The culminating assignment for this week was a podcast called "This I Believe," a spinoff of the NPR bit. We asked students to write about what they believe. Naturally I believe in chocolate. Intrigued? Here is my podcast:
Ever since I can remember, in my house no other flavor of cake existed besides chocolate. My mother would bake chocolate cakes or brownies weekly for my siblings and me. My mother and I consuming the largest piece. Straight As, birthdays, or any other special occasion called for a trip to Sarris Ice Cream Parlour for a sundae. Chocolate of course. If there is one thing my mother and I have in common, it is chocolate. I believe in chocolate.
When I turned 16, I got a job in order to earn
some spending money. I didn’t want just any job. Folding jeans or waiting tables just wasn’t for me. If I had to spend 20 hours per week working, I figured, I might as well be working with chocolate. I began working at Sarris’ Candies scooping ice cream. I met fellow chocoholics and made good friends. I didn’t mind going to work every day because I got to work with people like me, and I got to eat all the chocolate ice cream I desired. For the next four years I was committed to hot fudge sundaes, chocolate assembly lines in the factory, and filling shelves full of chocolate goodies. This never felt like a job. They say, do what you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life. The way I look at it, I got paid to eat chocolate.
Chocolate has also allowed me to combine something else I love, writing. While applying to internships in college, I started my own blog to showcase some of my writing. I began a blog called Chocolate Emergency and still continue it today. Everywhere I go, I purchase a piece of chocolate from that region or a local bakery and blog about it. While this started out as an excuse to eat more chocolate and showcase my writing, it turned into a hobby. Now I have friends who buy me chocolate to taste and turn into a blog entry. (And I have another excuse to eat chocolate!) Not a bad deal. I was able to refine my craft of writing all while doing something I love to do - eat chocolate.
Obviously, my favorite food is chocolate. My second favorite food is anything covered in chocolate. Milk, white, dark, doesn’t matter. I don’t discriminate when it comes to eating chocolate. The more chocolate I eat, the happier I am. This correlation just makes sense to me. If I can find something I like and I’m good at, I’ll do more of that. There has to be a little bit of chocolate in everything I do.
