AEP blog 2.2 "Some advices in my mind"

Hello, dear reader.

I'm sorry though! My brain has no, nothing going on..

I just remember what I wrote about yesterday or rather 3 hours ago. So I'm going to write about it right now as well. I hope you'll enjoy this!

Having to write my speech was an opportunity to look back and think about the advice given by my parents, seniors, people that I look up to, who are successful.

~I researched and collected information from everywhere, dogged everywhere. They summed up to be like this!. Lay back, sit in a comfortable position this is going to be lecture like, not gonna lie haha

I believe that I did not live long enough to actually appreciate the other told advice. You take the advice that applies to your life, that is how it is in human nature. If you think about it. I have some advice to follow along as you find your spark and bring spark to life.

Number 1- Focus on the things that matter. Let me explain myself, by looking at an analogy. Imagine a glass that’ll represent your life. You have golf balls, rocks, pebbles, sand. You need to make room for them all in the glass container. Now if you put the sand first you won’t have space for the golf balls that matter to you more. Same as life, you need to set your priorities because everything else is just sand. Focus on what matters to you, your purpose. And we might just add water which goes to show that no matter how full your life seems to be there is always room for some water- fun. 

Number 2- If you want to achieve something. Start by,  specifying your goals. Making a schedule can be unbelievably useful. Okay so what is the rule with a schedule, it doesn't have to be a bloody prison. That is the first thing that people do is they say I have to do this, I have to do that and you know I can just play video games later.(I included btw, I'm acting like a knowing person but) This is a recipe to make you avoid the discomfort of the action. Do not stuff your day with a very strict schedule. Middle of everything. Dream big. But remember dreams without an achievable goal ultimately fuel disappointment. Start small. 

20% of your day has to be responsibility and obligation or maybe more than that depending on how far you are but even that, you ask yourself, we’ll I got these responsibilities, what is the right ratio of responsibility to reward. 1 hour of work and 25 minutes of rest. You have to negotiate with yourself and not tyrannize yourself. If you hit it by 70% accuracy that beats the hell out of 0%. Hit it by 50? aim for 51% next week or 50.5% for god’s sake. Because you’re gonna hit that position where things start to loop back positively and spiral you upward. What you do now is going to multiply its effects in the future. So schedule, that is a good thing man, your brain will thank you for it. You write your own destiny. Remember that zero is where everything starts, nothing will ever be born if we didn’t depart from there.

Number 3- along the way you will never give up. FAIL BIG. Fail big just how sir. Denzel Washington said. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success. But fail forward. Do not make the failure stop you from where you're going. Instead do the opposite and use them as your weapon. Everything good takes time. 

Number 4- If you want to be an elite warrior, you better get really really good at helping the person to the left of you and helping the person to the right of you. Because that is how people advance in the world. It’ll be the single most valuable thing you’ll ever learn in your entire life. Always offer a hand along the way, for a way out. Life is all about unity. 

Number 5- Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else’s today. They may have started their journey earlier than you, nothing good happens overnight. 

What do you observe in this following picture, for example?

I'm assuming it is either of these things:

B

13 

Overlined w (wow did you really?)

I M (I'm)  (are you martian?)

~If I write A before it and C after it, what will it be? B.

If I write 12 before and 14 after it? Obviously 13 

Your company will tell who you are. So surround yourself with positive people as it's better to live alone than in a bad company. Time is too valuable to be wasted on anything less than love, good vibes and happiness. 

~~Make use of your POTENTIAL. You never want unfulfilled potential,  ideas you never acted on. Rise above it yall. Use what you got. The world needs a lot and we need it from you. We really do. :))

Lastly, like how Denzel Washington said:  I pray that you put your slippers away under your bed so that when you wake up in the morning, you have to get on your knees. And when you're at it say thank you. For grace, friends, family, thank you for mercy, thank you for understanding, for peace, wisdom. Say thank you in advance :) 

~~ That is all what I managed to remember. I hope it did lightened your day and I hope you did not fell called out hahah.

