Reflective Journal

Ouzaii,

Borj al Barajneh Street

Beirut, Lebanon

Dear Dr. Sinno

 By entering into the university everything has changed, it was like moving into a new world and becoming open to a bigger, totally different society. When I first registered English 203 I thought that it would be as boring as school English but it was a totally different level of English. In fact it was the first time I wait English classes anxiously, they were so much fun and it was far away from the stresses we had from other courses. Being a pre-med student gives so much pressure to do my best in all courses in order to enter medicine school but I really enjoyed the assignment you gave us especially those that dealt with issues we are facing here in Lebanon.

Giving us the total freedom to comment on certain issues and to participate in debates was the best thing because I was not allowed to comment on anything in school. The group assignments and the online sessions were very helpful, they helped us in sharing ideas in organized way and in making friends. The most thing I enjoyed during this semester is when we debated about the topics of the presentations when everyone participated to give his/her opinion and the fact that you didn’t constrain us to give our opinion and we were free to say what we want.

Giving us the total freedom to comment on certain issues and to participate in debates was the best thing because I was not allowed to comment on anything in school. The group assignments and the online sessions were very helpful, they helped us in sharing ideas in organized way and in making friends. The most thing I enjoyed during this semester is when we debated about the topics of the presentations when everyone participated to give his/her opinion and the fact that you didn’t constrain us to give our opinion and we were free to say what we want.

What was hard to me is that I was used to write only scientific essays about technology, pollution, medicine… and I am not accustomed to deal with social topics so it took much time to gather the information and organize them, also in most of the time I found myself incapable of going into depth with the ideas maybe because I don’t have a background of most of the topics used.

What I manage to do is to read social academic essays to know how to write and how to better link ideas.

I am so glad that I registered with you because you made English an interesting subject and let me understand more about the topics we talked about and how to deal with them, I also noticed that my writing skills have evolved. I would like to thank you for your friendly way of teaching us academic English.

Sincerely yours,

Hanin tahhan