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Let's DIY your own sushi!

Let's DIY your own sushi! <Part 1>

When we talk about Japan, what's the first thing popped to your mind?Sakura? Dorayaki? Or Fuji mountain? Well, I would definitely say: "SUSHI ! "

Sushi played an essential role in my life, because a lot of my day consists of thinking about eating Sushi. I relish the thought of eating Sushi when I am starving and even when craving. Although you might can live several weeks without any food, I wouldn’t be able to survive one day without Sushi. It seems weird and unbelievable, but that’s how crazy I am. 

You know, it is impossible that everyday go to Sushi restaurant, or order the food online. However, I really fall in love with Sushi these days…I just CAN’T ! CAN NOT without them even one day in my life.  So, Last night, I went to a hibachi place called “ Yummy Sushi”. I ordered a “California roll”, “Rainbow roll” and “ Dragon roll”( I have totally no ideas why it called Dragon roll, I guessed may be they was imitated Dragon buffet. Who knows~ ). Anyway, I set with my host mom in-front of the chef table, and we can directly see how the chefs made the sushi. I talked to the sushi chefs, asked them do not put wasabi inside the roll. 

“ Why don’t you learn to make a sushi by yourself? I mean we can learn it together if you want.” My host mom said.

 “ Yup, that’s sounds great! If I know how to make sushi, we can do it at home! I’ve cooked plenty of fried rice, noodles, and created many health food, Why not try sushi? Let’s do it! ” After that, we talked to the sushi chefs, see what they recommend, and watched them how to make a sushi. They’ were pretty gregarious and friendly. I learnt some basic techniques by watching closely.

 After I arrived home, I started to quick-scanned several cooking books on sushi-making. This steps actually gave me a lot of information, but no experience in my hand. But right now, I feel like making sushi would be either quite simple or hard. First, I wondered, how hard it could be? cook some rice, grab some nori,cut some fish, buy some veggies and avocados, then roll it all together! That’s it! But I also knew that sushi chefs spend their entire life to research sushi, so could I really expect my freshmen efforts to do it? I have no ideas yet…..

Well, right now, I have to go downstair and make my homemade sushi! Hopefully, I can be make delicious sushi by my own, and bring it to school to share with my classmates~ 

See you guys on the Friday! I will post my second part blog later! Have a great day! 

Let's make a quick & health breakfast together ~

Is that possible to never hurry in the morning, but to get everything done? 

Well, it seems contradictory to our modern world, where everything is rush, where everyone try to grasp every single minute as possible, where if we are not busy like that, we may become lazy and inertia.

So, I interviewed couple of people,and asked them about one same question: “ How was your breakfast this morning?”

Jason: “ I ate my breakfast this morning in the dinning hall. The food there was always the same. Like pancake, scrambled egg, sausage or potato cake. I mean it was taste great at first, but can you image eat the same food every day? I just tired of that, so I ate one scrambled egg, then went to French class.I tried to make something quick for my own in the dorm, but you know, it was hard, and it took long time.”

Ben: “ I didn’t have time to eat breakfast this morning, because I have tons’ of homework have to finish last night, then I overslept until eight o’clock this morning. You know, I defiantly would rather missed my breakfast than go to the class last, because no one wanna get an absent for that, right?Well, I wish I can have a wonderful breakfast everyday, I mean as least I have something to eat before I go to class. ”

Daniel ( my host father, who worked at Toyota Car Company): “ I have to go for work at 8:30 every day, but before that I need to bring my daughter Lauren to her track practice at 6 o’clock in this morning; I kip my breakfast today, just because I don’t have time to eat, I just grab some cookies as a breakfast, I felt lethargy and loos of appetite. ” 

According to the interviewed result, Those three people can be categorized into “ tired of the same breakfast every day” and “ do not have time to make their own food.” So, how can we make a quick and health breakfast in the morning, and never late for school or work? Now, I would teach your guys some small tips about “ how to make a quick and healthy breakfast!”

1.Oatmeal Squares

Squares not only is my favorite food but also is a great option for a breakfast. However, what’s the best way to make it into a more portable snack? It’s easy, it’s bake it into squares!

2. Avocado Toast

Why doesn’t love avocado Toast with egg? To be honest, sometimes, simple is just better. In this recipe, you need to prepare 2 pieces bread, light toasted, topped with smashed avocado, pepper and slat. Then, you can put two side-up eggs on the top of bread, and you’ve got a delicious breakfast. Just in case, you can put in a container for easy transport. Thus, you don’t have to worried about no time to eat. 

