i had a go at making it and it looked like this.

5 MINUTE CHOCOLATE MUG CAKE
4 tablespoons flour
4 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons cocoa
1 egg
3 tablespoons milk
3 tablespoons oil
3 tablespoons chocolate chips (optional)
A small splash of vanilla extractC2
1 large coffee mug (MicroSafe)

Add dry ingredients to mug, and mix well. Add the egg and mix
thoroughly.

Pour in the milk and oil and mix well..

Add the chocolate chips (if using) and vanilla extract, and mix again.
Put your mug in the microwave and cook for 3 minutes at 1000 watts.

The cake will rise over the top of the mug, but don't be alarmed!

Allow to cool a little, and tip out onto a plate if desired.
EAT ! (this can serve 2 if you want to feel slightly more virtuous).

my room is now fully furnished with all the stuff i could need...chair, desk, wee floor desk, rug, soft toys, windows, mosquito screens, and lots or junk strewn everywhere :-).
But I do love my balcony at the back of my room.I have potted plants and lots of very domesticated looking things around...and lots of junk everywhere...:-)

Upheaval

the last month has seen me living as a refugee in my own home...sounds crazy, no?

my room has been totally revamped...or i should say, is still in the process...my wee balcony has been incorporated into my room so that it is longer...and now i have a wee walkway/balcony connecting to the balcony behind where our dog called The Brown One lives :-).

Now instead of a window looking out over the back-garden i have a full length sliding door...its fantastic!! especially when there is a bit of rain its so pleasant just to sit here looking out over the trees...trying of course to pretend the neighbour's house at the back doesn't exist...it works sometimes...

My floor is no longer covered with that velcro-type carpet, but now has been tiled with a rough-stone look...and yes...the idea for it came after returning from Egypt ;-). apart from that my room is relatively empty....only my new bed-frame is in...and my famed up papyrus sheet...bathroom only has a shower..nothing else ...therefore...still in the process of revamping :-)

....some nonsense....

Everything is moving so fast...exams...dull and dreary though they are, we all have to experience them...although, come to think about it, the exams themselves are not the dreary bit but the time leading up to them... a stranger starts a coversation with you...you have just exchanged names when you suddenly find yourselves talking about studies and exams...not the subjects themselves but...the schedule...''how long have you been studying?''...''where?''...''what subjects?'' its always the same....I think i have spoken more about my exams to other people than anything else...

Does this mean that every student in the world has nothing better in common with other students than...exams?...

seems to fit...but oh, how dreary...

They say of the Acropolis where the Parthenon is...

This is what you get if you stick 5 Brits in front of an audience with nothing to amuse themselves with than a few general knowledge questions :D

If It Doesn't Have a Tail It's Not a Monkey It's an Ape

German Fillers

I have a German spoken assignment due on wednesay...yep...THIS wednesday...
my assignment is to leave a message on a friends answering machine in German.

the worst part is i have to sound NATURAL

meaning using fillers like 'er' 'well...' or the German equivalents.

How do you deliberately put in fillers and make it sound natural???

i like to have my whole text planned out and in front of me before i say anything,....so you can imagine the dilema i'm encountering now!

do i write these fillers into my text??
the instructions say to simply use prompts and notes instead of writing every single thing down....yikes!

i would feel so unprepared if i did that...

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