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Past Club Reports - KGRE 'Connection Clubs of the Month' for 2004Kang Guru Radio English Connection Club network has over 50 language clubs in Indonesia. Here are Clubs of the Month Reports (CARs) for 2004. English Conversation Circle Meeting Club - Makassar,
South Sulawesi If you would like to contact any of these Clubs then just ask the KGRE office for the information - email us NOW or check out their Club Profiles!
Club of the Month for December 2004 English Conversation Circle Meeting Club - Makassar, South Sulawesi This club which is located in Makassar joined the Kang Guru Connection
Club Network (KGCC) in July 2004. They have been in regular contact with
KGRE with reports on their fun activities. Here are some comments from
the Club members and their wonderful activities. "ECC say thanks for KGRE. KG gives big role for ECC. The Club meeting is more active and enthusiastic with you. All the members have fun with your connection. Your magazine gives advantages and more information. I say that KGRE is spirit and motivation". (Rifyal Mukarram). "I love KG. I have more knowledge. I'm always attractive with your tasks. I have more desire with KG. You improve my English. KG is my friendship". (Eka Saputri).
Highlight Activity - English Camp On 24 - 26 September 2004, eight members of ECC participated in the English Camp which was held by BEMJ FBS - UNM. They are Echa, Fitri, Oki, Mila, Fifin, Memet, Anto and Yayank. Our team was called 'Terminator'.The name is taken from film title. We chose this name because terminator means strong, power and terminate. We also made cheers. The cheers was 'We are Terminator Team. We came to here to terminate all teams. There were many games during the Camp activity such as Dancing Contest, Cooking Contest, Queen Contest, Mummy Contest, Speech, Cheers, Song Contest, etc.
Here are reports on some of the contests:
English Society Club RRI Semarang - Central Java
First of all we would like to say thank you very much for accepting our club into KGCC. All of ESC member were happy when I showed your letter to them. We read your letter together and most of them screamed out because they felt so happy. Thanks again KGRE! We hope that in the future we will be a good partners with KGRE in developing English in Central Java. KGRE had the opportunity to visit them in early
October and they are really an active English club. And we are happy to
make them as Club of the Month for November 2004. The following is report
about their activities. Activities? Social Work
Last week we had a program and invited a foreigner
from France. Her name is Sandrine Borromet. She is one of the volunteer
of Indonesia International Work Camp. She really enjoyed the meeting and
she said that she was happy because she thought that the members are very
keen in English, even though our English is still 'gado-gado' but we were
brave enough to speak with her. New Activities In October we will have new programs such as
So we hope KGRE will send us souvenirs such as stickers,
poster, buku tulis, keyring,
Student English Activity
– University Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta Student English Activity or better known as SEA – UMY is one of the most active clubs in the KGRE Connection Club network. They never fail to send reports about their many and excellent activities. It is quite clear that this club is well-organised and well-managed by reliable people. They also follow democratic rules in electing the President of the Club and the board members. It seems that every activity is carefully planned and implemented with active participation from all the Club members. This confirms the SEA’s motto ‘It is only for globally minded students’. Here are some their wonderful activities which we hope can inspire other clubs to do the same. Inter Faculty English Debate (held annually since 1999)Inter Faculty English Debate (IFED) is an English debate competition for students of UMY. It contributes greatly to the students' critical and argumentation skills. It also brings good advantages as a medium for student to develop their English capability. In line with this activity we also actively participate in several nation-wide debate competitions such as Inter Varsity English Debate (IVED), Indonesian Students Forum (ISF) and Java Overland English Debate (JOVED). Publish Newsletter
which is called SEAM (Student English Activity’s Media) Culture Seminar – Watch France Watch Indonesia
After the interview time, all the interviewers got together at SEA office to decide which students were to be accepted. Finally through a process of recommending, lobbying and debating there were 60 students who were accepted into SEA. Then there is an Outbound Activity for the new members of the Club. It is a 'must activity' for the new members because the activity includes team work, physical, creativite, brain challenging and talented performances. For this year, the Outbound training activity was held in Mbebeng Kaliurang regency. The outbound training consist of
On the second day, the real outbound activity, the members were doing their journey following the route to the Post 1 (Team Work Post), Post 2 (Creativite Post), Post 3 (Physical Post), Brain Challenge Post, and Talent Post. It was a long distance to get to the post where they walked through nice scenery around Merapi Mount. When they reached each post there were several problems they had to solve. It started in the early morning from the Villa where every group had limited time during their departure to get the final post. 47 new members joined the outbound activities. They divided in 8 groups. They seemed so enthusiastic and willing joining the outbound activity. After they reached post 5 they had 'Repelling'. Well it was so scary because some members had never done that. But we rent a trainer to do this challenge. The outbound finished in the afternoon, We returned to Yogya at 6pm. It was a successful event as shown in the photographs.
