Mediocrely Mature

My first job was server at a small cafe that I still work at now. I had to learn skills such as, working the register, writing down orders, and most importantly, customer service skills. Within the customer service skills , I had to learn to be patient with everybody, time management, and even though the customer is wrong - “the customer is always right.” Some of these were difficult to learn, I quickly learned I work well under pressure, but as an introvert, it took a while to get used to the fact that I will be seeing customers that day and I will have to talk to them even though I don’t want to. It was also slightly difficult to learn how to please every single customer even when they are completely rude to me or obnoxiously wrong. Eventually, I got the hang of things and although at times it gets rough, I manage it.   Mirabelli’s discussion states how service workers do have a standard of literacy and how they have to have a standard of understanding their customers ...

Objectivity and subjectivity , both can be facts, but where the facts are derived from is how these two terms differentiate. Objectivity, in writing, is where the authors writing is not influenced by ones feelings when the facts are being presented to the readers. On the other hand, subjective writing is influenced by the authors personal feelings and emotions on the matter. None the less, both types of writing still have the capabilities of presenting actual facts.   In certain genre’s of writing, such as an op/ed (opposite to the editorial, or opinion editorial), it requires the author to be subjective in their writing. Transitioning from objectivity to subjectivity, in my opinion, can be slightly easier than transitioning from subjectivity to objectivity. Writing subjectively can be ‘easy' because you are able to freely expression your opinions based on how you feel purely, however, you must still represent the facts in the knowledgable way in order to still present yourse...

I am from smoke        The ashes cover the images on the television   I am from laughter that harmonizes with the outdoor chirps      With the snap of a finger it turns into screaming that resembles a piercing eruption I am from food that appears in each angle that your head turns   I am from ‘eat more’ and ‘you don’t eat enough’    After devouring my third plate of food   I am from complex spicy flavors to the mouth-watering balance of sweet and savory   I am from road trips that require many stops        stopping to pick grape leaves      and stopping to pick beet leaves      in the middle of a field   I am from tears of joy      and tears of sadness   I am from the twelve steel strings of Portuguese guitars        That adds a second voice to the unified vocals       ...

My father owns a small kosher (Jewish diet), fast-food style restaurant. In fact, it is the only kosher restaurant in all of San Diego. This means that any time a Jew, whether local or tourist, wants to eat kosher food out at a restaurant, they only have one option. This also means that during peak tourist times (Summers, Spring break, and Winter break), the restaurant, which is more like a cafe in terms of its size, gets incredibly, overwhelmingly, crazy busy. One year, my Junior year of high school, my father took a catering job in Mammoth during winter break for one week and needed someone to over-see the restaurant. This week especially was when all the Jewish schools were on break (which tends to be different than the winter breaks non-Jewish schools have). The person he turned to was me. One afternoon I was learning how to work the register, a few hours later I was drowning in a pool of hungry people, and my dad was on his way to Mammoth. The first time I had ever worked at ...

All it takes is one 'Hello'   I was born in Israel, lived there for 6 years, attended kindergarten there and lived in two houses. Moved to the Los Angeles, lived there for 2 years, attended 1 school. Moved to Las Vegas for two years, attended 2 school, and lived in 3 houses. Finally, moved to San Diego, where I am currently living in my second house and since I moved here up until the 12th grade, I attended 4 different schools. If you add that up, from ages 0-18 I lived in 8 different houses and attended 8 different schools (10 if you count higher education). I know this doesn't compare to a lot of people, but as a daughter of a chef and a teacher, who's professions do not require travel, i'd say my childhood involved a lot of moving around. As a child I did not keep in touch with my friends from my past school and so every new school I attended, I was essentially starting over in terms of making friends, learning the school system, meeting new neighbo...