I kinda like english...

But I'm head-over-heels in love with gaming!!

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Eleventh Week: Mid-Term Test

Okay... Okay, I got this... Just take a deep breath, pray, and hope that nothing really bad will happen during the test. I was already nervous since I left from home. I regret that I use to not really care about EL because I had the feeling that I already mastered it. 

Then, I realized that it is not just about grammar, spelling and pronunciation. There’s actually more things that we need to know. Things to remember... Yeah memories, that is what education is all about. It’s only like a few logics required. Let’s say, math, you can’t do it if you don’t know how it’s done, in Physics you need to remember formulas, and in religion and citizenship, you need to get the logic to make sense by giving proves. 

Back to the story, as I arrived at school, I quickly rushed through the hallways, running up the stairs, and found out that the hallway is flooded with students studying, as always, making it hard for people to pass. I quickly sat down and open my laptop to re-learn. Already know this is not worth it, I still won’t learn anything anyway. One of the invigilators blew the whistle. It’s time to enter the class. As you would know, the students don’t just sit when they got inside the classroom. They have to prepare things like stationary items, Pencils that are not sharpened, and things to borrow. Also, they still ask each other about the materials just to make sure they didn’t forget. common things that always happen in mid-term test. Everyone is busy. I filled out my scan tron answer sheet.   

The starting indicator was triggered. I was a little nervous when I read the first problems. Well, I used my “common-sense” to answer the questions. For the multiple choices of course, I randomized it. Well some of it was logic and the rest, you have to study about it. Next there is a fill in the blank, I also randomized, but thank god, I got most of it correct. There is an essay that tells you to write about a speech. I managed to fill in the whole thing, fortunately, but not the very last essay that tells you to write what you’ve learned through this first half of the term. Just right before I write something there, the indicator that warns the student that is five minutes left was triggered. I thought to myself that I was not gonna finish this test, and that’s when “test was over” indicator was triggered.

 Well, I finally learned that you must not under estimate anything and one other thing... DO. NOT. PROCRASTINATE. It is a very common mindset of people these days.

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Tenth Week: Reinforcements

There’s nothing much in this week. It is just a presentation about that poster me and my friends made last week, I already mention the details in the last paragraph but I’ll just mention it again to add more words in this one. 

It’s a public service advertisement about not texting while driving. It contains a rhetorical device, wise words, and a picture of a dude texting in a gold-purple luxury car. It is set in a point of view of the person who is crossing the road while waving because he is about to get rammed by the car. The poster says: “This is the last thing he’ll see.” well, there is actually more sentences but that is the one that I remember.  

 We present the poster in front of the class. When it’s my group’s turn of course. After everybody had their turn, the teacher reviewed the materials for the mid-term test. There are a lot of materials in the test. I didn’t actually prepare myself that much because I got to study other subjects that is much harder than english.

I would’ve prepare if I was smarter. 

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Ninth Week: Advertisements

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Wait a minute… You are already here aren’t you? Lol. Advertisements. What is it? It’s like persuasding but it’s in a form of a media and intended for a large amount of audience. It is usually for introducing new products from a business, or a public service, to stop peoples bad habbits in majority. 

In this week, The teacher broke the class into groups. It consists of four people. We made a poster about stop texting while driving. Do you text while driving? You better not, that is the same as drinking while driving, smoking, or reading my competitor’s blog. It costs lives. These jokes are too crude, aren’t they? Well, let’s just carry on with my experience. The poster is a picture of a guy texting while driving a million-dollar Rolls Royce that is about to run somebody over.It teaches us not to text while driving. Once it’s colored and the message is written, it’s time to present it in front of the class.