Thank you so much! see yaa next time!

blog term 2 FAHADD

I'm back again with with my blogs

This term as well as last term we always started of with a game called weaver or griddle(if our smart board was working).We always had problems with our smart boards this term and it had been quite a hassle,even if the smartboard was working there was always something that didn't work,for instance the smart board pen or it kept on restarting.Miss eventually gave up trying to fix it so if we had problems we either did it on our phones or connected a mouse to the smartboard

This term we used another app instead of miro.We used an app called murle in were we could draw and put gif like stickers,for example a house or a factory.We used murle to practise listening to miss disa.Miss would describe places in and island and the we had to find out were the places were according to the coordinates miss gave us,for example the train is south west of the island etc

After we learned how to use coordinates and listen to miss disa we wrote essays about it.It was similar to how we wrote our essays in term 1.Miss gave us 2 maps in which 1 one of the map represented a past of an island and the other map represented the current state of the island.I Found that essay rather hard since I couldn't use murle.An error popped and it was really annoying and frustrating.Miss disa made me draw the place in my notebooks which was rather hard since I was worthless in drawing and was really bad at it but atleast it was over

We wrote poems related to aep and we had to make a video or a voice recording of our self saying it.It was rather hard to think of a poem since it had to be aep related but eventually I thought of one.I made like rap-like poems since most of the time I listened to rap music and nothing else was roaming around my brain.Today we had a new student join aep named ameer(at the time of writing this essay).I Find him nice and hopefully we'll get to know each other more 

Thank you for Reading!!!!

SEE YA NEXT TIME!!

AEP Blog 2.2 — Alisa Tee

Second blog of term 2! I’m very much enjoying everyone’s company in AEP now :D !! Speaking of company, an online student of ours is now joining physically! I’m wondering what their thoughts on AEP are since it’s only his second time joining the class face-to-face. Besides that, I’m getting more and more used to the class’s environment. It’s always had this serene atmosphere — with the potted plant in the corner and the nice lighting from the open curtains. Even if it might rain, the music in the background always added an extra sense of calm. 

We haven’t written many essays so far this term but I honestly don’t mind either way. Miss has somehow made writing essays a lot more fun than I’d expect it to be. Plus, this term’s essays are about maps instead of line graphs so it’s a bit easier to phrase and write the essay because the visual is a lot easier to interpret (in my opinion). 

Other than that, not a lot of things have happened this term’s classes, so this blog is rather brief. We still have our usual plays of wordle games every start of the lesson, and miss is always looking for new and different versions of it! I’ll always enjoy solving puzzles with my classmates, and I look forward to future activities with everyone! Thank you miss for your dedication to keep the class fun, and thanks to all my classmates for the good company! :DD

AEP Blog #2.2 “Slowing down”

Good day fellow reader! 

It was not a good idea to write this while having a brain with no gas. 

Yeah, bring it in — all the brain fuel disappeared so do help me with finding ideas on what to write. I find it quite hard to think of a topic especially when I’ve been a little tired these past few days… 

Right!

Lets talk about slowing down.

I’m pretty sure this blog wont be that long, but I’ll try my best. These days have been really tiring for me — I have been forgetting things easily and lagging on my schoolwork. It leads to a never-ending domino effect that could definitely be ended if I tried harder. I doubt it’s because of the amount of schoolwork but rather the mental weight of having my O-levels in just a few months. Not to mention the fact that I have been slacking off with my hobbies — my main source of fulfillment. 

Aside from that, let me talk about AEP. 

These past few weeks we have been doing map essays and learning how to describe images. At the start, we tried describing images and drawing them based on what the people in charge of describing the images say. I really like doing this because its kind of like a freestyle mind boggling dump…using the smartboard. Other than that, we would focus on maps instead of graphs; we started by simple describing all the way to the way we are supposed to describe a map in an essay. Surely, I can tell this helped me a lot because I am aware on how bad my describing skills are, and even if I don’t see drastic improvement — I still see how I am able to describe things easier and in a more direct manner instead of lengthening my explanation without removing the useless bits. 

Word games have been taking over this class too! Some of them are really hard. I enjoy weaver a lot. This is kind of a ladder game, I probably like it so much because of how easy it is compared to the other word games. Yes thats right, goldfish brain talker right here! Nice to meet you! 

I cant really think of anything else to say right now, its quite hard to formulate the right words so I’ll have to make it up for my next blog. 

See you in the next one! 

Visuals and Thoughts -- Blog 2.2

 So where did we left off?

We wrote the retrospective blog almost a month ago regarding our reflections and our thoughts about offline learning and the last semester. What has happened since then? 

Well obviously, we've learned things. The semester started rocky with us mostly playing word games and getting accustomed to the new semester. After a week or so, we started drawing. And by that I mean, our friends would say certain attributes and parts of a drawing and we'll try to draw them. It started with the online classmates doing it, and then Miss Disa, and then our other classmates while we used this app called Mural.

Miss said it was an exercise to get us accustomed to knowing how to describe pictures and more specifically maps, as that is what our essays will be about. How to describe islands, roads, buildings, areas where people are gathered, directions, etc. Miss also taught us how to describe actions done to these things in different times such as "trees are felled", "buildings are demolished", and the like.  

