Wednesday, 12th October 2022
Seeing everyone evolved into a whole new person has been scary, but meaningful. We come out of our houses looking so different than ever, to the point where there was this time I couldn’t even recognize my neighbor, whom I have been friends with since I was 6. No hate to him but he started growing beards and moustache and has long hair. How could I know? Regardless, the journey we all have are something that we should celebrate. We have managed to tell ourselves to hold on and persevere, and that’s what we did.
Fast forwarding to the year of 2022, I made a decision to enroll myself in a school known as Fountain International School. I was elected as a Parliament member acting as the Minister of Finance. Joined a scrabble competition. Not talking about grades.
To be honest, I have never 'blog' even though my mom is actually good and active at it. I have always been more of a physical-book-journaling girl rather than using online platforms to do so. I find it much more relaxing, freeing and makes me be present without any technologies. So, today marks as a new beginning for my blogging era and I’m excited!
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Stepping into the school year, we were introduced the different strands we have to pick as we level up to the senior year batches. Out of all the classes we have, AEP stands out to me. What hooked me was the learning environment and Ms. Disa's passion. It was something different, something refreshing. It almost feels like Ms. Disa will always have our back, especially when she communicates with us her principles and perspectives that allowed us to understand what entails.
In AEP, we have had multiple brain challenging activities which all comes down to the outcome of us having fun and adding more vocabularies. More or less, the G11s favorite thing to do is apparently to just stare! Some of the activities we played are:
1. Word Games
Oh my god! Ms. Disa never fails to find us new word games. But here’s the twist. We never get easier ones because the level of difficulty keeps on increasing! Catch me on a good day and I would be half of the Thesaurus Dictionary, just throwing out words like punches, but catch me on a bad day and watch me literally struggle for the life of me. But it’s just so fun collaborating with my classmates. We were so advanced that we have our own dictionary filled with new words now…
2. Scrabble
See, my class has an evil side of them. Our AEP class has a total of 7 people and how it usually works is that we work in pairs. As you can expect, everyone else would RUSH to get with their partners and they’d leave me alone...
3. The World of Politics
"Gerrymandering". My favorite word I discovered in our learning. We managed to do a long word map on miroboard and expose ourselves to vocabularies used in the politics arena.
4. Issues Facing Young People
This topic is rather a pleasant and impactful one which I can personally say affected me in a way. It's such a good experience that these types of topics are being included in our education system as it helps to spark more conversations to bring awareness. Being around classmates who were able to share their perspectives on the topic truly opens a window for me to look into the way they view and cope with certain matters in life.
5. Appreciation Cards
Being detached from the outside world was tough. A barrier that has been separated ourselves from people and places just added on to the loneliness that we adopted. Those type of connections that we long are so tough to rebuild again and therefore, this activity pushes us to immerse into our own emotions and produce a heartful appreciation messages to the people we matter.
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It goes without saying that everyone is fighting a silent battle - regardless of any timeline we put ourselves on. Therefore, be kind! Look out for each other, cherish the moments. This school year will definitely be a meaningful one for everyone and I'm looking forward to share those beautiful snippets of moments here in this blog!
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