Blog 1.2 - 1st Ring

 Hi hii and welcome to another blog!!

I woke up late this morning (oopsie) so I had to do my makeup in a Starbucks bathroom, but besides that I had a pretty smooth-sailing morning. So what did we do on the second week? Firstly, we did another game for warmup of coursee! We played the same game as last time, "Diffle". It was fun and compared to last time, we got the word relatively quickly.

Soon after, Miss Disa had us fix up our little Miro board of all the vocabulary we learned last week. I was mostly done with it but I stayed to edit a few of the sentences and whatnot so that it'll be neater and easier to read. Right after we were done finishing up the board, Miss Disa has us do a little vocab quiz!

In summary, she put all the words we learned in Miro into the wheel of death, and what ever word pops up, the group that handled that word will have to explain the definition and how that word is used in context. It was pretty easy for me since I memorized the definitions for my words already. It was difficult to answer all the words by myself though because my teammate was Dilara and she already moved :(

It still went pretty smoothly so I can't complain too much.

Right after that, Miss made us do a little activity where we pair up words to make collocations. I had some difficulty with this one especially because I wasn't all that familiar with the different words and phrases combined. (Like- Junk bottom? What?). And especially since I had to painstakingly write down all of the definitions too... *sigh*

Nonetheless, I managed to finish up that assignment so it's not that bad anyway.

What do I want to improve? My ability to keep myself awake perhaps. And my intuition so that I can get better scores when making collocations haha

Discussing with my classmates was an option but that is also a gamble in and of itself. 

That's it for now. Thank you for reading!

Blog 3.1 - 'So Much Has Happened, Yet It Has Not'

It's the second week of 3rd term, but the first class of AEP is today. On the first week of the third term, FIS held a science congress. Everyone except ABM and HUMSS students was busy, stressed, and nervous. I went around with the judges, watching every group's amazing experiments, they tried their best and I was very proud of each one of them! That is why grade 11 is left behind compared to all the other grades regarding AEP.

I would like to do a ride back to 2nd term and everything I have accomplished, am proud of, and I wasn't able to fulfill, starting with what I have learned and the lessons I have gained through it. 

In the first week of the second term, we planned out our planner for the term. As we did it as a class, I think it gave us a clearer understanding of what we had to get done, and later feel more motivated with a plan for the days ahead. 

The next week we proceeded with vocab, the topic being 'Different Kinds Of People'. I still remember that I was able to get done with a lot; of matching words with their definitions, an example is 'affable', let's say an affable person is one who is friendly, warm, and polite; a person who is easy to approach. Later on, we matched each one of our characteristics with the words we learned. I was able to see how my friends see me and everyone else, it was fun and practical to make use of the words we learned. 

In the third week, we used the same miro board and did a few more group works. Basically, we used the words we learned the previous week and placed them on the appropriate blank lines present in the sentences. Overall I'd say that learning these few words expanded the vocabulary part of my brain. I'm excited to learn new words next week😆. Additionally, we did personality tests, it was so much fun! I hadn't done one in a few years, so I was curious to see whether it would change, and to my surprise, It really did change. My result was an 'adventurer', I do not disagree with this one. 

In the next week, only me and Hanis were present in class, so we only played scrabble together with Miss Disa, It was so much fun, and our board looked quite nice. I personally find scrabble a great game to expand your vocabulary and improve your literacy skills. I also was curious to see google's opinion on this, so when I searched 'why is scrabble a good game' it said it improves your memory and I definitely need that so I am looking forward to more scrabble games!

We were given the time to do our poems the next week. I did a few phrases but ended up hating them, so I didn't continue. While everyone else was recording their reading of the poem. And unfortunately, I was too busy with exams that I ended up forgetting and not doing the project(poem).

In our last meeting for the second term, we did origami as a class, it was so much fun as well. I did a table, chair, and a star-like thing(I forgot what it is called). But yeah that was a great way to relieve at least a little stress from the exams.

Overall this term was odd. I still don't know why, but it felt like I wasn't able to achieve that much and my grade went down by a lot. But anyways...everything else was great. I was able to expand my vocabulary and learn a few interesting things. I am looking forward to the third term!

