The WorldSkills 2009 competition was held last week, from wednesday to saturday. I had some bad problems with starch (they gave me potato starch instead of corn, so you can just imagine what my creme patissiere looked like...), and in the end I had to improvize two of my small cakes and do them without starch. I still hope I could've done just what I planned, but you can't always win. Austria and Italy took the gold, and Korea got bronze (there was no silver because of the shared gold). I was 8th (14 competitors total), got 500 points exactly which means that I got the medallion of excellence. Even though I wasn't on the best places, I'm still extremely happy as there were still France, Belgium and Japan behind me and those countries have always sent really high-level competitors.

So I added some stuff from last spring and summer, unfortunately I didn't have really good photos of my small cakes or marzipan figures from the competition. This whole competition project, that took about a year, is over, and now I'm trying to figure out what the term "normal life" means.

And I'm super jetlagged and I might have the swine flu.