Weekly Update #6: AHAHAHAHH MARIAAAA

I know you missed me last week, BUT I AM BACK WITH SOME CRAPPY CONTENT. YAAAY

This week, we didn't have that many classes because we had a lot of conferences in the auditorium. WE SAW SPIDEEEERS, and we had a talk about trips and also a sexist talk about skirts. However, we still managed to do stuff in SMRT because we are exploited.  Here's what we saw last week:

What I learned last week in SMRT 140

• Poverty (hell of presentations)
• Addiction
• Animal Farm 

On poverty, we basically did listenings and readings about it. They magically wanted us to solve poverty apparently, because if world leaders can't do it, then a 17 year old unstable girl probably can, am I right?

As a part of our project, we had to make a 500 word essay about the topic with a focus of whatever we wanted. Then we had to present it to the class in 5 minutes. However, as we are all cowards, nobody wanted to go first, so Miss K had to look for extreme alternatives, so we had to pic a piece of paper, and the one that got the shortest was the one presenting first. IT WAS MARIA AJAHAHAHHAHAHA AND IT WAS HILARIOUS. Here i'll leave you a representation of the paper, the man on the left is Maria's paper.

We had to read a pretty short (long af) story called animal farm. I was hesistant about it because I thought it was going to be very boring; however, I got surprised at how much I liked it. It is a very strong critique to society, and how humans control the world. I'll keep you updated om the story 'cause we haven't finish it yet.

On addiction, we only made a reading activity which was pretty long but very interesting. When I think about addiction I always picture drugs, but now I realized that there are also behavioral addictions. Our brains are amazing, right? My addiction is chocolate, here's proof:

The word of the week is:

SYNAPSE

Thanks for reading I love you so MUUUUCHHHHH!

Weekly Update #5: I ate ice cream today :)

CHINESE AND WESTERN MEDICINE IS GONEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE WUWUWUWUWUW

Hi, welcome to my blog :)

I am happy to announce that this hell of a topic is gone, here is what we saw last week:

What I learned last week in SMRT 140

• Animal Farm
• Poverty
• Presentatiooooons

I totally forgot that we had to read this "short" story, that I still haven't read by tha way. Miss Karitza reminded us, but it is for next week, and I still don't know for which day. I am guessing it will be for friday (please miss I beg you).

On friday we started with a new topic in reading: poverty. Right now, they want us to focus on the pre-reading of the lectures. They give us 30 seconds to scan de text, and after that time we need to have an idea of what the lecture is about, what thesis statement is, and main points. It is a boring topic, but anything is better than Chinese and Western medicine.

The topic that we focused the most was the presentation that we had for Thursday. We will make in this block 3 presentations that will evaluate our project. I was very stressed because I thought I was going to make it right. My first topic was about "Why do people care more about pets than other humans". WE HAD TO MAKE AN 800 WORD ESSAY! What is going on SMRT? You are failing me.
I had fun with all of the presentations, they where really interesting and Janice had to present for like a thousand hours. 😂😂😂😂

The word of the week is:

Miscellaneous (because I don't remember what it means)

Sorry for doing a very boring entry this week, it was not my best.

As an apology, here's an attachment of a miny pig eating ice cream:

THANK YOU  BYEEEEEEEEEE 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

Weekly Update #4: kill me pls

I give up on life, hi.

I am doing this late again because apparently I can't do anything right, anyways here's what we saw last week wwuwuwuwuwuwu:

What I learned last week in SMRT 140

Here's the usual list:

• I don't want to talk about this anymore
• APA
• Sentences
• Obesity

WE

ARE

STLL

WITH

THIS

GODDAM

TOPIC

SEND

HELP

(fyi I am talking about Chinese and Western medicine)

I am already an expert in this topic, hit me up if you want to be schooled about it.

I enjoyed the APA exercises. I think that citing is very important even though I don't usually do it, but that's because I don't know how to not because I am lazy af. That's why I liked this, because I can learn how to cite correctly and not be sued of plagiarism. They showed you how to cite in APA format if you had all the data, if you didn't have the author, date, their address or type of blood, it was amazing!

Another thing that we saw was how to join sentences. Sometime it is better to have a more structured sentence than having a lot of simple sentences, or at least that's what the sad guy from the SMRT videos told us, and I trust him. 

We saw how to make compound, complex, and compund-complex sentences, I actually had to work in this because I didn't remember and I felt stupid.

I got really sentimental when doing thses exercises because I remembered SMRT 125. 😭😭😭😭😭😭

So now SMRT has the audacity of making me feel FAT all week with their topics about obesity and health and stuff.

The most relevant thing about this was a video that I didn't want to see and then after seeing it I got sad. 9/10 because I still felt fat thanks.

The word of the week is:

Self-esteem (which I lack)

Hi, here's and actual picture of me doing this:

Then this is me realizing my life sucks:

Here's me showing my cool t-shirt I slept on and that has a food stain:

And this is me showing you my pimple:

It's me again showing you my teeth:

Me being awkward:

And in here I am actually laughing of how stupid I was being:

I lost hope in life in here:

Then I got sad:

THANK YOU FOR READING AND LOOKING AT MY UGLY FACE BYEEEEEEEEEEE

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Weekly Update #3: I give up

Hey! It's me again, complaining about my stupid life full of stress and disappointment. How's your life going?

