NOVPUBChapter 1106: Chapter 1106: Guest Student_1 Chapter 1106 -1106: Guest Student_1 “You can just go as a guest student, no one can say anything about that,” Adrian Zhekova said.
Cindy Clarke is just a guest student, even though she didn’t pass the exam to enter Pingla, she didn’t intend to use a Pingla certificate to elevate her popularity or anything like that.
She’s just auditing the classes, what can anyone say about it?
Of course, with so many people at Pingla, Adrian Zhekova couldn’t stop everyone from voicing their opinions.
A large forest attracts all types of birds.
Inevitably, some people will even be displeased with this.
You never know what might happen.
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But anyway, Adrian Zhekova and Cindy Clarke didn’t violate any admission rules of Pingla.
They complied with the requirements and adhered to the regulations of Pingla.
Moreover, Pingla has always allowed the attendance of guest students.
Like exchange students.
Pingla mainly conducts student exchanges with three other major international culinary academies.
They have a certain quota available every year for mutual learning and exchange with these schools.
There are also those who could genuinely afford a high auditing fee.
If even Pingla admits that the fee is high, then it certainly is high.
This is like giving money to Pingla.
Anyway, those teachers still teach Pingla’s students, adding a few more doesn’t make much difference.
What could also help increase Pingla’s income, improve the teachers’ welfare, and enhance the facilities within the school.
So, guest students in Pingla are often seen as big spenders by the ordinary students.
Those who cannot enter Pingla based on their grades and can only enter by paying the sponsorship fee on top of an auditing fee several times the tuition fee.
If they can’t get in through the exam and can only audit, it indicates a lack of ability.
Even if they come to study, they can’t keep up with the progress of other students.
And they contribute loads of money to the school.
The final result of what they would learn is uncertain.
If this is not a sucker, what is?
Cooking also requires talent, hard work isn’t enough.
Diligence can make up for clumsiness, but even then, at best you would end up being slightly above average, it’s already not bad if most people could maintain an average level.
For contemporary chefs, besides being diligent and hardworking, contributing more sweat than ordinary people, an extremely important factor is that they have talent.
Like Cindy Clarke, she has a gift called “absolute taste”, something that even people like Charles Dean wouldn’t possess, this is indeed an extremely rare talent.
Calling this a once-in-a-century occurrence isn’t an exaggeration.
Let’s put aside such rare talents.
When Cindy cooks, she has some preset expectations about the taste.
For what kind of seasoning should be used, the mixture would create what kind of flavor.
She has a general understanding of it.
She has a preset image in her mind.
What ingredients to use, what seasonings to match with, whether it tastes good or not, she can automatically generate a preset image of the taste in her mind.
This is also a kind of talent.
The cutting skills of a chef are perfected through calmness and meticulousness.
Therefore, if you can’t really get into Pingla, it just shows that your skills are not good enough, even if you go to Pingla to study, it will be difficult to keep up.
Only a few truly talented individuals who also work hard are exceptional, they come once in a blue moon.
After all, if they really are like this, they should be able to get into Pingla.
Many people are self-confident in their talents and are unwilling to work hard.
If he didn’t work hard before, would he start to work hard if he became a guest student in Pingla?
However, in the end, they are all paying money, which will improve their learning conditions.
Making their learning environment not just better, but the best.
But the situation for Cindy Clarke is different.
She has both talent and perseverance.
And it’s not because her grades were bad and thus she didn’t get into Pingla, but because she simply didn’t take the exam.
Her performance in the Pingla Competition is widely known.
So when it comes to it, any gossip about Cindy wouldn’t be convincing.
“When are you planning to go?” Adrian Zhekova asked.
As long as Cindy Clarke is willing, she can go at any time.
The doors of Pingla are always open, and she can enter whenever she wants.
“The competition is next month, and we still have more than half a month left.
I’ll go on Monday,” Cindy said, “Studying for another half a month at Pingla is still studying, and it will also familiarize me with the competition environment.”
The auditions in our country will be held at the Pingla Academy.
The domestic auditions have actually started long ago.
The final selection will be held in Pingla.
With so many people participating in the auditions, it would be time-consuming and unnecessary to hold such a solemn competition from the beginning at Pingla.
Cindy made it to the top ten in the Pingla Competition.
Although she didn’t win a direct qualifying spot, she automatically secured a spot in the finals, and she didn’t need to compete round after round anymore.
During the domestic qualifications, the competition begins with the top 50, which will be held at Pingla Academy.
The competition from top 50 to top 30 will be held simultaneously across multiple platforms to save time and increase the efficiency of the competition.
Then comes the competitions from top 30 to top 20, and from top 20 to top 10.
These will be flexibly arranged at that time, and competitions will be held concurrently.
It won’t be like during the Pingla Competition when they take it one match at a time.
During the Pingla Competition, there were live broadcasts.
On top of the competition, the watchability of the competition was also ensured, so they had only one match at a time.
But now the domestic qualifications are not live broadcast, at most, they are filmed on site and then released in batches on Pingla’s official website.
So in order to ensure the efficiency of the competition, they are held simultaneously.
This is just to determine the top ten through the auditions.
The top ten competitors from the Pingla Competition do not need to participate in this stage of the competition.
Parker Honi won the competition and automatically qualified for a direct spot.
The remaining nine people advance directly to the finals.
They compete with the ten competitors chosen from the auditions.
This is just the approximate competition system that Adrian Zhekova and Cindy Clarke talked about.
The specific rules of the competition will only be known at the time.
However, arriving early allows you to adapt to Pingla’s rhythm beforehand.
Having secured a spot in the finals, Cindy Clarke can take it more lightly this time.
She can also spend more time watching others compete.
Watching as an audience and competing on stage definitely produce completely different feelings.
Cindy is quite looking forward to enjoying this kind of relaxation.
“Okay,” Adrian Zhekova nodded.
Cindy Clarke auditing some courses at Pingla for a while is just the beginning.
Cindy may not know much about Pingla, but Adrian Zhekova suspects that she won’t stay at Pingla for too long.
Because there isn’t much left for Cindy to learn.
What she needs now is to communicate with some top chefs.
They can share their experiences with each other and compete in their cooking skills, and so on.
If she’s learning, I’m afraid she can’t learn much more.
Cindy probably thinks the same way about going to Pingla Academy.
The students in Pingla Academy are of high caliber, especially the very top ones.
As Adrian Zhekova said, Parker Honi’s skills can rank him in the top ten at Pingla Academy, but not necessarily first.
From Adrian Zhekova’s words, I estimate that Parker Honi would be in the later half of the top ten.
Even if he isn’t tenth, he might be around eighth or ninth.
No matter what his rank, it implies that there are people better than Parker Honi.
