exercise 4

Exercise 4


C. 1)
I am a serious caffeine addict. My hands start shaking every two hours without coffee. My doctor told me to quit coffee, tea, iced tea, coffee cake, and anything else that contains caffeine if I want to stop shivering. It’s been only two weeks since I tried to quit. But it’s like quitting smoking. It’s not easy. It’s crazily difficult. Every time I pass a coffee shop, I start to shake. I start to hallucinate in the middle of the street. I can see myself sitting in my couch by the window, holding my lovely coffee mug with my favourite tea biscuit, and relaxing in the beautiful scent of coffee. I decided to avoid the coffee shop, and found a different route to school. At first, it seemed to be somewhat working.
During class today, I realized that I forgot my handsaw at home. I needed it to do my in-class project. During break, I went to a supermarket nearby to get a cheap handsaw. I grabbed a cheapest handsaw, and turned the corner to go to the cashier. Then what do I see? A whole isle occupied by my favourite coffee set! And guess what? They were on sale!! 90%!!! They were only $1.95!!!! Plus, my favourite tea biscuits are waving at me on the opposite isle, smiling, and saying, “come get me! Come get me”! My string of perseverance just snapped that second. I ran, grabbed, ran again, paid, ran out of the supermarket, holding coffee, coffee creamer, tea biscuits, and a handsaw in my hand, and ran back to school.
That night, I sat in my couch, holding my lovely coffee mug, with my favourite tea biscuit murmuring, “you impatient fool! I cannot believe that I did this! Oh this is so good. I just can’t believe this. I’m a failure! I’m so hopeless. I’ll quit for sure next time. Right after I finish this cup. Oh I’m such a loser! I just can’t…”

C. 2)
After lunch, mom realized that we were out of coffee. She needed coffee to stay awake that night because she needed to bring grandma from the airport, and the plane was arriving late. Mom gave me five dollars, and told me to go to the supermarket in front of our house, and buy a cup of coffee, coffee creamer, and tea biscuit. I went to the supermarket, and found the coffee isle. Immediately, I realized that there were hundred kinds of coffee. Does she want Decaf? Cappuccino? Espresso? Hazelnut? Vanilla hazelnut? Columbian? Irish? What?? I came back to the house and knocked on the door. Mom came out and asked, “Where is the coffee?” I said, “I don’t know what kind you want.” She told me to get a red label one, so I went back to the market. I grabbed the coffee, and went to the refrigerator. There were many kinds of coffee creamer as well. There were 8%, 10%, 30%, light, and more. I went back to the house and asked what kind of cream she wants. She said “get a 8% one.” So I went back to the market, grabbed the coffee with red label, 8% coffee cream, and went to get a tea biscuit. There were many tea biscuits too. Why do they have so many kinds of everything? There were plain, butter, cheese, ham, ham and cheese, raisin, blueberry, and et cetera. I went back to the house. Mom was slightly irritated. I said what kind of tea biscuit she wants. She said get anything, and that she doesn’t care. Then she added, “Oh, get a handsaw as well. Dad needed it.” So I went back, and got the coffee with red label, 8% coffee cream, and a plain tea biscuit, and went to the tools isle. There were hundreds of handsaws. For the fourth time I went back home, more irritated than ever. She finally yelled. “I said I don’t care! Just get anything!” So I went back to the market, for the fifth time, and grabbed the coffee with red label, 8% coffee cream, a plain tea biscuit, and a handsaw that was hanging in the middle, and went to the cashier. The total was $7.72. I screamed in my head, oh my dear God!! She didn’t give me enough money for the damn handsaw!!!

H. 1)
My family was staying at Grandma’s for few weeks, because it was Grandpa’s birthday soon. The day we arrived, Grandma and I went to the supermarket. We decided to bake a cake for Grandpa so we needed ingredients. First we got two instant coffees for my parents, and two orange juices because there was nothing to drink at her house except water. Then we bought eggs, margarine, macaroni, cookies and buttermilk dessert. She bought assorted muesli too because Grandpa was having a digestion problem. His doctor recommended them because they had lots of fibres. Then we got a wrapping paper to wrap the presents, and garden gloves because grandma needed them for her garden. She said she’s been growing all kinds of different vegetables, and she would pick them for the birthday dinner. I can’t wait till the birthday party!


H. 2)
Oh my god, 5 pounds? In a week? Why?
I was in shock.
Why does this always happen? Every time I go on a diet, I gain more weight.
What did I eat? I thought I avoided food enough. All I've been consuming for this week is three litres of orange juice! Is it because it was pulp free?
What did I eat? Hmm..…..I had two rice crackers yesterday that I bought for dad...He didn't want them...And I couldn't throw them away!
What else?.…..Oh yeah I had some coffee last night I went shopping for wrapping papers and garden gloves...That had some sugar in it...I should've put artificial sweeteners instead of sugar...
Hmm.…..Oh right...I had some cookies too...that I bought for mom...But so what? All I've been eating for last few days were assorted muesli! That rabbit food...
Umm...Well, for breakfast today, I had eggs and macaroni soaked in margarine...I knew I should've got non-fat or light margarine...But that was because the bread was gone! And macaroni was only thing edible in the house this morning...
God...I knew it...I had four buttermilk dessert that I bought for Grandma!...But it said low-calorie! Oh I should have never got these stuffs! I can’t go shopping now…People will have to go shopping themselves from now on, and get their own food…