3. Fruit and yogurt Smoothie. 

If you really do not have time to eat breakfast, here’s a simple and delicious smoothie recipe for the morning rush. you have to prepare 1 cup of Yogurt with 1 cup frozen fruit. You can choose what ever you want, like banana or strawberries.Either works very well. Don’t forget to add milk. Freeze overnight, then you can blend up in the morning! 

As long as you have this recipe, you don’t have to worried about breakfast. Once again, Balancing your nutritional needs in the early morning is important. It will give you more energy, boost your brain power, etc. Keep in mind: YOU HAVE TO EAT BREAKFAST EVERY DAY! 

In class

I think I have to do something more interesting about my 30-day challenge. May be I can try to eat different restruants in Cheshire or nearby town; and I can write a comment about that restruants or meals. Such as: how is that taste, what kind of ingredients the reastruants write under the meal( menus).

Class practice

 I am so excited about my new prom dress.

My physic class is exciting. 

I am inspired by this movie.

This movie is so inspiring. 

Pass, past

In the _______ few days, I  learnt a lot in 30-day challenge.

He _______ a letter to VDP.

I actually knew her, but in overalls I _____ unrecognized.

I must  have driven ________ the place thousand times.

It's ______ two. I think we should go home.

Use them in the ______time! 

Do not skip breakfast anymore!

“What it is they say? “Breakfast like a King, Lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper!” This is a old adage from Daniel Herman. (Pinterest.com)Well, I entirely agree with this statement. I believe that breakfast is the most important meal of the day; and I MUST HAVE BREAKFAST! 

To be honest, I used do not care about breakfast so much until I have trouble with my stomach. I remember it was on Saturday early morning; I was snuggle on the bed like usual. Suddenly, I had cramps in my stomach or belly. I was not sure what part of body was wrong; I just feel painful, and the feeling was like thousand ants drills at heart toward me. 

My mom was super nervous and drove me to the hospital as far as she can. 

Doctor:" Are you always eat three meals on time? "

"Uh....kind of..." I said.

Doctor: "What do you mean by that ? "

Me: "It depends, I mean it depends on what time I get up. If I get up early, I will eat every meal on time. But if I sleep late, I may just have two meals a day. 

"She always slept late, and skip breakfast to eat lunch." My mom said.

Doctor:“ That's make a lot of sense! You have to eat breakfast, because the time between dinner and the next morning's meal is the longest, which means your body without the food at that long period. Also, especially for teenagers, like you, you need it even more. Your growing bodies and developing brains need nutrition, and eat breakfast everyday will provides many benefits to your health and wellbeing. well, are you understand what I am saying right now? "

Me: "Yes.. "

Doctor:"Ok, very good; and right now, you have to hold this paper and do a preliminary test------gastroscope."

Me: "Wait, what? Gastroscope? Are you kidding me? Is that serious?!  I though...."

Doctor: " you thought it was not a big deal?"

Me: yep,I don't wanna do gastroscope. That will make me feel sick."

Doctor: well, I know. But if I don't check your stomach, how can I know the problem you have? As a doctor, I have to responsible for you. You need to hold this paper to pay the money first, and then come back to find me. "

As you know, the process was scared, and make me felt sick. The doctor used a thin, flexible telescope, and passed through my month…Oh my goodness.I can’t even image that moment again. Anyway, after this traumatic experienced, I learnt a good habit of eating breakfast everyday!

Let’s think about one question, my dear readers. Are you always kip the breakfast? 

If the answer is yes! please pay attention on it! I know that most of you often grab a snake while dashing to work or to school. But you truly have to realize how important breakfast are!

In the next blog, I will post a homemade recipe to teach you guys how to make the quick  and health breakfast! Keeping follow my blog post, see you on Monday! 

Jennifer，Garden,Sera

After that, I put the ingredients into one huge bowl with eggs, peppers, chili power, and whisked it. I lit the electric stove and put a pan on it, then added some oil in it. Everything was going perfectly——I was satisfied with my success, and elated. That brings to mind a TV show called “ a Bite of China”, the chefs in that program can only use one hand to turn the egg upside down in the pan. I decided to try it with my eyes closed…. since I was overconfident. When I opened my eyes again, there was nothing in the pan,

 “ Wait, where is my breakfast???”, I looked wildly around for my Omelette. Finally I found all the omelette sticking on the ceiling. “Oh my god, are you kidding me? How can you ran to the ceiling, my dear omelette!!” I was so surprised and nervous; then I grabbed a stool and broom to clean the ceiling.

