Peter-New AP5 semester

This is the second week of AP5 semester. Compare with the beginning period of AP4, the study life is busier. With this time, I had move out from the home-stay and rent house with friends. That also cost me a lot of time to adapt new home and the new environment. Fortunately, I saw some of my AP4 friends study with me in the same class. That makes me more comfort, because it much easier to adapt new class with friends. Also, it is a good opportunity to make new friends. For my AP5 plan, the most basic plan is to pass AP5. Base on this plan, I need study hard, finish homework and teamwork on time. AP5 is an essential part to learn how to finish my work in an academic way and get better prepared for pr-MBA. The weakness in my English learning is vocabulary and grammar. Through the vocabulary quiz on Monday, my academic words are insufficient, so I need to remember more academic words.  Another part need improve is writing. After last semester’s study, my writing skill had improve a lot, but is still need more practices to make it better. Presentation and speech takes important parts in MBA course.  That is another hard part for me, the most problem for me in a presentation is nervous. Nervous cause me forget words and strange pronunciation of the word. But I think I will make my presentation much better. As the saying goes, practice makes perfect. ESL is a valuable experience for me before MBA.  I believe I can improve all of my weaknesses during my AP5 learning and face MBA with confidence.

Pirlo-The second week and study strategies

Today is the first day of the second week. What a nice day. When I wake up this morning, I feel I have a good energy because I had a good sleep last night. Last week, I came back to Nanaimo from China; I feel a little upset because Nanaimo is not my hometown after all. What was worse, I could not adapt the time lag; I could not fall asleep at night, I only slept about three hours per day last week. In the daytime, I feel too sleepy; I could not pay attention to anything. That was too bad. Luckily, I feel much better today. Actually, I am a little worried about this semester because some of my friends said AP 5 is a very difficult semester, and a lot of students failed in this semester. Therefore, I think I should work harder than before in this semester because my English is not very well. My goals for this semester are I can learn more academic skills, such as how to write a good essay and do a good presentation. Then I can learn some knowledge about MBA class. The most crucial goal is I can pass this semester, I think almost all the students in AP5 have this same goal. In order to I can study well in this semester, I will work on some strategies: cooperation, time-management and correcting my mistakes. At first, the cooperation will be the most important in AP5 because in this semester, we will write some long essays; and writing essay need some ideas. Therefore, studying in a group can help me to get more ideas because one person’s idea is limited, and study with other people, we can help and study each other, and it is also easy to find out more good ideas. Secondly, time-management can help me to schedule time reasonably. I do not want to waste any time now because I have come here about sixteen mouths; I hope to graduate as soon as possible. The last but not the least, I want to find out the mistakes during my studying time. I am not afraid making mistakes; instead, I want to know my mistakes, and correct them to avoid make the same mistakes again. To find more mistakes and correct them, this means I will be better in the future. I will try my best to study in this semester, I will be success, I have confidence.