AEP 11- retrospective blogggg

Looking Back… 

  Usually looking back is when you turn your head back and you’ll see what’s going on behind you bahdbahahahah, but that’s not the case here I guess… since Ms.Disa said we have to ‘look back’ in a different way. In a ‘reminiscing’ kind of way. Looking back to Term 1, relating to what we’ve done in our classes and everything that we’ve experienced. It’s Term 2 now, and in a blink of an eye, it’ll be Term 3 and then the school year will end. It's merely fascinating how fast time can just past by. 

Advanced English Program

   Advanced English Program or in short term, AEP, something that was really new to me. Considering that I've never heard of such subject or anything that's similar to this kind of learning. I took this class because my bestfriend, Izzah asked me to ahjhajfahaah, because according to her, ESL is for people that speak English as a second language. As bad as it sounds, I assure you that it was the start of something good even though I had no idea what to expect or what I just put myself into. To be honest, I'm not even that good in English so ESL was considered as a good choice. First class of AEP, it was nice and breezy, we did activities and played Scrabbles together, had a few talks about the politics. I was more of a listener though. Because.... as much as I want to share something I always feel like what I'm about to say is gonna sound stupid basjdjhadha. 

   But anyways, that's how it always be in AEP classes, there's always some kind of really open and serene discussions right then and there. In other words, what I've been observing the whole term was that, AEP is all about bringing people together and being present. Something that I struggled to adapt to in the beginning. For instance, during this time, Ms.Disa established this rule that earphones or headphones are NOT allowed in class. So, this one time I was trying to not lose my mind over the fact that I couldn't listen to Spotify during class bsjdhajahhahahahaha, we were given like a free time to do whatever we wanted to and everyone was completing some work while I decided to complete my Business notes, so I was basically in my own world and nOT LISTENING TO MUSIC WAS KIND OF ANNOYINGGGG AND INCOMPLETE!!!! It was a whole struggle I'm telling you!!! But I promise it was just that one 'emotional' day, after that I was okay at adjusting and be more present with everybody as time goes on. 

    I participated more and more in games and activities like Quandle Dingle or whatever it was. Just kidding, I knew what it was, it was Wordle, Quordle and many others that end with '-dle'. These type of games were my worst enemy and still are. As I said, I'm not that bright in English so my range of vocabulary is literally the size of a rat. So most of the times I just be shouting stupid words in order to help and some would just stare at me like I just committed a crime of stupidity. Other than that, we also did mind maps based on the topics that we all voted for. The first mind map that we did was about politics, I admit this topic was overused but hey, you know what, I learned quite a LOT of things. I was excited to know more about the 'big' words used in this topic specifically because now I feel like I can understand more about the politics of the world. And the next topic was the issues facing young people. Again, quite a common and overused topic but in a way, this topic helped me grow as a person and realize what I needed to focus on as a student. 

  We proceed to do speeches and everyone in my class did a speech on subtopics about the issues facing young people. I guess my speech was lacking a lot of things bsjhahahajadajdajhd. I didn't prepare that much but I still pulled through with a 'half-decent' speech about 'Well-being'. After that I realize I shouldn't be talking in front of people at all because of how dull I was at public speaking. But, I shouldn't worry because I know I can grow and be more confident and make a bunch of progress ;).

That's all from meeee, signing off....

Nurin <333