30 Day Snap #19

My 2 weeks are planned - constant work and no free time. Fun fun fun!

P.S. Here is Sprinkle of Glitter's Post about the 30 Day Snap

Much love,

Harriet

xxx

PIZZA !!

So today, I made pizza for lunch and it was amazing. I know, I’m bias but who cares. So here is how I did it:

1) I used fresh yeast, which looks really weird and grey and smells disgusting. I mixed it with water and sugar until it looked like this:

2) Next, I put some flour, salt, warm water and olive oil into the bowl and added the fresh yeast. It looked a little gooey at first but I added more and more and then more flour until it was no longer sticky and looked like goo from Dr Who.

3) I put the dough in a warm place so the yeast could do some sciencey stuff that I’m sure was explained to me in year 9 biology something about the yeast expanding as that is it's optimum tempurature so the rate of reaction would increase, but I'm not sure, so we will call it sciencey stuff. (And yes, this is just the top oven because it warms up when the bottom oven is on)

4) This is when the fun stuff happens, the making of the pizza. I rolled it out quite flat so it could fit the circular pizza tin, added lots of tomato pizzary sauce that my sister made, mozzarella and peppers.

5) The finish masterpiece.

Recipe: A taste of Venice by Jeanette Nance Nordio.

It was so good and I will definitely be cooking this again, maybe for the next IB dinner? Oh, yes we have dinners! (another reason why you should do the IB)

I will write soon. Much love!

Harriet xxx

The IB - the bain/ love of my life

Hola peeps,

I am quite enjoying this blogging melarkee (new favourite word) , so I thought I would write another blog post from my every expanding list of things I want to blabber on about, and this was at the top: the IB.

The IB is an educational programme for students to do at sixth form (ie when they are 15/16). The IB stands for the ‘International Baccalaureate’ and is equivalent to A-levels. But, instead of choosing 4 AS levels for one year and then 3 A2 levels the next year, you have to stick to 6 subjects throughout the whole 2 years. This is a bit of a workload but if you enjoy variety, it is really fun!

There are 6 categories for subjects that you have to choose, but again this offers not only variety but a structure to your education.

•          Group 1 – English
•          Group 2 – Languages
•          Group 3 – Humanities
•          Group 4 – Sciences
•          Group 5 – Maths
•          Group 6 – Arts (this is optional as you can do 2 subjects from groups 2,3 or 4)

They are also divided into 3 higher levels and 3 standard levels. So if you don’t do maths, you could choose maths studies (which is maths but FUN!) or if you love Science, you could do a higher science which would mean more detail.

Just listing them makes me realise how much work they all are, however there is more fun. If you are an IB student you also have to complete some lovely things in the Core; which are: Tok (AKA Theory of Knowledge which is just mind boggling’ meaning you come out and do ask what is life), an extended essay (4000 words of cleverness) and CAS (Creative, Active and Service). If you don’t complete them, you FAIL the IB (even if you get 7 points in everything else...which would be a real shame).

I can hear people go, why 7? Well, 7 is the maximum points you can earn in each subject and is just the number the IB picked because they wanted to be different (the answer to almost everything they do, don’t get me started on Internal Assessments!). However, this is almost impossible to get if you want to eat or sleep but just happens to be the amount that Oxford and Cambridge want in ALL YOUR HIGHERS, which is nice of them isn’t it?

No, but really, I do actually really enjoy the IB, it has become part of me (I know, cheesy, but true). I have met some great people that I hang out with most of the time (as there are only 12 people in my year that do it). We have become the IB family and is completely #internationalbadasslaureate (inside joke, sorry!). So, my advice to anyone with the dilemma of choosing something else or IB, do IB because you will have a love/hate relationship but mostly love. I promise.

Speak soon. Much love!

Harriet

xxx