Cake-making and decoration, one of the Adult Education Programmes at the Albena Lake-Hodge Comprehensive School, has progressed very well over the past term and has been a rewarding experience, according to students attending the course.

The classes have been conducted by Charmaine Richardson, one of the school’s Home Economics Teachers with responsibility for forms 3-6.

Asked to comment on the course, Mrs. Richardson said: “The participants have included a cross-section of persons from housewives to lawyers. Quite a number of persons normally bake cakes. They recognise faults in the cakes, but cannot identify why these faults occur; so I think they have come to gather more information in order to produce better cakes.”

The Anguillan interviewed a few of the adult students and obtained the following comments:

Iona Webster, a housewife at Island Harbour: “The course was pretty interesting. We had a good time. The teacher made us feel like we were young again and we felt very comfortable.

“I can make cakes, pastries and desserts, but I could never get them decorated in the way I desired. So I came for the decorative part. It is a very good project for young and old.”

Susan Smith, a teacher at the Island Harbour Primary School: “I found the course very exciting, educational and informative. I thought it was useful because we did a lot of work on the different methods of cake-making, pies, etc. It was a whole lot more than what I expected. I thought we would have done just only cake-making but it was extended to pastries as well.

“I always wanted to make some pies but I was never ever motivated; but through coming to the class, being around other adults and the fellowship we shared and so on, I am now well motivated.”

Dawn Richardson, Crown Counsel, Attorney General’s Office: “I found this course to be very helpful. I’ve been looking for quite some time for a course that offers these types of practical lessons that you don’t really get in school or university. So I was very happy when I heard that it was being offered and I jumped at the opportunity. I hope that it will continue over the next few semesters and I am also looking forward to a dough class where we do bread now.”

Mrs. Richardson, the class teacher, is happy that her adult students have found so much interest in the course and is grateful to them for their participation and fellowship. She has been a teacher of Home Economics for the past six years (overseas and in Anguilla).

Mrs. Richardson, wife of Methodist Superintendent Minister, Reverend Lindsay Richardson, said Home Economics covered three areas: clothing and textiles, dealing with the construction of clothing and the make-up of fabrics; food and nutrition which deals with how the body uses food; and home management which is about the home and its surroundings.

The course she conducted is one of three Adult Education Programmes currently taking place. The other courses are in computer and sewing skills. The training is being conducted under the supervision of the Adult Education Coordinator, Charles Connor, who has expressed satisfaction with the programme so far.

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