How to make egg fried rice?

​What is the most common food in China? Without a doubt, it must be the egg fried rice. We can almost see it on the dining table every day, and I never weary the taste of it. Today, I am going to write a essay about how to make a delicious egg fired rice. I learned it from one of my uncles before I came to the USA. He told me that if I cannot find any food in USA, you can make one by my own, at least I will not be starving. Egg fried rice is the first dish I learned actually, and it does not taste bad. So, let's start. 

​First of all, we have to prepare a huge amount of condiments. We will need two eggs, rice (it would be better if it is overnight rice), rape oil, onion, soy sauce, salt, chicken powder, peas, and little pieces of ham and you can add some shrimps if you like. Now, we are pretty much prepared to make a tasty egg fried rice. For the kitchenware, you need a pan, a bowl, a spatula, a chopping block, a kitchen knife and a pair of chopsticks. I know there is a lot, but if we want to make a really delicious egg fried rice, we got to be serious. 

​The second step is to smash the eggs, you knocked off the egg and put the egg white and yolk to the bowl, and use your chopsticks to mix them evenly as much as possible and pour a few salts into to it. Then, use the kitchen knife to cut the onion, ham to little pieces. Next, we need to put the clean pan on the stove and pour some oils on it, just a little bit. After that, we put the eggs that we have already mixed to the pan, it will pop up some oils, and it will be very hot, so we have to be careful. We can use the spatula to separate the eggs, and pour the overnight rice into it afterwards. Fry it and thresh it repeatedly, do not wait too much time, put the peas, hams and other ingredients into it next, and fry those together. It will be perfect to if you can separateevery single rice, we can achieve this goal only by using the overnight rice, that way I recommend it, and it taste better as well. After we fry the rice a few times, we need to put the rest of the condiments into it, the soy sauce, salt, and the chicken powder, it all depends on how you like to cook, so you can decide add more or less. Now, pour the egg fried rice to the plate, and put the onions on top of it to make it fragrant and good-looking. The delicious egg fried rice has been made. 

​It is not easy to make a dish, so our parents must be very tired. But they never mentioned it. We have no reason to complain the food they have made. On contrary, we need to be thankful to them.

In class writing

The pen is in my pocket.

The picture is on the wall.

It's been such a long time since I played.

I finished homework until one o'clock in the morning.

The carpet was a wedding present from her mom.

What are the main ingredient of this chocolate cake? 

I bought a gift for you.

You can get there by train.

I went to cinema yesterday with my mom.

In class writing

What have I learned about myself?  Well, 11 day already passed by, I feel like I became more independent than before.I remembered sevral days ago, I was a " little princess". I didn't know how to make breakfast for myself, I didn't know how to wash the dishes, I didn't know make food by myself was so much fun.

But now, I become a " small chef". At least I can make Barbecue Chicken, chocolate cake, pasta,etc. To be honest, at first, I treat this 30- day challenge like an assignment, I just want to finished the cooking,and wrote my blog essay as soon as possible. However, everything was totally different. I feel like my attitude changed a lot. I startd to put my heart and soul into the meal. I think there is an happiness connection related to making something after sitting in front of a iPad all day; you can put on some music or a podcast when you cooking. I found that cooking also it's a good way to reduce pressure. Additionally, eat is my hobby, and I love yummy food. I'd much rather cooking something delicious than order from other restaurant. Also, there is a special feeling when someone says your food cooked was amazing! 

My 1st time cooking experiment!

Do you remember your first time cooking? When I was young, my mom didn't allow me enter the kitchen since one of my classmates' houses exploded due to his mistakes cooking. I did not resist because I was truly scared by that accident. However, a few years passed by, and I became more interested in cooking. I found that I often stuck around my mom and observed as she prepared the food. Nonetheless,the kitchen still had a "stop" sign for me, and I didn't have any chance to experiment with cooking. But they couldn't always stop me, could they? 

It was an early day on Saturday morning, and I got up early as usual. My mom had gone grocery shopping, my dad was still sleeping in his room, and no one else was at home,except my adorable dog. It was time to strike back! I sneaked through the living room, and there was the kitchen right in front of me! I was extremely excited. 

I stepped inside, with a look of unrestrained greed in my eyes. I touched all the household utensils: The tidy dishes like mirrors, the oven like a tiny house, the pans sparkling like diamonds. Everything to me was so fresh! As I hadn't aet breakfast, I decided to make a delicious omelette for myself. Since I had seen my mom do it, how could it be hard for me?

I started to work as quietly as I could, since I did not want to wake my dad up. I took two eggs, onions, and three tomatoes from the refrigerator. I knew the basics, so I began to cut the vegetables into shreds. I chopped the onions on the work surface just I had seen chefs do it on TV. Then came the tomatoes. I washed them first and started chopping.This time I cut my finger…. “Ouch!” I screamed. There was no bleeding but It was truly felt painful.  

The little hurt didn't stop me, and after about a few minutes I stopped whining. Then, I continued to wash my eggs. It was hard to crack in half. I tried several times to practice….and you know, I even spilled some on the floor too accidentally, 

The pepper were the next! Well, my mom always keep pepper on the top shelf of the cabinet. I just couldn't  understood why she put it so high. Whatever the logic might be, it was super annoying to jump to reach it. After countless failed, I went to the living room and moved a chair as a tool. I climbing up the chair;then I jumped to the sink. After that grabbed the pepper and chili powder. 

After that, I put the ingredients into one huge bowl with eggs, pepper, chili power, and whisked it. I lit the electric stove and put a pan on it, then added some oil in it. Everything was going perfectly——I was satisfied with my success, and elated. That brings to mind a TV show called “ A Bite of China”; the chefs in that program can only use one hand to turn the egg upside down in the pan. I decided to try it with my eyes closed…. since I was overconfident. When I opened my eyes again, there was nothing in the pan,

 “ Wait, where is my breakfast???” I looked wildly around for my omelette. Finally I found the omelette stick to the ceiling. “Oh my god, are you kidding me? How can you jump to the ceiling, my dear omelette!!” I was so surprised and nervous; then I grabbed a stool and broom to clean the ceiling.

While I was busy in cleaning the ceiling, someone came up behind me. It was my mom. She was angry to see the kitchen in a mess, and I must have looked reductions to her.The cabinets were all open, and some eggs, pepper and chili power were on the stove and floor. 

My mother found a punishment for me —I had to clean the kitchen first and wash all the dishes for one month. Well, after I had done all the things my mom gave me, I realized it was so tireing to do the housework. My first cooking experience turned out to be a disaster, and I had to do one month drudge….I mean “ sham chef ”. But I was happy with my accomplishment, since at least I knew how tired my mom was, and I would never again tried to turn the egg upside down in the pan!

Are husband usually better cooks than their wife？

       Before I start to write down my cooking process today.I wanna everybody can think about one simple question:
       Are husband usually better cooks than their wife？
       Uh…What’s your answer? To me, I strongly agree with this opinion. Since in my family, my father is an amazingly good cook. Even though he don’t usually show his talent on cooking; and my grandpa also is a outstanding chef.On the contrary,my grandma and mother seems commonly. 

       Based on my personal case,I search the internet to looking for others ideas, or data.Here is one survey:

“Yes, according to a new online poll that surveyed more than 2,806 American women. The survey, conducted in March by online marketing company Conversion Hub and food recipe website Asia Food Recipe, found that 58 percent of women said that their husbands were better in the kitchen.The women reported that their husbands are spending more time preparing meals.”(pinterest.com) 

         You may ask me why I want to start a question like that. Actually here was one allusion: today my host mom texted me that she can’t make dinner for me, because she needs went to Trumbull to visit her bestie Jessica. I felt utterly dispirited and depressed since I know that I gonna stop my challenge tonight. I mean I can’t without her on cooking. But, after one hours, she told me that Daniel (host dad) would taught me to make “BBQ chicken” !!!!

      Okey doke! Let’s start! 

