Showing posts with label Reflection. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reflection. Show all posts

Monday, April 4, 2011

Looking back on March

Well, it is a few days late, but march was a good month for me. I made enough money in March to pay for my Fall semester and I was able to save almost all of it because I didn't have time to spend any money.


Well my goals for last month were to get better at making tempura and cutting fish, and I think I achieved my goals though there is still a lot of room for improvement.


This past month, I barely had time to study for school (getting the required liberals out of the way before doing the rest of my cooking) and my grades really suffered because of it. The end of the semester is coming up fast, and I really need to get to working on my schoolwork. So instead of putting most of my extra time to practicing my knife skills and other things, I will be studying. I think I'll still have some time to put up some new posts, so see you soon!

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

What I learned in February

To help myself see my progress I will be writing a "reflection" of what I have learned throughout the previous month, and hopefully achieve and create goals for the coming month.

Well in February I discovered blogging. It was completely new to me and I have found through blogging that watching myself on camera is not only embarrassing, but also a good way to see what I may be doing wrong, or what I can improve on. Blogging also gives me an excuse to take more pictures of the food I make, and I think this will help me in the future if I forget. Besides blogging, at work I have been working on my katsuramuki much more than before, and I have made noticeable progress. I also am gaining a better understanding of making tempura, tamagoyaki, and cutting fish.

Within the next month my boss will be going on a two week vacation, and I will be working about an extra 20 hours a week on top of the 35 I already work and 12 credits worth of school. This will be a good opportunity to have a taste of what it is like to be a head chef in a restaurant and have to work everyday all day. With all the extra time I will be spending at work I hope to become better at cutting fish, and working tempura.

Sorry for the boring post, its more for myself than anything else. Thank you to everybody who has been supporting me in my first month of blogging, and I hope to provide you all with quality reading for a long time to come!