my name is Jane Brown I am a 17-year-old who loves baking. Let me tell you my story. At the age of 9, I was diagnosed with Acute Undifferentiated Leukemia and was sent to Primary Children's hospital. As a young sick girl, I went through multiple rounds of Chemo and many drugs that were hard on my body. My doctors told me that I needed a transplant, as a little girl I had no idea what a transplant was. I soon learned after many talks from my doctors as well as my parents what a transplant was. I needed a bone marrow transplant but I had a cord blood stem cell transplant. After many months in and out of the hospital and many check-ups, I was put in remission. I was blessed with many miracles in my life that I am very grateful for. I came home thinking that I would be able to go back to my normal life and be able to be a normal little girl again. I thought that I would be able to go back to school after missing 2 years of it and that I would be the same as all the kids in my grade.
I thought wrong, I was the smallest of my grade, I couldn't compete in the same sports and activities as the kids in my class, and I felt like I was the dumbest in my classroom. I tried to play sports like I did before I was sick but it was hard for me. I realized that I was weak and how my body was different than it was before. I always hated having to watch my siblings and all of my friends playing sports and being able to do a lot of things that I couldn't. It made me feel bad having to watch all the kids my age and older being able to live a normal life and not have to worry if they got a cough and felt a little sick. I was sick of watching them on the soccer field running around full of energy while I was sitting in my chair with a mask on. I did not like sitting around and I became super bored.
My mom helped me to feel less lazy by letting me help cook our family dinners and treats for our amazing neighbors. I soon realized that I enjoyed it, I had finally been able to find something that I was able to do without feeling tired or dumb. I loved being able to crack the eggs into the frying pan, or beating the whipped cream with the beaters. As I grew more experienced with cooking and baking I started doing it by myself. I started out baking simple things like cookies with a little bit of help from my mom. I thought I was the most amazing and talented 9-year-old girl because I was able to bake chocolate chip cookies. I still love baking cookies today.
As the years have passed and I have grown up, I have been able to bake more complex things. Kids my age are usually going to sport camps, but I have been able to go to cooking and baking classes. I have been able to learn a lot about the proper way to bake. While taking all these baking classes I have learned that I love baking bread the most. I plan on learning about where and when baking started. Being able to know where it was started can help my knowledge of baking grow. It can help me learn more how baking was done in the older days, and what the difference is of how it was back then compared to how it is today.
I have always dreamed of traveling the world and learning different recipes and ways of baking. If I am wanting to travel around the world I need to know where the most amazing baking is, where baking started, and where it is the most different from what I know.
One of the reasons why I started this blog was to learn different recipes from different cultures, learn about the baking of the world, and to share some of my favorite recipes with you. If I am wanting to travel around the world I need to know where the most amazing baking is, where baking started, and where it is the most different from what I know. It is my dream to be able to share my experience of learning about when and where baking originally started and how it has grown, and that is why I have started this blog.
I hope you enjoy my blog about baking with the world,
Jane Brown
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