting for the Student Health Center staff. We met Anna and she took us up to the meeting. The hour long meeting focused on the implementation of a new way for students to make appointments. The goal is and always has been to minimize the number of students who walk-in and would like an immediate appointment. From the meeting I gathered that students get fed up with calling in and just walk in. Since they are usually seen relatively soon many skip the step of making an appointment. This new system deals with the process of them calling. When they call in to make an appointment a nurse would speak to them and assess whether they need to be seen that day or later in the week. They also have the ability to schedule appointments online. Student Health has experienced a problem where students don't show for their appointments and don't call to cancel. Suggestions to have an email sent to students notifying them that they missed an appointment. Later, Cassie, Anna, and I discussed a penalty fee for missing more than one appointment without cancelling.

Following the meeting we walked home in the rain and headed out to Cisco Systems campus in the Research Triangle Park. Bon Appetit has three dining facilities on the campus, and to day is the monthly farmers market. Due to the inclimate weather, the farmers market had been moved into the dining area of the larger dining facility. We were greeted by the General Manager of the dining center, Rich. He was kind enough to gi us a tour and answer our questions. They subsidize much of the food in order to be able to provide organic and locally grown foods at a relatively low cost. They had several dining options including salad, sandwich, grill, mexican, stir fry, pizza, grab and go, coffee bar, ice cream, and bakery. We looked at the farmers market and then ate lunch.

We headed back to Duke and the Student Health Center for a health promotion meeting. The meeting included Franca Alphin, Anna, Kevin, ___ and Julie (nurse practitioner). They all discussed several health promotion projects in place and events for the school year. The meeting went from 2-4. After the meeting Cassie and I finish proposal typing up the proposal back at home. We drove over to East campus for dinner. The sweet potatoes were heavenly.

Tuesday, June 19

We went to Anna's office at around 9am, she was not there, so we left a not that we would go to do some research for the Devil's Choice and be back later to see her. We went to the library and did research on other programs like this one on the internet. To our surprise, we could not find any similar programs at any other universities. We found a lot of healthy snack information for preschool, and elementry age children. We also looked up the criteria from the Winner's Choice program to use as our healthy snack criteria. We also came up with a few logo options. We went to lunch at Alpine Atrium. This was my first time eating there. It is in the Union and is mainly a salad, sandwich, and smoothie bar. I ordered a pasta salad and Cassie ordered a salad. We agreed that all of their portion sizes were too big, and everything should be sold in half-sizes. As a part of our Devil's Choice, eventually the hope is to apply the advertising to the eateries on campus as well. So Cassie and I are going to make sure this is something mentioned to Alpine if we get to go that far. After lunch, we headed back over to the student health center to check in with Anna. She was still busy in her office,so we went to the workroom down the hall, and started typing up our proposal for the Devil's Choice. Eventually Anna came to meet with us. She answered our questions and she invited us to come to two meetings on Wednesday. The first was the entire student health worker meeting, the other was a Healthy Promotions meeting, which is comprised of Student Health Center professionals that promote being healthy at Duke. She also invited us to come to the Real Deal script rewriting on thursday. Real Deal is a skit put on each fall for incoming freshmen to orient them to the health center and cover health topics that they can get help with at the Student Health Center. Anna is also going to try to get us in with a few of the individual student counseling sessions she has this week, if the student is willing to have one of us sit in and observe. Cassie and I left about 4:00. We walked back to the apartment and walked through the Duke Gardens to visit Marie and tell her about our week so far. She was in her office, and we sat and chatted for about an hour. Both Cassie and I had paperwork for her to fill out to get credit for the internship. Following our meeting with Marie, we walked over the the Rec center to work out for a while. I did machine weights while Cassie ran on the eliptical. It was 96 degrees outside today and muggy, so a good day to work-out indoors. We did manage to get the bus back and we took it to eat dinner at East campus. Once again the food was very tasty, and I had to have the pacific rim shrimp with vegetables over rice. We met a 16 year old dancer fro kasikstan. She had just arrived the day before to participate in the American Dance Festival and wanted to work on her English. She was very nice, and we were sad we couldn't direct her to a place nearby to get a Beyonce CD. She is going to be here for a month working on her dancing and performing. She was a very smart girl, and pretty brave also to travel half way around the world all by herself. After dinner Cassie and I went home to do a few more things on the Devil's Choice proposal. We completed the survey, nearly finished the brochure and report.

