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 #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 😊