Who I am?

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.