Monday, June 18

Met Anna, asked questions and found out about her path to her current job. She started off with a psychology degree, then went through a Coordinated Dietetics program and got a MPH. She consults with students about 60% of the time on disordered eating and eating disorders, then the rest of her time is spent figuring out ways to improve health on campus. We went over projects for the next two weeks. We are to do a bulliten board in the student health center. Our main project for Anna will be Devil's Choice program, in which we are going to work with the convenience stores on campus and promote healthy snacking. Anna gave us an outline of things she would like us to cover. For Franca we are going to find nutritional information for the vendors that deliver to campus. Here at Duke they have agreements with about 15 restaurants and eateries close to campus that will deliver and will allow students to use their Duke flex meal plan. Many of the athletes Franca works with use these delivering eateries because all the others are closed when they get done with practices. I guess I should also mention that students are required to live on campus the first two years, and then the majority move to the on campus
apartments for at least another year. All on campus residents are required to have a meal plan. Thus the athletes use these Merchants on Points as they called. Franca would like to have a sheet to give the athletes listing the healthier options. After our meeting. Cassie and I worked on our bulliten board until we finished. We did a bulliten board on the importance of eating breakfast. When we finished it was time for lunch. We went to eat at subway for the first time. The subway is very tiny and was VERY busy. The cashier, Anthony, new who we were even though we had not met him yet. It must have been from our ID cards that we swiped to get our meal. Anyways he was a very nice man. We ate lunch, and then headed over to the convience store in the union called The Lobby Shop to scope out the store for our project. I asked the cashier where we could find Tom Craig, the General Manager and the person Anna directed us to see. He happened to be within sight so we flagged him down and set up an appointment for 3:30 that day. Until then Cassie and I did some research online to come up with criteria to be a Devil's Choice item and analyzed the store thoroughly as far as items for sale, sizes of packages, placement in store, etc. In our meeting at 3:30 with Tom we asked him questions about what the store had in mind for this program. He was very receptive to us using an end cap for all our Devil's Choice items and would be willing to put signs advertising it. He showed us some financials to see that the stores sold mostly drinks and candy bars. We recommended that the store supply more individual packaged items instead of selling whole boxes. For example, instead of selling 6 boxes of raisins together sell each individually. Most of the items in the store were too big for a student to pickup between classes for a snack. Tom explained the idea that the convenience store was used by many as a grocery store on campus since no grocery store was very close. He was also very receptive to our suggestions about items to add to the convenience stores like pita and hummus, individual peanut butter and cream cheese containers. He said that the only one of the three convenience stores that made money was the one in the Union. Following dinner Cassie and I used our Flex money to buy Rec passes for the rest of the summer. Then we went and checked out the Rec center. It was fairly busy and pretty nice. It was about half the size of the Rec at K-State. We left the Rec too late and missed the last bus ride back to the apartments, so we walked home (it is only about a 15 minute walk).

Duke June 15

Cassie Cutting Salami with the meat slicer for lunch. Sorry no pictures of me in the getup.

6/15
We spent another day at the East Marketplace dining center. Today we worked with Annette prepping fruits, vegetables, and meats for the salad bar. With all the fresh produce there is a lot of dicing, and slicing, and this is the summer and there were three of us. I think having all fresh adds A LOT more labor to preparing dishes. After lunch we spent with John and Mark going over the Philosophy of Bon appetit, the circle of responsibility. This is where the company strives to use as much local food, in season, unprocessed, farm to fork food. They also pride themselves on striving to be very Eco-friendly and partner with companies that have the environment and people at mind. For example, the coffee supplier guarantees it's coffee to be conflict free. We asked John for financial information, but he said E or Mike were the ones who handled that information, and to ask them.

