Tuesday. 8th August 2023, 10:30pm
Senior Year
For some reason, this school year is different. Not in ways that the school changed the designs on the bulletin board, or in ways that there are new classmates coming in, or that we have a new school calendar. In fact, it has nothing to do with any physical changes, but rather, the emotional changes. I would say that this stemmed off from the fact that I'm a young adult going through a gazillion different hormones, but that wouldn’t really justify it wholly - because this school year I’m a senior. After all those years, I’ve finally climbed the mountain enough to reward myself with a view of me graduating in a few months.
All of a sudden, eight hours in a school for five days a week doesn’t feel that long. When it finally came to me the night before the first day of school started, that this year is the last year I’m in high school, I got emotional. I started thinking back about the days when I was in kindergarten, basically throwing the biggest tantrum known to man in front of the school gate, just because I didn’t want to go to school.
Honestly speaking, I am terrified of what’s coming next. Sometimes it feels as though I haven’t learnt or experienced or done enough to step into the next thing. Overthinking particularly kills me, that “what if” questions. For the past years I have always imagined myself to be prepared and ready to get out of the high school life, but now, I’m not so sure anymore if I even want it. But that’s the catch, I have no choice but to move forward. So I’d say that my mindset isn’t the greatest yet, simply because I’m overwhelmed or maybe even in denial. However, I’m still very much looking forward to what is coming. After all, I have a whole village behind my back making sure I chase what I dream!
Experiences in first lesson of AEP
When things around me were changing constantly, I'm grateful that I can still find myself feeling belonged in AEP class. A class that has a balance of fun and seriousness!
Like always, tradition is vital, and word games in AEP? I honor it. Our class managed to get the right word in just 5 tries out of 30! The game this time is called "Diffle" in where the length of the word and the amount of alphabet repetition remain unknown. Though it was a warm-up, our class came to kill it.
Ms. Disa refreshed our perspectives on how AEP is going to run this year and I must say that I'm a little bit scared looking at the learning syllabus, because we've reached the stage of preparing ourselves for university. Can someone please take me back to last school year when I was still doing vocabulary exercises and origamis?
For the first lesson of the school year, we hit it off with an introduction towards the importance of powerpoint-making skills. From what we had known, all we needed to do was to accomplish a somewhat organized and good looking power points. However, there are so much more to it. One of the most major components that takes your presentation to another level is yourself. The slides are merely a tool, because it is important that the audience could resonate with what we're talking about, or else it'll just be not effective. We've learned the concept of "no more death by power points", in which we will focus on for the next few lessons!
Oh, and we also made this funny "mini me" drawings for progress-tracking purposes on the bulletin board and I must warn everyone to NOT look at mine, with respect. I never knew my art skills were gonna be ripped away at 18 years old. If I were to face reality? It would probably because I can't find the effort to practice it.
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