Thank you Miss Disa<3

AEP 11 - Term 3???

 

Time moves so fast, it's like watching a really fast super-car pass by before you cross the road, or watching a speedboat on the lake. It's Term 3 already and soon it'll be summer again. HOW FAST WAS THAT???!!!?!? I'm still on my 'floating' phase right now and haven't realize the pain I'm gonna go through this March. Midterms, As Level Exams in April so I for sure have to do A TON of studying, Sportsfest and everything else that might come my way. I'm already stressed out but at the same time I'm feeling alright as long as I'm still 'floating' and know what I'm doing. But in reality, I'm just procrastinating and using the 'floating' phase as my comfort zone. AEP has been chill, HOWEVERRR I didn't do my poem project and that was honestly a stupid mistake. I mean, on the due date, I fell asleep and woke up at exactly the due time, which was 6pm. So then I thought like 'Ah okay, nevermind then T-T' and ended up not doing it until today bashjhfjah I'm sorry Ms.Disa. 

Anyways, I'm still forever grateful that AEP allows me to zone out, chill, think about my school life (or personal life), reflect and do everything I can to escape the remaining stresses of other subjects. The game that we played today was kind of fun, me and Ayse guessed the word right and who would've thought that absdhajhfahf. Usually I just be shouting random, irrelevant words. Right now, as I'm sitting down writing this blog, not going to lie, I still feel a tad bit of pressure to get this done by 3pm but at the same time I'm having a pleasant time typing my thoughts out. 

Additionally, Ms.Disa had assigned a 14 Days Challenge to help us keep track and improve our daily lives. I guess that's also another good thing that's gonna help and slowly pulling me out from 'floating' around. This can also get rid of my bad habit which is PROCRASTINATION. Yesyes, really have to get that out of my system because all I know is that habit does nothing but make me lazy and more lazy to complete tasks. Whether it be long, repetitive tasks, or the small and simple ones. I hope I can get by with that and will improve my way of living, cheers to better lifestyle!!

Anis' AEP Diaries - Are We Still Doing Okay? - 3.0

 — monday 20/2/2023 

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Somehow rather, starting a new year but ending a school year in which both are happening at the same time doesn’t sit right with me. Maybe it’s because I’m still in denial about the fact that I have been in the Philippines for a good 3 years now and frankly enough, the system works differently in Malaysia. Usually, every new year starts with a new school year. Basically an enormous fresh start for everything. But, we roll.

A rollercoaster ride. Simple three words to encapsulate AEP within the past two terms.

If I look back at our last term, it was quite slow. Not just for me, but also for the rest of the class. We were very much not on track with what we should’ve done, not catching up with deadlines, half awake in classes. But my theory is that the term was considered to be super packed with having such important events almost every week. AEP is also constantly skipped as other things tend to find themselves more prioritized. 

One thing that really resonated with me in the last term is how we approach our topic of “Different Kinds of People”. It’s not just about learning new vocabularies but we also managed to apply it in real time by describing our classmates with the words. Specifically in one of the classes, we did a personality test and had a little sharing circle session which I really enjoyed. It’s quite fun seeing how technology nowadays could somewhat have an idea of who you are even though they don’t know you as a person, and still get some accurate information out. 

For our upcoming challenge, I’m preparing myself - both mentally and physically - to not just get through it on autopilot mode, but to do it meaningfully. The task assigned revolves around consistency, discipline and self-discovery and it is known as the 14-day-challenge. To be completely honest, I’m quite terrified to get on this challenge as I’ve been in a horrible slump where I lost all my perception on time. But, deep down, I’m sure that this is lightweight! 

My main aims are to make sure that I approach this challenge with the right mindset and holistically. Sometimes, when I see an opportunity that aligns with myself, I tend to go to a whole different tangent of making it a little bit too ambitious. Eventually, that always leads me to the same outcome of being lazy and giving up. Well, it’s human nature to get a little bit excited sometimes. 

I think there are tons of bad habits that will reveal themselves throughout these 14 days. I plan to ensure that I take care of myself well, not just physically but also mentally. I would want to eat more healthy foods/ snacks, get good sleep, clear out my mind with unnecessary thoughts and assess myself as a person. It’s time! I know big changes are coming especially in the month of July. 

