LEO 9A DEBRIEFING

    The 14-day challenge was given to us on the 15th of February, nearly after the halfway mark of the shortest month of the year. This supposed challenge had given us the opportunity to fix our lives and give us some perspective on what it's like to be a motivated and well-kept student! Of course, some of us are already like that — very prim and proper students, but some do need a bit of help. As imagined, those who were like that even before the challenge started will do it the best, and those who aren't, won't. Me? I don't know. I'd say I'm in the middle, like a good student with a bit of freedom in schedule, so I'm not very busy most of the time.

    During the 14-day challenge, I did an okay job in keeping up with the challenge here and there. The reason why I would say I didn't do terribly is because I followed the challenge throughout and I didn't miss everything, but at the same time, I didn't do the greatest since most of what I'd been doing before the 14-day challenge, so it was pretty easy to keep up and do what I was planning to do during the day, minus time constraints, since a few more were added to my schedule, and some were a bit chaotic to follow due to immense amounts of homework I had.

    Despite that, however, I was learning how to manage my time to fit the schedule which was the actual challenge I had, because I'd been mostly busy during it. I think some of it was a pain for me to finish during the camping trip and the aftermath of it, considering that my body was in shambles for the entirety of the days following. The stretches did take a huge toll on my pain, but regardless I was able to do it, though I was asleep most of that duration.

    During the 14 das, the main thing I wanted to improve my writing. I did plot study, vocabulary study and a bit of free journaling, which was basically writing anything I wanted to, like some overly descriptive writing about my day or some short scene of my maladaptive daydreams I have every so often, I would say my creative input had improved, however I didn't feel much had changed, only by just a tiny bit. I guess most of the poems I've written were slowly getting more and more advanced with extra connotations, literary devices and all that, which is great, but it isn't not something I wanted to improve.

    Another thing to talk about was the sleeping schedule. It seemed terrible, but it's a habit for me to sleep 5 hours and nothing more, nothing less. If I were to sleep for more than that, even with 8 hours, I would feel terrible the entire day and it's hard for me to concentrate without feeling tired. I think it's because every time I sleep over 5 hours, I often wake up during the night for no reason and I'd have to wait a few hours before I feel tired enough to sleep again. Unless I can get at least 10 or more, I made it a habit to keep it to 5 hours minimum and maximum.

    Some improvements I think could be included, one of the tasks could be "do something new and out of your ordinary schedule". I think that would make it more challenging, for me at least. I think that it could've been done in a time not during a very sporty event, since... what happened then shall not be named anymore. But overall, it was a pretty good project. I did enjoy getting back to my old schedule that I used to do before time constraints happened. I now know how to plan my week better! Yay!

14-Day Challenge Debrief - Chloe Lloveras - T3 - AEP 9

Habits. They're the things we do everyday whether we realize it or not. They're incorporated in our routines and act like clockwork. Some we've gained from our parents at a very early age and some we develop later on in life. Scientists say that a task starts to form into a habit after being done for 30 days straight, but for term 2's project, we wanted to see if it could be done in 14; thus, the 14-day challenge was born. 

The 14-day challenge served as our term 2 AEP project. It started on the 15th of February and lasted all the way up to the 28th. The main purpose of this challenge was to unlock our inner organization skills and increase our productivity levels. I encountered a many number of struggles during this project, but also quite a number of accomplishments- ones that I didn’t think I could achieve. Below is my usual pre-challenge preparation list: 

PRE-CHALLENGE PREP:

1. Goal/Outlook for the day: 

2. Exercise snack times: 10:15 a.m., 12:25 p.m., 2:05 p.m.

3. Watch less YouTube and put a time limit (1 hour). 

4. I will be switching out pink lemonade with water. 

5. Sleep hours:

6. Act of kindness: 

7. Task: 

Each day I would fill it out in the morning, which was designated to be at 7 a.m. Then, at the end of the day, usually before I go to sleep, I fill out some of the blank parts like the day’s “act of kindness” and verify with check marks whether I accomplished certain things or not. Now that the details have been laid out, let’s move on to the struggles I had with this project.

My struggles in this project were minor ones that I later on soon solved or adjusted to. I mainly had 3: remembering to fill out the challenge every day, getting up a little earlier in the morning, and finding a daily act of kindness.

