For the past two weeks, I have been working nearly non-stop to finish my projects. I was writing papers and making presentations to get the grade I so dearly wanted.
On the Monday of the first week, I was in a predicament where I couldn't cut the carrots right and I felt like I was failing miserably. Luckily the soup was OK, but I felt really embarrassed afterwords. So after a few days, I started to cut a whole bag of carrots in to peels, sticks and small cubes to re-master this technique and the next Monday, I have finally realized what I had to do. The problem was not the carrots, but it was the organization of how everything was executed. I was disorganized and I needed to take the job one task at a time. When I started to take one task at a time, I realized that I have reached perfection in preparing the chicken with precision and speed. So now I know that to cook professionally, its all about execution. If you take it one task at a time with enough speed, you can truly survive in the world of the restaurant business.
Tuesday on the second week was where I really shined because I made and gave one of the most intense presentation I have ever done. The presentation was about this tea product I made from a made-up company known as Kyle's Tea House and I made this blend to not only sharpen the mind but to also wake-up with mental clarity. After many weeks of testing, typing, and drawing a story board; it was the night I give my presentation. The other students in front of me really had there facts down with profit values, locations, and all these details, and I was getting worried if I did my project right. So when it was my turn, I gave t all I got and explained my product, demographic and meaning of the company with so much movement and passion that it was like reading poetry from Robert Frost. When I was finished and answered all the questions, everyone applauded and I took a bow, like an actor who done his best performance of his life. Then my teacher came up to me and said "congratulations" and I went back to my seat. I felt so tiered afterwords, I fell right to sleep when I got home and slept in until ten o'clock the next morning. In the end, I knew that i truly did something that really meant meaning for me and others about what I did up there that night.
Wednesday of the second week was truly a test that really prove my worth as a server. There were two tables with the families of two very important teachers to the school and I was there server. I meant to serve three tables but the other two families where there at the same time and I was forgetting things and I was afraid that this night would be my down fall. Then a team member from the wait staff deiced to serve the third table because of the magnitude of the other two tables really was really big and she wanted to help me. I went though the two tables with a few mistakes but there were happy and I truly think that I have done everything that really redefined myself as a server and as a person. At the end of the night, the women server who took over my seat was wondering if I wanted the tip from that table. I said "I want you to have it because you really saved my hide tonight." So then she splits the tip with me instead and right there, I knew that with serving tables, sometimes two people are better then one and I wanted to thank her for that.
Next week would be my final week of the semester and after that one week, I will complete my first year of college. When the next week come I will share with you what I have learned during that year.
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