Apple Crumble
Ingredients:
1/2 a packet of Buttersnap biscuits
1 small packet of dried apple rings
A pinch of cinnamon
Fruit box size of long life cream or custard (Deavondale)
Method:
Simmer apple rings in very small amount of water until soft and plumpy ( fully re-hydrated). Keeping adding small amounts of water as it absorbed. Add a pinch of cinnamon to the apple. Whilst you are cooking the apple you can use your mug or any hard object and a plate to crush the biscuit for the crumble. Sprinkle the crumble on the apple and serve with cream or custard.
Tuesday, 14 February 2012
Novel
The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian
By Sherman Alexie
The Black-Eye-of-the-Month Club
1. Junior is in this club because kids consider him retarded and kids on the res who are retards get beaten up at least once a month.
2. He draws cartoon's because they are his way of escape out his his life. His first two pictures depict that he doesn't might teasing himself or demotivating himself.
3. The style of writing in the first chapter is very casual, and negative as the author describes the character as a person who is always bullied and harassed.
Why Chicken Means So Much to Me
1. To him the worst thing about being poor is not being able to help his best friend Oscar ( his pet dog) his family was too poor so they could not afford to pay for treatment so he weeped and cried. His mum and dad decided to put the poor dog out of his misery and so they shot the dog.
2. It shows that Junior and his family can not afford to eat everyday as they are so poor, but when his dad brings a big bucket of KFC he is starving and that is why the food tastes better.
3. Oscar gets extremely sick and he suffers a lot, he is really badly suffering so Juniors dad shoots him to put him out of his misery. This illustrates that the family are not able to look after the poor dog and they don't what him to suffer either as they are nice people.
4. Poverty is a cycle in Juniors family because according to him poverty doesn't give strength or teach you lessons about preservence but instead it just teaches you about being poor.
5. Five adjectives that would describe Juniors personality so far would be, artistic, smart, negative, poetic and retarded.
Revenge Is My Middle Name
1. Junior and Rowdy's relationship is really odd, as Junior is a smart, nerdy boy and Rowdy is the tough and harsh boy. Rowdy however look after Junior as he is weak and fragile, but he only does this because Junior is the only person who truly understands his feelings.
2. The Spokane Powwow is an annual powwow celebration over the Labour Day weekend. At the powwow there usually is singing, war dancing, gambling, storytelling, laughter. fry bread, hamburgers, hot dogs, arts and crafts, plus there would be plenty of alcoholic brawling.
3. Rowdy snuck into the Andrusses tent and shaved their eyebrows off and cut their braids off. Rowdy did these things because the three brothers were playing catch with him and calling him names which included hydro because of his brain condition and they kneed him in the balls. This shows that Junior and Rowdy are close friends as they were born only two hours different from each other and they are the only ones who understand each others feelings.
Because Geometry Is Not a Country Somewhere Near France
1. Mr P is an old man that teaches at the local school in the Reservation, he sometimes forgets to come to school. He sometimes teaches class in his pyjamas, the tribe houses all the teachers in a one bedroom cottage, this is because you are not allowed to teach at the school and his always sleepy.
2. He doesn't like white people because they are considered as the liberal, white, vegetarian do-gooders and conservative, white missionary saviours. Junior hates how they think they are so important because they help the children on the reservation to get some education.
3. He feels annoyed that his school and his tribe are so poor and sad hat they have to study from books that their parents studied form. Which roughly means that the book would be 30 years older that him, he felt horrible as the book actually had Agnes Adams written on the front, he felt that his hopes and dreams floated up in a mushroom cloud.
Hope Against Hope
1. Junior threw his geometry book because he was so annoyed and frustrated at the fact that the book was 30 years older than himself. It signifies that he still hasn't lost hope and he wants to learn and be knowledgeable and want to be like his sister in the end.
2. He says these things because all the Indians on the reserve have given up, he uses examples like Rowdy to describe what he means he explains why Rowdy doesn't hurt Junior because he was they only good thing in Rowdy's life and he doesn't want to give up on him. He explains how all the kids have given up, all his friends, all the bullies, their parents and their grandparents even the teachers on the reserve have given up.