Starting with the first one, I normally remember to do school work, but I guess since there’s no “Google Classroom” announcement to ping me every morning, I forgot this project easily. Nonetheless, I managed to not miss a single day of filling out the list. I believe this is thanks to the habit of starting to put my phone on the table before breakfast starts so that I remember. That, and the fact that my friends also ask if I did it. This struggle taught me to not always rely on "Google Classroom" and, like Miss Disa said, that sometimes when we're building habits, we need to stick them to old habits so that we remember. 

Another problem I encountered was waking up at 7 a.m. I usually wake up for school at around 7:15 a.m., so I do admit that adjusting to this new sleeping schedule was a bit tough. I remember being very cranky in the morning because those 15 minutes can really make a difference in my mood (especially on the weekends)! Haha! 

The last problem that I faced was finding a daily act of kindness. Although I assumed that this would be easy at first, I found that it was actually harder to think of one act daily. I had thought that it would just come naturally, but when the day would end, I would always find myself wondering what kind thing I did that day while drawing a blank. This project made me realize that there’s a fine line between being kind and helpful and I found that I’m the latter of the two. Even though the two may seem similar or overlap, they actually have many differences. For example, it's different when you let someone copy your notes versus holding open the door for someone. This struggle made me learn that I need to work on being kind more often. 

Moving on to my achievements and things that really shocked me, I have two: my watching YouTube hours and switching out pink lemonade to water. 

Starting off with the YouTube hours, I was quite surprised to find that I actually managed to pull it off. I think this is due to all the school work I had, which occupied most of my time. Nonetheless, this is still an achievement I shocked myself in doing since I remember watching YouTube for hours upon hours, especially on the weekends. And even now, after the challenge, I actually don’t watch YouTube as much anymore- at least not over an hour, so I think that this challenge was definitely a good habit to develop. 

Moving forward, this is the one that shocked me the most because I'm still using it today. I’ve always drunk pink lemonade in school ever since I was in elementary and that habit never changed up until this project popped up. It’s honestly very surprising because I never thought I’d be able to give it up, but I did! To be honest though, it wasn't the easiest thing. I did have some cravings for it and the taste of water felt bland on my tongue for some reason, but those feelings slowly died as I neared the end of the project. I'm very happy with how this challenge changed this one bad habit of mine into a good one and I think this may be my favorite.

To sum up my experience in this 14-day challenge, I can say that I'm pretty proud of the results. This project was more fun than most projects I've been assigned and I'd say that some parts of it have definitely become part of my daily schedule now. Although the changes in my schedule may appear small, I think it's a good 1st step in the right direction in building healthier habits. I enjoyed how it only took 5-10 minutes of our day and wasn't too much a hassle to pull off. To me, it was no surprise that my struggles in this project didn't actually have to do with my productivity levels but rather with some of my organization skills, taking breaks sometimes, and being more positive. We're all still learning to navigate our way through life and this project has taught me a very important lesson: that it's okay to fail and to appreciate our small wins and successes because, when you add them up, they're actually pretty big. 

Blog 3.2 14 day challenge

In retrospect, the 14-day challenge was messy. It started off relatively well for me as I got the first 2 days almost perfectly on time, but when I missed my first day of the challenge I felt a wave of defeat, which stuck with me. On the off day that I remembered, it felt good knowing that I'd done everything right so far in the day.

On Tuesday, February 14, Ms Disa announced that we would start the challenge the next day. It went well for precisely 2 days before I missed my first morning and after that, it just went south. Even though I did very poorly, still I think that I still learnt something.

When I get up in the morning, I usually have my breakfast and scroll through memes but with the introduction of the 14-day challenge I started writing down what I'd do for the day. Even though what I wrote was very little, which it was designed to be, it meant that I was already thinking about the day ahead rather than letting it catch me off. Sometimes it would remind me that I had to bring specific things to school.

Reflecting on how I did according to what I set out to accomplish in a day proved to be helpful. Most of the time when a day is over I only look to the following one, but now I had to recall what I did which makes the day feel full rather than all of it blending into one.

In conclusion, the 14-day challenge may have been a messy experience, but it still provided some valuable lessons. Despite struggling to keep up with the challenge, I learned the importance of planning out the day in advance and reflecting on what I did at the end of the day. These new habits helped to make the day feel full. While this challenge was not completely successful, it's important to take away the positive lessons it thought me.

Blog 3.2 - 14-Day Challenge Debrief :))

 It’s nearly the end of half-term for term 3! Surprisingly, so much has happened this half-term and I wouldn’t have it in any other way. 

