No more secrets

The time to share our decision with others has come. (see the previous chapter for a details about the decision)
Honestly, there were a better periods in my life :-).
Basically, the people have been divided to the following categories:
Active negative (sort of - "Are you nuts?")
Indifferent ("well, good for you.")
Supporting ("Wow, amazing, great!!!")
I have to mention that the majority was in first one (active negative).
The reaction was: "Are you serious, you are probably kidding" - and the next sentence:
"That's what you really want to do, do you know how hard it to be a chef?"
I should have been taken pictures of those people, because their face expression were unforgettable.
After the moment of silence and the "interesting face" (opened mouth and a big question in eyes: "WHY?"), they have started to tell me "stories" about famous chefs, that at the beginning of their careers were washing the dishes and working up to 14 hours a day.

The second hit was when I said that my husband quit his job and start looking for a new one in UK. - "Do you know how hard to find a good job in UK, and how expensive the life there?"

In the second category (the apathetic one) were people that probably don't care about us and there was no some special response. - "good luck, you gonna need it."
And the very small group of surrounding us people was very supportive. "Wow, COOL, Great for you. You are going to have a great time in UK".

After several weeks we came to British embassy to fill a papers for a student visa. The council representative was very unpleasant with us. It seemed that she was angry on all of the world on that day. She read all of our papers and asked: "What are you going to learn? ", I'm answering: "The Culinary Arts". - And then she is almost shouting: "Cookery !??? WHY ??? I see that you are a Software Developer, why do you want to learn cookery???" . I don't like people are shouting on me, and I became quit. So, I'm answering "Because it's my dream - to be a chef". She said: "We have to interview you because it's a very unusual situation". And then were some bureaucratic issues and we cancelled our application for now. We returned to British embassy one month later. On that day there was very nice woman (she understands that people have a dreams and sometimes they are going after them), and we got the visa in a couple of hours. There is a theory (with a lot of books on it), that everything what happenes to you - doesn't happen by accident, there is a reason for everything. But this is another story...


We got a green light to enter UK.

To be continued...