A Life of Monotony: The Same Day Over and Over

 

Every day, students around the world wake up to the same alarm, the same schedule, and the same daily routine. The day begins with the same breakfast, a morning routine, and a school bus ride to the same classes. It can feel like every school day is exactly the same. (These days it does)

The day drags on, the break can't come soon enough. The same evening routine, the same night time activities— nothing changed.

It's a life of tedium, where you're lost in a cycle of repetition and feel as if you're going nowhere. This can lead to feelings of hopelessness and tiredness weird enough .

This feeling of monotony can be discouraging and dull, but that doesn't have to be the case. With a little creativity, every school day can be a different day.

Days could all begin the same way: alarm clocks, breakfast, and the bus ride to school. But within those moments, there are small, unique choices we can make. Even if the day looks the same on paper, the experience can be completely different.

The key to breaking this cycle is to recognize that it exists and make the effort to break out of it. Change the daily routine, introduce something new, get on your way to experience something different. Taking the initiative to create change can make all the difference in breaking this cycle. (I will try this)

New year, new goals!! Iara's blog 2.3

 Hi guys welcome to my blog...and oh boy do I have a lot to tell you this blog! 

this new year I've came up with a tons of hobbies and things to achieve like getting back to my tarot videos and even stepping on new waters like creating my first game which was fun. I also went to the beach last new years, got new headphones, decorated the headphones with really cute new stickers, and got a new corgi of whom I named by my favorite Nintendo character, Kirby! 

I also started learning Japanese and already finished my hiragana and katakana and am learning my way through N5 vocabulary and Kanji which I have to say that I am having tons of fun with! can't wait to work with my dreams there when I get older... m a y b e?? i don't know but it'd be nice haha

I also began meditating and reprogramming my mind more to really get in more touch with myself as a person and soul and it's been nice actually. I got in touch with who I really want to become and the kind of happy ever after that I want for myself and started working on getting that kind of lifestyle, even on the kind of person I want to spend my lifetime with hehe! It's really fun to get to know more about your ideals...hope I can achieve that :)

Myles' blog 2.3

This term we've worked on a lot. An interesting addition was to plan future assessments, each lesson we always do a little warm up our brains and to train our vocabulary, we always play some sort of Wordle game; Quordle, Dourdle, etc. 

we recently started taking on essays head-on instead of procrastinating, "instead of hating essays and procrastinating them you should be excited to get better at them" i don't remember exactly what Ms Disa said but it's something along those lines. Ms Disa gives us a decision for what we want to do for the day, for example we had a choice to work on our blogs the same one i'm writing now or the painful essay, it's nice to have options. 

The class is very lively especially during the games we play at the start of the lesson, everyone is usually screaming and the classroom is filled with joy, it's interesting cause you might think screaming is a bad thing but in Ms Disa's class it's a good thing. The classroom can be lively and calm other times as Ms Disa is always playing calming classical and lofi music.

Always looking forward to each class as we learn a lot on writing and vocabulary while it being fun and exciting at the same time, i just recently joined face to face classes and it's safe to say that it's much much better than sitting online. Excited to see what the other terms have to offer. 

Thanks Ms Disa. 

Blog term 2 18/1/2023 Fahad imran grade 10

After the midterms, we made significant changes to our schedule. For this half of the term in aep, miss made us make our own planner for aep in which we had to decide what we were gonna do in each class of aep, such as doing the blog in 1 class and doing an essay in the next lesson.

This term we did a lot in aep such as doing essays, different wordle games and writing blogs, I preferably somehow enjoyed writing essays since it felt easier to do, you just had to look at the map and write changes that appeared, but the hard part was to think of more complex words to write. Just say you wanted to write the word ''Bulided or made''.Those words aren't so bad but in aep miss disa always tells us to write more complex words to improve our vocabulary, I find it rather challenging since you spend half of the time looking for synonyms for the words and the other half trying to figure out if it suits your essay. In the end, it's you're vocabulary that improves and you have to give all the credit to miss disa for that.