KGRE Notes: Congratulations! Personally I really like the idea of having competition on cleanliness. I think not many universities hold such competitions. I remember when I was a student myself that the image of students' admin room or common room was always dirty. Now your university has stepped forward by conducting such a simple and yet very important aspect of life. I believe that we should look after our environment and making it clean is even better.
Connection with English Language Course Some SEA’s members join the English Conversation Course in American Corner UMY and the teachers are Mr Endro (Director of American Corner), Mr Abdul Rajab (SEA’s member), Mr Guntur (ex-SEA’s member). This course is free and coordinated by some members of SEA under regulations from the American Corner. This course started in June 2004 for UMY students only. Previously we held our own course for SEA’s members only including writing skills training, pronunciation courses, translations course and it is still running. The people who became teachers were Mr Jati, Mr Endro, Mr Roy. They are from the Language Training Centre UMY and some ex-members of SEA (Mas Guntur, Mas Nalendra) as the substitute teacher and observers. Gazebo English Study Club – Trenggalek, East Java Gazebo English Study Club is actually an English course. They wanted to form a small English study club to help students in learning English but because they didn’t understand about possible structures then it became an English course with the same name.
Notes from KGRE:
We are happy to help the members of this English course because the
activities are dedicated to help people in the area, especially high schools
students, learning English. The club activities are:
It’s called ‘HAPPY SUNDAY’ because it happens on Sunday. It was the first time we went to Ja’as mountain next to our place. It’s just for about 15 m, but if we want to reach to the top of mountain we must walk for about 1 km. It was dry season, so it was as hot as fire. The students had to imagine the mountain as Borobudur temple. We divided the students into 6 groups. Every groups has one guide and three foreigners. We will choose the Best Guide and Foreigner. The guide had to explain about Borobudur in a detail and the foreigner had to ask some questions. They must speak English and if they break the rule they will get punishment. We started to hike the mountain at 8am. We had to take a rest in some places because it was tiring enough to reach the top of mountain. Yup, we reached the top ‘horeeeeee’ the student shouted. Even it was hot but we were happy. From the top of the mountain we could see beautiful scenery. We admired God’s creation. We could see many mountains around Trenggalek. After taking a rest and drinking, we did quiz show. Then we went down. We arrived at Gazebo at 11.00am. While taking a rest we were listening to music. We gave stickers and prize to the best guide and the best foreigner. The prize was a book and postcard from KGRE. We planned to go to different places next time. It will be fascinating program.
Tour to Bromo on May 17, 2004. It was the first tour to Bromo mountain.
Only a few students could join the tour because it needed much money.
We went to Bromo in the night and we arrived there at 2am. It was dark
and cold. We waited until 5 o’clock. To our surprise, there were
many foreigners there and the students practised their English. We also
went to Coban Rondo waterfall and Kusuma Agrowisata in Batu, Malang. It
was fascinating tour and the students said that they wanted to go to Bromo
again. Now Bromo is exploded, we hope we can go there next time.
We did many activities such as speeches, reading a poem,
singing a song, drama perfomance and dances etc. The purpose of the activity
is to improve English, to show ability and to increase motivation while
giving certificates. On May 3rd, 2004, 200 students joined
the program and they were so happy to celebrate it. It was the busiest
one in the club. For about 120 students are from the 3rd grade
of SMA. Now they left Gazebo to continue their study to university but
sometimes they still come to Gazebo just for visiting. It’s nice,
isn’t it? Sebauk Conversation Club – Bengkalis, RIAU This active club in Bengkalis was founded by Pak Afrizal and his close friends. Pak Afrizal was formerly the advisor of the Garuda Conversation Club (GCC) in Pekanbaru, Riau. Unfortunately when he decided to move to Bengkalis many members of KGCC also left the club because they have graduated from the school. Pak Afrizal then initiated to make a new English club in Bengkalis and it is called Sebauk Conversation Club (SCC). This Club remains being an active one since joining KGCC in September 2003. Here are some of their activities as written in their recent CAR to KGRE. We do hope you are healthy, strong and enthusiastic on your travel across the country, as well as doing daily administration and activities. Firstly, we want to say a big thank you to KGRE for sending the magazine to The Regent of Bengkalis and also to some other government official. The Bupati of Bengkalis, Pak Syamsurizal, knows about our club and he gives a full support. For example he supported the KGRE teacher workshop held in Bengkalis in August 2002 by providing the cost incurred for the activity. A special gratitude to Vice Bupati and some members of Bengkalis local parliament who contributed 3 units of personal computers for us. They really supported our club actions and activities in increasing Human Resources in education field.
