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.

Lemon coconut-ice slice

This recipe is one of my favourites from Lola Berry’s cookbook. She has a recipe book called ‘The Happy Cookbook’.

Makes around 9 slices

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup of shredded coconut
  • ¼ cup of maple syrup or honey
  • ¼ cup of melted coconut oil
  • A dash or vanilla extract
  • 3 eggs, regular size
  • Zest and the juice of 1 lemon
  • ¼ cup of almond meal (or plain flour)
  • 1 teaspoon of baking powder
  • A pinch of salt

Method:

The method is easy. First pre heat the oven to 180 degrees C and line a 20 x 20 cm baking tray with baking paper.

Combine all the ingredients in one bowl; the mixture will be quite thick. Spoon all the mixture into the tray you have prepared and pop in the oven for 20 minutes. When ready, skewer should come out clean if inserted into the slice. If it is not, just cook for a little longer.

Remove it from the oven and let it cool for a while. Cut it into slices and serve or you can crumble it over your yoghurt or ice cream.

Mud Topic Story

I was just a kid. Around seven years old when Gret and I became friends. I lived in a dry area where it had never rained till that one day where I met Gret. The last time it had rained where we lived was over 90 years ago.

I was playing outside while my family were inside doing the usual- watching TV, they never went outside. When I felt the drop on my shoulder I got scared. I had never learned about rain till then, never even heard of it before. It was clear and I thought someone was trying to kill me. But then more and more water drops fell to the floor and started to stir up the brown dirt, producing puddles. I thought if this is how I’m going to die I may as well have a good time. So I started jumping in the puddles. It was fun. Gooey dirt flying everywhere.

My clothes were getting ruined but I was not worried. But then I was worried when something grabbed the back of my foot. A hand similar to a human’s but also completely different. It had a cold touch to it. I looked over my shoulder to see a blue, human sized blob. He spoke in a wise voice and said ‘I have chosen you’. After he had said that he started moving backwards towards a dry area, still holding onto my foot. He stood up. He then touched me on my shoulder and when I looked down at myself I saw I was clean and dry. He was magic! Turns out I did not die. And we are now best friends.

My Three Weekends

The past three weekends have been so fun! The first good weekend my family and I went to the Lion King, the second weekend was my brother and sister’s ball and the third weekend I went to the Good Life Festival.

The Lion King was a play in Perth that my family and our family friends went to. It’s a huge show played by Africans at the Crown Theatre in Perth. It is played twice a day every day for weeks and every time there are over a thousand people watching.

When the play first began I cried; all the actors were singing and dancing so well. It was intensely good. I had goose bumps the whole time I was there. The show was funny and extremely creative. There were four levels of seating and our group of friends all sat in the second row, first row off the ground and we were sitting on the very side seats. Our view was good although by sitting on the very side it did cut off a bit of the show. I cried twice again because it was so good.

We stayed at Karrinyup Waters Caravan Park and got the coolest little unit. It had just been done up and everything was so flash. There were ducks and swans everywhere you went because of the big lake near us.

The second weekend was the twins ball it was amazing. Max’s date was a girl called Clare and Stella’s date was a guy called Ryan. Stella was wearing a long, navy dress with white flower crochet patterned on her chest up to her neck. It was a halter neck dress and tight fitted on her. Max’s date was wearing a black and white halter neck dress that fell to the floor. The two girls both looked stunning.

It was a whole day thing because getting every one ready took hours and then we had to get photos done at the jetty. All the partners arrived at the actual ball in these olden day cars and each partner walked up red carpet to the building. I liked the night so much and it wasn’t even my ball!IMG_5008.JPGThis photo was taken at the ball.

Good life, a music festival for under 18s. I went with Macey’s family to Perth. When Macey and I arrived at the festival we met up with a few people. It started at four o’ clock and it was so hot! There were so people and everyone was sweating so badly. Macey and I waited in a line for about an hour to see someone I didn’t even know till that day. My favourite part of the day was getting to see Asap Rocky.

The day was so fun and exciting. There were rides and water slides and heaps of stages, two indoor and two outdoors. The main stage was outside which Asap Rocky and the more famous people played on. The other stages were more for the DJs. I will most likely go next year.