Duke June 14

From 8am-1pm we worked front of the house at the Marketplace with Beverly. We toured the bakery and pacific rim stations and evaluated the dining center on 'Great Expectations' set up by the executive Chef (Mike) outlineing the expectations of Bon Appetitt. There are a lot of expectations and Bon Appetit meets most of them every meal. The ones they aren't meeting don't seem to apply to the summer camps just because there aren't as many customers for the summer meals. Tomorrow we are supposed to go over it a little more with John working back of the house. We went home to change and go to west campus to work with Alpine Catering for the afternoon. We set up a conference room in West Bldg. for 30 guests. We used china and linen. The event was a Buffet line, so we didn't have to serve anything, only refill drinks upon request.The event was very relaxed for a catered event. The guests were very gracious and did not expect a lot, and said thank you for every little thing we did. Cassie told me the country club where she used to work was very strict, and the people expected a lot. The kitchen of Alpine Catering is downstairs from the conference room. It was very dirty and did not look like it would pass a health inspection. there were bugs crawling on the walls near dishwasher. they were roaches. below the soda there was spilled syrup, many rusted pans, and dust on liquor mixes. The guy we were working with let us take leftover food home after the event rather than throw it away. I feel like there is a lot of pilfridge there. The guy making the steaks took two home when he left, which was before the food was even served, so he was stealing food basically since the customer may have needed that food. I guess it is common practice for everyone there to eat food all day while they prepare for events and such, which seems like it would cost the business a lot of money. While waiting between setup and the event, we went to talk to Marie and ask some questions about where to eat. We met Mike by chance. He is right now in charge of both East Campus Operations and setting up West Campus over to Bon Appetit. They use natural fruits and vegetables as decoration, or 'fluff'.

Duke June 13

6/13
We reported to work at the East campus dining center called the 'Marketplace'. This dining center is contracted out to Bon Appetit, which is a company under the Compass contract group. We spent the morning working in the kitchen helping prepare a few lunch menu items. We went through the daily routine and learned about the Bon Appetit philosophy. They strive to use fresh, local ingredients in all of their dishes. For example fresh herbs were used instead of dried. They use mostly fresh vegetables and meats that have never been frozen. Recipes are more like guidelines, and have trained their cooks to make recipes according to the basic principles of cooking, not just following the recipe exactly. All sauces (including salad dressings) are made
in house. We worked with Sous Chef Emanuel (who goes by E). Prepared a caribbean vegetables and Rice Pilaf. We learned about different color cutting boards for different food products:
Green=vegetables
red=red meat
blue=seafood
yellow=poultry

We spent the day what I learned today is that Chartwells and Bon Appetit are Compass accounts, and that each company under Compass has a different philosophy on food. Bon Appetite tries to make things appealing to the eye. They are very into the trends healthy and no hormones. Local products when available and using a menu to reflect that. I was told today that the camps pick the menues. Gloria said she gets tired of the food, because it is similar most of the time.

Pictures are of the East Campus. That is where the original Duke College was, which was and still is known as Trinity CollegeThe students build benches for their section of the dorms. There are no Greek houses, so the sororities and fraternities live in sections of the dorms.

Duke June 12

6/12 Orientation at Duke
We met Marie, our contact person thus far. She took us to breakfast and then gave Cassie and I a tour of the Union and foodservice operations on the West Campus. There are 26 different contracting companies that provide all the food on campus. After our little tour, we went to meet with Jim, the Director of Dining Services for Duke. He asked us to come up with some improvements for Jim regarding dining and the students. This is a general assignment for the duration of our internship. He also wants us to meet with him on a weekly basis, and go out to lunch to discuss what we have been up to, and if there is anything else we would like to see and/or do. He showed us plans of the most recent project. It is was computer drawings of a bar on campus. Since the majority of the students live on campus and go off campus to drink, he thought it would be beneficial to have a bar on campus where the students could hang out and then walk right down the street to their living quarters.
After our meeting with Jim, there was a luncheon to meet the rest of the staff in the department. After lunch, Marie drove us around town to the local grocery store and target, to the East campus and gave us a small tour of the city so we could get our bearings.










After our tour with Marie, she dropped us off back at the apartment. Cassie went for a run, and I went for a walk to the Sarah P. Duke Gardens to see what all the hype was about. I took several pictures of a few of the paths.