Work hard or party hard? - 5. Tag -

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That was the begining of the workshop "Learning strategies"- we all had to present ourselves for the n-th time since the beginning of STEPin and I told myself: "This day will definitely be a boring one...".

Well... At the time I had no idea how wrong I was... Really, really wrong! And I realised that very soon...

The next thing we did was a brilliant test! We had to describe in 14 questions the way we usually learn, then make some easy calculations, draw a little graph and... congrats! You've just got your learning style. It was amazing how real my result was! And it was also interesting, that there were all kinds of results in the group. It's always nice when you realize that no matter how different we are, we're still able to get along with each other.

From this moment on, there was really nothing about the day I didn’t like – the trainer Marcus Vock has brought the workshop into an exact proper correlation between theory and practice. I had the chance to actually think about the way I learn, which I had never done till that moment. Being well aware of your own learning style is a way to optimize it. Besides, setting personal learning goals is really important, but sometimes it’s really hard to motivate yourself. At the workshop I got some good ideas how to do that, so I can tell it was completely helpful.

This was also the first workshop we did in English, that’s why I decided to write here that way. It was a little bit strenuous, because I had just gotten used to the German language, and now I had to switch to another foreign language… At the end I was totally exhausted, so I started to mess up the both languages a little – one word in English, another in German. :D

However, the whole thing was truly worth it! (:

I should have also mentioned how likable Marcus was. I think he’s positive aura has something to do with the good feeling I was left with, after we were finished. Besides, he was able to hold the attention of the audience and to make the information easier to remember by using some funny conclusions like “Work hard, party hard”. :P

I liked that style and I’m looking forward to the next workshop of his. (: