An Interview with Our Head Chef, Kari Kaivola.
-interviewer: What is your name?
-Kari: My name is Kari Kaivola.
-interviewer: Do you have hobbies, and if so, what kind of hobbies?
-Kari: Yes. I do fishing, I like to go to our summer cottage, and I train my daughter’s dogs.
-interviewer: What is your occupation?
-Kari: Well, I’m a chef and I make food
-interviewer: What’s your educational background?
-Kari: I went to school in Rieskalähde and after it I studied catering.
-interviewer: What were you like as a teenager.
-Kari: When I was a teenager we didn’t have mobile phones. I lived in the countryside with my family. We had to have our own mopeds to get around, even to school. What comes to English we had a contest with my friends; the one who got the best grade won. It helped me with learning English.
-interviewer: What was your dream job as a teenager?
-Kari: My dream job had something to do with fishing, like being a fishing assistant.
-interviewer: What are the three positive sides of your work? What about negative sides?
-Kari: Well, I like to work with my customers (=students), I get to advice the students how to behave well, and I get off work the same time as students do. The negative sides are that this job isn’t that “cool” in summer when it’s hot, we also make really big quantities of food, and our salary is low. We don’t get paid like the famous chefs do.
-interviewer: Do you ever use English at work?
-Kari: Yes, I do. Usually with our customers and in free time.
-interviewer: Could you give a piece of advice to our students?
-Kari: Sure. Study hard, especially languages.
-interviewer: What are your plans for the summer?
-Kari: My summer plans are to train my daughter’s dogs, go to Norway and, of course, I’m going to fish a lot.