We tried out all sorts of different wordle games such as qourdle, deluxe, and waffle. These games are sort of a headache but fun at the time if you what you're doing. I wasn't much of a help in these games other than helping everyone stare at the board haha but I always tried my best. Board games aren't really for me since my brain decides to leave my body whenever its time for a game, but I try my best to make my brain not leave my body and to help my classmates

Our class likes to procrastinate a lot and delay every single essay and blog we can, but miraculously we decided to not procrastinate and actually get our work done, it doesn't seem like a lot but it's a big achievement for our class and at the end, small progress always matters!.

Thank you for reading!

Blog 2.3 - New year, not much changes?

 

(have a meme drawing of me and my partner)

Happy new years! 18 days late. This New Year didn't really allow me to make any changes in my life. I definitely have things I want to improve. Plenty of them. But I find that writing it down as a goal is just worrisome and makes it less likely for me to actually fulfill them as my brain will  start labelling them as "tasks to finish."

The point is: No resolutions this year. No resolutions the past year either. I'd rather work on my own flaws and mistakes at my own pace without making it a sort of responsibility to fix.

Not much changes this year then? Not any, really. It's just that it's January and the year in my calendar is now 2023. My daily routine isn't any different. My studies didn't change. I used to be so excited for New Years and I'd always stay up with my parents to wait for the countdown but now, I realize that the change of night between December 31 and January 1 isn't any different than the change of night on every other day. Save for the barbecue and fireworks, I guess. But I'm not partial to loud parties anyway.

How about school? What have we done in AEP so far? Well, the first week of classes, we spent our time writing a planner for the rest of this half-term. It was nice to organize the lessons and sessions. I made the whole color scheme rainbow and I was flabbergasted when I found out Fahad doesn't know the order of the rainbow (Is he colorblind???). The second week was when we started to follow through with the planner. We started reviewing our essays from the last half-term and the whole topic of maps as a whole. We looked through the vocabulary, different points in the maps, the questions, etc. It was nice to review. It was a nice way to start adapting back into learning.

And then this week, we went on to writing another map essay at the first session of the week on Tuesday. It was alright. I wasn't stoked to start writing it but I didn't have a horrible time either. I guess it all just comes down to the fact that I like writing essays about maps more than graphs. Graphs are too restricting and too vague. I'm partial to pictures and visuals, after all. And now, for the two sessions of Wednesday, we're now writing the blogs. Not very extraordinary or exciting there. 

But hey, as I said, not much change from this New Years. And honestly, it's not that bad. I don't usually do well with adapting and new changes, so this mundane routine, though tiring, is much better than a spontaneous one with new arrivals and challenges. I'm still fixing the same old flaws and striving for the same things. Things are bound to change of course, but I like to take things slowly and not jump into change harshly.

Anyways, this has been my blog for January 18 of the new year 2023.

Thank you for reading!

Blog 2.3 | "farting may be natural, but so is being eaten by a hippopotamus" -me

So far in this year of AEP, we've done quite a bit. In my opinion, I think that the most interesting part was actually planning out how we're gonna do future AEP classes. As always, every morning we do a little word game, either wordle, quordle, or something that ends in "dle".

Again the part that I found most interesting and also enjoyed the most was planning out how we're going to spend the next AEP classes. We started that period with a word game of course, and then we started planning. We first looked if we would lose any lessons because of holidays, and after that, we started assigning and deciding what we would do in each of the remaining classes. Once we were done with that we had a beautiful board with exactly what we would, remembering to leave the last week empty for finals of course, and we were ready. Then the schedule changed so the plan was all off, but a simple fix was done to just shift the dates of some stuff around.

The word games are pretty good now, I didn't really understand the hype around it, but now I see. It's so much fun looking at a jumble of coloured words and guessing what word it is, the best part is probably when you have some of the word in green and then you start telling the boardmaster which letters go where and the word becomes greener and greener until it's correct. Out of all the word games that we've done I think my favourite is waffle wordle because it's the most challenging, it also has the most words which gives me a better chance at finding a word that I know. For example, wordle, the original NYT one, only has one word to guess while waffle wordle has eight.

