What a delight! It has felt like the year of AEP has just begun, yet so much has happened. An utter blast of new information, skill-learning, and laughter. Laughter and an appropriate amount of pain. I truly am grateful that I am given the opportunity to reminisce and unravel what happened because, oh boy, is there a lot.
January 22 - A Blessing In The Disguise Of Science
As the warmup of the day is revealed, I could feel an overwhelming amount of dread fill my thoughts. Squaredle: one of the most difficult warmups we've faced. And we have faced plenty. Squaredle never fails to challenge me and make me strenuously rack my mind, desperate for any new word to fall out of what, at the moment, seemed like an empty shell of skull. What made this even more difficult was that the beholder of the pen was operating slowly, seemingly on purpose. So slowly that Hyeono felt the need to grab his arm and direct the movement of the pen. It was hilarious, yet I was too irritated to realize how funny that was. Then we had a relatively brief crossword vocabulary exercise of the next unit.
After the seemingly endless challenge that is Squaredle, we moved onto a worksheet. Except this worksheet seemed quite alarming, for it was themed after science. Science?? In Advanced English Practices?? That was certainly unexpected. However, it did not turn out to be as bad as I thought. Through this worksheet, I was able to learn about useful prefixes and root words to keep in mind whenever encountering unfamiliar words. You could say it was a blessing in the disguise of science.
January 23 - DOMESTICATED!!
We begin the AEP session with yet another game of Squaredle. I wonder if I will ever get used to Squaredle; I wonder if we will ever master the art of Squaredle. It always starts off easy, until it isn't. It is a difficult game without a doubt, but rather thought provoking. It was an oddly enjoyable warmup despite all the hiccups along the way.
Now it is time for the climax of the day: the vocabulary quiz. No matter how many vocabulary quizzes we have done before, I always end up feeling nervous when it is my time for the wheel to decide my fate. I often find myself wishing for it to not choose that one word that puzzles me. This vocabulary quiz stood out though, for many amusing events had occurred.
My personal favorite moment was when the wheel nearly landed on "ferret" and Rayan yelled out, with utter confidence, "DOMESTICATED!!" only for it to land on another word. It was absolutely hysterically funny to me and my classmates. This lesson was filled with many more hilarious moments like this, such as Rayan and Hyeono squatting in sync. How did that even happen??
It truly was a magical experience, even though it was simply a vocabulary quiz.
You never truly realize how special every moment you experience is until it becomes a memory of the past. That is what I have learnt after a year of writing these thought provoking blogs. Sitting down and realizing that all the AEP classes were full of laughter and joy without me even realizing it. As Dr. Seuss once said, "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." Anyways, why end this blog on a sad tone? It isn't over, and we have many more Advanced English Practices lessons ahead. Get ready for more vocabulary quizzes, blogs, seatworks, and lots and lots of laughter. Are you ready?
Shoutout to Aleena and Aire who have also mentioned me in their blogs. To be honest, plenty of credits of my blogs must belong to them. Thanks to them, I have been motivated to write every single one of them, inspired by their passion for the activity.
haha thanks yous write great blogs
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