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Eternal Sunshine — Leo's Blog 1.1

Blog 11.1.1. What a miraculous blog number that has ever graced upon the typings of my dusty keyboard that I’ve been typing these blogs on since grade 9! Good morning Ms. Disa! Good morning grades 7, 8, 9, 10s and 12s, for I am the only one that will be filling you in for this years’ grade 11’s blogs! So, get ready for blog eleven-point-one-point-one!

This year, I’d love to make my blogs a little more unique than the last, and that is incorporating relevant song titles as my blog titles, just to give it a little bit more personality. Although, my blogs are already personal as is, aren’t they? Yes, they will relate to the topic of the blog; for example, this week’s blog title is going to be … “eternal sunshine” by Ariana Grande, because, knowing I’ve got no more essays to write, I’m living in bliss.

Since we’re starting the year with a bunch of ones, let’s get to the FIRST thing that came up on our AEP agenda. During the first day, we had a short orientation to how our classes were going to go—like smooth sailing. Hopefully. I mean, with my AS Levels beginning this year, I’d say that talking as if it’s smooth sailing would be equivalent to singing “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” down the savage Amazon River, where the deeper you go, the more it feels like a crocodile had invited their family to chase your canorous, or maybe sounding-good-to-you-but-horrible-in-reality, singing.

But I am beating around the bush, aren’t I? This year’s AEP is bringing us to the world of jargon and lexis. It is going to be new words weekly, albeit you could say one or two new words daily since it is around ten to twenty words every session we get. Still, the technicalities of words and the nuances and the messiness and the guessing games we have with specific word connotations makes this year’s grade 11 a bit more … exciting! We had already started the year off with our first assignment: fill-in-the-blanks with business terms that I will probably forget since I’m not in ABM (which Ms. Disa was surprised by), but I definitely will be incorporating (no pun intended) some of them into my everyday vocabulary—maybe not the word “recapitalise” or “break even”, but you get my point.

In the following week, we also did other things other than learn new words, which is a plus for joining AEP! (Not a jab at Filipino students, just facts) This included DOGONews, which we studied an interesting case in Gloucester. Who knew cheese rolling could nearly be an official sport in this year’s Olympics? Nobody, because it wasn’t! It was a sport invented by the British who, conveniently, did not get caught until the 20th century. Though, it might as well have been, because people flew all over the world to catch a wheel of cheese. You can’t really blame them, since they’re chasing cheese with a hefty prize.

With that being said, all I hope for this year’s AEP is a fun morning full of English that I could hopefully get to use in my daily vocabulary. Being in STEM is stressful enough, so I wouldn’t want English to unexpectedly come in and slap me in the face three times and after, an uppercut. May this year be a year of surprise, but not too much of a surprise, maybe just a small one, like a gift box!


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