This Wednesday was the first day I served at the dining room and I was nervous. It was the first day of opening for the semester and the one thing that was going through my head was "Don't Screw up, don't screw up." Luckily I had just one table and it was slow so I was able to ease into the serving game. It was also buffet style so I mostly served drinks and clear plates. In the end, I learn that you need to be attentive but with courteously because if you are too attentive, the guest would feel uncomfortable. As the night goes on, I was just doing my job and after my shift, they told me I did a good job. Just like that, I feel like a great lift was lifted from my soldiers. So my first night of service was more enjoyable as it ever was.
The next night, I saw this film in my food purchasing class called "Food Inc." For those who don't know, Food Inc. is a documentary of how the food industry has changed and the ugly truth about how our meat and companies are breaking up ethics by recruiting illegal immigrants, treating animals in a cruel and unforgiving setting, and how it effects us. Luckily things have changed since this movie was released at 2008 but, it does make me think about how foods used to have different seasons but suddenly, its all year round. So I deiced to make a goal for myself to eat foods more seasonably because I want to taste the foods that are best for that season. I also want to support the "slow food movement" by going to the farmers market in the spring and buy the produce there.
So from there I would say a-do for now and I hope that next week would be better and less nerve wrecking. I also want to ask "Do you known what the slow food movement is?"
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