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Le gâteau au chocolat dix mille calories

In English that reads: 'The ten thousand calorie chocolate cake' - and it's easy to see why. My reason for this sugar-laden monstrosity is that next January, my grand parents will be celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary and I wanted to do something special. I've had that idea in mind for a while now and thought that today would be the day that I make this cake. It consists of  two chocolate cakes, lots of cream, dark cooking chocolate and my special chocolate mousse. However, the cake you see below is just a prototype. I'll most likely make another, revised version.   It didn't exactly take me all day because we went out for about three hours; but, around 2-4 hours. And yes, the process was extremely messy.

If I Could Change School

If I could change school, I'd want better discipline. Why?  There was a lot more respect in schools back in the day when teachers were able to properly discipline students. The students knew that if they disobeyed a school rule, there would be real consequences. Since being taken away from schools due to not being politically correct and fear of mistreatment, the level of respect around has dropped. All the students have to fear is a talking to, which they can easily shrug off, and re-offend.

Bringing proper discipline back to at least high school would help to restore the amount of respect in and out of class. I hope that I don't sound like an evil ogre that wants to inflict pain on people, I'm just trying to emphasise that, if you take away firm discipline (not that there isn't some discipline already there), the students have a lot less to worry about if they break a school rule. However, if firmer discipline was to be brought back, the students who do offend will face punishment, not just verbal. But the question is, what type of firm discipline should be brought back? Well, that's another whole topic in itself.

Anther thing I would change in school would be to have every class attend swimming lessons at a public pool. My reason being that so many young ones in New Zealand drown because they get out of their depth zone and are unable to swim to safety. Also, if lessons are arranged, the school could start up different aqua sporting teams like: Competitive swimming, underwater hockey, water polo, synchronised swimming, and high diving. They could all earn the school prestige and maybe unlock some students' hidden talents! The school wouldn't even have to have a swimming pool built on school property! Really, what school can afford to maintain a pool these days?

One more thing I would change in school would be to have zero tolerance for cell phones and portable music players in class. I hope that I don't sound like a killjoy, but a classroom is for learning and working. Not for texting and listening to music. They are a huge distraction for those possessing them in class, to be focused on their phones, rather than paying attention in class time. By doing that, they're, in the long term, missing out on their education; which leads to unemployment, and the Government having to spend more on unemployment benefits.