little Holiday

A few weeks ago my family and I went up north. Well the twins didn’t come. I love going up there, the memories I make up there are my favourite memories I make.

We were there in Gnaralloo for about two weeks. During the second week Fran, her son and Bec came up. Bec stayed at The Bluff with her friends.

We spent most of the first week at Tombies watching the surf – it was huge. There were heaps of old and new famous surfers out. Dad and and Eli were in paradise. We hung out with lots of people from Kalbarri, met lots of new people and met the same people we had met at the same time last year.

Midgies is a snorkelling area in from Tombies and that’s where a few others and I hung out. Dad didn’t get to drive the whole time – Eli, Sam and I did. Driving was probably my favourite part of going up there. Although I hit a roo at night, that was scary. We did a few Bluff trips and hung out there. The pizza and smoothies are perfect there.

Snorkelling wasn’t nice until the second week because of the big swell. The first real snorkel we did, we saw stingrays, turtles and sharks. There were heaps of fish and things- but I find those things more interesting. I found a few sand dollars which I was happiest about and I’m soon going to make a dream catcher with them and a few other nice shells I found.

Leaving definitely wasn’t fun but I mean we got to buy seventy dollars worth of bananas on the way back. 🙂

The Collector

The last book I read was called “The Collector”.  I recently moved into my sister’s old room and found this book. ‘The Collector’ was the book her class had to study during year 11.

The book is about a lonely young man, Fred, who has hobbies of collecting butterflies and photography. He liked to collect the rare, special butterflies. Although, when he wins the pools and sets eyes on an art student called Miranda, his focus is only on her. In his eyes she was the perfect woman. She loved life and was extremely creative.

Fred was then determined to make her into his wife. With all the money he had just won he bought an old house with a cellar in a remote area. Fred converts the cellar into a guest room for Miranda. A guest room you can’t escape from. With months of analysing her and preparing, Fred abducts her.

Buying her everything she liked, like art books, clothes, etc. Fred presumed that Miranda would come to love him after all the goods he had bought for her. But the only thing Miranda truly wants but can’t have is her freedom.

I loved reading this book because of the character Miranda. I liked her personality- sneaky, quick thinking and creative. Fred creeped me out during the book. He was so obsessed with Miranda and the way he treated her was mean.

The first half of the book is in Fred’s perspective and the second is in hers. Whilst I was reading Fred’s half I constantly was confused as to why she was enjoying it there but once I got to her perspective I found out she was all pretending for her escape plan.

I enjoyed reading this book and I suggest for you to read it as well.

Banana Donuts

 

I make these donuts a fair bit!

(I changed the recipe to how I like it.)

Ingredients:

  • Two cups of plain flour
  • Two teaspoons of baking powder
  • One pinch of salt
  • 2/3 of a cup of coconut sugar (you can use any type of sugar)
  • Three eggs
  • One cup of Greek style yoghurt
  • One banana, mashed

Directions:

  1. Turn on the donut cooker.
  2. Mix all of the dry ingredients together in a medium bowl
  3. Mix the wet ingredient well together in a large bowl
  4. Mix both together in the large bowl, the batter should be thick but still pourable
  5. These rise a lot so don’t overfill the moulds.
  6. Cook for a few minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean

For the icing (I don’t usually make it,) powder the coconut sugar- by blending it up- and mix with warm water.

To be honest these are sort of tough but I like that. I hope you like the taste of them!

A Girl Like Her

‘A Girl Like Her’ is a movie that I recently watched. I will write about it because I think everyone inside and outside of school should watch it.

It is an intensely sad movie about bullying. The movie is filmed in both the victim and bully’s perspective. It is a fictionalized documentary about their lives.

16 year-old Jessica, had been bullied for over a year by her ex-friend, Avery. Avery was the most popular girl in school. She was generally nice around everyone besides Jessica. She was constantly calling Jessica horrible names, embarrassing her and shoving her around. Jessica’s best friend, Brian, helps her out the whole time doing whatever he could. He had decided to put a secret camera on Jessica’s shirt so she could capture all the things Avery said and did. And Brian had a camera of his own, although Brian had to swear not to show anyone the footage they had collected.

After her attempt to commit suicide and she is put in a coma, Avery refuses to admit she had anything to do with it. Although, little did she know Jessica and Brian had caught it all on camera- the bullying. When the cameramen interview the students from the school they all suggest that Avery was the one victimising Jessica. Still Avery refused to say anything and was still being mean about it all. Brian figured that the only way Avery was going to confess what she had done and apologise to Jessica was by showing the footage of her bullying. After that, she then realised what she had been doing and felt extremely bad for what she had done.

This movie has changed the way many people act and treat people and I recommend everyone to watch it.