Starting off, right after we finished our finals we had a camping trip which was a nice and relaxing getaway for us as we had just finished taking our last paper the day before. Before that, we had been given a task by Ms Disa to continue our 14-days challenge during our trip and to be truly honest, it was very challenging for me to keep track and remember to write my game plan and results as I was too focused on the tasks given to me during the camp(I struggle a lot in multi-tasking). 

To recap on how the trip went, I would say that I had so much fun on the first day as we got a lot of rest on the bus(even though it was quite uncomfortable but nonetheless I had a lovely seat mate) and the activities were thrilling, I enjoyed working with other year groups :)) To end the first day off, we quickly washed up and I watched the sunset a bit before heading to dinner. After that, we had a bonfire and let me just say, that evening was incredible. Grade 10s sat under the stars and due to the lack of light, I could see many constellations. It truly magical! After reading appreciative letter to each other, we headed off to bed. 

14-day challenge!! The first 5 days were pretty challenging to me in remembering to write my game plan and results as it was already a habit to get used to the challenge but as time went by, I managed to keep up in writing my plan in the morning but somehow, I couldn’t seem to remind myself to do the results at 7pm. I would say that I was quite successful with the challenge as I believe I missed like 1 or 2 days and I also slightly fixed my sleeping.

Blog 3.2 - “14 day challenge debrief” - Dilara

 Welcome back to another blog of mine, dear readers.

Today, I will be talking about something a bit different than the usual things i talk about. I will be talking about this challenge that miss disa gave us, that consists of us always improving ourselves. This is something very new, we have not done anything like this before. It is called the 14 day challenge.

This challenge is all about creating new habits and achieving your goals, no matter how big or small they are. It takes 30 days to create and maintain a habit. However, we narrowed our challenge down to 14 days. I must say, i started this challenge feeling very productive, thinking I will do it perfectly and achieve all my goals. However, it wasn’t as easy as I has thought it would be. For starters, during the 14 day challenge, I had no motivation to do anything. Even opening padlet to encode my goals each day felt like it required great strength. So I can say that it was difficult for me to accomplish my 14 day challenge.

There were some days where I was not able to accomplish and do anything, since I would keep delaying all my assignments and then cramming it all a night before. The 14 day challenge did help me however, with planning and putting down all my goals. I definitely think there were days where i achieved all my goals, which made me very happy. I believe I could have done better. I will definitely continue to try and write down my goals and achieve them. I think I can do better than what i did. The 14 day challenge is a great idea, and i believe if I wasn’t feeling so demotivated and tired all the time, i could have done it perfectly. I am still proud with how much I’ve done tho.

I also like the idea of commenting on whether u achieved ur goal or not, since it allows u to step back and see how much u truly achieved. I’ll definitely be implementing this 14 day challenge every now and then. 

Thank you for reading this blog, i hope to see you in the next one.

Blog 3.1 "A fresh start isn’t a new place, it’s a new mindset"

 Welcome to my first blog of the 3rd term, dear readers! 

PS: This blog is a bit late since i was absent on the day it was done. Nevertheless, i welcome you all to my blog. 

We are finally in the last term of the school year, the final wave. It’s crazy how fast time goes, I remember it as clear as if it was just yesterday when we had our first face to face lessons in AEP. It truly is important to make every minute count.

Our finals are done, stem congress is done and finally a sense of relief has washed over me, knowing that I achieved everything I worked hard for. It had definitely been a very hectic last week for second term. However, we are now taking our time and reloading our energies. 

For the past term, i learned quite a lot in AEP. Not just academically, but also really inspiring life lessons from Miss Disa like never to give up and not define your worth over grades. This is something that I kind of struggle with, which is why the title of this blog is. “A fresh start isn’t a new place, it’s a new mindset”. From this quote, we can say that improvement starts within you, and that you shouldn’t allow your environment and the things that happen to you which you can’t control prevent you from always being the best version of yourself. It is not who we are born as that define us, it’s who we grow up to be.

This term, as usual, we played a lot of wordle, quordle and many other web games ending with -dle. These games are both relaxing and educating. Every now and then I come across a word which I have never heard of in my life before. AEP definitely feels like a different world. Its an escape that allows me to refresh my mind, communicate, and just have a relaxing time with the calming background music that miss Disa opens.

