After the interview, I was booked to prepare a thorough but need-not-to-be-too-extensive micro-teaching demo for a class of thirty students, and I had a week to do so. Preliminary, I was given a specified topic as to what I’d be teaching about and mine was about taking orders from guests in a five-star restaurant environment.

Initially, I was told that my teaching duration would take about one and a half hour, and I was expected to write a lesson plan of how the students would learn the topic effectively. Powerpoint presentation was a must, as well as some internet research, but I was told not to get too overwhelmed because the students and the academic director as well as the senior teacher would understand that I wasn’t familiar with the company’s procedure in serving their guests. On the other hand, they wanted to see how my teaching would be effective to the students.

So during that whole week I surfed the net and looked for instructions, information, details and processes on waiting tables and taking orders.

You’d think that taking a guest’s order would be easy. Wrong. There were so many steps that in the end even I felt that if I were the student, I’d definitely feel quite frightened to know that it wasn’t as simple as it looked.

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