Japan

Something that I learnt was how much time they put into making their lunches. They have bento boxes filled with food. They would take at least 10 minutes packing their lunches, whereas we just put a load of different snacks and a sandwich in our lunch box in a matter of five minutes.

They also have tea ceremonies, where they sit on the ground and drink green tea out of little fancy teacups that don't have handles.

How do Japanese foods and presentation compare to NZ?

In Japan, they like to be neat and tidy with their foods. When they have it cooked a set on a plate it looks like a piece of art. New Zealand doesn't put too much effort in the presentation.

Questions for the readers:

What tea do they commonly drink during tea ceremonies?

Souvlaki

For this lesson we make souvlakis.

We used a variety of vegetables like diced tomato, lettuce, fresh oregano, finely chopped red onion and grated carrot. We were given many sauces to choose from, we had the yoghurt sauce (greek yoghurt, parsley, cucumber and freshly chopped mint), barbecue relish and sauce, sweet chilli sauce and other toppings. We added shredded beef schnitzel. The ingredients we used were freshly chopped.

Tasks were evenly spread through the group. One person was gathering ingredients, while one person was chopping the veggies, and another cooking the schnitzel. One of the challenges I faced was cooking the beef in the frying pan since the oil was spitting at me and another person in my group. It was difficult trying to not get burnt.

The outcome of my souvlaki looked and tasted fresh and tasty. It's such an easy and delicious meal to make.

Here is the closest photo I could find that looked like what we made.

Cooking Pizza

For this practical we made pizza. I found I was quite interesting making the base out of only 3 ingredients.

Something that I found that our group did well at was communicating and working together to get everything done in time.
Something we didn't do well was the base of the pizza. I found that it was overmixed (by me).
The outcome looked crispy. Although the base was like a pikelet.

The toppings I had on my pizza were tomato, tomato paste, pepper, onion, ham, pineapple, and other toppings that I can't remember.

Here is the outcome of my pizza:

Driving with cell-phones speech reflection

My presentation was about the dangers of taking call and writing/reading texts. The part of my speech that I am proud of is how much I had written about my topic. Something I found that I had trouble with was actually researching my topic. I found it difficult trying to find something to talk about and actually sticking to it. Something I would work on for next time is giving myself more time to practice my speech. 

Painting Cave Art in our Classroom

In the stone age, homo sapiens made art like what you see above. Telling stories with the art they created on the cave walls. they created art by using their own hands, sticks, rocks and other things. We used black paint to draw these paintings on the walls of our classroom. In the stone age, they didn't have paint, so they used mud and sand. You would find art like this in museums and caves.

This is a photo of the art that I had done.

 (unfinished painting)

The story in the art is two people cooking a rabbit about a fire.

COMING SOON (Finished Painting)