We have written quite a lot of essays this term, this time more about the comparisons and processes between two maps. We did relaxing things like origami, which are definitely a great way to take a break every once in a while.

I hope that you all enjoyed this blog, see you in my next one!

NABONI Blog 1- A new experience AEP CLASS

"I am the little New Year, ho, ho! 
Here I come tripping it over the snow.
Shaking my bells with a merry din –
So open your doors and let me in!”
                                                    —Anon

Here comes another year; another era! A new year, 2023! For me, 2023 is a year of development and experiencing new things. It is a new year and thus the start of a new semester. I joined a new class called AEP, quitting my former ESL classes. AEP is a more advanced English class. Just like the verse above, I walked through the open door of the AEP classroom and officially became an AEP student. I was already familiar with the pupil of the class as I had once joined a class with them during the first term. Every single member of the class possesses high brilliance with most of them being super sophisticated in English. I was quite sure that it would take me forever to catch up with them. Honestly, I still freak out sometimes during the AEP classes of perceiving how they present their various talents. In total, the class consists of 7 students along with two other exceptional members, Teddy and Alice ( Teddy is a teddy & Alice is a plant!). AEP class is conducted by Miss Disa, a beautiful, native English woman. She makes the class activities amusing, interactive, and super entertaining! Even every class begins with a warm-up game! We had 6 weeks before the third term to finish our second-term coverage. With cheerful laughter and Miss Disa’s wholesome jokes, the followings are the day-day activities that we did throughout the second term-

Planning:

According to our schedule, we have one period of class on Monday and luckily a double period on Tuesday! On a Monday morning, my very first class in AEP started! Monday morning is a special day for all the people on AEP. On this day Miss Disa likes to keep things slow and relaxed. As well as it was the first class, thus there were a lot of chit-chats and we made our planner for the whole semester. It helped us to have a grasp of what we were heading toward and to keep a productive routine. Some of my friends introduced me to the applications that we will be required on the road and showed me their previous tasks so I have an idea about the upcoming assignments. 

Oral:

The next day was an oral day. On the oral day, we read amazing facts from DOGOnews! We read three articles that day. One is about Octopuses throwing debris at each other, a humongous so-called goldfish, and a bird thief. Each of us took turns reading 2 lines from the articles. After that Miss Disa went around the table and made everyone state a fact that was mentioned there, after finishing each article. This is to test our memory and how focused we were during others read their parts. Oral is fun and relaxing. It is my favorite activity because I like to get familiar with new facts.

Grammar lessons:

The rest of the semester we mostly focused on grammar lessons on voices and causatives. We started with voices of how to change passive voice to active and vice versa. Miss Disa conducted these lessons with her own-made youtube videos and gave us seatwork after making the lesson crystal clear. Then we had the lesson on causative. We were given to do a pop quiz and teamwork after the discussion of the lesson. The teamwork involved all of the students in AEP to make a presentation on, why ‘Help me with my homework’ can not be causative. We made the presentation on one day and presented it in the next class. That went off pretty neatly.

Games:

As I had mentioned before AEP class is filled with playfulness. We spent a lot of the time in the semester playing different brainstorming games. So, after the AEP presentation, we were rewarded by Miss Disa to play scrabble. Boys vs Girls. We, the girls ruled the game and luckily were far ahead of the boys! During the whole AEP classes, I have got familiar with so many other games and I kinda got obsessed with some too.  Those include wordle,  griddle, phrazle, hurdle & my personal favorite contexto. These games basically require you to guess words or phrases with a limited amount of guesses. Contexto is a bit different. It does not give any clue about the number of letters in the word and there are also no limitations. So, you just keep on guessing random words until you find out the word of the day!

I believe AEP holds a huge credit for my improvement in English, and if I continue the classes I can improve further. The second semester ended much quicker than I had expected. And here goes one more semester and the school year ends! We yet have to go through another two major exams. So here I end the blog cause I need to save energy for the upcoming battles. Stay tuned to know how the AEP classes continue in my next blog!

