hello everyone i hope you all are doing good and having a good time so today i
have a little like story for you guys it's about me finding my externship so
uh before i i even like get it started let me tell you this here at the culinary institute of America
two semesters after you took your kitchen classes you got to go to externship and it's not like
required required but most students go at that time two semesters after taking kitchen classes or
same for baking students two semester after taking bake shop classes you gotta go to externship
and the externship is basically 15 15 weeks one semester and uh yeah so let's get into it
okay so the timing goes back to last semester which was my second semester
uh i was just thinking about uh where would i where do i want to go and here at the cia
there is one career fair each semester it's it's like towards the end of the semester
and uh a lot of companies go but in my opinion career fair is not like
that it's it's really nice you meet a lot of people but it's not what it should be
they don't have a lot of restaurants in career fair it's mostly hotels it's mostly resorts
and um let's say you want to go to a restaurant you can't find any in career fair there there are
some there are like a couple but it's mostly hotels and resorts and uh last semester i was
more interested into like creating content into videography into food videography
and i wanted to like go in that path for my internship you know but there wasn't anything
in the career fair and so i basically started to research online about for like food network
bon appetite and like other uh food create food content creation companies um most of those are
internship so the internship does not pay you and that was like a little hard for me hard for me
and i basically it was a very very hard decision for me because i felt like if i go through that
path if i go like if i do my externship for like creating content for food videography my whole
life would be like more towards that if you know what i'm saying and if i go to a like culinary
site my whole life would be like more towards that like hands-on culinary site you know what i mean
and it was a hard decision it was very hard like i basically like was thinking about it for
weeks last semester what do i want to do do i want to do this do i want to do that it
was very hard and then one day i was thinking about it i was like okay so let's say you go to
food network what do you want to exactly learn from them i was like well i want to learn like
professional editing and then i was like well you can learn that on youtube i was like yeah and
i was like okay what else do you want to learn i was like like lighted lighting techniques
different um videography shots different like basically like a lot of things about videography
and creating content i was like well i think you can learn all of that in YouTube i was like yeah
i can't that's that's that's true you know so at that point i basically crossed the um
food uh food videography and the content creation and it was around that time it was like around at
the end of the semester last year that i noticed the cia had also a externship like through the CIA
for food photography but that wasn't really for me because i'm not really interested in photography
and like food photography i'm i'm interested i'm more interested towards like the videography of it
you know so last semester ended we came into this semester now my decision now my decision was like
do i want to go to a restaurant or do i want to go to a hotel or a resort and that that also was
very hard for me a hard decision my main concern over there was housing because most restaurants as
extern as an extern they don't provide housing to you but most hotels and resorts they do so
i was basically researching to find like any restaurant well and the thing was that if i
wanted to work in a restaurant i would either be in the city in new York city in Chicago or in san
Francisco you know and those cities are very very expensive in terms of housing and i basically had
to like spend whatever i gained for my housing you know and that's not what i wanted to do
because externship for me is basically i want to go somewhere to learn about food to raise
my techniques raise my skills raise my culinary skills and also gain money the best option for
me was either hotels or resorts so i basically and because i had the past experience with them
last summer i worked in mohank mountain house it was amazing i had a past experience with it i was
like well i know how it is i know you live in a dorm you go to work work is close to you they also
pay you i was like well yeah that's what i want to do for my externship for three months for 15 weeks
and i was like yeah so i want to do that so a career fair came this semester it was about like
three weeks ago three two three four weeks ago and i was basically looking for resorts and hotels
i talked to a lot of them but i found one that was really interesting for me it's in utah steen
erickson lodge um they're a resort it's really nice there is ski resort um i basically talked
to the head chef it was nice they gave me a um flash memory which had like all of their menus
i inserted it to my laptop when i came home when i came to my room and it was just amazing seeing
the menu it was just amazing and i basically did a lot of research about the resort itself
about utah about everything it was really nice so at that point i decided where i wanted to go
um i also had an interview with him with the head chef of ski no steen erickson resort
everything went pretty well that's where i'm going for my internship it was a very very hard
decision and the thing is because you have so many different options it's very hard to decide
if if there was like only two options if there was only like hotel a and hotel b that was very easy
to decide because you only had two options but now you have like your options are infinite basically
and that make that that's what makes it very hard and yeah so that was it i basically will
go to steam erickson in utah i've already had my i've already bought my print plane ticket um
and we are towards the end of the semester in about one in about in about yeah two weeks a week
and a half this semester ends my class currently is on the car and i will try to make about like
one or two vlogs before the semester ends for you guys and you guys will basically go with me to to
utah you guys will have the same experience as me um i will record a lot over there hopefully
and yeah so this was the video if you have any comments any questions anything just drop a
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