The Competition
Well the weekend was interesting, with its ups and downs of course. Saturday, we left at like 6:30am and went grocery shopping from there. After we picked up the groceries, we headed off for the competition, checked in, and got ready for the restaurant management portion. I looked good lol. Then we had like 20 minutes to change into our chef's clothes for the knife skills competition. The judges said we did well individually, but a lot of our cuts didn't match and that's what mattered.
Then we got to the hotel, the team was seperated by gender, we got dressed and went off to the mall. I bought a vanilla bubble tea and a bottle of ramune ^^. Then we went to this stupid social/dinner thing. I just spent a lot of my time upstairs, staring out the window. Then, the fun really began. We got back to hotel and this stupid gay ass cambodian kid on my team got shitfaced and I had to break up a fight bewteen him and another guy on my team twice. I got really stressed out. So this girl on my team, whom I didn't even know smoked, had a pack of Virginia Slims, the cigarettes that Toshiya smoked. So overcome by my five year desire to try a cigarette and my overwhelming stress from the disfunction of my team, I tried one. That was my first and last cigarette. Cause the last few hits were super gross, but the first few didn't even taste like anything. I'm honestly disappointed in myself though...= /
Anyways...Then came around sunday, the day I have been waiting all year for...We got dressed quickly, packed, then left for the restaurant management jeopardy. Afterwards, it was the cooking competition and then the second round of the restaurant management jeopardy. We did horribly on the second round, anyone could testify to that... Then two nerve-wrecking hours came until the awards ceremony. The team won third place out of 25 participating schools. Pretty good I guess, but we didn't get within the top 3 of cooking. That result alone broke me down. I just kept my head lowered the rest of that ceremony. I wanted to cry, honestly because I worked so hard and put so much passion into the cooking that I was sure that we were going to win.
I came home with that shitty attitude, but my Dad told me..."You have no reason to be upset. Do you know what the other parents were saying? Even those that weren't on our team? They said that they could tell that YOU were the leader. YOU ran the team well. YOU were cordial, yet commanding, YOU ran the team well. YOU were the one they said had the most potential they have ever seen in that competition for being a great executive chef." That made me so happy...It brought me down to tears, I was so touched.
Two out of five people on this year's team is graduating, we decided last night. i will be next year's GENERAL CAPTAIN. I was only the culinary co-captain this year, but next year I'm the CAPTAIN of EVERYTHING. I'm so stoked. Next year, we're gonna PWN!!! ^^ I'm upset at myself cause there were so many cute girls there. And since Alli is with Tomory, i essentially have learned to let go. Plus, she's probably mad at me for that cigarette anyways...= / Plus, i don't think things between Liz and I will really work out either ::sigh:: Oh well. Well that was my weekend, so how was yours???
Here's A Pic Of Our Food
Dozo
Then we got to the hotel, the team was seperated by gender, we got dressed and went off to the mall. I bought a vanilla bubble tea and a bottle of ramune ^^. Then we went to this stupid social/dinner thing. I just spent a lot of my time upstairs, staring out the window. Then, the fun really began. We got back to hotel and this stupid gay ass cambodian kid on my team got shitfaced and I had to break up a fight bewteen him and another guy on my team twice. I got really stressed out. So this girl on my team, whom I didn't even know smoked, had a pack of Virginia Slims, the cigarettes that Toshiya smoked. So overcome by my five year desire to try a cigarette and my overwhelming stress from the disfunction of my team, I tried one. That was my first and last cigarette. Cause the last few hits were super gross, but the first few didn't even taste like anything. I'm honestly disappointed in myself though...= /
Anyways...Then came around sunday, the day I have been waiting all year for...We got dressed quickly, packed, then left for the restaurant management jeopardy. Afterwards, it was the cooking competition and then the second round of the restaurant management jeopardy. We did horribly on the second round, anyone could testify to that... Then two nerve-wrecking hours came until the awards ceremony. The team won third place out of 25 participating schools. Pretty good I guess, but we didn't get within the top 3 of cooking. That result alone broke me down. I just kept my head lowered the rest of that ceremony. I wanted to cry, honestly because I worked so hard and put so much passion into the cooking that I was sure that we were going to win.
I came home with that shitty attitude, but my Dad told me..."You have no reason to be upset. Do you know what the other parents were saying? Even those that weren't on our team? They said that they could tell that YOU were the leader. YOU ran the team well. YOU were cordial, yet commanding, YOU ran the team well. YOU were the one they said had the most potential they have ever seen in that competition for being a great executive chef." That made me so happy...It brought me down to tears, I was so touched.
Two out of five people on this year's team is graduating, we decided last night. i will be next year's GENERAL CAPTAIN. I was only the culinary co-captain this year, but next year I'm the CAPTAIN of EVERYTHING. I'm so stoked. Next year, we're gonna PWN!!! ^^ I'm upset at myself cause there were so many cute girls there. And since Alli is with Tomory, i essentially have learned to let go. Plus, she's probably mad at me for that cigarette anyways...= / Plus, i don't think things between Liz and I will really work out either ::sigh:: Oh well. Well that was my weekend, so how was yours???
Here's A Pic Of Our Food
Dozo