3. Mr P's advice to Junior is to leave the reserve forever. Mr P recons that Junior has been fighting from the day he was born as he fought off the seizures, he fought off all the drunks and drug addicts and he kept his hope. He believes that Junior will find more and more hope the farther yo walk away from the reservation.
Go Means Go
1. Junior's parents react very well with Junior's desicion to change schools, it was almost like they were hoping for him to change schools, this shows that they still haven't lost hope in their son and want him to succed in life and have a better one than what they were having and are having.
Rowdy Sings the Blues
1. Sporting results are used often to compare the two schools as that was the only thing that was common between the two schools. Reardan where better in everything else as the had all the money and education, they needed to succseded in life.
2. Rowdy reacts very badly to Junior's decision to change schools, he thinks that Junior has turned into a white lover so he shouldn't be friendes with someone who goes to a white person's school. He also feels upset and cries as he lost his one and only friend.
3. Rowdy disguises his pain by screaming and stopping himself from crying, eventhough he felt so much pain and misery as he lost his only friend who understands him it also shows that he really cared about him and now he has nobody to help him through his tough times at his home.
How to Fight Monsters
1. Junior has deemed to have betrayed his tribe becuase he changed school's from Wellpint High to Reardon, so all the other Indians on the reservation think he has betrayed their beliefs and ideas about the white people as he is going to mix with them.
2. It shows the difference between the two races and how much there is a rich and poor side in the society. It symbolizes that Junior thinks and believes he has no hope being an Indian as white people get everything good in their life where as the Indians don't get anything that can help them in their future.
3. On the reservation people normally call him by his nick name where as in Reardon they call him by his proper christened name. He did know about this so he told his nick name to everybody and when the role was called out there was confusion about who it was.
4. They acted strangely towards him the Reardon boys who paid attention to him didn't get violent or punched him they only called him names. When he punched Roger in the face and gave him a blood nose he gained respect and the kids treated him normally.
5. He could have reacted violenty to all the name calling but instead he felt fraid and scared that they might bash him up, so he kept a low profile and decided to ignore all the name calling, but he still didn't like them calling him names.
6. In the reservation you had to win fist fights to gain respect and they would get into them all the time and nobody would care, but in Reardan nobody got into fist fights as they consider it cruel and ill mannered. They tease, harrass and bully but they will never get into fight with the person unlike on the res where they would definately do that.
7. It is a significant moment in Junior's life as he thinks he has gained some respect and they won't give him as much or any trouble. He also thinks that his world has shifted from being a punching bag to someone who is not picked on or troubled by big, strong, and powerful boys.
Grandmother Gives Me Some Advice
1. He learns that he couldn't count on anyone to help him or keep him safe anymore as his best friend hated him and wouldn't help him even if it was life or death becuase he apparently betrayed him and left him for whtie people and white culture.
2. Junior's grandmother's advice is that becuase he stood up for he thought was right, he gained respect from the other boys and now they wouldn't bother him, but if they do knee them in the balls next time. Mainly that they pushed him around to see how tough he was.
Tears of a Clown
1. Junior's story about Dawn illustres that Junior is a big dreamer, he fell in love with the best powwow dancer on the res, he told his feelings about her to Rowdy who explained the situation andmade him understand that Dawn doesn't care about him, it also shows that Junior is an emotional boy who reliases on Rowdy for most things, he even reliases that Rowdy is his secret keeper and they would often share them with each other but they don't do that anymore.
By Sherman Alexie
The Black-Eye-of-the-Month Club
1. Junior is in this club because kids consider him retarded and kids on the res who are retards get beaten up at least once a month.
2. He draws cartoon's because they are his way of escape out his his life. His first two pictures depict that he doesn't might teasing himself or demotivating himself.
3. The style of writing in the first chapter is very casual, and negative as the author describes the character as a person who is always bullied and harassed.
Why Chicken Means So Much to Me
1. To him the worst thing about being poor is not being able to help his best friend Oscar ( his pet dog) his family was too poor so they could not afford to pay for treatment so he weeped and cried. His mum and dad decided to put the poor dog out of his misery and so they shot the dog.
