Today, I'm ill and feeling almost deceased. I'm typing this with a sore throat, a nose that is almost, literally, running, and eyes that wish not to open. Well, that may be an exaggeration, but I am quite sick, so my head is failing to recall any of the past activities; I'm only living off of my hands' muscle memory, which is really monkey say, monkey do.
Despite that, I snatched Padlet as my assistant for this blog today, although I do not know whether applications can consent to some minute labor.
Starting on Monday, we played a not-so-rigged game of "Contexto". We got very close guesses, already starting at blue with "berry". We just had to inch closer and closer to the word, but we did the exact opposite. We started going downhill, attempting the most random words just to see if we could get anywhere near the word.
We got the word "lemon", which was at a score of around 10, and that allowed us to put our thinking caps on and exuberantly guess the word ... which did not happen. Instead, we let ourselves give up and digress into the lesson because we all know how venturous the wonderful game of Contexto really is! Someone, Shasmeen probably, got the word by herself, which was "cinnamon". The only word that really made sense was lemon, so I was surprised she got something out of that.
We began Monday classes with learning the vocabulary, where each of us got 2 or 3 words for us to study and tell the class. Kind of like a show and tell, except it's a tell only, and you aren't picking what you want to tell. It's just a simple have and tell! I got the words "omniscient"—describing something all-knowing—, "nonchalant"—describing something indifferent; lacking in enthusiasm or anxiety—, and "skulk"—to keep out of sight; to move around stealthily.
On Tuesday, we started off with "Squardle", a game that I enjoy playing. We swiftly got the 23 words out of there, so that we could complete our vocabulary quiz. I recall getting the words "nonchalant" and "converge", which I had answered correctly.
Afterwards, we did two activities: drawing a bar graph based on the writings of an IELTs answer example, and painting a picture described by the girls and vice versa. The bar graph drawing was quite simple, since the author was well-versed and articulate in how they described the bars. The writer described the graph as representing data for their vegetable servings in percentages for women, men and children. I was able to draw it correctly, to my surprise.
The painting-a-picture activity was a mess because there was one person (which I won't drop names of) that could not stop giving the wrong description. Regardless, the girls' drawing of our description was quite similar to the original! However, when it was our turn to draw, it was worse as we had to figure out whatever was happening in the drawing. Abstract paintings are very difficult to interpret, if not impossible.
I enjoyed the two classes we had gotten since it was a nice change in our normal schedule. I do like changing things up and doing something less tedious and monotonous. It was especially helpful that I did not have any more stress put on me, since the entire week was just homework piling up on each other, and believe me when I say that I could build a house with the amount of paperwork I had been given.
Peace out! ... or the lack thereof.
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