HOW TO: Fluffy Cake

                Hey there! The other rainy day I was boring in my house and I decided to bake a cake, since I was running out of an ingredient (the one I can’t remember now) my mom and I ‘created’ a new recipe which I called ‘Fluffy cake’ because it’s so fluffy and smooth and delicious! There can be a possibility that we didn’t create a new recipe, so if you know the recipe from before… all rights reserved to you!!

Ingredients:

2 Eggs
100 grs of butter
8 tablespoons of sugar
5 tablespoons of flour
Vanilla extract
*Optional
Cocoa powder
Walnuts as wanted

Preparation:

First of all, we separate the yolk from the white and we pour them into two separated bowls.

Hi to my feet in the bottom, oops.

Taking the yolks, we add 5 tablespoons of sugar and then we mix with an electric mixer (you can also use a wire whisk or a fork or whatever you want!) until we get a creamy-white consistency.

                            

Then, in the same bowl we were working previously, we add the butter chopped into rectangles or squares. We keep blending until the dough takes the consistency of a blended butter. If you want your cake to be a chocolate cake, add 3 (or more!) tablespoons of cocoa powder and keep blending!

Taking the other bowl with the egg white, add 3 tablespoons of sugar, the vanilla extract and whip them together until you get stiff peaks.

Going back to the first bowl, we add the walnuts (or any other topic you want!) and a little bit of the mixture of egg whites. We toss it all together, adding little by little the egg white mixture until we have a soft dough.

I baked my cake in an electric oven at 200°C (392°F) for 20 to 30 minutes, let it cool and then take it off of its mould. You can add any topics you want to the top and c’est fini! Time to enjoy!

Hope you enjoy it! Leave a comment below telling me what do you think about it! 

Goodbye and see you soon!

Camila x

A Whole New Life

           Five years from now, I was preparing myself to get into High School, enjoying my free time with friends, going to the pool, having fun. I was so busy worrying about how cool High School would be. I remember I was crazy in love with Justin Bieber back then (I still love him, though but I was actually crazy at that time); I used to write and read a lot of fanfictions, waiting for the precious moment one of those stories would come true. But it never happened, obviously. If you ask my young self what does she see for my future, she would be clueless; she wouldn’t even think about the huge changes I’ve gone through, meeting people I was fancying to. And losing those I’ve loved so much since forever. I bet this happened to all of us; if we see our Young innocent selves waiting for a lot of stuff to happen, that actually never happened, they would be disappointed, sad and also angry about it all. But I also bet, if those things that we fancied a lot never happened, was for a solid reason that the Destiny, God, the Universe, has planned. It’s obvious, we’ve gone through pain, happiness, excitement, tiredness but it made us who we are. So, do you regret it all?

           

 A couple months ago, my best friend, Ariel, decided to go abroad for a year to France. It seemed like forever, the day never came but it did. He’s leaving next week and yesterday we spent the last day together before he leaves to achieve his dream. I’m very happy for him, he’s an absolutely lovely person. Ariel’s the kind of people you meet and know he’ll give his heart to you if you ask to. He’s been by my side, still being my friend, when my other friends left and that simple detail means a lot to me. I really love him, he’s become like a brother and I tried, I try and will try my best to help him with whatever he needs; because, that’s what siblings do! Chino (his real nickname) if you’re reading this, I’m so proud of you, you’re an amazing person I’m so happy to have met. Don’t worry about anything people say, you’re incredible, you can do whatever you want and I admire you, a lot. I hope this travel makes you stronger and I hope you gain a lot of experience; enjoy it, you deserve it! I’m going to miss you but it’s okay, life’s like this!

              Five years ago, I was starting High School, fascinated by the huge change I was going through but still happy and anxious to know about everything. I felt empowered, like no one could tear me down. Now, being a graduated, I feel the same way. I’m happy and anxious about the huge change I’m going to face in a couple weeks but, at the same time, I’m scared, I’m sad, I want to stop the time for a while, take a breath and admire my High School years, cry a Little and get stronger to keep moving on. And, again, I bet almost everyone feels or felt this same way. Or maybe not. I’m being anything but dramatic, I’m not leaving to China, to have a new life, this is just College but still, I can’t believe the day has come! I’ve share five lovely years with my Friends, I’ve gained a lot of experiences, memories, lessons these years and they built me the way I’m now. And realising that I’m not going to go to the same old school I’ve always went, I’m not going to meet the same classmates I’ve always had, I’m not going to see my friends on a daily basis as I did, breaks my heart a little. And what hurts most is knowing that some of my friends, included my boyfriend, are starting College next week when I’m starting next month. We all took different paths and it’s incredible, now we can see how different we are. My group of friends’ careers vary from Architecture to Dental Hygienist to Humanity Professor to Biotechnology to English Translator, we’re not all the same as we thought at first. But that’s okay because it made us work as we did.