      First, as usual, we have to prepare the ingredients. The great thing was that my host dad was so nice and he already bought all the material for me. I extremed happy sinceI don’t have to get into the car and rush to the CVS or Stop&shop .If you look at my last blog, you will definitely know that I was truly got a trouble to find one ingredient( cocoa).However, I didn’t have to worried about that. Here was all the ingredients we need:

1. salt
2. 1/2 onion
3. 3 quarts water
4. fresh thyme
5. bacon
6. knife& tablespoon
7. garlic
8. 1/2 cup molasses
9. Chicken legs, with bone in, skin on. 
10. 2 garlic colves
11. 1/5 cup brown sugar
12. black pepper
13. Olive oil

          Secondly, we had to find a big bowl, mixing the water, sugar, garlic, salt, oil and  thyme. Then added the chicken. Meanwhile, it was important to make the Barbecue sauce. Since I loved to eat a little bet sweetness and spice, so I putted more brown sugar, ketchup, vinegar.But if you are looking for the classical BBQ source, you can just added salt, black pepper, 2 cups ketchup,  2 teaspoons paprika, 1 cup of water and without any brown sugar. Then, mix all of them and cooked slowly around 3 to 4 minted. After that, added the remaining ingredients, and continually to  cook 25 minutes. Once the sauce is done cooking, you can remove 1/4 sauce, since you can put it side of the chicken. The rest of the sauce will be used for making chicken legs. 

        Then, it’s time for basing! I was so excited since I never touched oven before, it was not so popular in China. As usual, if we wanna eat  barbecue food, we probably will choose the Korean restaurant.  Also, I reminded one thing that my host daddy told me. When we oven the chicken legs, we had to cook the chicken slow and low, since it would help keep it tender and juicy. Besides that, be careful not to let it dry out. Then, put the chicken legs into oven and cooked for a total of 15 minutes. After that, remove it from the oven and put the barbecue sauce on the top of the chicken legs. Then, return to the oven for 30 minutes. 

         Finally, I made my first BBQ chicken. It was taste super great. It was succulency, sweet, distinctive flavor and it owns abundant nutrition. Though it took me more than 3 hours to cook this meal. But I was  grateful my host dad—Daniel; and he truly made the wonder BBQ chicken! 

Last but not least, I hope if I have chance,  I wanna bring my handmade food, either dessert or chicken to share with my lovely classmates! 

I am not a vegetarian, I am a dessertarian!

Do you like sweet foods? If yes,what's your favorite dessert? Apple pie?Doughnuts?or banana toast?
Admittedly, those desserts taste good, but If you ask me, I would definitely say chocolate cake!! It is the best dessert all over the world, and I just made my own chocolate cake yesterday. However, I failed at the first time, because the process was too confusing and I didn't have any experiences before. Then, I encouraged myself and I tried once again. Guess what? I made it! !

So,I would like to show you guys how to make a delicious chocolate cake.
First, we have to list all the ingredients we need. I felt so annoyed while doing this step, because I truly had a hard time to find cocoa this time.I went to Stop&shop twice,and Hamdem once.but there was no cocoa in these two stores. Then ,my host mom drove me to New heaven,which is another town near Cheshire.Finally, I found it in an unspectacular place. Just this part,took me almost three hours to get through it. After that, everything was all set!

Then, next step was mix all the dry ingredients together.Actually I was pretty enjoyed in this process, because it took me back to the childhood.I remember when I was little.Every time when I finished my own meal, I would pushed everyone full speed ahead until they finished dinner. You may ask me why? Since mixed all the leftover into one unwashed dishes seems the funniest things for me. I truly loved the moment when I combine everything together. It was a great memory. Well, come back to our business. After this step, we had to stir vinegar,oil,vanilla,water and egg.Then make sure you add these ingredients individually; and put them in the separate bowl.

The third step was to add the cold water on top of the chocolate cake ingredients. Then, continued to mix all of the ingredients until the mixture was smooth. This step was pretty important. Since the first time when I made the chocolate cake, just because I forgot to mix all of the material, so I failed. The chocolate cake looked terrible and tasted like a “solid soy sauce”.Thus, it was a point we must have noticed.

If you all follow the step, DANG DANG DANG! It’s time for baking!
I loved baking, because once I putted on my gloves, and holded the cake pan, I felt like I was a “kitchen women”(laugh..).

The last step was easy, just baked on 326 degrees (F) about 45 minute. After that, the cake has finished. Finally, I putted several strawberry on top of the chocolate cake.


‘ “I am not a vegetarian, I'm a dessertarian."(pinterest.com) This was a great quote by Bill Watterson.’ I totally agreed with this saying. I was truly a dessertarian, and I can’t without any dessert. Especially my yummy chocolate cake!!! To sum up, it was a hard challenge for me,but finally I did it! and I truly interested in made food, I also found that there was nothing like the taste of a cake you made by yourself.I’m not even kidding. It was the best chocolate cake I ever have! Trust me, it was better than Lady M. Although I admitted that it looks ugly. But tasted pretty good!!! Anyway, I will continue doing my 30 day challenge. I promise that I can do my best; and learn more, eat more in the entire 24 days!

