Patricia's cake recipe

My recipe includes the following ingredients:

To do the base of the cake:
1) A great helping of love and sympathy.2) 2 tablespoons of sweet memories. 
To do the dough of the cake:
3) 8 cups of happiness.4) 2 cups of rebelliousness. 5) 5 cups of bravery.6) 3 books of The Hunger Games. 7) 4 L of music.   8) A gallon of Spain. 9) 6 cups of my favorite movies.10) 10 cups of hard work. 11) 10 cups of trips to amazing places. 12) 2 L of family.13) 2 L of good friends.
To do the frosting of the cake: 
14) 4 cups of beauty.15) 2 cups of money. 

BRAVERY is an important quality of myself, because if you are coward you won’t get your goals or you won’t fulfill your dreams. Life is about being brave, there are so many obstacles on our way  we have to jump and go ahead. In my life I have done I never thought I would do for fear of falling and don’t know how to get up, but if you keep trying and giving the best of you without caring what others think you will achieve all your purposes. When my parents were divorced when I was four years old I had yo be brave, I had to assimilate it and keep going, because if you keep standing idly or without fighting for it , you will feel lost. Many times I had to try new things that I was scared to do, but I thought that the best way to overcome my fears is to face them and I will manage to overcome them. Bravery also includes the courage which means willpower can possess a person to carry out an action despite obstacles that surround us. People who are addicted to something like drugs or alcohol have to have enough courage to stop smoking or drinking, they have to be brave and have willpower to get what they want to get. When there is a problem in my family or between my friends I have to be brave and I am the one who has to resolve it despite what I suffer from the situation. People who are not brave for cowardice have to change their minds, they have to wake up one day and say “We can do it, because we are strong and brave”, that is what the way they have to think and live their lives. 

TRAVELING is one of my favorite hobbies. When I take a plane and it takes to another country with other cultures and different things to learn about life there I feel free and in my maximum state of happiness. In my life I have been to many different places in Europe and beyond like Italy, Caribbean Islands, Croatia, Germany, Greece, France, Ireland, USA, Poland… Each place has its magic and different ways of living, population of diverse skin colors, languages and beliefs. That is why I like traveling, because it is not monotonous, you find different things to do and try. This year I have been in an exchange with my school with french people, first they came here and they visited some important places in Spain such as Madrid, Cordoba, Sevilla, Toledo… and two weeks later we went to France, our french mates lived in a town called Bordeaux and it is located 500 km from Paris. We visited many specific places of that city and small towns which surround it. One day we went to a haunted town called Oradour-Sur-Glane was destroyed, when 642 of its inhabitants, including women and children, were massacred by a Nazi Waffen-SS company, that was an amazing experience in which I could learn the importance of loving our people and not destroy for reasons unimportant as money or win a nonexistent war. This trip was important for me, because despite of having made new friend it was a journey of friendship that link our class and  helped us  to be more united and to know each other better. 

MUSIC is all for me. When I am sad I listen to music, when I am happy I listen to music, when I am excited I listen to music… I listen to music every time I can! It motivates you to do in a better way all things and it sweetens your life. My favorite group of music is ColdPlay, they are great and make good music, each song is different to the others, but there is something that unites all of them. In many occasions I feel depressed or sad because of something wrong that had happened to me or to a person which is important for me, nothing can cheer me, but suddenly I hear a melody that replays in my head and all my mind starts toto relax and forget about problems. That is the effect that music causes on me. Music is a language that everyone can understand (Chinese people, Russian people, German people, Italian people, Spanish people, African people…) Music somehow unites us and helps us become better persons. Music manages to convey different feelings that other art forms can not be. 

FRIENDS? How to define the word friends? I can only assure that if you don’t have friends, you don’t have anything and I am not talking about having a large group of friends who do not even know some of them, I am talking about those three friends that change your life and your point of view. It is comforting to have people which support you and help you to become a better person. A good friend is who is always with you through thick and thin. A good friend is that one who goes running to your house because you are sad about something and is holding a chocolate mint chip ice cream in his hand. A good friend is that person who understand you even you are no talking to him directly. I have a lot of friends, but only three of them really know who I am. I am lucky because I have people who will never leave me and I will not fail me. Friendship is not about interest or a hobby, it is about helping the people you love, is about having the best experiences of your life with them, is about escaping and do crazy things in a place that you don’t even know. Friendship can be crazy, stupid, exciting and all the qualities you can imagine except fake. And the reason which explains why I chose this quality in the recipe of myself is because friendship is something essential in our lives, and those people who are with us the most part of our lives are priceless. 

By Patricia Tauroni