That would be it for now! I’m one to use my words in wishing that things go well. But we’ll see how it goes when I get my hands on this blog again. 

Cheers!

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Hanis' AEP Diaries : ep 2

THE FIRST BLOG OF THE YEAR!

10.12.2022

Did your school just started and you're already bombarded with assignments? Yes? Me too! Don't worry, you're not alone 😌 

It's been a while ☕

Hellooo everyoneeee<3 🙌 Before this blog even gets started, I just wanted to say that it has been quite a while since I've last done a blog and I was kinda- I am crusty at writing one in the first place. Everything is all over the place but hey, the content and feelings is what's important. If you're reading this, I hope you're having a wonderful day! If you're not, I'm sending a virtual hug to you (⁠づ⁠￣⁠ ⁠³⁠￣⁠)⁠づ

So far...this is what I've been up to

This blog will not be about everything. It will be solely dedicated to talking about what happened in AEP class. Since we're grade 11 and AEP is a minor subject, Miss Disa decided that we would be focusing on improving our vocabulary so that it could be used in our future classes. We we're given a couple of topics and were asked to vote which one to do via Google forms. 

Alrighty, the very first class we did wasn't really a class. We started the year with......🥁 SCRABBLE! I'm.so.bad.at.scrabble. Ughhh it's not even a funny anymore. Thanks to AEP class, I've realised that I'm  actually bad at Scrabble. It's okay, that's just not my expertise. I don't know if I remember correctly but we spent a good 2 periods with Scrabble.

For our very first official class, majority of us voted for 'The World of Politics'. As per usual, there is always a warm-up game in AEP class. It could be wordle, quordle, word master, scrabble, and there's probably more to come. Idk at this point, Miss Disa might as well just give us the whole day to play games. Jokeee I know that will never happen. If you ask for a free period in class, boy you're gonna get more work instead. So pleaseee do not say 'free time' in AEP unless miss says so herself.

Our first activity was to make a word cloud based on vocabulary related to Politics. From all the activities and projects we did, this one was my favourite!💞 Then we did like Miro stuffs and more Scrabble. For me, vocabulary was and is still my weakness in English. I think the problem is I know words but I don't know the meaning of the words and how to use them in a sentence. Even though I've just learned the meaning of the word, it wouldn't really stick to me that much. Believe me I'm trying to find a way that would work for me in remembering the meaning of the difficult words. 

Hanis' AEP Diaries : ep 1

Retrospective Blog

Hello! Today's blog is kinda a new approach because I will be looking back about what I've learned and felt during the past AEP lessons. Honestly, I kinda thought I would forget what I've learned as time goes by but when looking back, I've realised that we actually have done a lot of things. If you've read my AEP blog entries, I have specify the topics that we have covered so far. Here, I'll be giving my honest opinions on the activities that we have done.

Speech 🎤

*Insert me crying in a corner*

Before I completely talk bad about how my speech went, it was quite an experience. I felt the anxiety and nervous feeling again as you would feel when doing a presentation infront of everyone. I've never really like presenting;nevertheless doing a speech. I hate the nervous feeling and the ecstasy in the stomach. We had to talk about issues facing the young people;we had chose our own topics. Mine was about social media. Preparing the speech was one thing but presenting and talking itself is another thing. When I feel nervous, I usually stutter and pronounce a word badly. I don't really know how to cope with that but I try each time to calm myself and to overcome the nervous feeling. I really do try. I never knew 3 minutes would be so long before. I had a script and I've practiced a lot to the point that I have remember the script, but again the nervous feeling make me forget stuff to mention during the speech. I remember we determined the order by taking a Scrabble letter and see which letter comes first and which comes last. If I remember correctly, I had the the letter S;therefore, I was the last one who presented. Well the experience was quite normal to be honest. Everyone was supportive and considerate which eased my  tension a bit. I wasn't as nervous as I thought. I still did stutter though. The speech went on smoothly. Everyone did a great job in my opinion. It wasn't the best but it was a nice change of activity. I really don't want another speech though, pleaseeeeeee. Overall, it wasn't a bad experience but I really don't want to do another speech. Mainly because of the anxiety and nervous feeling.