Source:
https://www.pinterest.com/awidha/im-not-a-vegetarian-im-a-dessertarian-%7Ebill-watter/

In class blog( unfinished)

Do you like sweet food? If yes,what's your favorite dessert? Apple pie?Doughnuts?or banana toast?

Admittedly, those desserts taste good, but If you ask me, I would definitely say chocolate cake!! It is the best dessert all over the world,and I just made my own chocolate cake yesterday. However, I failed in the first time, because the process was too confused and I didn't have any experiences before. Then,I encouraged myself and I tried once again.Guess what? I made it! !

So, I would like to show you guys how to make a delicious chocolate cake!

First, we have to list all the ingredients we need. I felt so annoyed while doing this step, because I truly had a hard time to find cocoa this time.I went to Stop&shop twice,and Hamdem once.but there was no cocoa in these two stores. Then ,my host mom drove me to New heaven,which is another town near Cheshire.Finally, I found it in an unspectacular place. Just this part,took me almost three hours to get through it. After that, everything was all set! 

Then, next step was mix all the dry ingredients together.Actually I was pretty enjoyed in this step, since it reminded me the old childhood.I remember when I was little; mix all the leftover in one unwashed dishes.every time when I finished the dinner, I will 

In class writing

I chose to make different foods for thirty day.Actually it is a hard challenge for me,because I don't have any experience. Last night my host mom teach me to make the chocolate cake. She told me I needed  3/4 cup unsalted butter, 1 cup of sugar, 3 eggs,etc. To be honest, I have totally no ideas how to bake a cake, and I don't know we have to clean and wash so many things before we started to make the cake.Since in China, we usually bought cake in market. well, I truly love to make food, because I think it was super interesting. I also found that there was nothing like the taste of a cake you made by yourself. I feel like it was the best chocolate cake I ever have! Trust me, it was better than Lady M.

Have you willing to insist on one thing for 30 days? If you ask me, I would say Yes! Well, actually I already made my plan. It seems easy, but actually not. 

Once, years ago, I made a plan to write a journal everyday. At the first, I was so excited, and I even bought a new notebook. However, I gave up that challenge after several days.Since I found that I have many things need to do,  and I can’t concentrate on doing one thing continuously. But this time, I wanted to try it again, and I believed that insist on is victory.

 If you search the data on internet, you will see there are tons of 30 day challenge, such as reading a newspaper, record a video or being a vegetarian. I chose to make different foods for thirty days. That’s a big challenge for me. Since I can’t make any food. You may ask me why? In America, even small kids can make their own simple food, such as spaghetti, oatmeal, etc.I remember when I was in the middle school, my classmates empyrosis by boiling water.After that, my parents do not allow me to get into the kitchen. That’s why I can’t cooking.However, when I go abroad, I found that it was pretty important to learn how to make your own foods.For instance, one times my host mom had an appointment with doctor. She don’t have time to make dinner for me. So, at that night, I was so hungry but I can’t do any thing, just because I can’t cooking.

Besides that, the movie “Julie and Julia” also impelled me to learn cooking. This movie is "an American comedy-drama film written by Nora Ephron.The film contrasts the life of chef Julia Child in the early years of her culinary career with the life of young New Yorker Julie Powell, who aspires to cook all 524 recipes in Child’s cookbook in 365 days, a challenge she described on her popular blog that made her a published author. "This movie is so amazing and interesting. When I watch the movie, I truly wanna have a try.

So, I started on Friday. 