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Eighth week: Rhetorical Devices

Boo! This week I’m weak because I had to learn about rhetorical devices. This is a must-do so I learn it anyway. 

what I am doing right now, what I am learning, what I am told to do is what I will tell you right now. I am learning about rhetorical devices. what are rhetorical devices? A rhetorical device is a use of language that is intended to have an effect on the audience. Usually, it’s purpose is to entertain. See what I did there? In the question and answer... The question is a rhetorical question because it doesn’t need to be answered and, also, irony because in the question, I mention “devices”, and in the answer, I mention “a rhetorical device”, well that is a bad grammar, but, who cares? My english is awfully good. It’s no joke, I had an experienced. Boom! See? I did it again. My english is so good, that I’m better than Shakespeare. My vocabulary has a mind of it’s own. I spit out a word like a computer that processes one byte. well time is money. 

Don’t waste your time reading this text, you’ll regret it.           

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Seventh Week: Formative

This is it. My very first english test of eleventh grade. I didn’t actually study the night before because reasons. 

Probably because of Kum*n? No I didn’t go there  nor owe any home works, however I was a former student but I got stressed out  so I dropped out. I was a bit forced to be there. That place is for weigh too smart and hardworking people. They give you three home works every two days, and usually ten pages, oh wait, why are we out of topic? Oh, yeah..., By the way, the formative was supposed to be easy for some people, but I didn’t actually aced. When the formative test was on-going, I regretted it why didn’t I study? The fist questions are multiple choices, I randomized it. Yes, what else could I do? The next is fill in the blanks. I also randomized that and didn’t fill most of it. The last part is essay. Dang this, I’m out. I got a C on the test. whelp, I learned my lesson, I would study next time. 

My friends got good grades, and the teacher told me to just do the essay again, Thank god.

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Sixth Week: Persuasive writing

On this week, Me and my class are learning about wanting and asking people to do things and it is also known as persuading. 

The word “let’s” is mainstream, especially in the childhood, or kindergarten, specifically, but did you know?, that the word is the acronym for let us. That word is actually the icon and the pinnacle of persuading. Persuading is used beacuse, If we want people to go with what we are doing, we persuade. Persuading is to convince people, to make people a part of what we want them to do. This is usually used in advertisements. If we want people to buy our products, we have to let them know. And usually anouncements. The teacher told the whole class to make a speech on how to change the world a bit. So we did. I was one of the first ones to actually get up and do the speech in front of the class. I didn’t have the confidence, but at least I am brave enough. I went well at first, but suddenly I forgot what are the words that I’m suppose to say. Poor me. 

Everybody still appreciated me but it feels kind of awkward. One of my friend likes the way how I just got up and deliver the speech, the topic is a common everyday topic and I think that is a bit boring if you listen to it. 

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Fifth Week: Opinions

This one is kind of an irony, because I have to give up my opinion about opinions. My opinion about opinion is that if you give opinion about opinion, people will have an opinion about your opinion on opinions. 

This week, I learned about what I think about things. Also, what people think. Opinions are the opposite of fact, something that we could argue about. The difference about   fact and opinion is, for example, the car is colored red. Opinion is, for example, I think that the car should be black matte. What I like about opinion is that you could express what’s on your mind, about things. What I dislike is that people could argue about what I expressed. 

If you want to give an opinion, make sure it’s relevant, and you say something nice. make sure it’s a compliment, most of it. You can give critics but not too much. Critics are usually the starters of arguments. If you think that you are most likely to not win arguments then don’t give critics. well there are two kinds of critics. a nice critic and a normal critic. normal critics are bad. Nice critics are if you tell why you don’t like it, and give suggestion on how to make it better. Normal critics are the one if you compare it with others. Don’t compare, every thing is different. There is good quality and poor quality. If you don’t want to critic just compliment sarcastically.

The point is everybody’s got their own thoughts about things, like I said, this exists so that they can express it, or give an idea to make it better 

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Fourth Week:Hopes and Wishes

Nothing really special about this one, the first day was just learning about hopes and wishes. What a baby. If I want to make something that I want want to come true, I gotta work hard for it. I mean, seriously? All they did was just tossing coins to the water or well and expect the magic to roll? Hahaha, just kidding.