To conclude, Ms Disa tries to accommodate our schedules like science projects and finals while also maximising our time in AEP. although, we have to do an AEP project so I'm hoping it will be origami.

Alisa’s Blog - Term 2 Jan 18 2023

First blog of 2023! Happy New Year everyone! After reflecting on some of my exit tickets for AEP in our padlet site, I noticed that many of the lessons we had this term consisted of essay-writing and reviewing. Honestly, thinking about the first day of my AEP class and now, I think I’ve improved a lot on my vocabulary and knowledge of IELTS essays! 

Other than that, the class is definitely bigger than when I first arrived. We have one new student, and two who were previously online joining face-to-face! I’m glad they’re able to join us on campus this term. Speaking of new arrivals, we also have a new plant with us now — Alice! Alice’s leaves are different to Alan’s. I’m not sure about their exact species but they are definitely unique in their own ways. Unfortunately, Alan isn’t with us anymore (no, he’s not dead!). He were getting a lot bigger so the teacher had to take him back home with her. We’ll surely miss him. :(

Anyway, I love how every one of our AEP classes start with a ‘dle’ game! At first, I thought it was something that was going to happen temporarily, but as time passed on, each one of our lessons always started with a game like wordle, quordle, antiwordle, and a lot more. It’s probably one of the best warm-ups a teacher could choose because it really gets my brain going. 

Other than that, I’m really looking forward to this year’s AEP classes! Albeit I have the slightest possibility of leaving the Philippines this year, it won’t distract me from the fact that AEP is still one of the most relaxing and chillest class I could have. Thank you miss for always knowing how to engage everyone! :DD

Blog 2.3 :DD

 Looking back to our very first class from this term, I had just realised how much our class has grown. We now have a full house and it hasn’t been more lively since. There’s more conversations being passed around and it’s even more exciting to do starter games with them(even though we still struggle with wordle games). I look forward to playing scrabble during a full house as we used to only play it with 4-5 people but now that there are 6-9 people, i’m thrilled to be against newer competition. 

Compared to the days before the midterms of term 2, I think that I am doing and feeling way better. Though I still might be lacking and procrastinating, I am working towards creating a planned schedule to follow in order to keep up. In AEP lessons, we have been analysing and writing essays on maps which I believe is way better than writing essays on graphs as it is simpler to analyse visually. Despite this, I think that I need to improve on linking my paragraphs and properly writing my introductions as I keep on forgetting to add on a small summary on the comparisons between two maps.  

I can clearly see the improvement in my vocabulary when comparing it with my knowledge back in the first term. I think that the use of Miro and other platforms has really helped me in learning new vocabulary the fun way. When you enjoy a process of learning something new, you tend to easily remember them as has now become part of a good memory. Using these vocabularies in our IELTS essays has also been effective to improve my writing.

Inspired by Ms Disa’s stories on running and working out or eating healthy, I decided to try out for the varsity teams as she makes me realise how much I’m not taking care of myself enough in terms of working out. I think that this is great as working out can definitely improve my productivity. There are so many other things I would love to do in AEP like having another origami lesson(I still think I should’ve won the jumping frog race ahahah) and more. Maybe for our next project we could do another origami lesson too. I look forward to that and to writing another blog on an update on what we have done and how I felt this term. 

Constant change

As I sit here reflecting on my time in school, I can't help but feel a sense of nostalgia mixed with a tinge of disappointment. I feel like something has changed. 

One of the reasons being the influx of new teachers. Every year, it seems like there are more and more new people who you don’t know. While I understand that teachers leave for various reasons, it's hard not to feel like something is different.

To be honest, I've always been a little wary of new teachers. They come in with their new ideas and methods. Maybe you won’t get what they are trying to deliver well. But as I've gotten to know some of the new teachers, they bring new perspectives and new ways of thinking. Which prepares you to something you weren’t trying to prepare for. Change of routine. Even though major change is part of my life and so many people’s too, it can be tiring. But a thing  to accept and adapt to, to continue. 

