Sunday, November 8, 2009

How to make Orange juice

Orange juice is a very healthy and common drink. Apart from its great taste, its full of vitamin C.
Drinking orange juice in the morning with breakfast can turn into a habit which you never want to stop; you never know what makes you addicted to this healthy juice, its lemony tang taste or its natural fresh smell.
Getting this juice is not that hard nor difficult but may go through a long process ; first it is loaded in the factory after it was harvested from the farm or orchard; after that the oranges are graded carefully and washed neatly; the next step which is done to the oranges is sizing them ; after that they go through a machine which extracts the juice from the orange. The waste which mostly is the skin of the orange goes to animals as food; after that it goes through several pipes at high temperature for a short time. After that it is concentrated , then it is refrigerated so that it can be canned and shipped ; last but not least, water is added to balance the concentration of the juice.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Lost in the middle of nowhere

One day I was cruising in the Liwa desert with one of my friends, wanting to spend time and waiting for the rest of the group so we could start camping in the desert. As we were chatting and got deeper and deeper in the desert, suddenly I remembered that I didn’t fill up the car with fuel. So I turned the car and went back towards the petrol station in Liwa city. As I thought it couldn’t possibly get worse, it just did and the car totally ran out of gas. You can say we were approximately ten to twenty kilometers away, which gave us hope that we would be rescued. As the time passed, so did our patience and water.
My friend tried to climb the sand dunes to pick up a signal for the phone as there was no signal in the middle of the desert, but all our attempts to be rescued failed. We actually started to lose hope and faith of ever being found. Suddenly and out of nowhere a pickup car was heading our way. I rushed up the sand dune to tell my partner the good news. Slowly the vehicle stopped in front of us and the driver asked us if we needed any help. We told him our story as we were gasping for air; he was so kind to offer us water and a ride back to the city. When we arrived at the gas station, I called my friends and told them what happened. They came and picked us up and went to the car; after that we went straight home and cancelled the whole trip as it was too late and we weren’t in the mood. That was a scary experience but it taught both of us a lesson, making sure the car has enough fuel before going anywhere.