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Goodbye... For Now?

 Hello everyone, as by the title, this is likely to be my last post here. I want to talk about how this course has affected my perspective in language teaching. The most obvious one is the whole blogging period, where i had the chance to write down my thoughts while completing the assignments. This made me much more comfortable, as for the first time in years, i was not forced to write down something with 50 different formal standards, like in essays or articles. This made me realize that i actually really enjoy writing down my thoughts, as i can express myself much more freely compared to classroom talking. Throughout the course, we did many things that i did not even think of doing before, podcasts, blogs, film reviews... These didn't really feel like assignments when doing them, they were not stressful or boring, in fact i actually enjoyed every single assignment i had for this course which is a first for me in my whole education life. I especially enjoyed the assignments where we were in groups, my favourite namely the film review assignment. It was very fun to group up with my friends and pick a movie that we like, and talk about it. And doing it as an assignment? The whole course felt like a holiday to be honest. It was a very enjoyable process from the beginning to the end, and maybe i will keep posting some things from my life even after the course is over, because i realized that i really do enjoy this. For now though, this will probably be the last post for a while, so take care!

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