•♪ hope is when we want something to happen •♫ wish is to talk about POSSIBLE situations that we desire in the past, present or future. Yes I copied that from my teacher’s presentation. Why does this thingy exist? Things that we don’t want to happen, actually did happen to us. Hope is for something that you wish to happen but it didn’t actually happen to you... So sad. Wish is something that already happen that you wish it didn’t happen or vice versa, because of how unpleasant the reality was. You use it to regret. You use it because you’re jealous. 

second day because you make a card of it, and that would improve our creativity...

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Third week of english class:Independence day, games, and suggestion on how to make our school better

The first day that I was suppose to have an english class was taken by our one and only flag ceremony. I say one and only because it stands out between the other flag ceremonies. 

This one had probably more than a thousand attendance from the third grade elementary, to the twelve grade.This is dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Indonesian Independence day. For me and some other people, received a special task. As paramedics. My job was to provide an overwatch to the students that passed out. If there is anyone who fainted, which there was, many of them , I guess..., we quickly rushed through the field, ruining the ceremony, and picked the bodies up.

 The other day, we were given a task to write down a problem that our school had. Someone else had to give the solution. Listen to this, there was someone who was afraid that there were serial killers roaming around our school, while the other person gave out the solution that said we would hire superheroes to justify... hahaha. Then were supposed to stand up and make a circle. there was a game. the game was based on a famous soft drink.Everyone had to count to seven, each number, some one had to hit either their right or left chest while, except for seven they’re supposed to put their hands up and mention “up” instead. It wasn’t easy due to the amount of switching directions. 

Luckily, I was one of the last one standing.

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Second Week of english class: Suggestion and Offer

Okay, so we broke into groups, then we made posters about what we did and learn from last year. Obviously, I forgot most of the things that I learn last year, and I also won’t bother looking at the downloaded presentation files. 

By the way, the group consists of three to four people. Fortunately me and the other three guys were best friends (forget about the previous post, I was just kidding). My friend tried to find the last year’s note, and why not me? like I said last time, I wouldn’t bother. Even my friend himself didn’t have that much notes. We looked it up on G**gle. (I wouldn’t mention any brands here, that’s illegal without permission). 

Then we looked it up in wikipedia, nope, that is not a brand... Then I designed the poster with an abstract design. After that we handed the poster in when it’s nearly finished due to the amount of time we had. In the other day, there was a visit from the country of technology and weirdness. You know what country is that. Japan!! Yes but what’s odd is that most of them aren’t the citizen, only three of them are. There are the students who came to study abroad. They showed us games that you probably not heard of before, and taught us all about the south-east Asia. If you are not listening to their presentation, well you should, because they are gonna ask what you’ve learned and draw a poster. Each group will be assigned by country. I got Laos. We were told to watch a kawaii video while imitating it’s movement. there were two winners.

It was a pretty good week. The connext asean taught us a lot and we played games all the time. At the final day there was a photo session with the personnels. They were wearing their country’s traditional clothes. the one who could guess one country’s culture right can get a picture with them. 

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First day of english class activities: Introduction

The very first English class. It was on August 4th of 2015, me and my “friends”(though i’m not very close to any of them) met this one particular person. The person is a female. 

Each of us were given a paper to interview this lady by writing five questions. what sucks is that you’re not allowed to ask the same question that was asked before. Let me recall my memory… I think the very first question was her full name, then what high school was she from, then her hobby, and… whatever. 

After everything was answered, she wanted to find a way to remember everyone by their uniqueness. Ah, yes! Why not showing their talent off… That way we could know each other better. First of all, we introduced ourselves then do something silly in front of the class.(Actually some of them were quite fascinating, I suppose) I’ll tell you some of them, there was this boy who could make any kind of sound with his very own mouth, then someone who did a random tap dance, and this one is kinda funny, he told us that he is used to fiddle with elastic bands, but then it snapped before he could impress us, but he didn’t give up just yet, so he started making shadow puppets. Well, at least that entertained us. This one was my favorite, there was this dude who had a special ability that can remember anything that’s very specific for a long periods of time. He showed us the first sixteen digits of pi. 

Everyone’s mind was blown, and that is when I finished my cello bass drawing for you know who, but when I flipped the paper, I realized it was my biology semester outline…, sorry miss