Hello everyone!! My name is Paridhi Tiwari, and I am an international student in my second year of elementary education. I am originally from Delhi, India. For me, living alone is a big task when we must manage everything on our own whether it is cleaning the house, doing laundry or cooking food for yourself. I do two part time jobs which drain all the energy inside of me when I come home at night to prepare food for myself. However, I always had a passion for cooking and baking and have been doing it since I was in elementary school by either joining some cooking lessons introduced to us by the school or helping my mom in making some dishes which did not require any fire lol. I use technology in my daily activities and would love to use it in my teaching. My teachers in India were a huge fan of old traditional method i.e., whiteboard and markers or chalk and blackboard. However, during my high school years they also started adapting the technology in our education by using smartboards and the biggest help was during covid. My entire 11th grade was online which made all the education online such as taking classes online, writing assignments and worksheets online as well as taking final exams online as well. There are both pros and cons of using online education but now it has become an art of our teaching which makes our life easier.  

I have done some blogging in the past due to the courses I took in my previous semesters so I am not quite new to this stuff but I personally  don’t like blogging that much as I didn’t had enough comfortable environment in my childhood to share my feelings with anyone irrespective whether it was a journal, diary or blogging. For me, I have always wanted to become a teacher. As far as I remember, I decided my career in second grade of becoming a teacher. I love kids a lot and I have a lot of experience with kids as my part time jobs consist of teaching grades 1-8 Maths and ELA.  

For this learning project, I am excited to present my traditional foods to everyone, and hopefully those who love spice will try those recipes because these are delicious. A new YouTube channel SPICE EATS. This YouTube channel has all the recipes that I want, and it shows me the recipes with ingredients that I have at home already which makes it extremely easy for me to make the recipes much quicker and they turn out to be delicious. I hope by the end of this semester, I will develop a habit of making nutritious meals at home rather than taking out and will also improve my cooking and baking.  

Stay tuned in to my journey of cooking and baking!!! 

Thank you!