14 day challenge - a retrospective

From my retrospective, I will say the 14-day challenge was complex because remembering to upload it every day was a hassle as you have so many things to do. Doing the actual game plan you assigned yourself was not hard, as it could be done quickly if you tried. During the first 2 days, everything was going smoothly because I remembered to do my game plan every day, but after 2 days had passed, we went camping, and I completely forgot about everything. Luckily, Miss Disa said I could restart my game plan from a day onwards. When I started again, it didn't go as well as planned since I kept forgetting to write it. I either wrote it late or forgot about it. After a few days, I got the Gist of it, and I kept doing most of it on time, but when the 14-day challenge was about to finish.The thought of doing my game plan vanished from my brain and i forgot to do it., and I completely forgot about it. Luckily, I made up for those days and did my game plan on time.

Blog 3.1 Progress or Regress

 I will keep this blog a short one. Miss Disa explained the 14 day challenge to us. I feel rather optimistic since I'll be able to have a motivation to improve my lifestyle, habits, and assignments. Especially since now we'll have to schedule things such as my IGCSE exams study session and deciding which assignments to prioritize. 

It's a good opportunity to get my life together too. Since I will be moving, I have to schedule when I will do my assignments and my chores to clean up and pack. Other than that, I can keep track of what I eat, what I do, and especially my exercise. I've been planning to go to the gym for the longest time now. I'm excited to get a gym membership once I move.

I just hope that I can actually make some progress even after this challenge and not instead feel motivated by all the game plans and to-do-list.

That's all for now. Thank you for reading.

Blog 3.2 - Alisa AEP 10 | 14-day challenge debrief

 To start off, I wasn't able to do much for my challenge. This is probably partly because I normally don't have a schedule or game plan for my days. I wasn't used to having to think of a plan for my day on a daily basis.

In the beginning, I started off surprisingly well. I would wake up, follow my morning routine, and then write my game plan. I wrote the results at the end of the day. But as I progressed through the challenge, I began to forget to write them. The thing is, there's a difference between writing a gameplan and having my own routine. And that difference being I don't write actually write my routine. The things I do in the morning are automatic. I've been so used to following that certain routine that it was built into my system. To be honest, if I were introduced to the 14-day challenge earlier (and it was longer than just 14 days), there may have been a possibility for it to be added into my automatic daily routine. 

Now, my opinion on the challenge is not entirely negative nor positive. Don't get me wrong, I think it's healthy and motivating for someone to have a pre-plan for their day -- especially when they like to keep things organized and in order. But for the people who like to enjoy their day free from a specific schedule or a set of tasks being reminded to them, having a game plan might stress them into not doing anything they need to do at all. The challenge really depends on the person. On my end, I like to do things on the go. So having a game plan might (emphasis on might) help me remember the things I have to do, but it won't actually necessarily help me to do them.

To conclude, the 14-day challenge was a learning experience for me. I learned that it is possible for it to help you with your day, but it isn't exactly for everyone. I was able to finish a few tasks that needed to be done, but I also dreaded being reminded of them. 

Blog 3.2_14 Day Challenge Debrief

 So, how was it?

Simply put, I wasn't all that into it. I started the challenge feeling rather optimistic. "Oh hey! A way to keep track on my progress and improve on my habits!" It was a good idea. It really was. It's just that after about a few days or so, I stopped viewing it as a positive outlet and more as a task I have to complete each morning and night. 

I had no issues fulfilling my game plan or eating healthy or exercising. It's really only writing down the progress that made me groan. In this case, fulfilling the challenge is easier than documenting it. Doing it was easier than saying it per se.

I don't know. In a way, I think I just felt awfully pressured to fulfill it. Awfully pressured to write my progress and results and game plan. I'll admit I'm seeing some improvements in my daily life. I'm watching what I eat and I prioritize my work. I find that I'm opening my schedule to be able to do more active exercise too.

I think things like that should come naturally. Of course, it's different for everyone. For some people, they think that it's the most effective to track their progress to see their improvements. It's better for them to have reminders and alarms or the like in order to be better.

While in my case, it's really a slow go. I don't need to write or track down anything. If I mean what I'm doing and strive to improve, I can do it. Reminders and trackers and journals only make me think pessimistically. "Oh, I didn't eat vegetables today," "Oh, I didn't get to exercise," "Oh, I didn't have eight hours of sleep." If anything, it causes me to regress in my improvement.

I get lazy. I start thinking "What even is the point of this when I'm not making any progress?" It demotivates me. It may be due to this perfectionist mindset. "If I'm not improving day by day then I might as well not keep going." It's not that I wasn't putting effort into this. It's that I'm reminded more of failure than I am of glory.