2. It shows that Junior and his family can not afford to eat everyday as they are so poor, but when his dad brings a big bucket of KFC he is starving and that is why the food tastes better.
3. Oscar gets extremely sick and he suffers a lot, he is really badly suffering so Juniors dad shoots him to put him out of his misery. This illustrates that the family are not able to look after the poor dog and they don't what him to suffer either as they are nice people.
4. Poverty is a cycle in Juniors family because according to him poverty doesn't give strength or teach you lessons about preservence but instead it just teaches you about being poor.
5. Five adjectives that would describe Juniors personality so far would be, artistic, smart, negative, poetic and retarded.
Revenge Is My Middle Name
1. Junior and Rowdy's relationship is really odd, as Junior is a smart, nerdy boy and Rowdy is the tough and harsh boy. Rowdy however look after Junior as he is weak and fragile, but he only does this because Junior is the only person who truly understands his feelings.
2. The Spokane Powwow is an annual powwow celebration over the Labour Day weekend. At the powwow there usually is singing, war dancing, gambling, storytelling, laughter. fry bread, hamburgers, hot dogs, arts and crafts, plus there would be plenty of alcoholic brawling.
3. Rowdy snuck into the Andrusses tent and shaved their eyebrows off and cut their braids off. Rowdy did these things because the three brothers were playing catch with him and calling him names which included hydro because of his brain condition and they kneed him in the balls. This shows that Junior and Rowdy are close friends as they were born only two hours different from each other and they are the only ones who understand each others feelings.
Because Geometry Is Not a Country Somewhere Near France
1. Mr P is an old man that teaches at the local school in the Reservation, he sometimes forgets to come to school. He sometimes teaches class in his pyjamas, the tribe houses all the teachers in a one bedroom cottage, this is because you are not allowed to teach at the school and his always sleepy.
2. He doesn't like white people because they are considered as the liberal, white, vegetarian do-gooders and conservative, white missionary saviours. Junior hates how they think they are so important because they help the children on the reservation to get some education.
3. He feels annoyed that his school and his tribe are so poor and sad hat they have to study from books that their parents studied form. Which roughly means that the book would be 30 years older that him, he felt horrible as the book actually had Agnes Adams written on the front, he felt that his hopes and dreams floated up in a mushroom cloud.
Hope Against Hope
1. Junior threw his geometry book because he was so annoyed and frustrated at the fact that the book was 30 years older than himself. It signifies that he still hasn't lost hope and he wants to learn and be knowledgeable and want to be like his sister in the end.
2. He says these things because all the Indians on the reserve have given up, he uses examples like Rowdy to describe what he means he explains why Rowdy doesn't hurt Junior because he was they only good thing in Rowdy's life and he doesn't want to give up on him. He explains how all the kids have given up, all his friends, all the bullies, their parents and their grandparents even the teachers on the reserve have given up.
3. Mr P's advice to Junior is to leave the reserve forever. Mr P recons that Junior has been fighting from the day he was born as he fought off the seizures, he fought off all the drunks and drug addicts and he kept his hope. He believes that Junior will find more and more hope the farther yo walk away from the reservation.
Go Means Go
1. Junior's parents react very well with Junior's desicion to change schools, it was almost like they were hoping for him to change schools, this shows that they still haven't lost hope in their son and want him to succed in life and have a better one than what they were having and are having.
Rowdy Sings the Blues
1. Sporting results are used often to compare the two schools as that was the only thing that was common between the two schools. Reardan where better in everything else as the had all the money and education, they needed to succseded in life.
2. Rowdy reacts very badly to Junior's decision to change schools, he thinks that Junior has turned into a white lover so he shouldn't be friendes with someone who goes to a white person's school. He also feels upset and cries as he lost his one and only friend.
3. Rowdy disguises his pain by screaming and stopping himself from crying, eventhough he felt so much pain and misery as he lost his only friend who understands him it also shows that he really cared about him and now he has nobody to help him through his tough times at his home.
How to Fight Monsters
1. Junior has deemed to have betrayed his tribe becuase he changed school's from Wellpint High to Reardon, so all the other Indians on the reservation think he has betrayed their beliefs and ideas about the white people as he is going to mix with them.
