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Second Term | Blog 2.1 AEP 11 | Shasmeen

    During the summer, I had been bracing myself for the transition from tenth grade to senior high, expecting it to feel like being pushed into a freezing-cold pool - jarring, overwhelming, and utterly disorienting. In reality, it felt more like turning on Do Not Disturb on your phone before bed, only to wake up and realize that the world had been moving on quietly without you. I'm not trying to state that this new chapter has been without challenges - AEP itself proves that there is still so much to learn - it's just that life feels so bland nowadays, but in an exceptionally refreshing way. 

    On November 6th, we began our first session of the second term with a recap of the previous one. I quite enjoyed the first term's lessons, which were about terms in the business and political sphere. It's both intriguing and entertaining to see things like "lame-duck" and "banana republic" in the same test as "bipartisan" and "fascism". Despite that, it was still perplexing, concepts often requiring us to expand the limits of our typical understanding of certain words in creative ways.

    Anywho, after that short recap and test of our progress so far, we played a game of Scrabble. Scrabble is typically the bane of my existence - the essence of why I dread the fourth floor - but that day the words came out quite nicely. 

    By the time the next session had rolled around, on November 13th, we were back to business. I arrived fashionably late (just an hour!) so I don't know what they did for the first period. According to my sources, the played Hurdle. So heartbreaking that I missed that. By the time I had gotten there, Miss had distributed our worksheets on the new unit: Medicine and Heatlh. I quite like the topic so far, but maybe that's just because I like vocabulary in general.

    Unfortunately, I wasn't able to attend AEP today due to a migraine. I'm looking forward attending to the next session though!

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