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Flags for Agender reflins, contras, and loops; a term for individuals who are both agender & reflin/contra/loop, agender reflin/contra/loop, etc.

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- :) the flag style is more experimental, I may make alt flags for these at some point if I decide so. — made with bxy & gxrl style in mind.

- Othellic

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REFLECTION - THIRD QUARTER

The entirety of this quarter revolved around public speaking. Now, I’m not saying I’m the best at it, but I don’t really mind doing it. Over the years I like to think that I’ve become better at handling speaking in front of people. I’m already pretty comfortable with the whole batch, so talking in class isn’t much of a problem for me anymore.

For the demo speech, I chose Astrology as my topic. I see how it probably should’ve fallen under informative, but I thought that the process of locating what you needed to find within a birth chart could pass for a demonstrative speech. I should’ve included the process of getting the actual birth chart instead of doing it beforehand, but I didn’t have enough time. That became my issue: time. There was so much I wanted to say since I was so passionate about what I was talking about. This is mostly the reason why I ended up choosing Astrology as my topic. I didn’t write an actual speech, instead, I created a flow and practiced how I was gonna speak. I trusted myself enough to be able to know what to say. Sure enough, I did well when I spoke, and I was very proud of my speech. I was so happy when I saw the comment on my rubric sheet that said “very knowledgeable discussion of the topic.” It made me feel so accomplished.

Since I enjoyed talking about Astrology so much, I decided to use it as my topic for the final speech next quarter. At first, I doubted whether I was even qualified to speak about it, but after some encouragements from my friends, I finally settled on talking about it again. I’d have more time now, and I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t looking forward to talking about it. I’m not that used to speaking in front of people I don’t know, but since we’re gonna be gone by next year, it’ll be easier for me. Plus, my desire and passion to share what I know is way stronger than the nerves I have.

The survey that we created and passed around gave me the insights I needed for the details of my speech. I was so glad to find out that 30 out of 31 respondents were willing to learn more about Astrology, especially since we all study in a science high school and Astrology isn’t considered a science at all. The information I gained is going to be so helpful for the writing of my final speech, and I’m really glad I picked this topic because it doesn’t feel like a requirement to be talking about it. I always talk about it, honestly, and this speech is gonna be the same but with a bigger audience and a more structured script.

I really enjoyed the speaking activities we did this quarter. Because of this, I’m looking forward to sharing the passion I have though my final speech which will happen next quarter. Hopefully, my audience appreciates it.

#reflxn #q3

REFLECTION - SECOND QUARTER

The second quarter was particularly scary because we all knew that the major requirement for it was no joke. For this quarter, we had to conduct a forum.

We had to plan it, advertise it, all the logistics and everything. The whole thing. Picking a topic was a bit hard, since both Rooms A and C had already listed down theirs. In the end, we decided on a forum which discussed SYP life. We remembered how hard it was to choose our tracks and how confused we were when we did it, so we collectively agreed on conducting a forum about that.

The event was held in the school’s canteen, and it was called “PiSaYP: A Guide on SCALE-ing the Right Track.” The selected speakers were Nash (for the Biology and Chemistry tracks), Dagny (for the Physics, Technology, and Computer Science tracks), and Sir Jed (for the SCALE Program). Our selected audience were the Grade 10 students, since they were the ones about to enter SYP life. I had no idea how they rated us, but I really hope that our forum helped them somehow.

For this project, I acted as part of the Marketing team. This involved drafting posters and invitations for the approval of our event coordinator. I enjoyed this, since it encouraged me to get in touch with my creative side. Being a very creative person, I didn’t really mind doing the work. I love requirements that let me do that, since I know that I’m not exactly a science person or what. Besides this, our team collected the attendance stubs and had the students sign the attendance sheets. We did most of our work before the event, so we weren’t too busy during the actual event. Kudos to Cherry and Teresa for handling each of the teams and bringing everything together so well, because without them, the event wouldn’t have been successful.

Another thing we did this quarter was conduct a mock FGD. I had a lot of fun during this, as both a respondent/participant and facilitator. Our group’s topic was favorite shows/series, and I learned a lot from the participants included. The answers we got were so varied, and it was nice to find out that the class’ interests ranged from comedy to drama to mystery/thriller. I noted some of the shows that they mentioned, cause their answers interested me and I wanted to check some of those shows out. For the FGD we participated in, we answered questions about our experiences in the school’s laboratory. Nash and I had so much to say since we spent a lot of time there for our research. It was fun because we got to voice out our concerns and find out that other people agreed with us as well.

This quarter included many fun activities, and I’m really glad that we were all able to pull off the forum we conducted. Public speaking comes next… and I guess we’ll see how I handle that.

#reflxn #q2

REFLECTION - FIRST QUARTER

The first quarter of English 6 involved discussions surrounding the communication process. I really had no idea that the models and visual representations of it could become very complex (like Barnlund’s model). I don’t think I ever ended up fully mastering the ones we discussed.

I particularly remember the skit we had to do about communication barriers. The scenario given to our group depicted a job interview wherein the applicant had an accent which made the interviewers struggle in understanding what was being said. None of us in the group had any idea of which accent to use and who would be speaking. I could do a pretty okay British accent but it was understandable and therefore wouldn’t be a communication barrier. Nash suggested Irish, because at some point we ended up talking about Saoirse Ronan and how she speaks. For the first three periods of that day (Research time, we had nothing to do), I spent my time trying to learn the accent as much as I could by reading random tweets on my timeline while attempting to sound Irish.

I think no one knew it was an Irish accent, and I think that everyone thought I was supposed to have a mouth problem with the way I was speaking. It looked that way because it was hard to make certain sounds and I had to shape my mouth that way to make them. Overall, it was pretty fun, I just wish I did a better job with the way I spoke.

I also had a lot of fun when we had that activity about the tripartite being. I really didn’t know what to expect, because I wasn’t sure what people saw in and thought of me. I was very surprised at all the sweet things people wrote under the “body” section, the comments made me feel really good about myself. When it came to the “spirit” section, Nash was the only one who wrote there (I think Gab and Rielo were absent, they’re the only other people in that room who know me on that level). I was so touched by everything he wrote there, mostly because I didn’t think that he paid much attention to how I was or cause I didn’t know that he saw me that way. To be honest, I got a little teary-eyed because some of the things he wrote there were just so… true. Sometimes I feel like no one really sees me, the things I do and the effort I put into being the friend I am to them. It was really, really nice to know that he did. What I wrote in the “spirit” section were my basic beliefs and morals that shaped me as a person. At first, I wasn’t sure of what to write, but when I wrote down the simplest, most basic thing I believed in, it became easier to write more. The class ended up discussing things such as religion, and it was nice to know that there were people like me who weren’t entirely sure of the whole Catholicism thing but believed in a higher, supreme being.