Nemanja's Blog

Hello my name is Nemanja. This week I am making čevapi this dish is a small hand – shaped grilled sausages made from mixed minced meats beef , lamb or pork seasoned with simple ingredients. This week I accomplished making flavors and textures. This week I had a struggle and it was getting the čevap to be perfectly cooked. This means that I had to stand and watch it cook until it was perfect. The biggest adjustment that I had to make was adjusting the meat to the perfect consistency. This means that every time I had burnt the čevap I had to restart until it was a perfect color. This will probably be the hardest dish I would make because it is so hard to master. This had taken a lot of time until I had the right flavors and the right color. Next week I will be working on making a new dish called Gibanica.

My favorite place in my house is my backyard. My backyard is my favorite because I have a basketball hoop, I go almost every day to go and practice my shots and my technique. My second reason why my favorite place is my backyard is because I have a pool so I go almost every time it is hot out side. Some times I also go to the pool and practice my water polo shots. My last and final reason why my backyard is my favorite is because I have a vertical jump tester so I see how high I can jump every time I go outside.

My twenty project is cooking the most popular and delicious Serbian food. I chose this topic because I am from Serbia and I eat Serbian food everyday. This food in Serbia is one of the most popular dish. This dish is a stuffed cabbage roll made by stuffing cabbage leaves with a filling of ground meat , rice, and species. This week my goal was to finish my dish, I learned new things like folding the cabbage into the meet. Online I found some recipes. Most importantly I had my mom help we because she is a cook and she knows how to make all types of Serbian food. To help me practice I made a couple extra so I could learn how to wrap the meat in the cabbage. Since nothing went wrong I have no adjustments to make. Next week I will be making another dish called Gibanica. I am very glad I got to chose this topic so I could learn all about making Serbian food.

The day after my water polo tournament I had been flying back home to Serbia. The day after I flew home I realized that the NBA season had been over, and that meant my favorite player was also back home. The next day after I had knew he was back home that was the only thing on my mind to meet Nikola Jokic. Later that night it was the biggest festival in our city and there I was hoping to meet him, but then I had found out that he was not coming so I had very little hopes on meeting him. So, then a couple weeks later before I was supposed to leave my mom told me to go grocery shopping for everyone so I had went. I went to the most popular grocery store and I suddenly had happened to see Nikola. That same day I was wearing his jersey and I had gotten my jersey signed.

This month I read who is Michael Jordan by Kristen Anderson. This book is about Michael Jordans his childhood in North Carolina to becoming one of the greatest basketball players of all time. It talks about all of the things he faced, and his ability to handle stuff off the court. The book also talks about his career at the University of North Carolina and in the NBA at the Chicago Bulls. All throughout his career in basketball he shows his talent, dedication to playing basketball, and the impact he had on basketball all throughout his career.

I liked this book because it was about one of the greatest basketball players of all time and I really enjoyed it. So, if you enjoy watching basketball I recommend reading this book.

Michael Jordan was my favorite and only character in this book. This is because “I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed.This shows that Michael would take the shot and if he would miss he would.  take the blame for it and he will move on.

One of the favorite quotes from this book is “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” This quote is meaningful because it shows that everyone can fail at. something but you will always have to try at something.

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There are so many people I would want to invite to dinner, but these are my top three: Nikola Jokic, Novak Djokovic and Dusan Mandic. First I would want to invite Nikola Jokic because he is a 3 time MVP and he is playing the best basketball in his career. I want to invite Nikola because he is from the same place I am from Serbia and we can both speak the same language. My second person I would like to invite is Novak Djokovic because he is the best tennis player to ever play the sport in my opinion, and he is also Serbian and I could also understand the language he is speaking. Novak also has the most trophies in the history of the sport. My last and final person I would invite to this dinner is Dusan Mandic. He won MVP this year in Water polo this year.  Dusan is one of the best shooters in the world and this year him and Serbia completed a three peat in Water polo. With all three of my famous people I could understand and speak the same language as them.

My dream job would be a surfer. Surfing gives you the feeling of relaxation and being free. Everyday you can explore different beaches and waves. My second reason is you get to spend time outdoors. My last and final reason is the surfing community. You get to spend time riding. waves and talking to other people while surfing.

I am invisible! I turned invisible when I was surfing and caught the best wave of my life. While I am invisible  I want to go snowboarding on the biggest mountain in the world. I want to do this so I can sneak in so I don’t have to pay and I want to get the best ride of my life on it. Another thing I want to do is to swim all the way across an ocean. I want to do this because I can’t  normally do it when I am invisible because a shark would injure me. The last thing I would want to do is to go to every NBA game so I can watch the Denver Nuggets play every game. I want to do this so I can meet Nikola Jokic.

This month I read The Forgotten 500 by Gregory A. Freeman. This book is about the true story of a secret rescue mission during World War II. It is about a group of American airmen who were shot down over Yugoslavia and the Serbian villagers helped hide them from the Nazis.

I liked this book because it shows courage and teamwork to pull of this mission. This author shows great skills in adding detail and great onomatopoeia

My favorite character is Major George Vujnovich. My favorite character trait from him is beinnng organized this is because he organized the mission. His helpfulness, resourcefulness, and leaders were important to the missions. Vujnovich’s cordinated every step inn the mission. “Major George Vujnovich had organized the whole mission.”

My favorite quote in this book is ” These were men who had been shot down, who had been through hell, and who were now being given a second chance at life.” This is my favorite quote because it shows the American airmen and the amazing efforts put in to save them. It shows the bravery and the confidence to overcome challenges.

It’s another day in paradise on my abandoned island. I was very lucky to survive my plane crash when I was going to Brazil. I ended up washing up on a abandoned island with my surfboard. I was very lucky when I was touring the island there was already a pre- built cave, so I didn’t have to spend my day building a cave. Everyday my daily routine would be to wake up and go catch food out in the ocean. Next, I would spend my whole day surfing and catching big waves. I would spend all of my days like this until getting rescued. The island is a big huge island with crystal clear waters all around the island and the island has a big cave.