Everyone loves Friday because it’s like a holiday save us from stress and test. Today I learnt how to make spaghetti. My host mom told me just 4 steps I can make a delicious spaghetti.The first step is get my supplies, before I start making my spaghetti I have to first get the proper supplies and materials. To make this spaghetti, I will need a box of spaghetti, marinara sauce, 2.3 lbs of ground beef, a 12 inch pan, a 5 quart pot, a stove, a silicone spoon and serving spoon, and water. Second, when I prepare all the tools and materials, I will need to cook the 2.3lbos of meat. Take all the meat out of its container and set it all in the 12 inch pan. When the meat is in the pan, then put the pan on the stove and set the stove to medium. After that I will need to break the meat into smaller pieces. When the meat is in small pieces, I have to start flippin ghte meat and make sure it gets brown all-around. The cooking should take approximately 15 minutes. The third steps is cooking the spaghetti, first I will need to fill the 5 quart pot with 3 quarts of warm water.Then after the water booing, we have to take the spaghetti out of the box and break all of them in half and set them in the water. Then, wait about 9-10 minutes for the noodles to cook all the way. The step 4 is to mixing the sauce. When I need to mix my marinara sauce with my cooked meat. So, take your jar of marinara sauce and pour all of it on the cooked meat and then stir it all around until it is all blended together. Then, put the pan on the stove and set it to low. 

In general, I definitely think it is a great challenge for me. I glad that I have this great opportunity to learn cooking. I hope I can learn more in the rest 29 days. 

30 day challenge 💓

In my own perspective, I decide to read three TOEFL model essays everyday. The reason why I make this plan is because I have a TOFEL test at the end of this month, and writing is one of my weakness. I think this is one way to improve.In order to get ready for the test, I have already downloaded an app which can provides a lot of model essays. I believe that reading those articles can help me to enhance my writing skills. After 30 days, I will have read 90 essays in total, which means that I will be able to write a TOEFL essay adroitly. I hope I can get a satisfy score on my test.

30 day challenge (3 things )

1. remember 5 french words everyday.

2. Take picture 

3. Fitness 

1. Go to extre help everyday 

2. Eat health food.

3. Make different friend everyday 

30 day challenge

The idea of 30-day challenge means that you have to choose one things either you interested or hated.There are tons of options for 30 day challenge. For instance, you can write a poem, take pictures, fitness or even do something nice to different people every day,etc.In order to reach the plan you made, the only thing you have to do is insist! For my own 30 day challenge, I decide to remember 5 french words everyday. Since this is a great way to improve my french skills.

who are you?

                                

“Oh, Nooooooo! please don’t, don’t catch me! Help me!!!!!!! ” I wake up at midnight because of a bad dream. 

“Where am I?” oh, I am siting in my chair, with my French book in front of me.

 “Oh, god, what time is it? I must have nodded off at my desk.” 

I turn off my lamp, and try to go to sleep. 

The room is dark and cheerless. I feel a deadly chill come over me. 

 Wait….. I feel something behind me, What’s that? There is a fearsome girl sitting in a rocking-chair by the window. She looks pale and unhealthy, with unwashed hair and sunken cheeks. My heart  jumps like a rabbit, and I can heard it quite clearly beating in my chest. Then something seems to snap in me.I feel like I can hardly move; I begin to perspire heavily, and my brain goes blank. All of a sudden, Her face becomes colorless and she starts to float.I image that she wants to catch me and eat me. I starts to run as fast as I can. I run so fast that I feel like an Olympic champion.The monster stretch out her hand to grab me, but she misses. “AAAAAA, no……..mom, mom,  help me, help me, someone is sitting in my chair and wants to kill me!” I screamed loudly and dripped to my bed. I snuggle tightly under my quilt in order to feel protected and block out the world around me.

“ What’s wrong, Jen?Are you ok?” my mom says. She turns on the light, “ There is no one sitting in your chair, just your red dress and shoes.By the way, please close your window when you sleep. It's super cold outside.”

How can we face you, Mr. Camera? （final draft)

“Put the last one on that corner please.”

“Here?”

“Well, wait, move to the right, just a little bit.”

“Uh…here?”

“No no no, Mr Monahan, are you concentrated?  move to the right please! Not left, okay?”

“I’m sorry, it’s my bad. But.. I feel so tired right now, because I already installed 99 videos today.”

“I know, but it is the last one, can you just insist one more minute?”

“Anyway, How about here?”

 “Let me see…good! excellent! Perfectibilité! !Everything is all set! Let’s go to morning meeting together, we should tell everybody this wonderful news!!”




Well, my dear readers, Let’s stop here and think about one question.




 “Do you think Cheshire academy students will allow surveillance cameras appear in our campus?”

“ No? yes?” Well, I don’t know. But, If you ask me for the answer, I will say: “YES!” Since the cameras can help us to avoid thieves, protect public property and make students be more aware of following the rules.