This smoothed our way into writing our first essay of the semester. But before we got to do that, we checked the criteria for a good IELTS 1 essay in order to get a grasp of what is expected of our essay or a sort of rubric. The session after, we got to write our essay using the maps miss described to us in our exercises. The maps included a picture of the same island from the past and the present and we had to describe the differences between the two islands.

I like to think I did pretty well on the essay as it was easier to write than the graph essay we wrote last semester. I think it was easier for me as it is a more creative form of visuals than the restrictive nature of the graphs. Some of my classmates found this writing more difficult though.

I  like to think I did pretty well on the essay this time. Besides the usual mistakes including wording and grammar, I did much better than the graph essays. Miss did write a whole google docs about our mistakes on the essay though 💀💀💀

By the next week, we played new games and also did our project which was a poem! It was pretty short, all things considered, as I simply wrote a small Haiku. Miss also told us to record us reading it which was a breeze to submit lol

And by this week, we just played games and I wrote this blog. ez

And well that's it for the wrap-up of this 2nd term so far.

Thank you for reading :D

 BLOG 3 TERM 2 (AQIL GRADE 12)

For my second project, the reaction blog, I chose an article that is about "Art Of Small Talk". The reason I chose that article is because it is very interesting and I want to also learn at the same time about the article. I believe that small talk can give a very big impact, but it doesn't mean that you have to be mature or old to start a conversation. Everyone needs to learn how to start a conversation, maybe by asking several simple greetings like "hi, how are you?". But if you are confident with yourself and have the courage to talk to strangers, you can use a general question that is more friendly and specific like "where do you live?", "how old are you?", "What course are you studying right now?" and much more. This article can also be used as a guide for those people who lack communication skills or have social anxiety. It will help them by boosting their confidence and learn slowly because there's a step-by-step guide. All you need to do is just follow the steps, apply it in real life, practice it often and you will improve drastically without realizing it yourself. 

Miss also likes to share something new in every class. But one thing miss said that caught my attention, it's about vegetarian. Maybe this topic is boring to some people because they are not vegan and obviously this topic is not relevant for them. But for me, it's interesting because I want to know Miss Disa's opinion because she is a vegetarian. While Im packing my stuff to go out from the class, I asked her "how do you consume protein because vegetables does not contain any protein and only vitamins?". Then she answered "every vegetarian lacks B12 vitamin because this vitamin can only found in blood which is from animal blood. So, vegetarians consume vitamin B12 pills to make sure their health is in a good shape without eating any meat. But it is going to make you spend a lot money because the price is expensive. Rather than spending money on those pills, I ate beans. Theres a lot of beans out there like kidney beans, black beans, peas and more.

Last week, Miss asked us to create a poem about AEP. I was very struggling because I never wrote a poem before. I don't like to do poems because I lack vocabulary and literature and I am very bad at English. It took me for while to create just one simple stanza even though I was brainstorming every fancy word that I can think of at that moment. It was very challenging and fun to be honest. Doing something that you are not use to, it's like stepping out from your comfort zone. I think I like accepting challenges especially if it's involved with sport or physical contact and I would not ever accept if it's involve with education wise like involving reading, researching, debating, learning and more. Because I found it boring and only for nerds, I don't have any problems with nerds, trust me *fingers crossed*. It's just I felt sad for them because they don't like to expose themselves with physical activity, but maybe not every of them has that mentality and it's just me having this weird idea about them. So, this is why I don't like doing poem. But, AEP made me do poem and I found it interesting and fun, because you need to replace common word into a fancy word that I have never heard before. The reason why you used fancy word or sentence is to make it more narrative and makes the audience thinking what message that you wanted to share through your poem.

Blog 3 Term 2 - Saad - Grade 12

 Howdies Everyone!

I'm back here after taking some time to think after my last blog post. Given that it has just been a little over a month, I anticipate that this will be my shortest blog. I've faced several difficulties during Term 2 due to the assignments, tests, and other requirements. Additionally, midterms are the following week, so I wish everyone luck. Before Miss suggested Phrazzle, Hurdle, Quordle, and other alternatives, I thought Wordle was punishing on its own. Don't get me wrong; Wordle has become quite monotonous and repetitive, so some variation is welcome. My brain needs to be rewired to handle challenging problems, so I love that it's challenging. Thank You Miss haha.

Compared to my other majors, AEP is calming and comforting, as I've mentioned numerous times. Work like blogging and writing reaction papers is entertaining and doesn't add to my workload; it doesn't bog me down. One aspect of AEP that I really enjoy is when Miss thinks back to her history, like the time she opted to wear a tutu while running just for fun. There is always that one teacher who spreads positive vibes amongst everyone in her presence and I reckon Miss Disa fits the perfect description. I've made decent progress so far with Project 2 Part 1, even though I intended to try out some creative writing at first.