Jayla's Blog

This week for my 20% project I made red velvet cookies, with white chocolate chip and oreos inside of the cookie. The cookies came out really pretty and super delicious and sweet and soft. The only difficulty I had this week was mixing the cookie dough with the white chocolate chip and the crushed up oreos altogether. Another difficulty I had this week was that I made the cookies to big,and the cookies came out together and looked like one big cookie but I ended up just cutting them and reshaping them back into cookies. Next time I will make the cookie portions smaller so they don’t combine together. As an extra decoration I added drizzle frosting on the cookie and extra crush up oreos I had left over and sprinkled that on top. Next week I am gonna make fruity pebble cookies with drizzled frosting on top and crushed up fruity pebbles on top.

For my 20% project I chose to do my project on baking. I chose this topic since baking is a fun thing to do, not only for learning but also for your mistakes and fix them next time. This week I made strawberry cookies with a strawberry wafers crushed on top. This time I didn’t put water into the batter and the cookies came out better than last time, the cookies came out soft and fluffy. I put the cookies in the oven for about eight minutes and they came out perfect. I had no difficulties this week. I drizzled the cookies with white frosting, and sprinkled, crushed up strawberry wafers on some of the cookies, and on the other ones I sprinkled crushed up oreos. I also had leftover batter, so what I did was I made one big cookie and shaped it into a heart. Next week I will be making red velvet cookies with white chocolate chips, and Oreos.

If I were to have a favorite room it would be my room. It my favorite room since its cozy and comfortable. It has a all white walls and an all white door with a black door handle. When you walk in you’ll see my white vanity with my perfumes on the shelfs along with my body mists. On the bottom shelfs I have my clear jewelry box that have some necklaces and my earrings. On the side is my bed with gray fluffy pillows and blankets with a white blanket folded on the bottom. In front of my bed is a dresser with my clothes in with my TV on top and on the side is a full size mirror.

For my 20% project I chose to do my project on baking. I chose this topic since baking is a fun thing to do, not only for learning but also for your mistakes and fix them next time. This week I decided to try and make cookies monster cookies, they are blue cookies with white chocolate and and milk chocolate chips , they also have crushed oreos in them and ahoy cookies. Unfortunately this week I didn’t do so well on the cookies, and my cookies came out really tasty but super crummy. The cookies would fall apart or would make a mess , I also think I left the cookies in the oven for a little to long, so that might also be why they came out the way the did. Another reason why they came out not the way I expected is since I used cake mix instead of cookies mix. I used cake mix so that the cookies would come out more soft, when you use cookies mix the cookies come out hard. The cookies came out more like cake instead of cookies since I added water which I  was not supposed to , next week I will pick up on learning how to fix my cookies, so that they come out better, and I will not add water to the mixture and put less time on the cookies.

This spring break I spent it in Mexico,Jalisco. They had theses  things called fiestas which they do every year for 9 days. I only went for 7 days but still had lots of fun dancing with friends and family. The fiestas are lots of fun to go dance or just hang out with people, the town pays for music and small rides for the kids.

My dream job would be an actor. First it would be my dream job since I’ve always wanted to see what its like behind the scenes of a movie. Also I want to be an actor so that I can get paid good money. Another reason would be to meet famous people. It would be fun to meet all these people and take pictures with them.

This month I read a book called The summer I turned pretty by Jenny Han. It about this girl named belly and for each summer she goes to visit her mother’s best friend Susannah and her two sons Conrad and Jeremiah at cousins beach. Belly has always had her eyes on Conrad for as long as she can remember and she hopes  this summer will be different then the rest. Belly is a relatable character who has trouble figuring out who she is and what she wants.  Beside from Conrad belly meets this guy named  cam but her heart has always belonged to Conrad. I really liked this book because it has a love triangle between these 3 characters belly,Conrad and Jeremiah but the thing is Conrad and Jeremiah are both brothers. I also liked this book because it’s a good summer book and focuses on romance but also family drama. My favorite character would most likely be Jeremiah because he’s a caring, supportive person to belly and the people he’s around. To support this,  on page 64 he says “nah, ill stay with belly.” He says this because it had been raining for three days and belly got sick so Jeremiah stayed with her inside to keep her company. My favorite quote from this book would be “for Belly ,Conrad is the sun. And when the sun comes out, the stars disappear.”

The quote I choose from Albus Dumbledore was “Happiness can be found in the darkest of times’’, when one only remembers to turn on the light.”from Albus Dumbledore. Which it deeper meaning is no matter how deeply you may feel in a hole of sorrow , there is always a light at the end of the tunnel. I choose this quote since I feel like it relates to me in a few ways like one way it that to never give up, which relates to me since I always feel like giving up.

If I were to pick a hero it would be God. I would pick God since he’s done so many things for us to live and have the resources. He died for our sins and he died since he cared for us. He is the reason I have survived through things. He’s given me life, air to breath, shelter, and a family that provides my food and clothes.

Instead of of making a new year’s resolution, I am going to focus on one word. That one word would be courage. It would be that word since for 2025 I want to have lots of courage towards things in school, and things outside of school. I want to have courage to try new things. I want to have courage to try my best in things.