AEP T2 ~ Retrospective Blog

Welcome dear reader!

I hope you enjoy yourself reading my bitter-sweet blog haha. I'm writing my intro

after finishing my blog and it is kind of like an update about my life aside from being a

retrospective blog for AEP. A reflection went like this..  I hope everyone has rested well

and is ready to start the second term! 

My writer brain is not functioning today ( credits goes to Ayesha for this

perfectly-describing sentence) Whereabout of my brain you ask? Beats me, I don't know

either. Let's move on though.

Let me explain: “It will take a concerted effort from many to lay off sneering and try

understanding”, this was not a problem for me, trying to understand what people are

feeling.. But understanding myself, absolutely not. I’m such a complex issue for myself.

I feel uneasy with myself sometimes, mostly because of my perfectionism, mostly.

I always try to be my ideal self, inadvertently pressing my emotions in a box and I did

not have a single clue that would lead to a burn-out.  I was like this my whole life and I

was doing fine, what can happen now? Nothing. But I was wrong..

All or nothing syndrome you guess it right. 

You can catch me working all day with little to no rest or in my bed doing nothing with a

jungle of homework. They go big or go home, right? yeah no practice balance. It is the

way to go in this life, doing work all day is not sustainable nor doing nothing for

weeks.

Ah, a balanced life sounds like cheating but it is the secret for a consistent routine.

You have to stop confining yourself!

I know Miss Disa gets how I feel, reading my blog. Thank you miss, I’m always so

grateful..Strict sense of discipline did not work for me this time. I figured out it

was a call for me to back off and listen to my mom's ted-talk speeches about balance

haha. But god I learned in a hard way. I was unsatisfied with my horrendous

performance this year, I felt out of character but maybe, maybe this is the actual me.

Jokes aside, this routine caused a predicament. Speaking of scores, I was in despair

but there as a discrepancy in what I expected to get and what I got. Thank god

numerically speaking the damage wasn’t that destructive. I learnt so much this year.

You don’t realize how big of a damage you caused until.. until something like this happens.

You can't foresee. Such a vexing blunder.

Surprisingly I feel motivated, energized and it feels like I recharged. Looking back

I was profoundly happy and energetic. I was a bit off for my mom though, I guess so

because she is used to see me studying. Stop willy-dallying for a while and rest/back off

for the sake of god.

Going back to the actually topic HAHA

The spotlight has to go to

Writing IELTS graph essays! 

I'm not really home with English. But the feeling after writing an essay or a form of

writing and feeling proud of it makes me love English classes more. The type of

essay we learnt in AEP had to be descriptive and they had to have a specific

structure and vocabulary to end with. Which I'm not used to, but thanks to AEP now

I'm aware of this genre and way of writing. It really does expand your

English and you become more flexible. I find myself a little more confident with my

recent essay structure than the ones I started with. I have improved in many

aspects of writing that essay of that sort. 

Padlet/ exit ticket

I always feel the need to say I love doing padlets in AEP classes. It is my favoritepart of our creative AEP classes. Being an artist and hearing this probably makesMiss Disa happy. It has to be said it is one of a kind. Even if exit tickets are short, it allows a room for reflection. Also who said it needs to be short?If you have more to say, go for it! The Padlet allows me to remember what I laughed atin the class, what challenged me or what I have done, in other words my progress.I love the variety of AEP classes!

Word games! 

I Love the simplicity of them. It is a way to check if your brain cells are still there.

It is challenging to shift and make your brain go from biology to English.

It has something to do with the education system. But I appreciate the clever idea

of starting with a 2 minute or 5 haha word game, not any other game but a word game

( it is like an irony that it is somehow about English, but it works) it helps brushing off!

I would like to take this golden opportunity and recommend to you I'll be there-

Detective Conan and Tobitatsu Hato. It is such a masterpiece and I still cannot believe

that it is made for an anime. It sounds like a prestigious music composer made it.

I'm 100% confident that you'll love it miss haha

All detective Conan ost, music, AND SOUNDTRACKS are going to get you out of your

wits, absolutely recommend checking their jazz. Goosebumps, just think about it.

It is your cup of tea miss Disa! Count on me.