Well, if I have to be honest I don’t know how to start this self-assessment and the main reason is because it’s kinda sad to realize that this is my last one. This semester has been an emotional rollercoaster for me. I was very anxious about this semester because of the face-to-face classes after two years being online, but it went better than I thought. 

First of all I want to reflect about my practicum, and I have to be honest to say that I have two kinds teachers in that school, they made me feel super secure in their classes, honestly all of the teacher and the students are very nice with me so I don’t have anything to complain about it. The problem here is that I don’t feel very secure about my abilities, the only thought of doing a class makes me feel scared and with a lot of anxiety, so I feel that I need to work on that because last semester I didn’t feel that way.

I took a look  to my others self-assessments and I always felt a little bit scared of my speaking classes and this years it wasn’t very different, but now that we are in our last classes I want to say that I really have a very good time during this classes so I want to thank professor Jaime for made me feel secure while speaking in his classes. Another thing that I figured out is that I really improved my writing, of course it is not perfect but I’m very proud of my success, but I still need to work on my listening skills and use of english. 

The next semester is our final one, we are not having english classes anymore so I want to take advantage of this task to thank all of my english teachers, they taught me a lot of things and not only English. 

New challenges are coming next semester and I’m very excited about them, mostly because even if it can be hard for me, I know that I have the support of my family and my friends who are so special to me. I try not to think a lot about the future, about what will happen to not get anxious, but I’ll promise myself that I will give it my all to achieve my goals, even if it is not doing classes but whatever that I will like to do.

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Here we are again and actually I do not know how to feel about it. I have mixed feelings about this semester, because in some way it feels like a new start after two years in online classes but at the same time it feels like a closure, I mean this is our last year in the University after three years which feels so sad.  

If I have to be honest, I feel a little scared about this semester because having online classes was never the same as having face-to-face classes. We have to deal again with presentations, participation in classes, and a lot of things in which I lost confidence. But at the same time I am happy to be back, because I can spend time with my friends and because I feel “obligated” to listen to English and speak in English, so we can practice. 

These past two years have been emotional and mentally difficult for me, I have been feeling tired, stressed and anxious so it was hard to have my mind completely immersed in my studies but my friends and family were a big support for me. I feel that this semester is going to be difficult in so many ways but I try to stay positive about it and think that I am capable of doing it well. I also feel a little bit scared about the practicum, I did it well in the past two practicums that we had but it always feels like this, so I hope my friends, classmates and I can have a good time doing our practicum.

I also feel excited because we are going to start with our tesis and I’m working with my friend, and that makes me so happy. We are still figuring out what we are going to talk about in our thesis but I believe in us, and I’m sure that we are going to work hard on this project.

Finally, I want to say that the thing that is worrying me the most is my English level, the past two years felt like I didn’t learn what I was supposed to learn and that all the progress that I made in my first year is fading away. I try to not worry a lot bout it and try to think that I still have time to learn a lot in this year but it is hard, I feel anxious all the time because I always feel like I’m going to make a mistake, but I’m going to try my best to learn all that I can this year. As I said at the beginning, this feels like a new start so this can be a new chance to improve and to gain courage. I’ll try to enjoy the fullest this last year at the university. 

First of all, I feel that this semester has passed very quickly, but at the same time, it has felt very long. At the beginning of the semester, I had high expectations of what would happen throughout these months, and I wanted to be able to deal with my expectations, but the truth is that these months did not go as I expected, and I think it is because emotionally I have been feeling quite exhausted. Although I wasn’t the only one who went through difficult times, many of my peers went through anxiety attacks or didn’t feel emotionally stable. And I feel that perhaps this hurt many of us in our academic performance.

On the other hand, I feel that the confidence I had in speaking or expressing myself has diminished, and I feel nervous about doing so. So this is something I’d like to work on, as it’s crucial to feel confident when expressing yourself to others. I’d also like to learn how to manage my time because when I don’t, and I have a lot of things to do, I end up getting overwhelmed.

By the way, it hasn’t all been bad. I started with my practicum, and although I was very nervous and worried about it, it came out better than I expected. Even though I couldn’t be in online classes due to schedule issues, I was able to work preparing material, and I learned a lot. I still have things to improve, but I am grateful to have learned new things and to have had the support of my supervising teacher because she helped me a lot. I hope my next practicums will be even better, I hope to continue learning even more, and I will do my best to expand my potential.

In class, we have been learning how to generate interest in English in students, and during this learning, I have learned that not only is the language important. It is equally or even more important to talk with students and be interested in them, in knowing how they are and in making them feel comfortable and confident with you.

I want to take this moment to thank the teachers who were understanding of us and the situation we are going through. But, above all, I want to thank all the support that my friends and family have given me. I’m very grateful for them because they have made all this situation a little easier for me.

Finally, I want to say that although I don’t feel that it was my best semester, I don’t think it was all bad either, and I feel committed to improving all the aspects that make me a complex.