Roksana Bartlomiejczak is a very young Polish girl who arrived in Martina Franca at the beginning of January to carry out a fully funded training course at the Eccelsa Institute in Alberobello.
The Eccelsa institute has in fact established free scholarships for deserving young people and, following the collaboration with Cultura e Dintorni which took place on the occasion of Erasmus projects from Poland and other European countries, has chosen Roksana as the winner of the 1st place XXIII Tournament National for best pastry and baking student in Wroclaw and 1st place XXI Wojciech Kandulski National Tournament in Poznan.
Roksana is a student at the Zespół Szkół Zawodowych Institute nr 2 im.
Powstańców Wielkopolskich in Września where she attends the pastry making course and already works at a local pastry shop.
Thanks to this professionalizing high pastry making course organized by the Istituto Eccelsa cooking school, Roksana will be able to perfect her professional and scholastic path, developing manual skills in pastry making, including the organizational and management aspects of the catering business. The course includes individual workstations fully equipped for professional use.
The teaching methodology is very practical and focused almost entirely on activity in the pastry laboratory, in order to promote technical knowledge and excellent mastery of the cooking techniques and required operational procedures.
The certified pastry making course of the Eccelsa Institute is structured to become a professional pastry chef and takes place in approximately 4 months with external company training.
For Roksana it is the first time in Italy and it is also the first time she is away from home for a long period. The first impressions of her after two weeks in Martina Franca are very positive!!! She was initially surprised by the weather because upon her arrival she was greeted by a snow-covered Martina Franca.
She lives with a local family sharing the habits and traditions of an Apulian family.
She finds the locals to be very kind and always ready to help her at any time.
Polish cuisine is different from Italian cuisine but Roksana is very happy with it because she has always loved Italian cuisine, especially pasta!
The thing she likes most is mozzarella which has a totally different taste than the mozzarella she finds in Poland.
So far at school he has been able to follow theoretical lessons on basic product categories and the general management of a pastry shop. Practical lessons will begin soon where Roksana will be able to put her skills into practice and acquire new ones.
Roksana is very happy to be able to carry out the course because she believes that the Eccelsa Institute stands out for its great professionalism. The lessons are explained carefully and in great detail.
The professors are always full of enthusiasm and competent.