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Blog 2.1 - A New Start [Izzah] Gr12


A New Start

Term 2 has started and looked back term 1 was HELL, well actually it wasn’t that bad but it was that bad. I had millions of assignments due every day all day, and as the list grew I grew more lazy and really unmotivated, to the point I didn’t have the energy to eat or do anything. I was in a really bad slump. However, near the end of the term, I finally got the energy to work it back up and plan what I was to do next.  I got up and decided that if I could not get anything done at home, I would have to do it at school, and that’s what I did, nonstop work and work for two weeks to catch up on my overdue work, and just as the timer runs out, I’ve reached the finish line. School may seem overwhelming at most times, you feel like the pile of work u have to do may never end. However, being consistent and hardworking will certainly pay off. All you need is the first step, the first step to reach the end.



The First Class of Term 2

The first AEP class was nice, but I was a bit hesitant to go to class due to my performance in last term's AEP. However I had a lot of fun, we began our class with quardel which was significantly the most challenging quardle I’ve done. Complicated but fun, we as a class worked together and had fun trying to figure out the words. The next activity was unexpected, as for our first topic, “The Psychology of Fashion” we were given articles and studies on each, I received a transcript that discusses the impact of fashion positive and negative. In my reading, Carolyn Mair the author of "The Psychology of Fashion" discusses the issues of excessive buying of clothes and other wearable items that lead to issues such as rising landfills. Issues such as human rights and mental health also come up. In the discussion of human rights, fast fashion is known to be the main cause of these issues, and fast shops such as Shein are called out as the main contributor to these horrors. A quote "clothes are our second skin", "our identity" I do believe that the clothes we wear represent who we are as a character. I am excited to explore more on this topic and perhaps have a conversation with my classmates on these issues.

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  1. Miss DisaNovember 20, 2023 at 11:35 PM

    Thanks for sharing.Yes we will continue with last week's lesson tomorrow.

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