Dad

I was completely inspired after talking to you and Andrea cause you guys have so many friends and people you know in the food industry. And so now, I just wish I could stop by each of their places right now in order to listen to them talk about their experiences, why they got into cooking, to hear the tough spots, etc.

Are you being serious about talking to the former beef and bird owner? Do you think he'd honestly hire someone with no kitchen experience?

I'm not excited about coming home to work in a marketing job in order to pay off student loans and save, but I feel like its necessary and so I'm definitely willing to do it. BUT if there was a way to go directly into the food industry as a way to start saving as well as testing it out and verifying that this is what I want to do, that would by far be the best option. I'm so interested in learning, in cooking and inn doing it professionally. I would be willing to start at the bottom, as long as I would be given the chance to constantly learn.

I'm trying not to get too excited about feeling like I've pinpointed a career match cause I still have a while until it can become a reality, but I can't help it. I just want to get into a kitchen and work and feel it out. I feel like it fits my personality on so many different levels. I was just born with an interest in it. I don't know if this is true, but I feel like it may have come from your mom. I felt like I learned more about her at her funeral than I had ever really known before. After all the speeches from colleagues, Roice and I looked at each other, both of us stunned and said practically in unison: `that's you' and `that's me.' With her desires to bring other cultures to the university and her love of entertaining. I'm really interested in learning more about her, even though I know you have really tough memories of your parents. Even those parts could help us learn about ourselves though.

Anyway, I would be touched if you and Andrea could start passing the word that I'm interested in cooking and seeing if there's anyone ready to chat via email about it or anyone ready to hire a beginner.

Thank you. Please tell all the Utah-ans MERRY CHRISTMAS for me! I hope you have a good time being `home.' As for calling, please call me at 229.82.15.51 around 8am your time if that works. I'll probably be around there all day anyway cooking with other volunteers and the such. Talk to you soon!

Miss you,

Sara