Blogs 💻✍️

As mentioned earlier, this is my second blog so far. I feel that blogging is actually a nice little activity to do every now and then to recap what we have learned and felt during AEP classes. I was introduced to blogging from last year and only good memories come out of it. It's a nice and chill writing activity to do with some complementary classical music in the background. It definitely helps me in creating a sentence and writing more in general. I just love music you know. I work better with it. I don't have any problems with this activity and would love to continue doing it in future lessons.

Miro Board💻

Gosh this is my favourite part of the class. Ms Disa would be mad if I say so because it is a game but it's not any game, it is a WORD game. Mhm you read it right. It's a word game. What makes it special? Well just the game is really fun because there is just so much kinds of wordle today;however, the real reason I like wordle is because it's an activity where all of us work together. It's different than Miro because we are working together but we're doing it online and not talking as much as we would during the very first part of our AEP class. Sometimes there are struggles and sometimes there are giggles. Every lesson comes a new word game. It never bores me. Different types of wordle has different types of challenges, but if we're working together, nothing is impossible. As the saying goes, two heads are better than one. Moreover, six heads are better than one. Make it seven heads including ms Disa. In summary, I like this starter activity. It never fails to start my brain and get it going for the next two hours.

AEP 11- retrospective blogggg

Looking Back… 

  Usually looking back is when you turn your head back and you’ll see what’s going on behind you bahdbahahahah, but that’s not the case here I guess… since Ms.Disa said we have to ‘look back’ in a different way. In a ‘reminiscing’ kind of way. Looking back to Term 1, relating to what we’ve done in our classes and everything that we’ve experienced. It’s Term 2 now, and in a blink of an eye, it’ll be Term 3 and then the school year will end. It's merely fascinating how fast time can just past by. 

Advanced English Program

   Advanced English Program or in short term, AEP, something that was really new to me. Considering that I've never heard of such subject or anything that's similar to this kind of learning. I took this class because my bestfriend, Izzah asked me to ahjhajfahaah, because according to her, ESL is for people that speak English as a second language. As bad as it sounds, I assure you that it was the start of something good even though I had no idea what to expect or what I just put myself into. To be honest, I'm not even that good in English so ESL was considered as a good choice. First class of AEP, it was nice and breezy, we did activities and played Scrabbles together, had a few talks about the politics. I was more of a listener though. Because.... as much as I want to share something I always feel like what I'm about to say is gonna sound stupid basjdjhadha. 

   But anyways, that's how it always be in AEP classes, there's always some kind of really open and serene discussions right then and there. In other words, what I've been observing the whole term was that, AEP is all about bringing people together and being present. Something that I struggled to adapt to in the beginning. For instance, during this time, Ms.Disa established this rule that earphones or headphones are NOT allowed in class. So, this one time I was trying to not lose my mind over the fact that I couldn't listen to Spotify during class bsjdhajahhahahahaha, we were given like a free time to do whatever we wanted to and everyone was completing some work while I decided to complete my Business notes, so I was basically in my own world and nOT LISTENING TO MUSIC WAS KIND OF ANNOYINGGGG AND INCOMPLETE!!!! It was a whole struggle I'm telling you!!! But I promise it was just that one 'emotional' day, after that I was okay at adjusting and be more present with everybody as time goes on. 

    I participated more and more in games and activities like Quandle Dingle or whatever it was. Just kidding, I knew what it was, it was Wordle, Quordle and many others that end with '-dle'. These type of games were my worst enemy and still are. As I said, I'm not that bright in English so my range of vocabulary is literally the size of a rat. So most of the times I just be shouting stupid words in order to help and some would just stare at me like I just committed a crime of stupidity. Other than that, we also did mind maps based on the topics that we all voted for. The first mind map that we did was about politics, I admit this topic was overused but hey, you know what, I learned quite a LOT of things. I was excited to know more about the 'big' words used in this topic specifically because now I feel like I can understand more about the politics of the world. And the next topic was the issues facing young people. Again, quite a common and overused topic but in a way, this topic helped me grow as a person and realize what I needed to focus on as a student. 

