Welcome to my fourth blog after what felt like a month since I did the third blog and a lot had happened during the past few weeks .For starters , I had my first aep project called the Breath project . This project basically requires us to meditate for 10 consecutive days and by the end of the project , we might feel more relaxed than before . I was a little intimidated with this project because of what my classmate told about their experience for last year's project . Nonetheless , I was still excited to do the project . This project introduced me to a brand new experience because I never meditated before . My first impression of the project is that I thought it was a complete waste of time but the impact it did proved me wrong.
For the first day of the project , I was having difficulties with focusing on my breath because my mind kept wandering around .As the project progressed , I was still struggling with focusing and it really made me acknowledge the people who meditate for the rest of their life . You might think that this is easy , all you need to do is just focus on your breath . Well , there is simply more that you need to pay attention to . During the 10 days , I learned 2 skills which is breath focus and body scanning .For the breath focus , it simply make your mind engage by counting . For the second skill , I find it a little difficult to do because if you did it right , you are supposed to feel cold or hot sensations in some parts of your body . I personally preferred the breath focus skill because I was really able to focus on my breath until the end of the meditation session. By the end of the project , I was really able to relax and definitely had a good sleep during the 10 days.
Of course that is not the only thing that happened during the holiday , we also had our….. midterm…….This is always the scary part of aep in which we are supposed to memorize the meaning of 60 words and that is not even the worse part . Only 30 of them will be included in the exam . Reviewing the words wasn't that difficult since these are the words from the vocab quiz which mean this is just a refresher . The pressure increases after miss said that we should score perfect because of all the time we had . I was a little sad that I got 2 mistakes in the exam but at the same time , I was overflow with joy .
For the remaining weeks , we just continued with essay writing . We can't forget the warm up game and I have to say , Miss Disa has stepped up her taste for word games.”Squadle” is another version of wordle and this might be my favorite one compared to the others we played because it is so simple yet so enjoyable to play . We might have broken the record for the most guesses in “contexto” with 159 guesses..Moving on to the essay writing , we wrote an essay from the IELTS . We usually only write the first 2 paragraphs but now we have to continue with the third and fourth paragraph . The first two paragraphs were a little simple because we did a lot of practice on it . However , the third and fourth paragraph was challenging for me.
My expectation for the future aep class is to further improve my writing in the third and fourth paragraph. 🙂
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