The thing is, I think it may be my view for school is what is changing. That kinda explains the thoughts going through my mind.

It is crazy that our grade is two digits now, being a 10 grader. And this concludes my blog :3 Let's keep it short as it is~

AEP Blog #2.3 “Clearing my throat”

 Salutations fellow readers! Welcome back to the well made freshly served daily blog by yours truly~

The irony of my title is such a great laugh. Funnily enough, I have a sore throat while writing a title that says,”Clearing my throat”. As much as I know you must be aware how this is indeed figurative language; I can’t help but laugh over the perfect timing of writing this blog. Whilst the constantly changing environment I have put myself in, feeling disconnected from the low shutter speed background and the dimmed foreground. 

It is very much expected for us students to feel overwhelmed with whatever projects we have. Its the second term and it always focuses on intense, faster deadlined group work material. I usually don’t mind group work, but if it requires constant developing, improving and continuous meetings — I start to get really out of it and lose my energy. Of course, I still have to work my way through it but I start to get just a little more mentally drained as days pass. Once the project ends, I go back to my normal self. This two step process has always been what I would go through ever since. 

Perhaps its not a bad thing, I know some people have it worse. This month has just been “one of those months” . Its when things just don’t go the way you want it to, and thats okay. 

I remember when I used to always make these type of blogs; talking about how overwhelmed I am with the amount of assessments… but now that we are in face-to-face classes, I realised how little work I had during that time. I was just feeling really tired because there was no sense of accomplishment coming from my side. Compared to classes now, I start to feel more accomplished even if I did feel very frustrated during the process. Each time there is a project to be finished, I enjoy the good times I have with my group mate(s), whether it be my seat mate; a person I have never had a conversation with; or my close friends. Its true, I do feel drained but at least I know that I won’t be feeling this way for too long. 

They say, “Its all in the mind.” 

Thats why all I need to do is to correct myself, change the way I think and try to grasp it well. Clearing my throat, and changing what I have to say. 

Now for some AEP! 

One of the most memorable things we did happened just recently. This was really the time I felt like making essays can be an easier task to do compared to before. Whenever we have such type of activities, we have to go to miro and jot down whats being asked. Fahad chose the map we were doing and that already made me feel flexible. I already knew that I can make as many mistakes as I want which makes me a lot more calm. 

We then studied the type or vocabulary we should used and structured our paragraphs. I was able to see what my other classmates wrote too so I can improve my paragraphs. 

I cannot stress enough about how much I love this type of learning. The comfortable type, the type wherein I don’t have to ask the most perfect questions, the type where we can speak freely ( of course, giving space for the teacher, I don’t mean this literally) and the avoidance of stress this type of class manages to do is what makes it so special. 

Thats all I have to say, See you in the next one! 

AEP Blog 2.2

 I’m back with another blog for the second term! I’m having a lot of fun this half-term in AEP class and I truly enjoy our new topic on maps as line graphs were quite on the difficult side to describe. I find it more straightforward to describe maps as you have access to use many techniques like including compass directions to show the placement of something or use many more vocabularies to demonstrate the changes of a place.

Although, as much as I have been enjoying this half-term, I think that I am starting to slow down a bit nowadays as I have been returning my assignments late and last-minute. Some days, I feel as if things are getting harder and harder, that I keep falling behind on my tasks and schedule. But I try to assure myself that sometimes, you just need some time to slow down and try to work at your own pace. 

There have been many times where I just think back to Ms Disa’s classes and rethink on the things that she tells us like her boxing activities and hardships that she too faces. Her words have a really big impact and help me go through many things. This is one of the reasons why I feel very comfortable attending her classes. 

Though this blog is posted very late, I hope to work harder in the next half-term and work on myself, like my time management and work on doing assignments as soon as I am given one. I look forward to the next blog and hope to see that I am doing better and have improved.

- also, Happy New Year ! <333