Semester 2, Week 7: Into the Jungle

Last week was like going into the fray of the jungle because there was discovery and uncertain risk. On Monday, I actually left 2 hours earlier to go to a job fair in this zoo in my neighborhood but I was only there for 5 minutes because it was only there to turn in applications and I already finish mine 2 days earlier. I thought there was going to be interviews but I only needed to turn in my application. I felt a little bad afterwords because I left 2 hours earlier from one of my classes and was only there for 5 minutes.

The next day, the executive chef from that same zoo came into my hospitality supervision class to talk about the job offers at the zoo and how to be successful in there. I'm not sure if its a positive or negative because at the job fair I was wearing a nice shirt and dress pants, but at my class, I was wearing a Indiana University t-shirt with a leather jacket and jeans. Tell you the truth, I almost choked on my iced coffee to here he was here to talk about the job offers. Luckily the chef said that I have a good chance of getting hired but the job is very intense and might involve me to work as late as 2:00 a.m. Luckily I have the drive to go to the limit of my full ability to fulfill my job as chef/server/cook.

Wednesday was my first time to take care of 3 tables at once. It was a little calm but still busy because we were short handed. During the service, I was taking  drink orders and ,being the over confident server as I am, I attempted to memorize the orders. Unfortunately,when I got to the back, I forgot what the all four of them ordered. Suddenly, I started to panic about what I should do. So I did the one riskiness moves in the industry, I picked up the 3 orders I knew what they wanted and serve the 3rd drink to the guest I forgot to see if i got it right. When I served it to them, I was right and got the fourth drink out with no problem. I was relived and lucky but from that point on, I write down every order I take. So the morel of that story is to write everything down even if you don't want to.

After my Thursday class, I have officially started my spring break, so there wouldn't be anymore adventures from the college this week. Luckily, I am working on a new article, so there would still be more dinner in the dorm goodness. I will also be working on my cooking show project for those who are curious were I'm at. As soon as I figure out how I can upload videos to YouTube, I would probably get started soon. So for now, I bid you a-do.