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Past Club Reports - KGRE 'Connection Clubs of the Month' for 2001Kang Guru Radio English Connection Club network has
over 80 language clubs in Indonesia. Here are some of the club reports
received in 2001.
Space Club –
Bandung,
West Java If you would like to contact any of these Clubs then
just ask the KGRE office for the information - email
us NOW! The Space Club holds their monthly meetings in a house near the airport in Bandung. Chandra Galih is the President and there are 11 members in the Club. KGRE visited The Space Club on the 16th of September, 2001 and it was great to talk with the members about their Club, about Idul Fitri and also about their plans for the future. The Space Club will be featured in The Idul Fitri Special on Kang Guru Radio in mid-December so be sure to listen to that program. The Space Club is certainly an active group. Meetings are conducted in English only and ages range from Jimmy, who is fifteen years old to young adults in their twenties. The Space Club is currently organizing a special Idul Fitri meeting in which members will be expected to give brief English presentations to the Club about Idul Fitri. One of the goals of the Club is to make sure every student in West Java knows about KGRE. That's great and they plan to start 'spreading the word' in their own community first. I want to thank Chandra's parents for allowing the Club to have meetings in their house. I also want to thank Chandra for his dedication to the Club and for his enthusiasm in running the Club meetings. If you want to write to The Space Club I am sure they would love to hear from you or you could send an e-mail direct. In fact they told me that they would love to hear from you. Pioneer English
Club At KGRE we keep all letters and items sent by Clubs in a special KGCC filing cabinet. Since joining the KG Connection, the Pioneer Club has sent their Club Activities Report every month along with photographs and copies of their ZEAL magazine. This is fantastic and KG says a big thank you to the Club and all of it's members. Here are just some of the information they mentioned in their Club Activities reports for September and October, 20001.
Pioneer English Club Activities Report
This month we experienced a slight development. It's because we have been chosen as one of the first thirty KG English clubs in Indonesia. It certainly makes the teachers and students more active in carrying forward their programs with vigor, but the most interesting one this month is that we have conducted several large-scale programs which involved all the club members, especially for the students whose English level is Intermediate. The programs we conducted were a music concert on 2nd of October 2001 and comparative study or study tour on 7th - 9th of October 2001 to the places are found in East and Central Java for 3 days. @ PEC in Concert
And the study objects we visited were as following:
Special Reports On Club Events And Activities
The Most Popular Activities With Club Members One of the most popular activities of PEC with members is listening to western music mainly the most popular music groups like Savage Garden, Westlife, and 2 Be 3. By listening to music they can acquire the word connections from one word to another. Besides the members of PEC are enthusiastic to increase their capability in scanning and skimming English language. Another activity in our listening program is the making use of musical tools (instruments) such as guitars, keyboards, and drums. However, we keep making every efforts to upgrade the quality of the materials and the infrastructure by hoping all the members of PEC will be more motivated increasing their capability in English language. The Excellent
Club in Jombang, How nervous we were before we got the real news of our club. We wondered whether or not our club belonged to the first 30 ones. Time went by so quickly, and there came the gorgeous Kang Guru magazine dated on August 2001. We were all very happy but a little bit nervous then we turned the page one by one then another, and another. “Back to the contents”, said one of our friends. We watched the number and title, surprisingly Kang Guru Connection No.12 was clearly appeared. Spontaneously we all said, “There it is”, and a lot of hands tried to open page 12. We read carefully at the list of Kang Guru Connection Members then No. 26 - The Excellent Club, Jombang - East Java made us laugh happily. Since then we started to work hard to bring our plans written in the application form into reality. A few days afterwards the KG Connection Package came to us on 27 August 2001. We opened together and looked at the things inside. Really the things inside given to us supported us very much in working hard for our club and helping the KGRE plans educate Indonesian people through English Radio Broadcast. We actually tried to send our activities soon after the package came but because of our hard plan i.e. making and designing our T-shirt and hat needed a lot of time, we just can report our activities done from August until mid-October as follows.
As we told you and wrote in the application form that we had to gather together on Sunday afternoon from 3 p.m. until 5 p.m. We have released our written plans in the application form such as Sunday Meeting. In Sunday Meeting, we have some activities and the activities have to be done by all of the members who belong to the Excellent Club. The president of the Excellent Club is the leader of our course too. He asks all of the students of LEC to be the members of this club. Living English Course (LEC) has more than 175 students. This club doesn't limit the ages or where they are from for the students who want to be the member of the club. Nowadays, we have two groups which have got permanent members, all of whom have got to come on Sunday afternoon and other activities arranged together. We have got a lot of programs, all of which are regularly divided. Each of the meeting has different programs so that we do not feel bored to do the programs.
The programs that we have done on Sunday meetings are:
August is a special month for all people here. Fifty-six years ago, on August 17, 1945 our country, Indonesia got the freedom of action and was believed by all people in the world to manage their own country after so many years in colonialism. We, the young generation have to be responsible for filling our freedom with a lot of useful things, one of them was “Lomba Baris Kreasi” held by the young people association in our town. The contest was held on Saturday afternoon, August 25, 2001. The club leader had our group registered as a participant in the contest. We, ten out of twenty members of the first club were chosen to be trained for a week. We practised walking and dancing seriously in our course after coming home from school. We hired a dancing-master to teach us to dance well as the condition wanted by the committee. We also had to prepare our costumes and other equipment. We were helped by the rest of the members. On Saturday at 2 p.m., we had to gather around at the start area. On the way to the finish place, we stopped at the place in which there had been a stage for showing each of the groups' creation or performance. We wore shorts, white T-shirt, white sport shoes, and blond hair made of plastic rope and wide hats. We did this not to get the prize or to be the winner but we had a secret destination that is to thank the heroes for the freedom country. Besides we showed our great spirit of independence as the young generation to all people that we never forget it and are responsible for being free given. We are very happy that the club formed to improve our English should work in the class but could participate in “Baris Kreasi” other activities also.
