Maya's Blog

While working on my 20% project this week, I made mini chocolate chip cookies. Thursday, I will see how the class likes them by sharing them. I had a small struggle this week because the recipe I was using was a little different. The recipe was very mushy so the outcome would be crunchy. So next time I make cookies like that I will know what to do. An adjustment I could make for next week is use oven mitts. When I made the cookies, I just slipped the cookie dough into  the oven and the sheet sadly fell down, making all the cookie dough fall. Luckily my mentor and I had more batter so we still made enough for the class. Plus oven mitts are good so you don’t burn yourself. I had to learn that the hard way. Some of my accomplishments is that I only took one break which is an improvement from last time I made the cookies monster cookies. Next week will hopefully be better than these past weeks.

My favorite room in my house would most definitely be my room. One reason why is because, I love my bed. I take the best naps in the bed. In addition to why I love my bed is because I probably spent the most time there. Another reason why my favorite room in my house is my room is because of my vanity. I love how much light gives off in my room and just the vibe. It stores all on my makeup and hair care in it as well so it’s very helpful. Last reason is because I can get away from my brother. Don’t get me wrong I love him but sometimes he’s just a little too annoying and I need to be by myself for a while. It’s always so quiet in my room as well and I love the quietness.

mmHi, my name is Maya and for my 20% project I chose to do baking cookies. This week by goal was to bake a “Cookie Monster” Cookie. I accomplished this goal by writing a recipe that I saw on a website called, Cookie Dough Diaries. make sure to stay on the recipe, meaning don’t just do your own thing, and by following the measurements. Not many struggles happened but, I do need to adjust my timing, because I took a lot of breaks and it would of been faster to make the cookies if I hadn’t taken as many breaks. This week my goal I am trying to accomplish is baking mini chocolate chip cookies for the class. I think this will be sort of easy but at the same time I still have to find a recipe, and go along with it. I will adjust not taking as many breaks so the process is faster. Thank you for reading my 20% project- Week One blog.

During spring break my mom, brother, and I got to go Disneyland. Because we only had one parent there, my brother had to go on every ride that we chose. He was excited but also nervous. We wanted to go on Thunder Mountain and he did not like that. He started to shake and get really anxious about getting on the ride. My mom and I calmed him down and said it’s ok, we will only go on it once.   He sat with my mom in the front and I was behind them. My brother started to freak out and try to get out of the ride, but my mom talked to him again and stopped him. Once the ride started we pulled the bar down and started. At first her was fine but then started to hold on really tight to the bar. It started going fast for him and he grabbed on to the bar as hard as he could. He was really scared. But soon after, the ride came to a stop and he took his hand off the bar and got off the ride. My mom and I asked him how was the ride and he said it was fun, but he wasn’t going to go on it again. So after that, to calm him down, we went on Pirates of The Caribbean and it was really peaceful. At the end of the day we went a good amount of rides and we were really tired. The day after we were all so sore and still tired. But it did turn out to be a fun day at Disneylnad.

I am currently on page, 259 of P.S I still love you. By Jenny Han. Lara Jean didn’t really want to fall for peter, but she did. Then when things were getting serious Lara was happy and I guess Peter wasn’t. Peter still had feelings for his ex and Lara was heart-broken. When another boy came in, Lara didn’t know who to choose, Peter, or John? So far I have loved the whole book, but mostly when Lara Jean didn’t know who to choose. She is really relatable in the book so far because sometimes I don’t know what to choose when it’s a hard decision. One quote to prove that Lara is relatable is that when she said, “I know now that I don’t want to love or be loved in half measures. I want it all, and to have it all, you have to risk it all.” This quote shows that Lara didn’t know what to choose just how I sometimes don’t know what to choose in tough situations. “When you lose someone and it still hurts, that’s when you know the love was real.” Was probably my favorite quote because it shows a lot about how if you lose someone and it still hurts after a while, that means you really loved them and it’s hard to loose someone you love.

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My dream job is to be a photographer. I would want to be a photographer because I get to travel around the world to take beautiful pictures. Another reason why I would like to be a photographer is because it’s really relaxing of taking photos of the ocean, or the beach, or the sunset. Also some of your photos could be bought and get money off of it. I could earn a good amount of money off of it. I could also photograph memories of peoples family and them doing things.

A magician has made me invisible for twenty four hours! The first thing I would do while being invisible is mess with people. Messing with people meaning I try to scare them. I would scare them by opening draws, slamming doors, and throwing stuff at them to make the house feel haunted. Then I would go into rooms that i’m not allowed to go into. Then after I am visible again I will tell everyone what happened and hopefully make them laugh instead of getting mad.

This month I read Love and Olives by Jenna Evans Welch. Summer was going pretty for Liv Varanaki or Olive as her boyfriend calls her. She was ready to go to senior year of high school  until something unexpected happened. Liv got an opportunity to re-meet her father that left her when she was eight years old. What I loved about this book is that there is one main conflict that everyone refers back to and not a lot of drama and big things going on other than Olive and her dad. My favorite character from this book is Liv. One reason why shes my favorite because she chose family first. She had an opportunity to go to senior year but decided to go with her dad. A character trait of hers would be sweet and caring. One quote to show that she is caring is, “Kalamata, no one knows what they’re doing. It’s called life.” In this quote it shows that Kalamata made a mistake and she cared for her to make her feel better by saying something we all need sometimes.My favorite quote from Love and Olives would be, “Trusting him was easy; it was me that was the problem”. This is my favorite because it shows that sometimes you just need a break and it could sometime be your fault and you have to deal with it. Life goes on.

• This month I read Always and Forever Lara Jean by Jenny Han. Lara Jean is a teenage girl who just got with the love of her life, Peter. Lara Jean tries to get into UVA, but while she’s struggling, her boyfriend already got in. Lara lost her mom just after the age of 9. Lara’s mom died by falling while mopping, and her older sister Margot finding her and calling 9-11. Lara has two sisters, Margot as I already said, and Kitty who is her youngest sister. All Lara’s life, she does everything for her mom. Her dad, is now on his way to marrying Ms. Rothschild. Although Lara is happy for her dad, she knows that no one could replace her real mom. Everything was going according to plan but then, her heart has a big change but her mind doesn’t. She thinks, what do you do when your heart says something but your mind doesn’t agree?

I loved that the book had many twist and turns, for example, Lara Jean Covey during the college application process. One of the main plot points is her inner turmoil between going to the University of California, Berkeley, close to her Stanford University-bound boyfriend Peter Kavinsky, or New York University (N.Y.U.), the better fit.

My favorite character was Lara Jean because she always had problems that needed to be solve but she puts it off to the side just like how I do. I believe that one of Lara’s many character traits could be smart and understanding, “Life is beautiful, and messy, and never goes according to plan. I do know that love, real love, is choosing each other through all of it, every single day. Beginning and middle and end.” This quote from her showed that she understands life and how things always don’t go the way you would like them too.

My favorite quote from Always and Forever Lara Jean is, “Peter will love Lara Jean with all his heart, always.” I like this quote because even though they might of gone through a lot of good things, and bad things, Peter will always love Lara and thats what I like to call real love.