  We proceed to do speeches and everyone in my class did a speech on subtopics about the issues facing young people. I guess my speech was lacking a lot of things bsjhahahajadajdajhd. I didn't prepare that much but I still pulled through with a 'half-decent' speech about 'Well-being'. After that I realize I shouldn't be talking in front of people at all because of how dull I was at public speaking. But, I shouldn't worry because I know I can grow and be more confident and make a bunch of progress ;).

That's all from meeee, signing off....

Nurin <333

  

Anis' AEP Diaries - Retrospective Blog - 2.0

Wednesday, 9th October 2022// Retrospective Blog 

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5 main activities remains significant in the 3 months of term 1. It’s quite funny how after all, it’s these little things that has the power to alter my teenage life - of course in a good way. Many of the times, teenagers would spend half of their teenage life being absent in the present. There is so much power that we as humans hold but never recognize and one of it is being present. Ever since we were little, the conventional way to approach life is always to keep looking forward - what we want to be, what we should do - but rarely ever that we nurtured the skill of looking back. If we think about it, all of the things that happened in the past like memories, experiences, failures, successes are the ones that manage to push us to become who we are today. But, we all love shortcut that we end up concluding that there is just so much to think about. so, we end up digging this hole, make it comfy and stay there for quite some time. I think I just outed myself…but let it be known that it’s normal! 

Ever since I was a little child, I talk too much. even my mom has made the hypothesis that the mole on top of my lip exists clearly as a result of talking too much which is supported strongly by my ancestors. It’s a superstition. There are these periods of time when I ate candy which in return rewards these sugar rush. What it only does is have my mom's ears become the victim to my garrulous childish self. She’s smart because she’d always look me in the eyes and say "Anis, can you give me five minutes?", paired with that smile that you do when you are doing everything you can to hold yourself back from releasing the inner dragon. Almost many of the times I would say yes…but it never really stopped me at all from coming back and continuing annoying her with my trivial thoughts. 

Since then, I didn't really stop being me. When given a project that requires talking, it’s almost like I'm back to being the child version of myself. That’s one of the main reasons why our speech project was the opportunity for me to project her. Speech was out last project for term one and to say the least, it was really pleasant. All of us had chosen a specific word or phrase related to our main topic of "issues facing young people" and arguably, all of my classmates made good points that are relatable and at the same time factual. Something that is truly outstanding about speech is that, it acts as a vessel for a certain message to be carried out from an input. Through that point of view, what flows out simultaneously are charisma, passion and dedication. Seeing my classmates interpret a turbulent matter whilst utilizing a platform inspired me and assure me that the next generation are already two steps ahead. 

Again, I think I talk too much of scrabble. The reasoning is that throughout my high school life, I paid attention to defending myself and scrabble from my friends all the time. I am VERY protective over it. Here are some beautiful and memorable opinions over the years that stuck to me like a rat on a glue trap. 

1. "It’s an old people game"
2. "You’re a nerd"
3. "Ew."
4. "Do you not have anything else to do in your life?"
5. "Why?"

But thankfully, Ms. Disa brought back this game where everyone in the class has to sit and suffer whether they like it or not (revenge through Ms. Disa…? yes, please hahaha). When I think about it, it's so special that I get to just to sit in silence with my friends who I consider family at this point, being in the same space, doing the same thing, experiencing the same brain hurt. 

It’s not AEP if we don’t have new word games weekly. I didn’t know what I was expecting - but the game just kept on getting tougher and tougher. Sometimes when it has already been 20 minutes and the word game is still unfinished, the class would fall into a complete silence and that’s when I knew we had hit rock bottom. So many characters in one confined space. We have one that is staring blank at the board, one that is just rambling words and possibilities out loud but you genuinely don’t know english anymore after 20 minutes, one that wishes everything to be over and Ms. Disa that sits back and relax. My favorite part is when everyone is mad over the real word because that’s what quordle, specifically, does to people. Truthfully, it’s tough to be happy at 8:30 in the morning because all I can think about is my bed. So, I try to be present most of the times because i’m always thinking about "what if this is my last class doing this?". Many students look at classes as a habitual thing - something that we have to do just because it’s in our schedule. But there is so much more to it when you start thinking that you won’t have this anymore. We will all eventually grow up, mark a point on the map for the next adventure and become a whole different person. While we are still protected from the adult life, it’s comforting to know that I am just living life, not worrying about bills. Just being stressed over a word game. 

