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7/15/2022 0 Comments CARAMBOLA - farewellSo our class planned to go on a little field trip to Carambola several days before (they probably had planned it earlier) and do our tests there with our usual teacher. We woke up as usual (except i learned my mistake last week, so i get up earlier and prepare myself earlier too), and then at 6 am, we pulled out our bikes, and went to the main road, cycling to our destination. It was a pleasing morning, general commotions, different people starting off their day, going out to work and so on, the sun already rose from the east, shone gracefully. We went across the rice fields, main roads, and finally arrived at our destination, CARAMBOLA Our first teacher came, He's Mr. Bana, we gathered around on one of the seats and Mr Bana starts explaining our task - "so as your speaking test today, i want you all to be divided in groups, and then make a vlog around here, with english of course" im grouped with Hana and Anin, i didnt take much part in the vlog due to lack of my phone's storage + i dont know what to say + they mostly record by themselves and edit it themselves as well XD it's pretty nice speaking english, im getting used to it slowly:) ----- After we're done exploring around, we had a lot of conversations with Mr. Bana while waiting for Mr. Naja to arrive, when Mr. Naja came Mr. Bana says goodbye and leaves. Adit, Wiyan and Rara recording their vlog be like XD Mr Naja pulled out his test papers and split it to us, each one of us had 2 papers The test was about grammars, luckily i passed them easily (even though i got 3 wrong answers out of 20), after checking our papers one-by-one, we got our scores. With that, the second test was completed, two more to go Someone walked towards us, Mr. Alen arrived, he greeted us and sat in one of the empty seats. Before i got into the test, i ate lunch first, it was indomie with fried egg The third of that day was pronounciation test, we're given a poet which was FULL of words, tongue twister words in exact (its a bit hard but ngl i enjoyed it lol) one by one read them outloud in front of Mr. Alen, and fortunately i got good score i guess lol Hanna was holding a kitty while Anin was recording
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6/27/2022 0 Comments FIELD TRIPS-![Early in the morning--] I woke up late , i was exhausted like almost a week so i slept more that Saturday. When i woke up it's already 6 am, Nia (Nathania) was calling me, saying that they're (The teachers and some members i didnt know) waiting for us (Biru and me) outside. I immediately rushed to get my clothes and wallet, didnt have any time to take a bath nor breakfast, and off we go to the Office. Nia and the others were gathering beside the main building, fortunately we're not the only ones that were late, we waited a moment for the rest of 2-weeks program member to gather. About more or less 10 minutes, we're ready to go, we got inside the public transportation and set off to Simpang Lima Gumul, and i really enjoy the morning view of Pare. The drive took about 15-20 minutes, and we finally arrive at Simpang Lima Gumul We got down from the public transportation, and walk to the nearest guard post (i think so? i dont know what's it called). There are several guard posts scattered around the Simpang Gumul area, and each of them has guards (of course) that are guarding the underground tunnel to Simpang Lima Gumul, in this tunnel there are a few display frame with photos of the history of Simpang Gumul (the tunnel was dark so i cannot see it clearly, the place was crowded anyways), and at the end of the tunnel there are stairs that lead to the surface, and here we are, walking inside The Simpang Lima Gumul. So the next activity is morning exercise, we make two lines and the committee turns up the music (oh yeah there's a guide too). Three musics were played, of course we're still not sweaty, so our teachers decided to play games with us, one of them is riddles, we made a group of 4 members each, and each turn, 1 person would came up to the front and given a word by the committee, and that person must act like the word says, the first person that can guess the word would gain a point, our team didnt win but its still fun haha XD Ini adalah terowongan bawah tanah yang menuju ke Simpang Lima Gumul Sumber : https://www.coretanzone.id/2018/02/arc-de-triomphe-paris-jatuh-simpang.html
Each one of us has somekind of sticker, after that we rolled those dices, and we must answer the dare written on the square we got in english. In my opinion this method is really good and it's fun too! Since im a passive english user, im not used to speak english, but with this game we talk english with our friends and share stories, and we also built our confidences as well. Time flies, its getting hot outside.
