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Welcome Back — Leo's First Blog (Again!) 2.1

Welcome back to Blog #1, reported by the most wonderful person of AEP, Leowyn Chiang! But most importantly, I'd like to give the warmest welcome to our new student: Kirani!

Speaking of, during the start of out first class of term 2, Kirani had control of the magic pen, required to swing the wand around like a fairy! Until an ogre kept on disorienting her by announcing a plethora of random words ever while I was trying to say my own set of words. The game was Squardle—a game of word connection similar to a cross word puzzles, but you have much more freedom to form words, much less freedom to find words—so we were not able to complete our first warm-up game 😞, but it lasted the entire lesson, only because we took a strange while . . . Janek lost pen rights too!

However, the day after, we did a new warm-up game that was quick and simple. Maybe not new, but an old one that my classmates did when they were back at grade 7. I was unaware, but it seemed like it was new for the students anyway. It was similar to finding a code for a lock, where there are letters that can be moved to form a code, or a word. We had to use up all the letters we had to win the game, and we did swiftly! It's a pretty short warm-up game, and people can actually talk in it, so it's not as entertaining as Squardle, for example.

Process diagrams were the new type of essays we were going to write. After a quick explanation, the whole essay was explained clearly: There were still four paragraphs that had to be more than 150 words, and we were supposed to write about a step-by-step diagram that is usually science-related. For me, I find this way easier than bar charts and line graphs; processes simply have a lot to do with personal knowledge and explaining it in the right way. Our first (and only) process diagram was about the generation of electricity by using a wave-powered structure. Basically, we were told to list out a few things: verbs to use, conjunctions and connectives, the steps of the process—similar to bar graphs and line graphs, where we named the verbs and their adverbs to use in the essay. I do struggle with planning the essay, but writing it becomes easier as I continue working on it.

The week after, we had done a warm-up game of . . . you guessed it! Contextooooo! (As per request by Naboni 😋) The words we had guessed gave us the most horrible hints that we still could not decipher. Tell me that "place" is connected with "mind"! We sadly had to use up three hints, which gave us our word: mind. We then continued writing our essays, finishing it up and making sure that it's all fine and dandy. However, we had a bit more time on our hands, so we decided to settle with Quordle. This time, Janek was of great help! (wow!!!) And using his strategy, we completed the game three times, albeit we used a lot of guesses because of his strategy. Despite that, the adrenaline rush from the last ten minutes allowed us to finish three different games of Quordle! 

And now, as I sit in bed, typing this on my phone instead of my computer because I've fallen ill, I ready for the next lesson which is tomorrow! Thanks for catching up! 😋
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