Baking

School was interesting and very fun today.  During the first two hours of class, we had biology and chemistry and I sat and listened during the biology hour even though I didn't really understand anything.  During the chemistry hour, during break, and during religion, Emily and I found a cartoon character for every teacher and student in our class.  It all started when I said that the history teacher looks exactly the same as the old man from "Up".  Then we decided to do it for all of the teachers.  When we finished that, we did it for all of our classmates and I felt very accomplished when we finished.  It was a great way to occupy my time.  Then we had physics and there was a test.  She gave me a different test that just had four questions on it and all I had to do was answer the questions with sentences.  She said I could use the computer so I googled everything and copied it down in Italian. It ended up taking an hour though.  The last class of the day was supposed to be English, but I guess the teacher wasn't at school today and they don't have subs here so another person just came to our class to watch over us while we sat around and talked.  It was pretty cool, and we told everyone their cartoon characters. It was a good laugh.

Right after lunch, I went over to Janie's house with some brownie mix in tow.  When I got there, we started making a batch of cupcakes that Janie's parents sent her and then we made my brownies.  When all of those were done, we made Oreo truffles and since the refrigerator was full, we just put them outside under some foil to cool because it's freezing outside.  All of this took about four hours because we had to do three batches in the oven, frost the cupcakes, cut the brownies with cookie cutters, roll the oreo truffles, let them harden, melt white chocolate, cover the oreo truffles with white chocolate, let them harden again.  It was a lot of work!  One batch of brownies didn't turn out very good and we cooked them a little too long, but it's all okay.  We made it work.  We are going to put them all into little individual bags tomorrow so that we can give them to our friends for Christmas!  I even have a small battle scar from today because I burned myself on one of the pans. Oops.

Roberto picked me up at 8 and we got pizza for dinner because Lorena wasn't home tonight.  Then I took a shower and braided my hair into four braids to see what it will look like curly in the morning.  This is the first time I've done this, so if it doesn't look good, I can just put it up into a pony tail! Problem solved.

Here's to tomorrow! The "end of the world"!... Or just another day at school.

Buonanotte!
~Devon