I know you might be thinking "omg this chick is doing her work at last minute as everything in her life again". Well, let me tell you that I am doing this early today (currently 5:27 pm on a Sunday) because I am avoiding other responsibilities as the procrastinator queen that I am. So jokes on you HA!

Anyways, this week we saw the following:

What I learned last week in SMRT 140

Here's a list for you to know what I am going to complain about, enjoy:

• Not so mysterious topic anymore
• Note Taking
• Story about a very stupid man
• Abbreviations 
• Quiz (a.k.a torture)

You read  my mind! Chinese and Western medicine! AGAIN!? We are sooooo not totally done with this topic. I love it, I live for it, it gives me purpose in my life and makes me want to smash my computer everytime I see it on my screen. I really love this.

Leaving the sarcasm behind, we are just reading and listening to the same stuff and doing exercises about them. 

P.S. YES WE ARE STILL SEEING THE GENERAL AND THESIS STATEMENT OKAY?

I know this may sound weird of me, to say something positive, but I think I am actually enjoying note taking. I find it challenging to try and understand what the person in the audio is saying, while I am also trying to write down everything that I am listening to. I think it is refresing.

However, I cannot write about a topic without complaining about somehting, am I riiiiight?

What's with the topics they choose though? Mechanical motors? Really? That's the best you've got. C'mon SMRT staff, I know you can do better.

Here's a 100% real gif of me in SMRT class:

Imagine you are in an extremely cold place with your dog, would you kill it? WELL THIS STUPID MAN I AM GOING TO TALK WOULD AND I HATE HIM FOR THAT.

Okay, so as you may kow my now, we have to read a "short" story every week because I don't know, they want us to suffer. Anyways, this week we read a story called "To build a fire", and it stressed me out.

First of all, I didn't have time to finish reading it, so I was all stressed reading it on recess before SMRT class, so I could send the classwork on time. Second of all, THIS MAN WAS SERIOUSLY SO STUPID!

The story was about a man who wanted to see "the boys" and had to go somewhere but the weather was terrible. It was like a million dregrees below zero, but he had no common sense and still wanted to go. He also had de audacity to take his poor dog with him, to help him, but he treated it like CRAP! AND I WAS ANNOYED. In the end ****************** SPOILER ALERT ******************* he dies. 

I am starting to think they are just choosing very tragic stories where everybody dies, make your bets for next week's short story.

In note taking we also saw abbreviations. It stressed me out because I take more time trying to use the symbols they want me to insted of JUST WRITING NORMALLY.

That's it, I don't want to talk about this anymore because I get stressed and my anxiety and stress levels are on their full potential right now. Here's a pic of my fav flower being 2 KUL 4 SKUL:

We made another quiz, it was all grammar and I didn't remeber anything tbh (abbreviations *wink*). I still tried my best because Ms. Karitza still has faith in my, even though I am done.

Here's an appreciation gif my the most beautiful teacher ever who has to listen (and now read) about my complaints everyday. I am sorry and I luv you a lot.

I am also sorry for the quality of my blog, it wasn't as good as the last two, I AM GOING TROUGH A MENTAL BREAKDOWN, and I  feel very tired and stuff. sorry

This week's vocabulary word is:

DEPRESSED

Thank you for reading, you are a staAAAaar! 

Weekly Update #1: Why are we being forced to do this?

Being a student of CEB has been an incredible experience for me. It has made grow as a better sudent and person, make me realize who my real friends are, and introduced me to a lot of new experiences. One of which I am now very familiarized with: SMRT.

In first semester I started in level 125, with an awesome teacher and a fun class. I am sure it was and still is the best of all the other levels. As I advanced on this platform, I was asked to do different activities in order for me to practice my english and be better at it.

However, I had no clue of the storm that was coming. I am now in 140 and the activities I have to make are a nightmare. I am now being forced against my will to update weekly about what we see in class, and they especifically ask you to make it boring, so here I am.

Now that I wasted your time with this unnecessary introduction, let's start with the sad part:

What I learned last week (and Monday of this week) in SMRT 140

We've seen a lot of skills since we've been in 125; however, in 140 we are now focusing on a more college level English, since they are helping us to prepare ourselves for that academic level.

Last week we practiced the skills of:

• Reading
• Listening
• (and the worst) Writing 😖😖😖😖😖😖😖😖

In all of them we've practised the basics:

• Reading: identfying the main ideas and important details.
• Listening: paying attention, taking notes and identifying important information.
• Writing: learning to write something correctly because let's be real, we don't write good.

However, there has been an exhaustive reitaration in two aspects:

1. General Statement
2. Thesis Statement

I've been having nightmares about both of them, so let me explain to you what are they.

According to the paper Miss Karitza gave me,  "a general statement is a broad introduction to the paper's topic." And also "a thesis statement offers a concise summary of the main point or claim..." of whatever you are writing. 

So we've been mainly focusing on identifyng these two when we read and listen to something, and also we are learning how to write them correctly.

I've decided that each week I am going to choose a vocabulary word that stuck to me all week.

Last's week vocabulary word is : (drumroll)

HOLISTIC

Thank you for reading until here, you can now have a cute pic of a mini donkey. Enjoy 😊