Participate in a Service Activity organized by a GCA teacher

On the morning of the 18th in April, each group of fundraising should send one or two people to follow some French exchange students in NFLS or some teachers in GCA to make some cuisine. Amy and I went to GCA for my group on that morning. Our cooking project was Muffins of banana and chocolate. There were 10 members in our group, and we came from different classes in Grade 10. Melissa is the French student who was in charge of teaching us how to make muffins. She is a lively girl. At the beginning, some of us went to buy some material for this cooking. We needed to buy 6 bananas, 4 eggs, 160g of butter which should be saltish, 140g of brown sugar, 300g of flour, 2 packets of yeast, two boxes of chocolate. Then we used that to make 10 to 12 muffins.

We spent nearly one and an half hour to buy all of things we needed. Then we came back to GCA and we started cooking. First, we took a big bowl and mixed sugar and butter until the mixture became a kind of cream. Second, we smashed the bananas and added them with the eggs to the first mixture and stirred them up. Then, little by little, we added the flour. The cream shouldn’t have hard small things, and the mixture must be really smooth, and at the same time, we should add the yeast too. Later, with small cake pans, we used our fingers to butter them. Melissa told us we mustn’t skip that part and the layer of butter in the cake pans was important, because when the cakes were being cooked, they shouldn’t stick in the bottom. We put one layer of the mixture we had made before, and in the middle we put 5 pieces of chocolate and then another layer of the mixture. It mustn’t overcome the cake pans, just cover 3/4. At last, we put them in the oven. It was finished.20 minutes later that the muffins were took away from the oven. They smelled good, and I tasted one--fantastic~

I felt a little tired to make them, however, it was worth. I love cooking, and I want to get more chances like that. During this cooking, I began to know the importance of the teamwork. Teamwork is very important. Everybody knows we need to do a good cuisine, but how can we do it? There are 10 members in our group. If we cooperate carefully, we can get the success easily. We cooperate, so we have made a good cuisine.