2. It shows the difference between the two races and how much there is a rich and poor side in the society. It symbolizes that Junior thinks and believes he has no hope being an Indian as white people get everything good in their life where as the Indians don't get anything that can help them in their future.
3. On the reservation people normally call him by his nick name where as in Reardon they call him by his proper christened name. He did know about this so he told his nick name to everybody and when the role was called out there was confusion about who it was.
4. They acted strangely towards him the Reardon boys who paid attention to him didn't get violent or punched him they only called him names. When he punched Roger in the face and gave him a blood nose he gained respect and the kids treated him normally.
5. He could have reacted violenty to all the name calling but instead he felt fraid and scared that they might bash him up, so he kept a low profile and decided to ignore all the name calling, but he still didn't like them calling him names.
6. In the reservation you had to win fist fights to gain respect and they would get into them all the time and nobody would care, but in Reardan nobody got into fist fights as they consider it cruel and ill mannered. They tease, harrass and bully but they will never get into fight with the person unlike on the res where they would definately do that.
7. It is a significant moment in Junior's life as he thinks he has gained some respect and they won't give him as much or any trouble. He also thinks that his world has shifted from being a punching bag to someone who is not picked on or troubled by big, strong, and powerful boys.
Grandmother Gives Me Some Advice
1. He learns that he couldn't count on anyone to help him or keep him safe anymore as his best friend hated him and wouldn't help him even if it was life or death becuase he apparently betrayed him and left him for whtie people and white culture.
2. Junior's grandmother's advice is that becuase he stood up for he thought was right, he gained respect from the other boys and now they wouldn't bother him, but if they do knee them in the balls next time. Mainly that they pushed him around to see how tough he was.
Tears of a Clown
1. Junior's story about Dawn illustres that Junior is a big dreamer, he fell in love with the best powwow dancer on the res, he told his feelings about her to Rowdy who explained the situation andmade him understand that Dawn doesn't care about him, it also shows that Junior is an emotional boy who reliases on Rowdy for most things, he even reliases that Rowdy is his secret keeper and they would often share them with each other but they don't do that anymore.
Living in a Wardli
Highs of Living in a Wardli
I think my strentghs in the wardli are that I ge ton with the work, I don't complain and I finish what is required and help other when they need it. I would like to improve my ability to communicate with the others and they do not know if I require help, I would also like to improve my indepence as I think i am alright in that aspect but I like to become even better.
Probably the biggest issuse was that a certain member in our Wardli was not doing his jobs properly and arguing a lot. He would often get up late and do things very slowly, like when emptying the bins he would take around 10 minutes. Then the second issuse was that the same individual would not allow us to cook or do anything in the kitchen durring dinner time, so we were really annoyed as on international night we had to force him away from the kitchen to allow and international boy cook. Then the final issuse was that during a washing load we would ask everyone if they had anything to wash, but the same person from before would say no and then when we are all finished he do a seperate load with a pair of socks, a t-shirt, two shorts and a couple of underwear, we all agreed that it was a waste of water and electricty. We raised all these issuses in the first wardli meeting and after that the member really changed and beome more helpful, I myself suggested that the only that person should do the kitchen so that if he fails he will get penalised not all of us.
My experiences have really impactes on my thoughts of my household and the role I play at home. I have had to lower my expectations for others, I have also had to step up for myself and not be passive as this program is about empowering us. I ahve also changed the way I do things do benifit our wardli even more, I have been getting on with things I know need to be done so I do them, I also am able to help people with jobs they are struggling with such as mopping or sweeping their area.
SESSION 2
My approach to maintaing a succesful Wardli for the remainder of the program is to just get on with your work, if you see something that has to be done then just do it, if you have finshed early in your area and you can see that someone else is struggling in their area and needs a bit of help then just do it otherwise you will get the blame as well. We should also learn to cooperate with others otherwise we will never get anything done.