Most people will just tell me that failure is supposed to motivate you, but that type of inspiration reminds me of how parents hit their kids to discipline them. You motivate and teach someone through praise and reward, not punishments and reminders of how they're a failure.

No one told me that I was a failure during this challenge, but the walls of posts I made were loud in saying it. If I want to be great, I need to be great once too. So I can have this mindset of "I managed to do this once and survive, I can do this again."

It will then translate to: "I did great things, but now I can reach higher and be even greater!"

I'm not a "make good of a bad situation" type of person. I panic and I cry. I'm not a good problem solver. What I am good at is improving onto something. Make it better and reach for higher.

Of course, it's all a self-discovery journey anyway. I'm improving and I can see my efforts in doing so. I intend to continue improving on my lifestyle and habits further.

Thank you for reading.

Blog~ 14 days cha cha challenge

I want to start by writing what I first thought of, before writing this blog. I think it was a great opportunity that I did not use well, almost wasted. It was an excuse to break the continuous cycle that I had. And I did change a bit, but that bit is not enough in my eyes. Since it has been a lot to change that one bit. But if you are determined enough it can be accomplished for sure.

I can say I was caught off guard, it was really an excuse to change but I guess not. We have a lot of these 14 days to go through I guess. We really do, I will continue to plan my days like usual but add a sprinkle of discomfort to it so it can feel like a challenge. 

It was a great way to help us establish new habits or break old ones. Struggling to maintain the routine due to various reasons, such as lack of motivation or unforeseen circumstances make it harder than it is, to stick to a new routine for an extended period of time. 

Missing a few days of finished work is quite discouraging, but it is always useful to remember that setbacks are a natural part of the process of forming new habits. 

Identifying the barriers. This reflection helps to develop a better plan for future challenges. I would say it was a slap on the face of how slacked of I am :’D

Really studying before relaxing is the way that should be, I realized that more. It is a huge step for the quiz week self. I'll continue on that. :))

AEP Blog #3.2 “How was the 14-day challenge?”

Salutations fellow readers! It is I, Ayesha, here to create a blog about a certain well known experience that all AEP students were required to put themselves into. The catch? Its a challenge. A two week challenge. 

My writing and typing skills sure aren’t working for me today, but I digress. I’ll try my hardest and see what I can output about thus 14-day mental reminder, workout and encounter. 

Way back when Ms Disa announced it, I was rather stunned over how I was actually going to have to force myself to create to-do lists. Those were the thing of the past for me. For some odd reason, I stopped making to-do lists back when online class started and didnt seem to put that habit back on me. To-do lists are great! But it seems like Ive lost its purpose by somehow forgetting that I have a to-do list. So, something that was graded was a big push for me. 

It would be quite hard to describe how I felt during each of the days but I can thoroughly explain what I have learnt and generally express the mental strategies I had to make in order to make this plan a success. 

Given it being 14 days, I had to make sure I made things in a solidified time frame. Writing on the padlet should be in a specific time so I wont forget… all of it was planned in a full proof manner. 

Except it wasn’t as easy as I imagined.

On the first day, I wasn’t able to answer it. Great. But for all the other days I was able to answer it but my answering schedule was so messed up for the first week — not to mention the camping in which I almost forgot to ask my teachers to sign. I wont go through the details but I have to thank my trusty sister for reminding me hehe..

Although this blog might be a little short because of the time I have to write this. I think I have learnt one main thing. Which is…

Writing to-do lists!

I am now starting to write to-do lists again, although this may not be the biggest improvement aside from my already implemented daily stretches and avoidance of sweets… managing my time has been such a big  obstacle for me and having these to-do lists make me realised all over again why I was able to manage my time so well when I was back in primary school. 

I don’t know if I’ll be able to continue doing these to-do lists but until now I have been making them. Perhaps its a great thing! Especially with my IGCSE’s coming up. 

I thought at the start that this 14-day challenge would just be another task I’d have to do but I didn’t think it would be as beneficial as I imagined but here you go! I am now practicing a practice I once left before, thinking it wouldn’t serve me any use. 

Thank you so much for reading and see you in the next one! 

