Tuesday 20 March 2012

KONY 2012

Joseph Kony is one of the worlds worst war criminals.

Joseph Kony was born in 1961 in Gula, northern Uganda, to a family of farmers. He is a member of the Acholi  people. His father was a lay catechist of the catholic church and his mother was an Anglican. Joseph Kony was a altar boy for several years but stopped at the age of 15 and also dropped out of school.

For 26 years Kony has been kidnapping children into his rebel group the L.R.A. They have abducted more than 30,000 children. He makes girls sex slaves, boys are forced to be soldiers and mutilate peoples faces and kill their own familys. People cant sleep in their own homes as they are terrified that the rebels will arrest and kill them. 

A documentary has been released by the invisible children inc called KONY 2012. It has received over 83,423,510 views already and the documentary expires on the 31st December 2012. The documentary shows some of the things he has done to kids and is about a child called Jacob who has gone through most of the things Kony has done. There is an action kit that has nick-nacks to help spread the awareness of Joseph Kony. The aim is to arrest Joseph Kony as soon as possible to stop what he is doing to children and familys.

Tuesday 13 March 2012

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my book review

I chose to read a book called Darke Academy secret lives written by Gabriella Poole. I chose to read this book because my twin sister read it and loved it so she recommended that i read it too.

This book is about a school that moves to a new city every term. The students in it are beautiful, rich and sophisticated. Every year there is a scholarship girl and this year it is Cassie Bell. However as she learns more about the school history she comes to understand that knowing a little knowledge can be deadly, but knowing too much can be deadly. 

There is a special group called the chosen few which is a group of students who keep outsiders away and like to keep to them self's. Everyone is dying to join the chosen few but they don't know what the group is really about and what they have to go through to join it. All of the girls in the chosen few hate Cassie only because the most popular girl in it called Erika hates her because shes jealous that all the boys in the chosen few start to fancy Cassie, one boy in particular called Richard. 

She tries to find out the history about the Academy as the last scholarship girl died in mysterious circumstances. After awhile she comes to understand that there is a dark stranger prowling the corridors at night. When she starts to notice that some people are missing from classes that are room mates with people from the chosen few she starts investigating. But what she does find is nothing that she expected and she nearly ends up getting killed. 

Later when she finds who the nightly corridor prowler shes shocked to find that he is the brother of the scholarship girl who died and shes shocked even more to find he is in the chosen few. He explains why he roams the corridors at night, to find out what happened to his sister.

When she starts to date Richard things start to get serious between them to and he starts telling her things about the chosen few. She starts to want to join the chosen few only to find out more about them. When she is on a date with Richard he tricks here into becoming on of the chosen few. She wishes she never went with him because of what she has to go through. To be in the chosen few she has to get her soul drained out of her and replaced by the devils.





Monday 5 March 2012

instructions


Chocolate Fondant
serves 4

ingredients:
50g butter plus extra to grease moulds
50g bittersweet chocolate (min 70%)
1 whole egg
1 egg yolk
60g caster sugar
50g flour

method:

1. pre-heat oven to 180c
2. Slowly melt butter and chocolate together over a low heat.
3. Wisk the eggs and sugar together until pale, then fold into the chocolate. Add the flour and fold in gently.
4. Spoon the mixture into moulds until 1cm from the top. Bake for 12 minutes only! (depending on how big the molds are)
5. Turn out very gently upside down onto warm plates.
6. Garnish with icing sugar.
7. serve with a berry coulis and ice cream.

berry coulis:

 1 cup mixed frozen berries
 2 tablespoons sugar

method:

1. on a low heat stir the berries and sugar until berries are soft and sugar has caramelised.
2. Once the berries are soft pour into a strainer and strain until there are only pips left in the strainer.

tips:

1. prepare ingredients before you melt the  butter and chocolate.
2. if you are making the fondants in cupcake moulds cook for only 8minutes, if you cook in muffin moulds cook for only 10 minutes, if you cook in a bigger mould cook for only 12 minutes.

I decided to make chocolate fondants because they looked yummy to make and simple. And best of all, the ingredients were what would normally be in the house. they also turned out really well (: