BAKING CAKES

 

Before I came to America I didn't know how to cook, neither how to bake a cake. One day my host mom asked me if I wanted to bake a cake, because she found a really good recipe how to make an apple cake. First I was scared but then I just said to myself to at least try it. I followed the recipes and try to do everything perfect and guess what???, It worked my apple cake came out so beautiful. After the apple cake I also made caramel saus :). I did not just bake one cake, ohw no after a few days I bake 4 more cakes, one with my friend Dina and the other three cakes I baked all by myself, those were lemon cakes. Yum they were really delicious, my family really loved the lemon cake I made. I also send one to my host sister who lives in San Francisco, she and the girls like it a lot. I am so proud of myself :D

 

 



SAYING GOODBYE

 

Hi there, I know that I haven't been blogging in a while, I was a little busy with school work. I was busy with my semester exams and I am so glad it went very well. Now I am in a harder math class which is called probability and statistics, finally I am having a little challenge because algebra 2 was too easy for me. Lately I have been busy saying goodbye to my friends who are returning to their home country. Alyssa is one of my friends from Switzerland (see picture above), she is returning to her country it was really nice to be friends with her. Alyssa and I loved shopping together at the mall. Just to share something really funny: one day we went shopping and we entered a shoe store, Alyssa and I went crazy because there were so many cute shoes, and you know how we girls are with shoes. But there was only one problem, I am so short and have really small feet and Alyssa is really tall and her feet are bigger then mine so we asked if they had our sizes, and the didn't. We were so disappointed. Last night on January the 25th my host mom, Lisa(my area rep.), Alyssa and I went to dinner in town square. We talked a lot, laughed a lot and we had a lot of fun it was my last time seeing Alyssa before she goes, I will miss you. On Thursday jan the 24th my friend Natalia(see picture below)  had a farewell party, she is going back to Brazil, she doesn't live far from Suriname, so I hope I can see her real soon. I am going to miss you 2 my Brazilian friend. Sometimes it is hard to say goodbye but the friends we made aren't only for America but for a life time.

 

 



OVER MY WINTERBREAK

 

The last day of school before winter break it was amazing how I could go to my classes on time. Usually it takes me a long time going to class because of how crowded Legacy high school is. Especially bumbing into others, that's what keeps me from getting in class on time. But the last day of school it was an exception, there were over a thousand students absent, can you believe that??, cause I couldn't. It was the first time I experienced so many students absent, but I didn't really care for that because I was so excited. The reason I was excited was because I had to perform at the assembly, me and my apisa dance team had to dance. I was so excited it was my first time performing at assemblies. Assemblies have been one of my favorite activities in school, but dancing in front of so many students made me a little nervous. But then again I overcame my fear :) and I had a really great time I enjoyed every second of my performance. After school me and my host parents drove to Los Angeles and we stayed at a hotel for two days, and right outside our hotel room there was an Indian wedding which was so nice. The one thing I really liked were all those beautiful colors. After staying two days in LA we drove to San Francisco. I stayed at my host sisters house for the holidays, it was really fun I had the best times with her daughters and also with her. During Christmas I had such a great time with my family, I felt their warmth around me and I really felt I was part of the family, everyone was so happy and cheerful, and guess what we had for our Christmas's dinner :). We had rotie for dinner, I made the rotie and my host mom cooked the curry chicken and the beans and we ate it with a little sambel. The next day I showed my sister how to make rotie so now she knows, the whole family loves it, which I am proud of :). I have seen a lot of San Francisco and I went to the academy of science where I went to see really amazing things. I took pictures but yeah I don't even wanna say it, I deleted those pictures by accident but there is nothing I could do so that's why I am sharing it with you so you can have a vision of what I did over winter break. New years eve was really fun, we had game night, so everyone had to come up with a game. It was really nice we all had a splendid time. SO yeah this is kind of what I have been through. I will keep you updated but goodbye for now and be patient for another blog :D