Tuesday, January 19, 2021

 educational social activities?

Welcome back, everyone. It was a nice day today wasn't it? Not too much action at school but the classes were almost all social activities. 

What do I mean by this? Let's start from the top. 

English: We were divided into new reading and discussion groups because the teacher couldn't find the old list LOL. Psi got real lucky, Beam got divided into his group this time whereas I, my group, is me and four girls that I don't talk to all that often. But no matter, it's teamwork, right? We have work to do. 

It's not like the groups are for socializing anyway, but it would've been nice to have at least one person that I communicated with frequently just to keep the flow of the discussion going. The thing was that when I first saw my group, I thought that the girls were just going to start talking about the latest fashion trends and all that while not doing any work. Also leaving me out of the discussion. That wasn't the case though. 

When I went into the breakout room, it was dead silent. I looked around to realize, none of these four girls are in the same friend group! WOAH, how rare is that? Anyway, the silence was deafening so I just started to talk and lead the discussion a little. But since I didn't start doing that from the very beginning, it was hard to get an AMAZING discussion just cuz no one else was participating. Sigh, I still need to work on the bringing other people into the discussion part. I'll focus on that next time. 

Spanish: A new project! On how the native farmers in Puerto Rico talk. They're unique grammatical defects and pronunciation, and some vocabulary special to them. And guess what, it's in groups. We got to choose though so my group is, Rama, Fox, and Dex. It's going to be a PowerPoint presentation at the end. For now, we need to find the definitions of the vocabulary words that our group was assigned and also the special grammatical defect that we were given by the teacher. As you could tell, it's not a very large-scale project. My guess? We'll finish it by the next class. 

History: Final class. And we're taking notes on a chapter in the textbook. And yup, you guessed it. IN GROUPS! The teacher gave us the choice to choose again so this time I'm with Pen and Rama. Dino and Fox are working together too in another group. It's just note-taking so I was able to finish my part before the class ended, although I'm pretty sure the teacher is still going to give us a little time next class to finish up if we didn't. 

Yeah, that's it for my classes today and now I gtg exercise. cya!

 

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