AEP acknowledges the concept of bonding with each other. At times, it isn’t all about academics. Being a STEM student that is constantly living within anxiety and pressure, two hours a week of none of those is just heavenly. Term 1 was intense and it's an achievement to persevere through it which makes me realize how AEP played a major role in that. 

Shooting back to present, I am currently blogging as you read this. For me, it’s a new experience to sit down with myself and reflect in a detailed manner on my history being in school. Without realizing, three months passed by and I’m out of breath running to have the clock to stop ticking! Journaling has been a part of my routine when it comes to reflecting my personal life. Therefore, in some ways it feels fresh that I’m applying almost the same skills in AEP. Most of the times, there are a lot of constriction when it comes  to the style you write but I personally think that AEP has freed me up from that cage. I finally feel as if there is actually someone out there in the AEP community who wishes to immerse themselves in my little world and spend time interpreting life through my lens. 

These are the core memories locked in a part of my mind. Therefore, I humbly present my efforts of recalling the suppressed memories in AEP from term one through words :) 

Until next time! 

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Anis' AEP Diaries - Introduction - 1.0

Wednesday, 12th October 2022 

thoughts! 

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Exactly 72 days ago, we started off face-to-face school after being in the lockdown that forever altered almost everything we all once had. From cheering outside of the school as the news of 2 weeks break are announced, to having a permanent 3 years break of the outside world, we were too naive. 

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!

aep! 

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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. 

last message! 

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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! 

AEP blog

A few weeks ago the school year started. It's crazy to think that we are already in grade 11, it's even crazier to think that soon we'll already be heading to college.

The first week of class wasn't too hard, it usually isn't since we normally just have an orientation and during classes we just introduce ourselves. Although, once the year started progressing, things started to ramp up. Some classes like statistics have been a little stressful because of the multiple assignments. Apart from statistics, I also find English class to be quite difficult, but that's nothing new.

Luckily, not all classes have been like this. Despite maths being well known as a laborious subject, the first weeks of it have been quite laid back. I do expect maths to get much more demanding later in the year, though. Regardless of the tiresome lessons, I'm still able to find plenty of time to relax and play games.

So far, Grade 11 has mostly been easygoing. I believe this will all change later in the year, although I'm not going to complain about that. I actually feel like it makes sense for Grade 11 to be a punishing year. I think like the hardships of Grade 11 should help prepare us for college, which will be beneficial for us. I just hope I can achieve high grades.

As for AEP, I admire the changes.

In my opinion, the changes have made the classes much more interactive, especially the Miro white board website. Now that we actually have to participate, I feel much more active during class. I also appreciate the reduced workload we have. Doing seatworks with a partner along with the reduced amount of blogs has definitely made a favorable impact on AEP.

With these changes, I am looking forward to another year of AEP.

spooky

Blog #1

 For the past few weeks, I have been underperforming. I think the concept of the boards is good, though. That part I like about the class. I don't think there's anything I don't like about the class. I just give up easily when I'm doing vocab and I'm not sure if it's correct. I'm also pressured by my classmates cause I get worried if my answer is incorrect. It's just an insecurity of mine combined with my mindset that I've gotten while growing up. It's nothing to worry about, I'll deal with it myself. Anyways, overall, I think the class is fun. Words, am I right? I'll work harder and look forward to future classes.

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AEP this week - A breath of fresh air

Moving back to FIS was at first just an impulsive thought I had after being under so much pressure in my previous school. Sooner enough, I decided to carry on with the plan, with the help of my parents of course. I think that adjusting to another school environment online would just be an unnecessary struggle I had to yet again go through, so I did what I think was best for me mentally, returning back to my comfort zone. I thought I'd join STEM so that I'll be able to have a choice in whether I want to work in a Science related field in the future or not. So far the feeling I have for the choice I've met is kind of regretful... but everything happens for a reason right? Though, I am still young and am never really going to be sure enough about what my future plans are, whether I like it or not kids my age are already forced to make a choice which will slightly narrow down our career paths. So here I am again, in FIS and of course that also means Miss Disa's AEP class. I am quite new to Blogger, as the last time I was in this class we did use WordPress, I do hope it's pretty similar though. I'm crossing my fingers for now, here goes nothing.

