"Everything You Make Is Beautiful" in My New Life

As I’ve mentioned before, I was a Chef for a lot of years working to get back into school. I loved what I did for the most part. Working in Hospitality and Hotels had amazing moments. Where I am, the Automotive Industry brings in a lot of Europeans and other people from around the world. German, namely. Many of my American counterparts can be prejudice about Europeans. I am Diplomatic so I revel in the experience. I used to speak German philosophy (Nietzsche) with some of my guests. Once, I tutored and helped one of my guests with her English on her Fashion Consultant website. She was Brazilian and she was married to a rich German. It was an Extended Stay hotel so many of my guests would stay weeks on end, fly somewhere like Switzerland for a few weeks and be back at the hotel with me.

I always had great experiences with my German guests. Once I was working late at another hotel in the same town and I heard a knock on my kitchen door. When I opened it it was a German. He had brought me chocolates from all around the world, and he told me, “Everything you make is beautiful.”

My popularity with my guests has always added an element of jealousy with my co-workers who are actually from down here in The South. My GM from New Jersey didn’t mind while I was chatting up the pretty woman from around the world. After all, “Engage” was our thing. And Engage I shall do.

I enjoy world traveller fashion, and I enjoy looking nice. Another time, I had on a stylish scarf and sleek looking jacket and of course my Chef Beret. The German staying that time was up early for coffee when I arrived at 4:30am and he said ecstatically when he saw me, “Nice outfit!” Sincerely too. Literally, later that day I came in looking the same and there were a bunch of Bass Pro looking guests wearing plaid and they were giving me the stink eye. Like, real intimidating like. The sentiment their body language was saying was “You don’t know where you are, boy.” I spent almost every morning for years with world travelers engaging in conversations. I can greet people in almost 25 different languages. Plus, I read a lot of world literature so I generally have something to engage with. I had guests from Hungary, Italy, Greece, France, all over Germany, Spain, Brazil, Mexico, China, Japan, and that’s how my mornings were spent. I had a wonderful time too. We were voted the best Hotel in town that year up against Embassy Suites.

I’ll most likely move to Europe one day. One of my Brazilian friends from college was a tour guide in Prague the last I checked.

Last updated October 09, 2023