My Experiences of Being an LO

My Experiences of Being an LO

Being an LO (liaison officer) of 26^th Sea Games become a wonderful thing to me. I was really happy I could participate in this great event. There’re many experiences when I became an LO. By becoming an LO, I could directly met people from another country and I learned many things from that.

In sea games, I became LO for Shooting Range. At the first time, I became LO for committee. They were from PERBAKIN (Shooting Community) Jakarta. But, there was new announcement said there were nothing LO for committee because they were still from Indonesia and they were the committee, they should handle us. So, I was an LO for Laos. They were 5 people from LAOS. There were 3 men and 2 women. I just remembered the women, they were Khongkam and Khamla. They were really kind person. But, they couldn’t speak English. So, when we want to communicate with them, we use gesture. When we wanted to asked them to eat, we practiced like we eat something then they understood what we meant. It was hard for me to do gesture all the time. I even try as I could to make them understood with what I meant but sometimes they still didn’t understand. For example, I ever asked what perfume that she used because I like her smell, I just want to know. Then I showed my perfumed intended to make her to show hers, but she tried to smell mine. She thought I wanted to show only, but I said “This is mine (point at me), where’s yours (point at her)”, she still didn’t get what I meant. But, one of them can speak English a little, not much. So mostly I spoke with her.

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Naughty Acnes

I miss to see my face like when I was before graduated from Senior High School. I miss my face at my kindergarten, elementary school, junior high school, and senior high school. I miss it. I want to see it again. I want to feel it. I need it. That’s because I hate to see my face at this time. The only reason is I hate the acnes on my face!!! I do really really really really really really really really and very very very very very very very very hate this!!!!!!!

I don’t really know exactly why it can be in my face. As I remembered, it started when I graduated from Senior High School. Started from like only three or four little acnes that really bothered me. I hate when I see them, so there’s many thing that I’ve tried to make it away from my beautiful face. Starts from something nature like aloe vera (spread the mucus on my face), sticky rice (pound and spread to my face), honey, carrot, star fruit, etc. until something like in advertisement, such as *lay, P*nds, p*nds flawless flight, etc. I think what I’ve tried to hide it not really make it hide, instead they were became more. Because what I had done has no result, I thought I had to go to doctor to check it.

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The Role of Literature in ELT

Literature generally comes to identify a collection of texts. Most generally, a literature is equated with a collection of stories, poems, and plays that revolve around a particular topic. Literature has been generally used in English Language Teaching (ELT) classroom for the development of knowledge about language. In ELT, using literature has four advantages, to facilitate intelligence and sensibility training, to stimulate students’ creative and literary imagination, to improve students’ general cultural awareness, and to enhance the psycholinguistic aspect of language learning.

First advantage of literature in ELT is to facilitate intelligence and sensibility training. Through literature, students give the possibility to speak about science, even if they don’t work in this domain, or they can express their opinion about a political aspect, just because they have read something connected to that. Another opinion, Parkinson and Thomas (2000: 9-11)

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Appreciation Towards The Story “God Sees the Truth, But Waits” by Leo Tolstoy

In my view, this story is really amazing. Sad story actually. But it is great. You should read it. I also put the appreciation at the bottom. Enjoy...

Story:

In the town of Vladimir lived a young merchant named Ivan Dmitrich Aksionov. He had two shops and a house of his own.

Aksionov was a handsome, fair-haired, curly-headed fellow, full of fun, and very fond of singing. When quite a young man he had been given to drink, and was riotous when he had had too much; but after he married he gave up drinking, except now and then.

One summer Aksionov was going to the Nizhny Fair, and as he bade good-bye to his family, his wife said to him, "Ivan Dmitrich, do not start to-day; I have had a bad dream about you."

Aksionov laughed, and said, "You are afraid that when I get to the fair I shall go on a spree."

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apapun namanya... firstly

Posting pake bahasa Indonesia dulu ah, refreshing,hhehe.. soalnya ga perlu repot2 mikirin vocab, grammar, struktur bahasa, yang penting nulis asal ajalah untuk sekarang,,hhihi…

Aku pengen berbagi pengalaman pertamaku sebagai seorang pendidik, kelak kan nantinya aku insyaAllah bakal jadi pendidik juga, pengennya jadi dosen, pengen banget, dosen Bahasa Inggris pastinya, buat yang baca, AMIN yaaa  biar Allah mengabulkan,, AMIN… :D

Hari ini, 17 Januari 2011, hari senin, aku pertama kalinya mengajar secara formal, soalnya kan biasanya

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Belisario Choir VS BEM

It’s like kind a rival, but actually it is not. Both of Belisario Choir and BEM are two organization that I’ve ever join. I say it “versus” because this organization is really different each other. The people inside are also different, from the way wearing a cloth, the styles, and the behavior. I am, me, myself, in this situation is placed in the middle, I am going to explain more about this.

The first is Belisario Choir. This is a choir in Sriwijaya University. The members of this can be from any faculty of Sriwijaya University, not only regular program (Indralaya campus) but also non regular program (Bukit campus). To become a member of Belisario Choir, it must do audition first. The audition is the process of selection including knowing the knowledge of music, voice, and musical not before become the members. In my period before I join Belisario Choir, there are about 200 students of Sriwijaya University have audition. Then, from the 200 students, only 40 students who become the members, others were failed. Thank God, I am in the 40 students who become member. I join this since 2008 until now.

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Reading Strategies Using Reading Efficiently by Reading Intelligently

Academic reading is not easy. Part of learning to use reading strategies is to try out new and different ways of reading. Good reading strategies help people to read in a very efficient way. Using them, people aim to get the maximum benefit from their reading with the minimum effort. In order to reach it, people should have this three different strategies, knowing what you want to know, using active reading, and reading whole subject documents.

            The first is knowing what you want to know. The first thing is to ask yourself: why are you reading the text? Are you reading with a purpose or just for pleasure? What do you want to now after reading? An easy way of doing this is to look at the introduction and the chapter headings. The introduction should let you know what it seeks to achieve. Chapter heading gives an overall view of the subject.

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