I have always loved anything that has to do with cooking. I love cooking a lot, and I don't play with food.
So when I finished secondary and was looking for admission. I was asked to learn skills in the meantime while I waited to get admitted.
I decided to be computer literate first, but it wasn't my main aim. I wanted to learn catering, but my dad was against it because, at first, he felt that if you don't know how to cook, learn from your mother whatever you want to cook.
I tried explaining to him that it was not all about the cooking but that there were other skills I would get there. My daddy was adamant about the whole stuff cause, to him, it's a waste of money. So I have to register for a computer. YouTube wasn't as rampant as it is now; I don't think I would have bothered then.
So I started my computer training, okay but let but let my Dad buy a laptop for me to use, he refused that after when am done with learning, that's when he will get it for me. Meanwhile, I used my money to register the computer with the hope that he would get the laptop for me.
You can imagine how disappointed I was when he didn't. I try to focus and learn the computer, but it is as if I wasn't learning anything at all. Opportunity strike for catering, skill acquisition for 1 month and it's free. I registered, and it was time to go for the training; training time had to start clashing with my computer time.
Well, I will do 1 hour here and I will run to the other side for the remaining hours, it was stressful, I always get home exhausted, and at a point, I was slacking in my computer training, it just looked as if a web of cobwebs was covering me, I needed to blow it away from me but how.
2weeks into learning and striving with both skills, I couldn't cope with the running around anymore cause the distance was far from each other; sometimes before I headed to the catering school, they had learned far. I will just join and copy notes from others.
I got home that day, and I lay on my bed thinking about how I would navigate both skills. Should I just give up on one, but which one? I can't leave my computer training,neither do I want to stop going to catering school? I twisted, turned, face up, sit up on my bed yet I couldn't come up with an idea.
The next day, I went to meet one of my friends, and that we learn computer together to find out how she was coping with the catering school and computer training cause she didn't seem stressed at all. I got to my training center she wasn't around she didn't show up. I was disappointed; after the day's class, I decided to head to my catering school, knowing that they had learned so many things as I was coming late.
That's the day she taught them how to bake a cake with a stove for those that don't have an oven; I didn't meet up, as always; I just copied from someone; she now says we have to bake a cake each person one and bring to the class on Friday that week.
I was confused cause I really didn't know where to start as I always met them at closing time. I had never baked before, and I had never seen them baking; it is always when they are done, and she is writing on the board.
Thank God I met that friend of mine on Wednesday, and I asked her how she doesn't look stressed at all when combining both skills. What she told me opened my eyes; I regret not opening my mouth to ask for help or even meet the teacher to complain. Well, she told me that she complained to the teacher and she told her to join the afternoon class, so she comes to computer training in the morning and rushes off as soon as we are done to the catering school, while on other days she attends the morning class for catering and attends afternoon class for computer.
From that day, I was able to blow away the cobwebs from my schedule, and I no longer feel stressed. I was also able to learn well from both sides and excel on both, too.
Thank 💕you for stopping by my blog
Posted Using InLeo Alpha
I love cooking but I don't like eating, I also wanted to attend a catering school but my parents weren't happy about it, I can cook five different types of food at a time .
Your parents and mine are slibings
Good thing you later had to ask. It saved you a whole lot of stress.
Yes, I was able to learn well
You do a good job of forming a narrative in this piece, @coolbabe88. We feel your frustration. We understand your father's position. In a way, he represents the classic parent, who doesn't understand the child's perspective. Nicely communicated.
We do have some suggestions, specific to the piece. For one thing, you should never begin a paragraph with a number--in this case, '2'. Spell out the word. Also, you use the slang expression 'cause' for because. That might work in a colloquial piece (one where you were using a casual, conversational tone), but not here. You should spell out 'because'. There were a couple of other sytle issues, but those two might help you in the future.
Thanks for sharing this piece with us. It was a piece to which many readers could relate.
Thank you