Went through 4 tough classes teaching about the traditional costumes of Chinese, Malay and Indians (that I just learnt about 1 week ago while preparing for the lesson) and was terribly afraid that the kids will ask questions that I can't answer.
At least it went pretty smoothly and we ended each class playing games :)
The teacher of class 202 is super sweet, she got the class to write letters and make straw flowers for Josephina to bid her farewell.
At lunch time I practiced using henna and I think I'm pretty good! Lol
Started with the more traditional peacock but did some modern stuff at the end hehe. Spy rilakuma and Pikachu!
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After school, Josephina invited me to her host family's place again because she was going to cook onion soup and aglio olio!
(I did more cooking in this winter explore compared to the whole of 2013...)
Large pan of onions that we chopped!
I could only chop one onion before my eyes couldn't take it and had to stand outside the kitchen weeping...
I was in charge of flipping the onions and have faith that they were going to turn brown in 45 minutes.
After 45 min, the onions were still white =.= Josephina was quite shocked and we turned the fire up, causing the onions to get burnt in 15 min.. Lol fail.
But after adding the beef stock and lots of pepper, the soup actually tasted not bad!
As for the aglio olio, it was total pandemonium. Cooking halfway, we realized that we didn't have the most important ingredient, chilli padi!!
Contemplated putting tomato paste in and changing the recipe to tomato sauce pasta but thankfully the neighbor had chilli so we grabbed 3 and put them in! (when cooking was almost completed lol)
The result!
Soup was not bad but aglio olio tasted quite bad haha. Tasted like flour mixed with pepper... It made be lose faith that aglio olio is an easy dish, like many people say. TT
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