The Pressure Is On!

When all eyes are place on you, what is there to do?! ( O w O ; )

Well, for one thing--practice makes perfect. Try to be organize on what you plan to present to your classmates. The more things are organize then the chance for you to mes up lessens. You can always use flashcards or power points to help you remember what to say. It's because hat added pressure makes a person forget what to say. I should know--because in my theater class I messed up on my lines.

Another way to calm yourself when presenting is to make your presentation fun. You'll be so caught up that it feels natural. The more formal, the more awkward things will be--and you'll be begging that your classmates won't have any questions that you cannot answer. The more natural and fun you have with your presentation the more your audience will enjoy. Think about it, who wants to sit through 2 hours of slide shows and narrations? Challenge yourself to think of something witty, and you might earn some creativity points!

Can You Classify These Books?

At first I was thinking about seperating books with happy, sad, and ambigous endings. However, then I relized that would've been major spoilors to the readers. Thus, I'll seperate everything by the level of reading difficulty. A whole collection starting from the top left, the easiest to the bottom right, the hardest. The sections at the beginning will contain mostly fiction books.

The first catagory would be "Children Wonderland" books starting with pictures and ABC's to stories like "The Hungry Caterpillar" and Mother Goose Rhymes.

There will be a section to the right called "Storytime Chamber" this section would be for chidren from first to third grade, the books will include pictures, but with more words.

Next would be a section for fourth graders to six graders, "Novel Express" since six graders have to leave Elementary school to Middle school--Novel Express. There will still be pictures, but the books contain more words and the books will be middle thick.

Then it's "Learning Seekers" this section will contain books like the Harry Potter and the Series of Unfortunate Events. These books will be for those who are in middle school. There starts to be a blance between fiction and non-fiction books.

After that will be "Liturature Knowledge" where some books are quite thick and mature. The book here have more non-fictions books and the vocabulary in the books are bit of a challenge. Yet, using the context clue words, it should make the passage understandable.

Last bit not least would be the "Einstein's Domain", a section filled with terms and vocabulary for the scholars. Lengthy, thick, and tiny printed words on paper. Books here are mostly based on facts and history than fictions and fantasy.

Eating Animals

What I like about Eating Animals, there was a part at the beginning of the book where Foer puts definitions of a word that has two meanings. For example, "bullshit" the first definition was cow's poop, and the second was the more well-known answer--a cursed word. The only part in the book I didn't like so well was the section about animal waste is more polluted than a normal human's entropy.

Let's Go Make A Difference!

My goals for the upcoming multi-draft are quite simple. First, I hope to get the message out people on how much my mother suffers at work. Also, it's not just my mother--all casino dealers had to deal with. For example, the second-hand smoke dealers have to inhale and all the smelly drunk gamblers that kept maxing out their credits. There's just so much anger I have about this topic, so much that I'm sure that I'll be able to fire up some juicy paragraphs!

My second goal is to make sure to cite my sources, last time I forgot to hand in a Work Cited worksheet. This one would be quite a challenge, I think I'll have to start out using casinos in general. Then start to move on getting more specific. I probably might interview a few of my mom's co-workers since they're all casino dealers. So aside from citing something I've never cited before, this is quite interesting!

Let's Make Rainbow Ice!

Today, I'm gonna teach you a very unique and yummy snack! I tasted this beverage snack when I first went to a Vietnamese resturant. This delectable beverage will be sure to fill your tummy...because there's a lot of beans in it. ( ^ ^ ; )a

Anyway, let's make some Rainbow Ice ( also known as Che Ba Mau)

Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup skinless split mung beans, soaked for 3 hours and drained
  
• 1/2 cup of red azuki beans, soaked for 4 hours and drained
  
• 3/4 cup of sugar
  
• 1-1/2 cups of coconut milk
  
• 1/4 cup of green grass jelly
  
• 1/4 cup of tapioca pearls
  
• 1 can of logan, drained
  
• 1 tablespoon of chopped peanuts
  
• Shaved ice (amounts differ on how much you want)
  

First, boil 2 cups of water over a pot (medium heat), add the mung beans and 1/4 cup of sugar. Stir and let the water be absorb, which should take about 20 minutes. Let it cool and then put it in the refrigerator.

Next, Boil two cups of water in medium heat, once boiled turn the fire to low heat. Add the azuki beans and cook them for three hours (yeah, it's that long). Let the beans cool off and be refrigerated.

Then, boil the coconut milk and 1-1/2 cup of water together in low heat. Add the rest of the remaining sugar and the tapioca into the pot. Cook until the tapioca pearls are complete transparent. Once again, let it cool and be refrigerated.

Last step! Get yourself a cup, layer two tablespoon of shaved ice in between everything. So it'll be: ice, coconut tapioca, ice, azuki beans, ice, tapioca, ice, mung beans, then green grass jelly, chopped peanuts, and top it off with...you guessed it--more ice.

And there you go a snack with approxiamently 1000 calories...The good news is that it show be able to keep you full pretty much for two meals. Well, enjoy your Rainbow Ice.