"A repetition that i wish would never stop" - Blog 1 - T3 - AEP 9 - Janek Smigielski

Term three has now begun and something feels quite disquieting. A part of me feels empty when this cycle, which we do every day, comes to an end. Can't exactly pinpoint the issue. Even though I find repetition to be boring most of the time, AEP appears to shift that perception. The routine games and activities we encounter every morning help me to focus and find tranquilly. Every time I reach a point in my life where several changes begin to engulf me, I become anxious. This is why AEP and how I miss the teacher's role in this class not only educate me about the English language but also put me in a comfortable environment. I don't know why it only affects me now, but I would assume it has something to do with the fact that I'm there, finally in the room with a miss, and starting a new path with AEP. Let me now explain why this is the case and what has happened over the past few weeks. commençons par le blog!

I must start by describing the marvels of the several games that Miss Disa herself brought to us. The list would be wordle, hurdle, griddle, contexto, and the infamous scrabble. And there were a few others that I cannot recall, but they were not significant because these were the games we played repeatedly whereas the others were only played once. The board game that continues to bother me to this day, though, is Scrabble, which we play during our game weeks and which I suppose you are familiar with. This is the tale of how I and the other guys in the class competed against the girls, and it may help to understand why I loathe the game. Not one of our better games, and certainly not one of our best letter sets either. We were unable to find a group of letters that would have at least produced a four-letter word. vowels alone. only the vowels. Oh, how horrible. Even the word vowels makes me want to scream in pain...a little dramatic I know, but it would be quite accurate in my case. Anyway, the outcome of the two scrabble games in which Sayum, Leo, and I had been making every effort to overtake the deficit was not in our favour. The girls were the true winners. Given that scrabble is Highly luck-based and that we could have a chance if it were more on the side of skill and critical thinking. or we could simply embarrassed once more by the gals, not sure till we try! Nonetheless, moving past the games, we also receive our fair share of activities.

For our activities, we focused on both grammar and DOGO news. Grammar lectures and DOGO were frequently combined in our classes. We completed two classes and two oral exams in total, and both were evenly spread over the course of a week. These were quite extraordinary. The conditionals were enjoyable because I am accustomed to them. Also, I enjoy watching her films because of the vibrant colours and amusing examples. Nevertheless, because I have trouble remembering things, I get confused. I had the impression that Miss was angry with me because it was obvious during our single exercise. But even so, I managed to complete the rest of the task without letting it bother me.  these weren't my favourite activities, since they were lessons. Lessons are disliked by all. Where it's at is in the DOGO news! Every oral we hear the news that never seems to get old to me. Each news item is unique and steers clear of depressing subjects. It genuinely sheds light on the positive aspects of this world. I'd want to see more news like that. On the other hand, I'm terrified of the quiz part of it. Recalling specific details from the essay can be difficult. You need to pay attention, but you also need to do something different from what the person who just answered did. But I didn't seem to be having any issues over here. Our 14-day endeavour presented a challenge.

I've never been assigned an assignment where the student must arrive at a specific strategy within 14 days, you see. When I noticed this strange assignment, I was perplexed. one that didn't call for essays, calculations of any kind, or question-and-answer sessions. This one urged us to break negative habits, reinvent ourselves, and improve our performance. Doing this challenge taught me that, at least. I'm writing this blog post-14-day challenge, and I must say it was gratifying. I'm surprised to realise that I drink SO much water. The challenge was there to nudge folks from the borderline, between good and bad, towards the proper side, as Miss stated in class. A little prodding goes a long way. I was there myself, and it was this great challenge that truly helped me.

The outcomes of this exercise absolutely caught me off guard. I performed admirably! I should congratulate myself on this one! Even though I'm not quite satisfied with the grade I received, I'm nevertheless ecstatic that this challenge has ended! God forbid that I turn away from my good behaviours and resume my bad ones. It was the results and gameplan padlet. It is very exhausting to have to remember to do it every morning and provide results. If only I could get my game plan to remember to do outcomes and those game plans! Nonetheless, it was occasionally frustrating as well as rewarding to realise what I was capable of. Hopefully, the upcoming weeks won't see much more of this. It would be preferable to stick to business as usual.

The routine was amusing as usual. Looking back now after being given this exercise, it wasn't the same as it had been. I did take pleasure in the orals, the passive, and the terrible scrabble games. But, things simply seem to be different now that the challenge is over. And that's what I mentioned when I first started writing this blog. Is it because I'm worried it'll reach a new point and have a different pace, or do I simply miss the regular schedule so much? Even though blogging has never been my strong suit, there is something satisfying about returning to it time and time again. I will only come to understand this fact in the future. But that's a topic for an other blog. This one is now over. See ya!