As talking about hands-on experience, I think recently the only hands-on experience I went through is Last Staurday at Kellogg Hotel & Conference Center. The experience was offered by my HB class. If we go to the hotel and serve others, we could get 10 extra credit for our class.
I went to the Kellogg Hotel on Friday at first, the teacher gave us a speech and briefly trained us what we should do the next day. It takes only about 20 minutes, and I thought it was easy. On Saturday, I went there at 3:00pm, and almose everyone was there. The professor gave us suits to change on, and gave each one a name card with one's name on it. I think it's formal and fun. After we have dinner together, we started to be the servers of the dining room. We need to stand by and if guests need us, we need to do the things that they asked us to do, such as refill the drinks and bring napkins to them. At about 9:00pm, everything was done and I went home. Although it's only about 3 hours, I am exhausted.
I once thought that majoring in hospitality management was easy since the only thing I need to do is to ask other servers to do stuff. However, after this experience, I realized that when we firstly got internship, we would start with the most basic job such as waiters. It's different than what I thought before, but I have to admit it's fun to do something I am interested in.
Compare to learning from written or spoken sources, hands-on learning is more vivid and more fun. When we read books or watch videos about our majors, we could know what it is and how it is like. However, when we experience it, we would know what we should do and how to deal with the actual problems. Learning from written sources is more boring than experiencing something is related to your major, you could never learn the real skill unless you actually do it. This hands-on learning expeience gave me many new ideas about my field, I have done something to satisfy the guests that I never did before. I would continue to look for the internship in a hotel during this summer vacation. I think it's really interesting to do some hands-on learning in your field.
This is such a great experience for you! I take the same HB class with you, however I choose not to go the events night thing, and I regretted. I heard many of you guys having fun at that night, even though it's tired. However this will be the best memory, and you can also put this volunteer experience in your future resume. By the way, I can totally understand you said that it is tired, because I work in the school dining room, and it is exhausted. But everything have its positive side, we gain more skill for living, and it also builds our social communication skills, those things are the ones that written sources could not give it to you.
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