In the previous weeks of AEP we did most of our activities on Miro, navigating the website was quite hard at first but I think I get it a little better now. We used this board for all kinds of activities. We even have a little mouse box because of how disorganized we are, which is quite funny now that I think about it. On that one expansive board alone, we managed to study about all kinds of business and political phrases which I definitely plan on using in the near future, now that I actually know what they mean.

Now moving on to the present, it was quite a slow and relaxing class we had today. We all just played scrabble against each other, and I found that quite relaxing compared to the previous lessons we had. I think that a subtle break like this is always needed and I've learned to appreciate such a week even more, as lessons get harder, and times get busier. The scrabble game I had with Medo was quite fun. Most of the time I was just putting words together which I had to later on find the definition of. I also made a reference on one of our favourite shows, it just happened to be a really sad one, so as we remembered it, we immediately felt depressed. 

Overall, it felt like a really short and light week of AEP. Though it was one of the most relaxing lesson I've had over the past few days, I'll still always look forward towards gaining new knowledge in the next AEP lessons.

And in general, all subjects included, I do feel like I've learnt a lot in just these few weeks, and that includes my time management. I think with all of these assignments given to us, I did learn how to limit my social media and game usage. Though I'm not saying I'm happy about our teachers constantly assigning things but I'm saying that I'll definitely learn a lesson or two from all of it.

〰 signing off, Ratih.

Back on Blogger

 

It's been a while since I've typed something on blogger, but I'll fill you in on what's been going on with me for the past 5 weeks, from the beginning of the school day until this week.

11th grade…. I still can’t believe it myself it still looks as if I’m in 9th grade and transferred in 11th all of a sudden which even made me think that I left my brain during the junior year, but here I am attending STEM and struggling much as before. Actually, I was unable to attend the first day of orientation because I was still dazed and did not believe it was time to return to school. The first week was more of an introduction to everything that will happen in the coming weeks. Each class was slightly surprising so expect a lot of unexpected things; nevertheless, the good part was that we didn't need to introduce ourselves because we already knew everyone except for a few teachers and those new students. After the week ended I felt exhausted from staring at the screen so much that  I wanted to shut my eyes and sleep.

(Medo and I were both looking forward to AEP class, but Monday was orientation day, and we only meet once a week, which is highly disappointing.) 

During the second and third weeks, I was already drained from the amount of work that had been given to us. And a lot of information that we need to process. At first, I thought I was fine and that I could handle a lot of things, but after another week passed, I began to question whether or not I had made the correct decision to go to the STEM department. Maybe, Yes? Maybe No?. (I still am questioning myself ) The thought of the Midterm exam approaching is causing me a lot of stress and anxiety, but I know I have to keep trying and push through it all. After all, we're only getting started, so who knows what will happen next time. 

(We finally had AEP class, and it was extremely refreshing to attend to class, especially with Ms Disa's outfit, which was very formal yet classy, and her stylish pink hair, which was all flawless, as well as her terrific energy, which she always gives us 100%. With ms, There’s never a dull moment, which makes me wonder. Why do we only get together on Mondays?)

In the fourth and fifth weeks, I've noticed how easily tired I am after class, where I fall asleep almost immediately and then resume my schoolwork when I wake up. In terms of this week, we're halfway through quizzes in every subject and there are a few more things left to cover before the midterm exam, and more assessments are to be submitted and I need to get on with my notes or else. 

(AEP class has gotten even better, especially with the interactive websites that we've been using. It's been a lot of fun and a bit of confusion at first because we weren't used to these sites, and we also need decent internet for these or you won't be able to see anything in Miro and its quite great that we’re learning some business and political terms at the same time.)

 (PS I was also considering making a vlog instead of doing this, but due to unforeseen circumstances, I have decided to do it for the time being... I won't be able to do so this time, but hopefully next time. :)