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Hi, my name is Tetyana, but my friends often call
me Tania. Currently I am studying Translation and Interpreting degree at the University
of Castellon in Spain. Before studying Translation, I spent five years studying
and working in Hospitality as cook and waiter. I really don’t know why I chose this
profession, maybe at that time it was a good and interesting job.
Before studying cooking I didn’t know how to
fry an egg. My first day in the kitchen was horrible. Each tool had its own
name and color, for example: the catting boards were separated by different
colors, so when you have to cut vegetables you can only use a green board, for
fish, blue, etc. What a stupid thing, I thought. I can remember when we were cooking
a broth and my teacher asked me to bring him a skimmer in order to skim the
broth. I didn’t know what a skimmer and to skim were, so I thought that he
needed a spoon to remove the broth. A Big Mistake! When I brought the spoon, my
teacher got furious and started to tell me off. At first I wanted to leave this
profession, but then I decided to try again; so I learned all the kitchen
vocabulary and I began cooking at home.
After finishing I started to work in many restaurants
as cook. It was then when I discovered the real side of this profession. The
head chef was almost always unfriendly and vain and other cookers screaming all
the time. I realized that cooking was a cruel world. However, after that, I
still studied and worked in the kitchen for five years.
After five years in the “hell” I realized I
wanted to get on with my studies. And here I am, almost graduated in
Translation and Interpreting Degree.
