10th grade Talk

 My Thoughts on Baking Baking is a hobby of mine and also like a second job aside from the restaurant I work at. It started a while back as something simple: taking a few baking classes with some friends. But it then became something bigger.  I have always been into baking because my mom was. She would make cookies almost every week and also made me and my siblings birthday cakes, whatever we wanted, every year since we were young. It then became something fun and exciting for me to be able to also create delicious things, from scratch, that could be anything I wanted, and a good activity to do with friends and family.  Eventually, baking became more than just a hobby to me. I started to get requests from others to make cakes for baby showers, christenings, birthdays, anything. Although now that I have become very preoccupied with school, tennis, work, studying, and a lot more, I have not been able to bake often, it was always flattering and exhilarating to hear that some...

Okay, so I couldn't figure out what to write about for my first blog post. It took a couple of weeks until I started to spitball ideas with my friend that made me realize I should write a 'who's better' type of piece. So in this competition, we have my 3 dogs, Pierce, Bella, and Toby against Juliette Sanchez's cat, Mikey. My dogs will have to come in a package, they are a team and will obviously always win in my heart! :) Mikey’s Story:  Mikey was born on a farm in upstate New York. In New York, Mikey was more of an outdoor cat, rather than a house cat- he was very aggressive in nature. Sometimes he would come back with scratches from  fights with beavers. Juliette’s grandfather took him in, but couldn’t come to continue taking care of him. Her grandfather then offered Juliette’s father, in Spanish, an opportunity to have Mikey live in the Sanchez household. Her father didn’t really side with the idea of having a cat in the house. Her grandfather then asked Juliette...

The Drive to School (Could Not Upload Pictures) Driving to school is a pain. My sister drives me to school every morning, we live about 10 minutes from the school but it takes about 25-30 minutes just to get into the school. The traffic to school is absurd and annoying. The first few days we went down Glen Road and would get stuck in the traffic as soon as we got to the bottom of the road and would be sitting there forever and once we got to the school it would still take a while just to get through all that traffic. We would have to wait in lines around every corner and I felt bad for anyone not trying to get to a school because they had to waste half their drive just sitting in school traffic. The first few days they had messed up the school start times so not only did we have to be with all the high school traffic but all the middle schoolers trying to get to school were also in our traffic. Now we go down Edison Road and avoid all the traffic until we get to the high school, once w...

Here are some of my favorite Harry Styles song's that I believe everyone should listen to  (In no specific order)  1. "To Be So Lonely" is the seventh song on the Fine Line album, it is a lighter song but has a lot of meaning behind it. In this song, Harry Styles is basically backing up or explaining his side of a breakup. Putting it that way makes it sound like any generic song, but you can't even tell it's a breakup song until you goggle it or someone tells you. It does have a couple bad words so be careful if you're listening with your mother.  I didn't always love his music, I thought it was really hard to get into, just really hard to be obsessed with. I have come to adore, see what I did there, his music because of my friends love for him. "To Be So Lonely" was immediately one of my top songs on his album. 2. "Golden" is the opening song on the Fine Line album, the energy of the song is just overflowing with happiness. This song i...

  I've always had a love, hate relationship with the dress code. Dress code is everywhere...it's in certain restaurants, at work, in schools, or simply just out in public. I've personally only been dress coded 2 or 3 times, but I know several girls that have been dress coded almost everyday...so here's my thoughts about it.      Dress code is necessary in some circumstances...the problem is when females get obsessively sexualized is where I believe it crosses a line. For example, two girls could wear a tight shirt and jeans...but these two girls have two different body types. That's where the issue hits. Most times one girl is shamed for it, while the other is not. It's not either of their faults, they can't control that they are two different people who look completely different. It's just unfair that girls have to be put down constantly because they don't fit the standards dress code demands. Having someone come up to you, and tell you that you are...

     For the past 2,400 years, humans have adapted the idea of astrology and horoscopes. Originally created by the Babylonians, Astrology has made its way across the Mediterranean into the rest of the world and still remains a popular belief, in fact, over 70 million people in The United States alone read their daily horoscopes, according to the American Federation of Astrologers. These people that read their horoscopes will seek advice and live their lives according to the stars. Now call me crazy, but I don't think giant balls of gas 4.37 light-years away have any impact on a single individual's personal life.        Let's get one thing clear, there is a difference between astrology and astronomy. One is science, the other is BS. Astronomy is the movement of celestial bodies, using physics, math, and chemistry, Astronimists study planets, stars, and all the wonders that reside in our universe. Astrology however is a pseudoscience, a belief...

Warsaw, Poland  This past summer has to be one of my more chaotic ones. I was constantly out and about, whether it was sports, spending time with my family/friends, or traveling. At first, when school ended, I had a week where there was nothing, but then lacrosse camp started. I was up at 7 a.m. every morning getting to work with a bunch of little kids for 5 hours. The funny thing is I don't even like kids but still optionally chose to be with the K-4th graders. Once that was over, my parents and I traveled to Poland and we were going all around the country without a break for two weeks. Sleeping in the same bedroom as my snoring parents is something that I would never like to experience. As we traveled to all the different cities, we spent a couple of days wandering around the unknown places, we would get back and I'd be stuck with the same people I spent the whole day with. All I needed was a little break. Thankfully once we got back from the two week trip that felt like two ...