MIss Disa's AEP class 23-24

 Season 2 : Episode 5  🎀  Thursday, February 15th 2024  In the midst of a crazy maze towards the end of term two, numerous signs have emphasized on the importance of taking a break.  Nothing more, nothing less, we jogged our brains by playing squardle in which surprisingly we had found multiple bonus words, yeay! I am pretty sure that we have gone through enough word games to be granted the title of “master of English” – I am not joking.  Our recent class in AEP this Wednesday could be categorized as wrap up and zip your luggage class as we are finally accumulating and appling all the acquired skills in previous lessons. Other than the fact that the essay we had written completely obliterated our precious 15 minutes as everyone in the class had an existential crisis, I particularly enjoyed it. All thanks to Ms. Disa though, she shone through the dark and sprinkled some wisdom which comforted our anxious selves. She had mentioned that it is truly a normal e...

Never would've thought that I would be learning about myself. I don't know about other people but I have a lot of personalities. I don't know which describes the real ME. I think this fun and quick class help me find back my lost self. This was one of the lessons where everyone is there. Congrats grade 12. We obviously started with a warm up by completing squardle. At this point, I think that I'm just making up random words. After the quick- not so quick warm-up, we recap on the 3 words that we chose as our most important priorities in life.  This is the fun part. We all wrote our answers on a sheet of paper and wrote it on the board. Then we guess which words describe who. Other than it being fun, I learned that how you think of yourself vs how other people think of you is different. Some people express themselves really good and you can easily identify it but some might have characteristics and thoughts that you might not even think about. We did a lot of topics such ...

The long break made me curious as to what we will be learning. Little did I know that we're going to write college entrance essays. Personally, I don't really need to be writing a college essay because the colleges in Malaysia doesn't really require one. But of course there's nothing wrong in learning on how to actually write one. We firstly had a discussion and sharing opinions of the format or quality of the essay written by a previous student in FIS. Critiquing itself is very hard to me because obviously my standard is different than the administers standard. The essay was very good and I thought I would accept the essay but after discussing some components, it opened my mind to realising that there's still a lot that she could add to the essay. After the discussion, we continued with the activity of diving into ourselves :)) There was a list of words and we had to choose a word that is the most important to us at this moment. I had to narrow down from 10 to 5 to...

  Everything happens for a reason. "Everything happens for a reason" has always been my motto in life. During these few lessons of AEP, we worked through several activities in which we delved into ourselves. Our interests, values, and memories. The essence box activity especially had me feeling nostalgic, thinking about everything that has ever happened to me, it was as if I traveled into the past again reliving those moments one more time as I secretly yearned to. I don't know, maybe I'm just being dramatic hahaha.  However yeah, it was nice, I feel more grateful for all the things that have ever happened to me, whether it be good or bad, it has all changed and molded me in some way to make the person I am today, and it will continue to do so. Ms. Disa mentioned a term that means a person who grew up in different countries throughout their life, and I really related to that. As a person who has moved around throughout their whole life, never staying in a place for mo...

  Season 2: Episode 4 🎀  Thursday, February 2nd 2023  Unfortunately, with a heavy heart, I announce that I still am backtracked from school work (that includes AEP).  For most, blogging seems to be a routine that could potentially be seen as a matter that is far more than tedious. But, I for one have a biased liking to it. Many do ask me why I love writing – though of course, many other people are excellent at it. As for me, I prefer the wind to sweep me away and lead me to any path it desires.  Back in the old days when the motivation to write started to bubble up in me, I would have always grabbed a random journal, or even opened up a fresh Google document to spill my thoughts into. Now that blog in AEP exists, it has truly become the place where I consider it my diary. Sometimes the things I wrote won’t even relate to AEP (apologies Ms. Disa, I am an over-sharer).  Scrabble. Yes, scrabble. This is a thought I have been questioning a lot this school year...

 Season 2: Episode 2 🎀  Friday, 1st December 2023  The more and more the “highschool finish line” is nearing, the smaller I feel myself shrinking into this box labeled childhood that you neatly keep in your attic. AEP this term hasn’t only been a learning curve guided by a set syllabus, but is now an opportunity for us to discover ourselves.  Recently, we were guided into building a coherent and quality university application where we assess the common mistakes that can easily be made. Grammar and syntax should be flawless and use of language needs to show a satisfactory level. Every single year, the number of students in the applicant pool increases, which makes it important for my application to stand out. Considering that we are attending university in a few months, these skills that we’ve acquired will come in handy soon.  Other than that, Ms. Disa also prepped us with some new skills to write emails. Although it sounds simple, many of us tend to miss out m...