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During this blogging competition, I have learned various different things. It has helped me in improving my writing skills. For example, I have learned different ways to express myself by using sentence variety instead of just saying “I…”. Because I was able to practice my skills a lot from this competition, now I am going better in it. In school, we go on a website called MYACCESS. There, our teachers are able to give us prompts. We – the students- would go on and writing the best essay we can and then submit it. Then, the program would score our essay the way it would be scored on the Writing/ Grammar FCAT (Our standardized test). Our teachers are able to view what we got and also the website tells us how we can improve our essay and what we did wrong. Afterwards, we could revise it to try and get a better score if we didn’t already. At first, I would always score between a 3.5 to a 4.5. Now I am consistently getting a 6 on my essays (that is the highest you can get). A six on the writing FCAT is a perfect score. I am proud that because of this competition, my writing has improved so much that I am definitely going to get a perfect score on the FCAT.  

Another thing that I have learned from this competition is how to type accurately and fast. Now I type 51 words per second. Sometimes I might make a lot of mistakes but other than that, my accuracy is perfecto! In my computer class, we also use a program, well website. It is called CUSTOM TYPING. What you do is you set a goal for yourself and try to achieve it. You go through a lot of practice with individual keys and then at the end, you take a typing test. Pretty much, you can choose any category (I always choose humor) and type three different types of things in the category. For example, with comedy, I would type a bunch of hilarious jokes. Some are long and some are short. Lastly, it finds your average speed and if it meets your goal, you pass and get to set another goal, but if you fail, you retake the typing test.  

Lastly, I have learned about several different countries such as Australia, New Zealand, and Portugal. Just by communicating with people from these countries, I am able to learn about them and the similarities and differences that the countries have with the United States. For example, I learned that next month in New Zealand is summer but over here next month is going to be winter. They are two entire seasons ahead of us. It was very interesting to see how much more ahead they are than us. I have also learned about Portugal from a student, filipa. Therefore, I have learned about many different countries. More than what I have listed.

As you can see, I have learned many different things from this competition. Such as, it has improved my writing skills. It has also improved my typing skills and I have learned about many different countries by communicating with them. I am happy that I have done this competition because it as helped me a lot in many different ways like I mentioned.

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