Been a while...again... Blog#2-AEP9-Janek :)

Heh...bee It's been a long time off this platform, and there's been a lot that's happened and much that I've still got to share. And, seeing from what has happened in this term, this blog would seem to be a long one after being back and writing another blog. However, there are exams next week and I haven't the time to write such a lengthy blog. This is also with the Christmas celebration nearing, wherein lots of planning is needed. To be honest, I'd assume that the midterms and Christmas are close and that miss would just let us off, but nope. I'm here stuck in my room having to finish this blog! But since Miss Disa is a fantastic teacher, I'll do it for her:))). Now, Let's make this quick, shall we? Let's start off at the beginning of the 2nd term, finally back from all the traveling and now in the Philippines.

throughout November and December, we had gone and explored the variety of different word games, in relation to the notorious wordle! It was an interesting journey looking through all the games miss gave us each day. So far, We had come across hurdle, quordle, griddle, and weaver. Each one has different rules, however, still retaining wordle's appearance. It's been making my eyes hurt recently just looking at the board and seeing all these games, but I still find it challenging and fun to solve each one. Now that you know about the games, I'd like to share a bit about my experience with each one.

Let's start off with Hurdle. each time the class plays hurdle, it always seems to give me headaches. I never seemed to get it and my head just gets foggy. The words no longer come up and I have to eventually rely on my classmates to solve most puzzles. On the other hand, Griddle is actually quite easy, but can also be tricky. It pretty much just follows the way scrabble is played along with a leaderboard at the end. It's really entertaining to see miss devastated upon seeing a higher score than hers. So she tries again, whilst using the words of the player who won. The class pretty much just watches or sometimes even helps her in looking for words that may give her a better score. This actually happened once, of course, with my help. I had given her a word that was worth 300+ points and helped her reach #1. I was most proud of myself and miss Disa at the time, as well as seeing the previous #1 dropdown. Now, Moving on, we also have quordle. To be honest with you, I don't remember much about this one. So, I gave this one a try, and I very much dislike it. I tried winning, but to my surprise, I didn't get one word out of the 4 panels. I don't know what's with this one, but I can't seem to win it. 

Now, To our last wordle game, weaver. My favorite wordle-themed game has to be this one. Here we have to use the 1st word to make the 2nd word just by changing 1 letter of the word. This challenging task calls for a lot of brain power, which is the type of game that I like. I actually only played this once in class, but I gave it another shot at home. I once again didn't win, but during our session in class, I suppose the team effort of the girls led us to victory with the least amount of words needed to reach the 2nd word. I really hope that next time I'll get to help win, but that'll be for next year:)

Alright, Now that everything was said about the wordle games, I'd like to also mention the passive voice videos and exercises. These were usually done in our double periods, sometimes in a single period. In these periods, we would usually watch a really colorful and comical video that miss made and an exercise alongside. The exercises were relatively easy and the videos were quite short and entertaining with their upbeat music. These types of lessons always seem to keep me going and invested in the topic. I hope we do more of these next year, however with a little more difficulty.

The passive voice wasn't the only big activity we were given by miss, we also had to do a poem. I used to be a poet myself...however this love of poetry soon faded when I realized how horrible my poems are. As you can tell, I seem to give up easily, but for this poem, I shall not! I started off by getting my idea which must relate to AEP. Just 10 minutes into thinking and I already jumped to a conclusion. I would make a poem about the change from online to face-to-face classes and how I feel about it. It was a short and simple poem, nothing too deep or extreme. Although, maybe its meaning may be interpreted in many ways. My relative said it reminds them of drug users. I really don't know where he got that from, but I think some of my classmates got the idea. If you'd like to see the poem, you can click this LINK and read it for yourself. Its rhythm and rhymes were all set and I published the poem. however, I'd still need to record myself reading it. With all my courage, I recorded myself despite knowing how embarrassing and weird I may sound while reading the poem. nevertheless, after this, I will be free! 

The poem is now done and we are also finally done with half of our 2nd term in AEP! It was a different one, being back and all, whilst doing these entrancing games and activities that miss never seems to disappoint us with. I really hope we get to see more of this in the coming year or years if I am to still be here at FIS. Who knows. But until then, I will enjoy every last second of this class and the experiences that come with it. Goodbye AEP, and see ya next year!