THE EXCELLENT OPENING-AIR ENGLISH ACTIVITIES To get a fresh brand in studying, our group (club) carried out another activity besides studying in the class like Sunday meeting. We call it “Opening-Air English Activities”. We held it to get many good and of course new ideas to improve our English. It is liked very much and always waited for by us. On Sunday, August 5, 2001, we had the opening-air English activities at Taman Wisata Selorejo - Malang (about 45 km from our course). Before going there, we had thought everything over. Why did we choose this area? Some of the reasons are the fresh air, good sight, natural environment and blue and clear water of the lake. There we could get a new situation for our study. We left for Lake Selorejo at about 6 a.m. by bus and arrived there at about 8 a.m. We got off the bus at the T-junction of Ngantang then we walked down till Lake Selorejo. It is about 1 km. We, of course, practised or had a conversation to each other, so we really did not feel exhausted at all. To reach Taman Wisata Selorejo, we had to cross the lake by boat. It is about 15 minutes in a boat. We were discussing about everything we were looking and of course we asked the words on natural environment to our teacher then wrote them down as our brand new vocabulary. Arrived there, we looked for a good place to spread our groundsheet to sit on. We had breakfast together, joking. After that we started to study by looking at the sight - surroundings and writing down all the things which we have found at the place. After we had done our jobs, we discussed our lesson by having conversation. To lose our boredom, we had a joke and we made a game then sang together. It was about 3 hours. At 11 o'clock we went to the swimming pool to play in water (swim) but some of us were taking a walk to look for some souvenirs. A few of us met foreigners who were having a picnic there. We made friends with them. According to them that what we were doing is very good. Besides we talked about other resort towns visited by tourists in Indonesia. Unfortunately, we did not bring a camera because it was brought by our teacher, so we could not take a picture with them. At 1 p.m. we went home by boat again to the place where we at first stopped the boat. But beforehand we took a picture together for our memory as you can see below. We arrived in Jombang at 4 p.m.
SATURDAY NIGHT CAMP The activity started to do on Saturday night, August 11, 2001. We stayed in the course not a tent. The activity started at 7 p.m. Once again we were very busy and we, surely, needed time, money and health. Instead of being full of doing the activities, our teacher made a special permission letter for our parents in order that they know and understand about the activities held in our course. Before we carried out the program, we had got some preparation such as games, quizzes, learning material and a few others. Each of us paid Rp 2,500. The money collected was used to buy some wood for fire-camp, candies, drinks and a roll of film to make some pictures as the reports of KGCC and our own course. The first two hours we sat on the carpet in the class, listening to the teacher's explanation and having a conversation together. Some of us that felt tired and bored to get the lesson could lie down listening and writing and some of the others made a joke in the middle of serious time of study. At 9 p.m. we had a break for about 20 minutes then the activities continued. At 10 p.m. all of us went out of the classroom to hold the next activity outside. We made a fire-camp. We sat on a piece of paper surrounding the fire-camp. There the programs prepared were performed by each of our groups divided before. There was a funny drama, they performed it comically. They made us laugh and laugh. Then we sang and gave some puzzles to each other (groups) and they would get punishments when they could not guess. The activity finished at about 12 p.m. Then we baked corn, joking with one another. We were very happy. After we cleaned the place, we (the girls) went into the class sleeping and the boys slept in the house prayer near the course. We woke up at 4 a.m. then took a bath, got dressed and at 5 a.m. we continued the lesson until 6 a.m. We went home, feeling exhausted and a little bit sleepy. Do you know what some of us did at home after that? We could not open our eyes at all. Nice activity. 
English Lovers Club
Dear Kang Guru, We are writing to you to report our club meetings over January 2002 including a special event which we held during the Ramadhan 2001. We hope that you will be glad to appreciate what we are reporting. We are pleased to express our warm gratitude concerning your willingness in publish our photo in The Pouch. Furthermore we would like to inform you of everything we have done in our meetings in the last few days of January 2002.
Monday Meetings Wednesday Meetings Saturday Meetings Special Event From the third day to sixteenth day of Ramadhan the club visited Desa Batu Anam in Asahan Regency, North Sumatra. Batu Anam is a remote village which surrounded by hundreds hectares of oil palm trees. It takes about three hours by car to get there from our headquarter. There were twenty persons of club members who took part in this visit. We were all divided into four groups. Every group had a task - namely to manage programs in the dusuns where the groups stayed. The purpose of this visit was to invite elementary school pupils as well as teenagers of the village to adorn the Ramadhan month with useful activities. The programs we did during the visit were:
Special Request from English Lovers:
In the kecamatan where we live in there is a new private FM radio station. This station was set up three months ago but don't worry this station has many fans. Most of them are teenagers who are still going to school and it is the only one that our Kecamatan has ever had. So we wonder if you would select this “DESWARA 88.9 FM” to be your teamwork to help you to broadcast your radio shows? A Note from KGRE: |
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