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Blog#3.1 - Arya V, G7

I don't know how it's third term but it is. There are so many and so little school days left at the same time. AEP is still very enjoyable.

1/16/25

We did listening activities, played word games, and read DOGONews. For the first period, we mostly played word games. We played Strands, and ironically, the the theme was 'bar association'. The words were types of cocktails, almost the perfect theme that our age group & religious background wouldn't know anything about (heh).

The more memorable part of the day was the second period where we read DOGONews about a banana taped to a wall. A low-effort art piece that could take 3 minutes to create. Definitely not worth $6.2 million, but some people have uncommon sense. While we were reading, we had to stand up & do a spin anytime the reader, Ms Disa, or a person from a video said the word 'banana'. I was both amused & annoyed somehow (I think its called polarized emotion?). After that day, I actually came across the story multiple times in the following weeks.


2/20/25

In the first period, we played Duotrigordle, or 32-word Wordle. It was really disorienting at first, seeing way too many Wordles at the same time. However, I realized that it's better to either focus on 1 Wordle or to put a random word out instead of overthinking things. There were some words I didn't know existed. The more progress we made the easier & less intimidating it got. (p.s first AEP w/ Mohamed & Fatmah !)

We played Speedy Scrabble in the second period. 4 teams: Me & Muhsin; Busra, Iskandar & Mohamed; Scarlet, Sayo & Fatmah; and Ana & Jia. With no one absent & new students, our class felt so much bigger than before. 10 students unlike the usual 6-7 students. 

The letters my team were getting were horrible, most of the time having 1-3 points. We started getting letter Q a bunch by the end, but there was nowhere to use it. In addition to that, there were great words we could've made if we had just gotten 2 letters together (e&y) but we never did !! We relied on using other teams' high-point letters & stealing premium squares (I just learnt they're called that) for high-scoring words. I think I'm more competitive when it comes to Scrabble.

We got 3rd (behind by 3pts), behind Busra, Iskandar & Mohamed, and the winners were Ana & Jia. It was originally a close game until the very last turn (Ana & Jia's), where they managed to score 30 points immediately promoting them to first. Good game !!

AEP still doesn't feel like a normal school subject and I still have the same opinion as I (think) I did on the first day. I'm not sure since time feels like a blur, and there's already only a few months of school left.

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