After we're done with the games, the others took photos together (but since im not interested to take a lot of photos or tiktok videos, i just talked with Biru instead), shared snacks and took photos of the SImpang Gumul too. It was a very fun trip, maybe the best and the most touching one, i genuinly felt so happy and had so much fun. 6/7/2022 0 Comments KAMPUNG INGGRIS PARETHE RULES ------------------------------- Of course there are some common rules like do not litter, do not scribble the wall, if you leave your room, please turn off the light and the fan and so on, but there's one unique rule, which is named English Area What is English Area?
Front view of the Language center office (there is a parking lot for bicycles too) Source : [https://goo.gl/maps/cg4sfdf45jW1615k7] Anyways this is a bit off-topic, but this is honestly the best personal experience i've ever had. It was 20 May 2022 afternoon, the day when i arrived at Language Center. The girls from the dormitory (which eventually became my classmates) welcomed me, they went downstairs to meet me and they greet my hand one by one while introducing themselves. They're so warm and so kind to a newbie like me (my first thought was like "i couldn't get any friends and they would ignore me anyways"), but with such a nice welcoming way to me made me felt like "Oh my God Alhamdulillah they're so friendly" Turns out my brother told them like several days before i arrived that i would join him learning at Language Center, and they're hyped about that so when i make an appearence at Cordoba they went down with curiousness what i was like Lol XD EARLY IN THE MORNING --------------- we woke up at 4:30, make subuh prayer, and then we have the first class at 5 am, we memorize around 5-12 vocabularies for about 20 mins and then we have to say each vocabularies in english if our teacher, Mr. Nafi said the indonesian meaning. More or less it went like this : Mr. Nafi : "garasi" Me : "garage" and so on, until 1 page is done and then we came back to our rooms, preparing for our main class. Unfortunately i dont have any photos for the morning classes, so i'll use pictures that was taken by my friend:) EVENING CLASS ------------------------------ There is evening class too, it goes the same as morning class and teached with the same teacher, Mr. Nafi (these classes starts at 5 am and 5 pm) MAIN CLASSES -------------------------- Main classes actually starts from half past six, but we still need to rush because we still had to take a bath, breakfast, and walk to the main building (i'll tell you that if you sleep late the night before, you wont make it in time finishing all those stuff before main classes, yes i've experienced that before, i slept around half past 10 and the next morning i woke up at half past 7). Since im an early bird, My roomate Birru and i usually arrived in time before our teachers arrived (we're in different class btw, im Orlando A1 and she's New Jersey B7) There are 4 teachers every day, Mr. Alen, Mr. Bana, Mr. Naja, and Mr. Gio (i love them all lol).
a photo with my classmates, from back to front : Galang, Radit, myself (wearing blue mask), Kya, Rara, Hanna, Shafira, Amel, Wiyan, Anin, Shaffa, and Shinta ENVIRONTMENTS ---------------------- The camp where i stayed is called Cordoba, our dormitory misses (something like wali kamar) are Ms. Nuthin and Miss Ayumi, and i stayed in room 5 with my roomate, Naufelita Birru Tartia aka Biru (she does like blue though, haha) The dormitory is nice, there are parking lot for bicycles, which we can rent from the street stall in front of LC's area, street foods, nice views (well it's hot there, really hot and you'll have to turn on the fan all the time) OTHERS------------------------------- Sometimes when im bored and not busy, i will hangout with my friend, bicycling around while searching for places to eat together (we usually hangout when we're hungry), And my favorite places are Cafe Sentana and Warung Marwah. Cafe Sentana sells croffles, noodles (or in exact, in**mie XD), and also drinks, its a really great place to hangout with friends on the afternoon, watching sunset after a tiring day, overall, i give it 100/10! (You should go there someday:D) Warung Marwah is more likely a restaurant, what i like the most from it, is that it has so much plants, amazing views and nice food! and my favourite menu is teriyaki shrimps! Me and my friends playing uno together, had so much fun with them! Pictures source : https://goo.gl/maps/hwe2kQSsBUUTcYSx5
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