My first part-time job

So I got a job  as a kitchen assistant :X:X:X:X:X:X:X:X in Brighton! That was stunning because this is the first time that I have a chance to experience the “real” working and also as you know, I love cooking, thus just one word can describe my feeling: BRILLIANT!

I will describe my job for you. I work for PHO restaurant. It’s actually a Vietnamese restaurant with of course Vietnamese food. The most delicious dish of our restaurant I think is summer roll (because I make it he he). Actually, some of my friends went to try food in my restaurant and they said they like all the food especially summer rolls (ho ho ho). You also can try spring rolls, pho, or bun….uhm I really want to show you the specific address of our restaurant but even now I still don’t know it ha ha, ah but I know that there is a traditional sweet shop in the way to the restaurant! Oh my god, everytime I pass the shop I always stand outside for a few minutes to smell and look at the chocolate, WOW it is really fascinating! I wish I could buy some but ….. you know I’m too fat! Heixxxxx. OK let’s go back to our topic! In the kitchen, I am responsible for making summer roll, salad and dessert! Wow I am important! He he he! And I work with many people! Some of them are Brazilian, others from Peru, 2 guys from Thailand. I’ve just actually asked myself whether it is a Vietnamese restaurant? Ha ha ha! Oh yeh we have 5 Vietnamese people including me. Two of us cannot speak Vietnamese! Anyway, everybody is really wonderful and that is… We are friends!

What else should I tell you? Uhm I think I will tell you 8 things that I love and I hate when working at the restaurant:

I love:

• Having so much Vietnamese food, Vietnamese ingredients, Vietnamese smell around me! They remind me about my country and my family! It feels like being at home!
• Enjoying Brighton before going to work! Actually I’m really lazy, I just like lying on the bed and watching movie, hardly going out ho ho ho!
• The traditional sweet shop on the way to the restaurant
• Break time when I can order any food and the chef will cook for me!
• The customers,when they finish the meal, they pass by the kitchen and say thank you to all the staff
• The feelings when my friends (Jonny and Manon) came to visit me at the restaurant!
• My lovely friends in the kitchen! For example Bloody Michell with the limited English and always say: “Me not understand!”
• The weekly tip! He he he

I hate:

• The first day when I had to learn Vietnamese food (what I always made at home) from Brazilian women! It was ridiculous!
• Busy evenings at weekend
• The customers when they order lots of food at them same time! I admit that I can not calm down at these times and I’m always crazy!
• The chef cooks a lot for me -> I eat a lot after 10pm -> I’m fatter and fatter!
• The work finishes too late! Heizzzzzzzz! Now I understand how the real working is!
• Bus number 25! I feel like it always crawls on the road at a 5m/h speed!

(there are only 6 things I hate as I actually love the restaurant so much!)

I realise that working is not easy as I thought! You have to work very hard and sometimes you feel exhausted!However, this work also brings many benefits to me. Beside the extra money, I can gain experience, have new friends, increase my English as well as study other languages such as Portuguese and above all, I makes me understand the real value of working, the best way to enjoy your life!

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