Reflection Blog

On the second semester on my junior year in high school, I took a class called Current Events. In this class, I learned about current world and global issues going on during the 21^st century. We learned about terrorism, the need of resources in some countries, and the global goals. Personally, I really enjoyed the class because there were many interesting and eye – opening things we talked about and discussed as a class that really shocked me. The topic that I really enjoyed the most was learning about terrorism in the Middle East, specifically ISIS. Due to the fact that ISIS is one of the top world problems right now, made me more interested in learning about this. What I didn’t enjoy doing the most was watching the Ted Talks. In my opinion, I would’ve preferred discussing with the teacher about what the Ted Talks talked about. There were many times where I was falling asleep to a 20-minute video because of the amount of sleep I missed the night before due to the amount of AP homework I had. Another factor that made me not like the Ted Talks was the fact that many of the speakers spoke in a monotone voice that made the video boring. There were also some Ted Talks, which I liked. For example, the Ted Talk on procrastination was my favorite. In this talk, the speaker spoke with a not-boring voice that made it enjoyable to listen to. Also, this speaker talked about a topic in which every single human being can relate. In conclusion, I really enjoyed this class. Even though there were some things we did that I didn’t really like that much, I still liked the topics we learned. I hope that more students enroll in this class next year so they could become more aware of their sorroundings.