You already know that in AEP, we always encounter awesome and productive things that help us to learn or assist us to grow in ways we never thought possible! Yes, this time also, we discovered another way that is going to make our life somewhat a lot better and brighter. We were given a project where we tried to BREATHE for five minutes for 10 consecutive days. Yes, breathe, and by breathing it means medicating. In a string of words, it may seem mundane, but the process was surprisingly enjoyable.
To begin this project, we needed to download an app called BREATHE. The app asked certain questions to establish a foundation based on our answers. It then prompted us to set a timer for our meditation. I scheduled mine for 9 p.m., hoping it would improve my sleep and aid my focus while studying. However, on some days, I meditated at different times, such as in the morning or evening, to experiment with different approaches. During the 10-day period, I learned two methods of meditation: breath focus and body scanning. Breath focus involves observing the breath cycle and tracking it, while body scanning involves paying attention to specific parts of the body to notice various sensations. I grew quite accustomed to breathe focus, as it was easy to do and I felt instantly rejuvenated when I opened my eyes, after meditation. On the contrary, I felt a bit of discomfort with the body scan as I couldn't clearly grasp what I was doing or what to do, and I didn't feel any sensations until the last day. But as we all know, it takes a lot of practice to master meditation and 10 days is a very short amount of time to judge its effects. Nevertheless, I can confidently say that meditation is an excellent method to immediately feel energized and it certainly aided me in achieving mental clarity before going to sleep. I still try to do the breath focus on some days when I feel like procrastinating and demotivated and it actually helps. Thanks to AEP for introducing me to a new way I can make myself feel better.
Other than that, we had our midterm for AEP on all the 60 vocabs from units 1, 2 & 3. I was freaking out at first thinking we had to memorize the definition word for word of all the 60 words as I am super bad at memorizing! Fortunately, Miss Disa informed us that the midterm would consist of multiple-choice questions only, which eased my worries. The exam consisted of 20 multiple-choice questions, 10 fill-in-the-blank questions, and a bonus question. I scored a perfect score, HOORAY! I was ecstatic because everyone in our class did amazingly well.
After the exam, our group was rewarded with a game day! It was girls versus boys. We played Scrabble and Griddle, and the team with the highest combined score would emerge victorious. Fortunately, we outscored the boys in both rounds and emerged as the winners. Once again, the girls proved to be the winners! We were also introduced to another fun word game, called "Suqardle". This game keeps the class so much active and is really entertaining to play. I'm hoping to play more of this in the warmup. Not to mention, we managed to get the word for contexto in 159 guesses, which is the highest number of guesses in the school so far. We truly did something iconic that day!
We are still progressing on essay writing. So far, we have practiced several essays and learned different methods on how we can write them. I am still trying to adjust my grammar and learn more vocabulary that I can use for essay writing. Although I am not yet proud of my writing, I can still clearly see some improvements than before. I am hoping by the end of the term, I will be able to coherently structure my thoughts, especially for the fourth and fifth paragraphs.
That's all for today! I will update you guys soon on what happens throughout the term. For now, goodbye!
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