To begin with, placed surveillance cameras is a good way to avoid theft. Take myself as an example: Last year, I chose tennis in spring season. Mrs. Mauthe required us to wear T-shirt and sneakers when we come to class and play sports. But I am a day student—I can’t take my clothes and shoes with me for a whole academic day, so I needed to put them in the gym locker overnight. However, after school when I opened the locker, I couldn’t find my T-shirt! Not only was it one of my most favorite T-Shirts, but it was also quite expensive. It was not a good day! I felt very upset by this, and I told my adviser. She said she would help me to find the T-Shirt, but at the end of the day, we couldn’t find it and I was forced to face the fact that my favorite T-Shirt got stolen. If there were surveillance cameras in the gym, the thief might have been caught on tape, or there may have been some other clues that became available. Therefore, I strongly suggest that we should have surveillance cameras in the campus.


What’s more, it can also protect public property, because it is less likely for students to destroy public facilities when there are cameras watching them. For instance, the student center is one of the most popular places at Cheshire Academy—a place where students can go to enjoy their free time and hang out with their friends. But, at various times in the past, there have been some vandalism problems in the student center, with students damaging couches or leaving their garbage. If the academy were to install cameras within the student center, there would be less risk of this kind of problem as well, as people would be more responsible if they were being filmed.


According to a recent survey, surveillance cameras are a much more effective way of preventing people from breaking rules than, for example, a sign indicating such. For instance, if there is a “don’t walk on the grass” sign on campus, it is not very likely to prevent many people from walking on the grass. But, a camera can prevent it. One of the reason for this is that the camera works as a policeman, one will not only feel afraid to behave bad in front of the police, also feel shame of being reported out. The function of the camera for keeping off the grass is the same as protecting public facilities, people will always mind their behavior when there is an eye watch on them.


Admittedly, many will claim them installing the cameras in public is against privacy. It watches us talk, walk, laugh, eat, etc. However, what is privacy? Privacy is the personal secret that has little to do with the public interest—it is the personal information, personal issues, space, etc. At some point, the cameras do watch what we are doing in public. However, we expose ourselves less in public since we separate the home and the public place in our consciousness. Therefore, we do few private things in public—we should not be ashamed or concerned about our public behavior being recorded. The vast majority of what we do in public is, by definition, things we would not mind the public knowing. Therefore, we should not mind this being recorded if it improves our safety. Furthermore, a structure could be built to make it difficult for people to get access to these videos, even those who are working for police force or other government organization. 

One good example of a place that has benefitted significantly from the addition of surveillance cameras is the city-state of Singapore. This area is small enough to allow for the entire city to be covered with security cameras—it has one of the highest rates of cameras per square mile of any city in the world (Lee). Singapore also has one of the lowest crime rates in the world, with the city getting 2nd place in Asia—which was also 2nd place worldwide—in The Economist magazine’s 2015 Safe Cities Index. In this index, only Tokyo scored higher, with Singapore’s government publicly talking about plans to use technology and surveillance as part of a “wider plan to become a so-called smart nation” (The Economist). Furthermore, in the same ranking, Singapore was ranked number 1 in “Personal Security”, which is the category that’s arguably most clearly connected to surveillance. 


In conclusion, the cameras are good for watching in order to ensure security, protecting the public property and controlling students' behaviors. It is not used for infringing upon people's privacy since if it were the use, the cameras will be installed in a secret place where is hard to notice, and the people in charge of monitoring them will be well-trained. As the case of Singapore shows, increased surveillance can be an effective way of having a happy and safe society, which is clearly something that many people would appreciate.

Works Cited

Lee, Terrence. "Singapore an Advanced Surveillance State, but Citizens Don’t Mind." Tech in Asia RSS. 26 Nov. 2013. Web. 3 Apr. 2015. <https://www.techinasia.com/singapore-advanced-surveillance-state-citizens-mind/>.

"The Economist Safe Cities Index 2015." The Economist Intelligence Unit. The Economist, 1 Jan. 2015. Web. 3 Apr. 2015. <http://safecities.economist.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/EIU_Safe_Cities_Index_2015_white_paper-20.02.15.pdf>.

in class writing

What did you change from yesterday and today?

I changed my thesis for draft three. At first my thesis was too generous. Then I decided to add more details. Besides that, I separated paragraph 2 into two different independent paragraph.Since I think I might be need wrire one more expample to support my topic sentences.

What is the effect? 

Effect: 

1. More details 

2. Sentences are clear,not confusing.
3.more logical