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Arya V - Blog #2

It's weird how it's 2025 already, I feel like last year went too fast. Anyways, in almost all the days I'm writing about, we played Scrabble.

December 5, 2024
We started with seatwork about prepositions. I was doing fine at the start, but I struggled a bit in the end, even though it was multiple choice. Somehow, I feel like my knowledge about prepositions is both good and bad at the same time. In the next period, we played Scrabble with a snack prize. Scarlet, who was my teammate, really wanted it. Unfortunately, my mind told me we definitely weren't winning anytime soon. I didn't want to let Scarlet down, but it seemed like she knew we were losing too. In the end, we made a slight comeback, but only climbed to 2nd place, with Busra & Sayo winning. We shared the prize anyway  :). (Also, Ms Disa posted a picture of us playing Scrabble on google classroom)

December 12, 2024
Jia saw the picture that Ms posted, and was sad about missing the last AEP Scrabble day, and Ms Disa let us play it. This was our first time playing "Speedy Scrabble", and our last AEP of 2024. I enjoyed it a lot more than the usual Scrabble we played. After a while, it gets tedious to wait 10 minutes for another team to choose a word. This time, each team had 3 minutes for their turn, having to shuffle all their letters once their turn is over. Me, Busra & Iskandar vs Sayo, Busra, & Jia, with Muhsin as the scorekeeper. Thankfully, my team kept getting good letters like X, Z, and J. This (and our skills) gave us the win for this day.

January 9, 2025
This was the first AEP of 2025. We played many word games, and The last one was Contexto, which felt impossible to beat. Eventually, we gave up, and the word was wombat. That not suiting our "clues" left me a bit annoyed. Barely anyone knew what a wombat was anyway. In the second period, we played Speedy Scrabble and it was pretty fun. I felt pretty good while playing, and somehow felt like I was thinking better. This led to the victory being given to Scarlet & I :D. (Sidenote, Ms Disa posted another picture of us playing Scrabble, similar to the first day. Jia reacted again, commenting "NOOOOOOOOO". Oh well :,).

January 16, 2025
We started with listening activities, then played some word games. In the next period, we read DOGONews about a banana taped to a wall being sold for $6.2 million. Ms Disa made us stand up and spin around anytime she or the current reader said the word 'banana.' First of all, a banana being sold for $6.2 million is outrageous. I am both skeptical on the legitimacy of the story, and the buyer's common sense. Second of all, I didn't know whether I found the "standing up-spin around" amusing & fun or annoying. Maybe a bit of both. At some point, Ms even started to not notice when she said "banana".

Additional thing, the teacher for the Filipinos was absent that day. This made me wonder what AEP would be like if we had a substitute teacher..
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  1. AnonymousFebruary 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM

    There won't be AEP if I was absent. I would let you play scrabble and everyone wod put strange words because I wouldn't be there to check.

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