It is only the start of a new term, and yet I'm here writing another blog. It seems too soon to happen, doesn't it? Writing blogs almost feels like a routine, every term means new blogs. Or maybe a habit? The first thought I get from AEP is blogs, nothing else. But every aep lesson is slightly different than the other, and I'm here writing to tell you every detail of it! Whether chaotic, calm or stressful, I'm always here to deliver a new blog! This blog doesn't just include one week of our lessons, not two, but three!
This is gonna be a long one.
Without further ado, let the blog begin!
November 6, 2024 - Unauthentic Students and Screwy Scrabble?!
To our surprise, some students from our grade had not been authentic with their blogs and Homework’s. We had quite a serious discussion regarding this with Ms Disa. We all sat there listening to Ms, quietly and respectfully. She was informing us on how to properly submit our assignments. I found this quite surprising, why would someone not be true to their assignments? We will never know. We also talked about our term 1’s accomplishments and how we will be moving forward.
Moving on from that, we played Scrabble. Except, it got chaotic, insane and lunatic. If only there were better words to describe this experience. I was in a group with Mysha and Summer, but you could practically cancel out me since I was useless. There wasn't much I could do, Mysha enjoyed it better than me, so I let her do what she enjoys. It was like a constant battle though, not between good and evil, but evil against evil. The “evil” in this question is Mysha and Hyeono. There were constant arguments and things got heated quite dramatically.In the end, Mysha, Summer and I ended up winning, but you could say Mysha won. I wasn't really surprised but I'm grateful I got to be in the same group with them.
Miss was not satisfied with “our” behavior, as ninth graders we should behave more responsibly and have respect for our teachers. It was just a simple game of Scrabble, but it was way too out of the ordinary. I wasn't necessarily part of this situation, and I'm glad I wasn't.
November 13, 2024 - Miserable Mika & Worksheets
You would think this would be a classic game of Squardle? It was quite the opposite of it. Our new student Mika had to hold the pen, there's no wrong in her holding the pen, we just wish we could've warned her about what she's about to experience. It's her first time, and to make it worse, she was constantly getting yelled at, especially the boys. And boys I mean Hyeono, Kuk and Rayan. She wasn't familiar with the instructions of the game, and as a class, we taught her the way to play. And she slowly got the hang of it, which gave me a sense of peace.
And our second and last task for the day, a worksheet. It was somewhat different than what we usually do, we were filling in the blanks of the given sentences. It felt like Kumon, there were pages and pages of the worksheet, it was never ending. It was close to the end of the class, and to me and Summer's realization, we were nowhere near the rest of the class. And at that exact time, we started laughing and went insane. All we could do was finish the current exercise we were doing, though stressful it was quite pleasant to say the least.
November 20 - A confusing graph?
In this warm up, we had Aire to hold the pen. It was another chill, casual game of Squardle but way longer. I don't keep track of the time we take for Squardle, but I'm sure we don't take any longer than 20 minutes. Honestly, I was unconscious for most of the warmup, just staring at the board trying to form a thought in my head.
Moving on, we had a quick discussion regarding how to write the print and overview and proceeded to the graph. It wasn't just any regular graph, it's so confusing that I can't even explain it as I'm typing here. But we only realized the graph was confusing until after we wrote our overview, well that sucks. The thing is, we were quiet and focused as we were writing the supposed prompt and overview, maybe not that quiet, just less noisy than usual. The supposed “noise” was coming from the boys, just discussing their answers as they were doing it, just the sounds of the dumb.
I was quite exhausted today. On top of that, dealing with distractions like others talking while trying to work was quite overwhelming. At the same time, I managed to stay somewhat focused in the midst of it all. I felt quite annoyed but at least it’s over.
Quotes of the blog:
“Sometimes the authentic people you know are not always authentic.”
“We only ever realize something wrong happens until after it occurs, the best we can do is move on from it.”
“It's always the kindest people that get tortured the most. ”
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