Balancing showing and telling?

<p>I am not a good writer, so it is hard for me to show what i have learned. However, I did write some descriptive sentence for some of my actions. Is it really that bad if there are too much telling than showing? I used good sentence variety and vocabularies, but couldn't handle telling what I have learned in a descriptive way.</p>

<p>Can anyone provide some samples?
I am writing an essay about what I learned from working as a cook, and I wrote some very descriptive sentences for the food and what I did.</p>

<p>It really depends on the schools to which you are applying.</p>