Ayse - Blog 1.2

 "Learning"

Good day readers! How are you doing? I personally feel great! I am in Coffee Bean vibing to beabadoobee's albums in shuffle on Spotify and typing down this blog! Here is Meral's perspective:

PS: wearing the cap and headphones allows me to focus more on my work and blocks distractions. I promise I'm not trying to be a mysterious person whatsoever.

The First Week

Enough on that. This blog will contain 4 meetings of AEP classes since we do vocabs one week and blogs the next week, basically in alternate. So... let me talk a little about last week. What exactly did we do last week? We started classes with Contexto, and we did pretty well to tell you the truth, one would think we created the game🤪 (jk). After the quick game, we summed up our rubrics from last week in about 10 minutes. Miss Disa then printed one for each of us and so did the presentations began. Shall I give a quick 'my favourite parts' of everyone's presentation for that week? Yes, I shall. 

Starting off with the first presenter, Nurin, she did a great job! I got to learn one or two new things about her. It certainly gave me a surprise to see her beautiful sketches, especially the Eiffel Tower, which she slayed btw! I want her to draw me one of those now. I also loved how she used images that she herself took, which gave me a better understanding of what she wanted to convey I believe. The next presenter was Izzah if my memory recalls correctly. Her presentation was also amazing! I already knew she was interested in art, but not to the extent that she wanted to have her own exhibit someday! Literally the number one fan of her paintings! Next was Anis. As always I aspire to be like her when it comes to speaking in public. She has this confidence that places the spotlight on her and only her while she speaks! And I believe the last presenter was Darren. I learned that he actually watches anime, which I was not expecting. Happy we have another weeb in the room! Yeah, that was all for that week. 

The Second Week

With multiple assessments due this week, it was honestly stress over stress. I had to present my new PowerPoint once again for AEP. I did not enter prepared, but I'm sure the outcome would not have been much different. I say this now that I saw how Miss Disa presented, I'll get to that part in a bit though. But first, we of course started with Contexto. How does this game even work? I don't get it, nor does anyone else. This time around leave being the creators of the game, we seemed like babies playing a game suited for adults because guess what, it took us exactly 81 guesses with 3 hints to get the word 'iron'🥲, which approximately took 15 minutes. Leaving that behind, we went ahead with the vocab test which brought me back to pre-pandemic days, where we would say 'Please spin the wheel, Miss Disa!'. The 22 words that we had to study beforehand were very complex, even Miss Disa did not know the majority of the words. Anyways, I think it went pretty well! 

Lastly, it was the last 3 presenters' turn and of course, Miss Disa's presentation, which everyone was looking forward to. Hanis was the first one to re-present her PowerPoint. She did well and came prepared, so I applaud her for that👏🏼. It was my turn next, I did mine really quick. I am definitely excited to improve my skills in this aspect! William went after me, I honestly loved the number of images he placed on each slide,  it certainly gave a WOW factor! And last but the least, Miss Disa, that long awaiting was finally over! 

When Miss started distributing papers that she collected from each run she went to over the years, I was amazed! She had so many of them. I could see her dedication and how much joy running has brought upon her. She started explaining her journey how it all started and how much she loves doing it. It was great to watch her smile and hear about her accomplishments! I also loved how every picture had a story behind it, it made me want to hear about each one of them. Listening to her, gave me an idea of how to do my future presentations. I hope I can reach my expectation! That'll be all for this blog! Thank you, dear readers~~

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