High School

My High School Experience was unlike any other I think. I started out Freshman and Sophomore year doing core academic classes with one or two culinary class thrown into the day as an elective. During those years I would begin a cooking project, leave for one of my academic classes and then return to the kitchen to find out that another advance student has finished my project. During the end of my Sophomore year I decided this is want I wanted to go to College for. My Chef in high school being an Alumnus of the CIA started giving me tid-bits of information on the school and started to give me more and more detailed projects. During my Junior year I had half of all my eight classes inside the high school culinary class, once I had my drivers license Chef would send me out to peoples houses that would call to request a catering event from my high school. My job was to meet with the customers, find out exactly what they would want and how we can get it to them, where everything would go and how it would be presented. By my Senior year it felt like I had my own catering business, myself and other fellow high school students would spend our weekends coming into the high school bright and early to but a full steam ship round into the oven so it had the full eight hours to cook. We were happy to learn and start to expand our culinary knowledge from a person who has already been through what we are going through now. I just am very grateful that I have been lucky enough to have this high school class and what I retained out of it and how everybody should have a shot at their dream career.