I have finished reading this book quite some time ago, but I never got to writing a post about it (big surprise). …

Once upon a time, an elderly womxn was sitting in her rocking chair thinking how happy she would be if she had a child. It wasn’t that the patriarchal society imposed it on her that a childless womxn was inherently unsuccessful and her life was unfulfilled. …

Here is a list of my favorite words from Memrise that I studied in January! During this period I also started using vocabulary.com (which I dearly love) to practice new words. Its main advantage is that it provides you with a sentence to guess the context and a definition right…

I was both pumped and terrified when I realized that I would have to make a collage about this year. I was dreading going into my camera roll and looking at all the pics I’ve taken this year. I’m still wistful about every moment but it gives me hope that…

A tiny listening practice which was indeed tiny: The synonyms game was fun:

Here are the results of the tests: Identifying Errors only made one mistake :) 2. Vocabulary in Context This one was quite challenging to navigate. I had to create an account to see the questions, but then I only had access to them as a teacher, so I had to improvise to do the quiz as a student. Made one mistake here, too

Here’s a portion of Memrise vocabulary I picked up this week: to wade: to walk in water that is not very deep We rolled up our trousers and waded at the edge of the lake. 2. hapless: unlucky and usually unhappy Many children are hapless victims of this war. 3…

The teaching practice has officially come to an end… at last. The past few weeks were much more laid-back, which made me forget about the stress I’d experienced before that and allowed me to savor the moment (to a certain extent). Now that I was left with only two groups…

SAT Vocabulary Test 2 The first test was checking our knowledge of advanced vocabulary which starts with the letter A. It’s funny because I know many such words. When I was preparing for TOEFL this summer, for some reason they were my main focus. But apparently, I hadn’t learned all of them… yet. 2. IELTS Reading Comprehension Test 1 Yikes! 6.5 sounds offensive, tbh. I wish they showed the incorrect answers.