               Being at the end of an important period and at the beginning of a new one makes me shiver but also makes me want to face it. I know life is a constant change and we have to be prepared or just get used to it. We can’t leave the challenges and run away, we can’t stop the time and repeat our favourites moments, we can’t skip stages but we can face them, we can learn from each period in our life and get new lessons; it would strengthen the person who we are, it would change and sculpt us in a new way, always for the good because we have to learn how to take the good in every stage we’re. We can do that; we can face anything we have in front of us. We’re stronger than we think and we’re smarter, we can take the good into the bad.

                  Tell me what was your biggest change in life, or if you’re going through one nowadays. We can exchange experiences and knowledge and get over it together!

Goodbye and see you soon!

Camila x

2015 goals: Achieved or nah?

     Happy 2016 everyone! It's been almost a month since the year's started and I obviously arrived late for a proper introduction post. Oops! I made it again!

     Last year, on February, I wrote down a tiny list with the goals I wanted to achieve on 2015 and I thought it would be a great idea to share with you my victories and my give ups. So let's get started!

Goal number 1: Get fit, healthy and strong.

     Oh God, no! I couldn't make this one! It's a terrible beginning to be honest; I tried my best to go to the gym and to become vegetarian, to eat more vegetables, fruit and less junk food. And, although I could stop eating a lot of junk food, I didn't actually become a healthy person as I wished. 
However, about being a 'strong person', I think I'm one now. Last year was an amazing year, full of beautiful moments, I enjoyed to the limit, where I become confident and happy. 2014 was a good year too but I went through pretty bad situations that made me feel weak; I lost some friends, felt sad, angry, resentful. I was trying so hard to become someone strong, so everyone who dragged me down, those who hurt me, would feel less and miserable, I wanted them to regret the fact of losing me. It was terrible, that wasn't me. I was acting childish having those thoughts but I was hurt and that's all I can use as an excuse. 
Anyways, on 2015 I focused on my last year of High School, my preparation for my Cambridge Exam, my boyfriend, friends and family. In addition, at the end of the year, I realised that I was the person I always wanted to be; someone who likes and accepts herself, someone who doesn't really care about other people's opinion.

Goal number 2: Get a 90% or more on my Cambridge FCE Exam.

     Jesus Christ, I did it! OMG, I'm so happy to share it with you! It was an actual struggle and I thought I failed because some parts of the exam were so difficult; I discussed it with my classmates and some other pupils I met in the institute where we had the exam and they all thought the same: 'we're disapproved'. But boy, no! I received an email a few days ago and I was so nervous when I logged in my account. I passed with a B, I had 175 points of 190. If I'm not wrong, it means I got a 92%! My God, I'm so damn happy.

Goal number 3: Enjoy my last year on a 100%

     As I said before, on the first goal. I enjoyed my year to the maximum and I'm so happy with it. I really want to go back to March 2015 and do all my last year again, it was fantastic but sadly, I can't and it's time to move on on this new stage.

Goal number 4: Take singing lessons.

     Oh no, no way! It was one of my most appreciated goals, to be honest but I didn't care about it as I would have liked to. Also, with my stressful English lessons every Tuesday and Thursday, I was done. I didn't want to do anything else, it was too much for my patience!

Goal number 5: Write at least 10 blog posts each months.

Oops, haha. Let's move onnn...

Goal number 6: Start Youtube.

     And I did it! But I rapidly desisted and I ended up deleting my channel. Reasons why? 1. I didn't have a good camera to film the videos. 2. I never found time for filming and I always used any silly excuse to not film any video. If someday I really feel like starting Youtube, I'll do my best and get started but, for now on, I'll put all my effort on my blog.

     So, those were my achieved and my not achieved goals! Now I want to know about you! Have you set your own goals at the beginning of 2015? Did you achieved all of them or not? I'm super excited to know about you now, and I hope you share with me your experiences! 

Goodbye and see you soon!

Camila x