- Making new friends
- Strengthening existing friendships
- Independence
- Great Laughter
- Cooking
- Eating
- Responsibilty
- Learning about yourself
- Learning and doing new things
- Having nobody nagging or telling us what to do
- Living with certain individuals who are very lazy
- Solving problems
- Keeping the Wardli clean
- Running
- Sharing a room
- Not enough relaxation time
- No internet
- No TV
- Lowering your expectation of others
- Cooking
- Cooperating
- Using initiative
- Showing respect
- Not being selfish
- To have a good time
- Show respect
- Be optimistic
- Be a team member
- Be independent
- Enjoy myself
I think my strentghs in the wardli are that I ge ton with the work, I don't complain and I finish what is required and help other when they need it. I would like to improve my ability to communicate with the others and they do not know if I require help, I would also like to improve my indepence as I think i am alright in that aspect but I like to become even better.
Probably the biggest issuse was that a certain member in our Wardli was not doing his jobs properly and arguing a lot. He would often get up late and do things very slowly, like when emptying the bins he would take around 10 minutes. Then the second issuse was that the same individual would not allow us to cook or do anything in the kitchen durring dinner time, so we were really annoyed as on international night we had to force him away from the kitchen to allow and international boy cook. Then the final issuse was that during a washing load we would ask everyone if they had anything to wash, but the same person from before would say no and then when we are all finished he do a seperate load with a pair of socks, a t-shirt, two shorts and a couple of underwear, we all agreed that it was a waste of water and electricty. We raised all these issuses in the first wardli meeting and after that the member really changed and beome more helpful, I myself suggested that the only that person should do the kitchen so that if he fails he will get penalised not all of us.
My experiences have really impactes on my thoughts of my household and the role I play at home. I have had to lower my expectations for others, I have also had to step up for myself and not be passive as this program is about empowering us. I ahve also changed the way I do things do benifit our wardli even more, I have been getting on with things I know need to be done so I do them, I also am able to help people with jobs they are struggling with such as mopping or sweeping their area.
SESSION 2
- They should be able to do things indepently, they should not be asked to do anything as they should just get on with the work which is required.
- They should always lead by example as others will always look up to someone who does their work properly and effeciently.
- They should make everyone feel happy and cheerful as they should lighten the mood and make everyone feel alright when working with the others.
- They should also be able to take on board critisicm and not reject them or ignore them as it could be for their benifit.
- They should not relax until everyone is finished otherwise the workload will be shifted and the others will feel stress.
My approach to maintaing a succesful Wardli for the remainder of the program is to just get on with your work, if you see something that has to be done then just do it, if you have finshed early in your area and you can see that someone else is struggling in their area and needs a bit of help then just do it otherwise you will get the blame as well. We should also learn to cooperate with others otherwise we will never get anything done.
Poetry
The Poem
The rocky cliffs are smashed by thr hurricane force waves.
Slowly yet steadily they eroded away.
Then it dies down,
It is calm and peaceful.
Look it is a rock pool,
Inside is a crab scuttling away.
And over there we can go snorkelling,
What do I see colourful little annemonie.
There it goes,
What is it? you ask,
It turns out to be my poem floating away.
I wish it sank and disappered before I swim after it.
The rocky cliffs are smashed by thr hurricane force waves.
Slowly yet steadily they eroded away.
Then it dies down,
It is calm and peaceful.
Look it is a rock pool,
Inside is a crab scuttling away.
And over there we can go snorkelling,
What do I see colourful little annemonie.
There it goes,
What is it? you ask,
It turns out to be my poem floating away.
I wish it sank and disappered before I swim after it.
Masterchef Challenge
On Wednesday we took place in a master chef challenge, in which all four wardli's went up against each other with two hours to cook and clean up. Our menu included 2 dishes including a chocolate and banana cake with a Milo sauce and chocolate buttons on top, we also made a vegetarian stirfry.We tried to make the room seem large and cool we even sprayed some of Bill's expensive aftershave. We cooled the room with the air conditioner to create an atmosphere Bill offered his aftershave to the judges. Ray and myself tried to make a butterscotch pudding but it majorly failed and so I helped with the decoration on the cake. We ended up coming secondwith 37/50 and got to choose our prize. We decided to go skip the night session so we stayed in our Wardli, played cards and enjoyed our time. The best part was we got to miss out on the write up of this but I had to catch up on it later though. I still enjoyed particapting in the competition, but now I regret our decision and wish we chose the sleep in and didn't have to do game in the morning.
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