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I have come to the conclusion that I am not the best creative writer and blogging is not the form of expression that comes most naturally to me. It takes time and effort to construct my thoughts in a way that may paint an accurate picture for the reader. While pondering this I realized that I am much better at reporting research and that my training as a Master in Clinical Psychology has led me to be a really great at writing the “matter of fact” documents that describe with accuracy the process of research.

With this in mind I decided to pick a research topic and go with it. So here where we are located, everyone speaks Russian and all of the signs for food are in the Russian alphabet. Which would be awesome if only I spoke Russian. One day I wanted to buy some chocolate but I was unable to due to not being able to communicate the kind that I wanted. So for the sake of knowing what chocolate to buy, I decided to make it my research project.

Procedures:

I chose 3 other candidates with a distinguishing tongue to have a diverse report of the chocolate flavors. I attained 11 different types of chocolates with intriguing wrappers. The team would gather in one room and we would pick the piece that we would look most appetizing at the moment. We would slowly unwrap the chocolate and smell the different scents that this piece would produce and then we would slowly bite into it figuring out all the different flavors that were contained in this piece.

Data Collection:

#	Name	Wrapper description	Chocolate outside	Filling Inside	Extra info	Stars (1-5 best)
1	Visina in Ciocolata	Purple Wrapper w/ green stripe	Milk chocolate	Smooth white confectionary, cherry liquor, cherry	Cherries have seeds	3
2	Moldova	Red w/gold stars	Milk chocolate w/ hint of hazelnut and wafer chips	Milk chocolate	Looks like a reverse Kit Kat ® but not as sweet	4
3	LERA	Brown with gold hearts	Milk chocolate thickly wrapped with rose swirl shape on top	Base layer nugget, top layer smooth caramel
4	Duet	Red and gold w/people dancing	Milk chocolate with a hint of cooca	Chocolate marshmallow with smooth creamy caramel		4
5	Sweets Shelty Mix	White and hot pink	Milk chocolate (semi-sweet)	2/3 smooth caramel, 1/3 raspberry jelly	Good texture, smooth
6	Monblan	Red with brown writing and gold outline	White chocolate on top portion and cocoa chocolate	Cocoa with chopped nuts	Hard texture, white chocolate balances the bitter cocoa taste
7	Souffle Luxe	Pink and clear with gold inside wrapper	Dark chocolate shaped like an egg	¾ marshmallow, 1/3 cherry liquor	Too sweet and fluffy
8	K to CKA3Ar “My?”	White and blue with cow and lily	Milk chocolate w/ swirl design in dark chocolate	Wafer thinly inside the chocolate shell, whipped white chocolate crème inside		4
9	Buccuria Struguri in Ciocolata	Green with hot pink stripe down the middle	Milk chocolate	Liquid sugar, solidified white crème, 2 pits for deteriorated grape with skin on	Strange after taste	1
10	Ko-Ko choco	Chicken on cover	White chocolate	Crème that looks like an egg with darker yellow crème with a strong vanilla taste	Pungent vanilla taste
11	Zephirka	Pink	Milk chocolate	Strawberry marshmallow		4