Obsessions

Looking for a right definition of obssesion I found in the website www.minddisorders.com the next one: an obsession is an unwelcome, uncontrollable, and persistent idea, thought, image, or emotion that a person cannot help thinking even though it creates significant distress or anxiety.

According to that definition we can say that an obssesion is something that can take the control of your body and your mind. If you have one there could be a moment in which you can't do a lot of things that you used to do, because your mind is telling you to satisfy your obsession. And there is when your life becomes a disaster that you can't control... 

The excess of everything can lead you to an obsession. So you can get obsessed with anything, good or bad. That may sound like a little bit impossible, but it is true!. The most common examples are food, money, plastic surgery, sex, violence, sports and videogames.

I feel so gratefull because until now I don't have any obsession, but saddly there is a lot of people that have one. Below I put the names of some renowned people with their respective obsessions: 

-Cameron Díaz: getting away of germs. She says, she washes her hands more than ten times a day, she maintains her house extremely clean and she open doors with her elbows to avoid touching germ-infested knobs.

-Alec Baldwin: cleaning. He says, he can't live without a extremely cleaned and organized house. Is incredible but if someone move something in his house, it doesn't matter how small it can be, he always realizes that. 

     

-David Beckham: symmetry and perfection. He says that all in his house have to be in perfect order, and in pairs, if there are three books on a table one most be added, or one must be removed.

     

To conclude we can say that obsessions are not good, so you better avoid them doing everything what you want with moderation. But if is too late and you already have one, you can perfectly live with it if you recognize that you have it and, because of this, take the necessary measures to control it. 

         

           

My Reflections

My team in this fair, that is going to be tomorrow (sep. 05), is conformed by Tiffany Nébola, Katherine Morales, Angélica Suffo, Manuel Droz and me, María Teresa Andrés. Our product is the bread. The teachers told us that we had to do some experiments preparing it. The experiments consisted in vary the amount of two ingredients: yeast and sugar; and in vary the temperature of the water. 

Before preparing them we needed to find a recipe that shows us what are the ingredients that a bread have and the exactly amounts of them. That's how we found the next for a little good bread:

-77  grams of wheat flour.

-0,8 tablespoons of oil.

-1/8 tablespoon of salt.

-37  ml of slightly warm water.

-¼   teaspoon of sugar.

-¼   teaspoon of dry yeast.

After knowing it, we prepared ten different breads, varying in each one only an ingredient (1) and leaving the other ones in the correct amounts:

Bread num. 1:   Without dry yeast (0).

Bread num. 2:   1/16 of teaspoon of dry yeast.

Bread num. 3:   1/8 teaspoon of dry yeast.

Bread num. 4:   ½ teaspoon of dry yeast.

Bread num. 5:   37 ml of boiling water. 

Bread num. 6:   37 ml of cold water.

Bread num. 7:   Without sugar (0).

Bread num. 8:   1/16 of teaspoon of sugar (a pinch).

Bread num. 9:   1/8 teaspoon of sugar.

Bread num. 10: ½ teaspoon of sugar.

In the next images you can see those breads already finished and us preparing them:

I think that in a very general way the objetive of doing those experiments was to observ all the things that happen inside the mass of a simple product as the bread, before, during and after it is baking. And because of this, also know the importance and the role that plays each ingredient in preparing it.

Introducing Myself...

Hi, my name is María Teresa Andres, and as you can see this is my first post in this blog. I'm 15 years old, and I was born in Puerto La Cruz, wich is a very tropical city located in the Anzoátegui State, Venezuela. I love travelling, reading news and articles, playing tennis, watching movies and tv programs, hanging out with my friends, but specially spending time with my family, because they are the most amazing people that you can know. My father, named Miguel, is an spanish inmigrant that came to Venezuela in 1978; he is also a very smart man with the biggest heart that I've ever seen. My mother, named Beatríz, is venezuelan; she is a brilliant civil engeneer who is always helping and advising me in everything what I need. I also have a brother, younger than me, named Miguel, as my father; he is a very active guy who loves playing tennis with all his heart. Well, now you know a little about my family, they are just perfect for me, and that's why I love them!

The picture that I put was taken last summer at the Monument to the Equator (Middle of the World) located in Quito, the capital city of Ecuador. I stayed three weeks in that city without my parents, but with my mother's cousins: Eyra, Daxy and Melly; and his husbands, sons and friends. I think that that was one of the best travels that I did, because it allowed me to meet better one of the sides of my family that I didn't meet at all. Those are beautiful people, they treated me as a queen! I can't wait to see them again!