KGRE Note: Your Club seems to have a strong relationship with the Regent too. We are happy to send the magazines to his office. Watching Bengkalis TV and Listening to KGRE on Radio Duta Suara Selapindo. Our club members is very keen to listen and watch the ‘Bengkalis Weekly News’ every Sunday night at 7 – 7.30pm. We also listen to KGRE program on Radio Duta Suara Selapindo every Sunday at 5pm. So listening to KGRE program and watching the English news on Bengkalis Tv has become a routine activities with the club members to improve English. Practise English with Foreigner is one of the ways to improve English. We met and conducted a conversation with dr. Francine Neago, a 65 French woman, who has been living on the island of Bengkalis for more than one year. Dr Francine Neago is an expert who trains baby Orang Utan on the island of Rupat. She was doing a project proposal on nature conservation which was called Wildlife Sanctuary of Rupat. The questions we asked here were as follows:
KGRE Note: The club’s relationship with the French woman, Francine, sounds very interesting. Congratulations to you all for being involved in this way with the world around you. I feel that clubs and members need to invite all sorts of people into their meeting as a lot can be learnt, right. Learning Malay Idiolect Degil is used to show someone who is very naughty. For example: ‘Her teacher told her not to be late but she did not obey. She was very naughty (degil)’. The second one is te-king. This unique idiomatic expression in Malay means that someone is very stubborn, obstinate or pig headed. ‘Don’t be so stubborn or te-king.’ Cultural Activities in Bengkalis
English Lovers – Labuhan Batu, North Sumatra English Lovers are one of the English Clubs who first joined KGCC in 2001. For three years this Club has shown their great commitment to be an active English club which has in return brought benefit to the Club membesr. This Club was made Club of the Month in March 2002. And because of their great enthusiasm we are happy to make them Club of the Month once again. Here are parts of their CAR: Dear KGRE, Writing CARs has become part of our club activity. It was not only three or four members were involved in creating this CARs but many of us did. Members were grouped. Each groups had seven persons or more. We came to a compromise that one group had to compose one paragraph for the CARs. The other activity was delivering religious addresses or sermons on Fridays at the mosque or our school. The addresses were in English and lasted for about ten minutes and the topics were always varied. This activity is well received and highly appreciated by audience as well as bring benefit to the members for they were supposed to memorise their address before their turn come. Students at our school jokingly usually call the presenter a muslim scholar from Australia. This activity is still conducted up to now. Listening activity is also exist at the club. Compilation of English Idioms and Mr Kevin’s talk were our topic. Mr Kevin Dalton made a short visit to the Club on 30 May 2003. And here is some of the excerpt from Kevin’s talk:
On Monday, 7 June 2004 we paid a visit to RSPD Rantau Prapat but it was unsuccessful. The problem seemed to be very difficult to solve because it was about payment. KGRE note: Thank you for your efforts with RSPD Rantau. We will send sample of the radio program and talk to them too but unfortunately KGRE does not have the funds to pay radio stations to play the radio program. Radio stations usually play the program to help local students who like English. It is sort of a community service really. They are helping others in their community. Keep asking them and maybe they will change their minds. One thing for you to know is that we now have a new activity. This activity looks nothing to do with language but to us, it is! Our new activity is playing soccer. Every Sunday afternoon we gather together on a field for football. During the event members are supposed to speak English. The idea is that it may force us to communicate in natural. KGRE note: What a wonderful idea. Your Soccer activity is terrific and if you use English as well then it is a great way to practise both sport and language. Club of the Month for June 2004 THE EAGLE ENGLISH MEETING CLUB This Club was firstly founded by Pak Saidiman who
is now the President of Buana Pura English Club in Kota Bontang –
East Kalimantan. Since joining KGCC in late 2001 this Club has experienced
difficulty in maintaining their members and activities. However with hard
work and strong commitment from some of their member this Club is still
exist until now and regularly send CAR to KGCC. We held a meeting and discussed about regulations and
methods of meetings so the members will be disciplined to attend it. We
have reached an agreement that club meetings are held every Sunday at
2pm and each member has to pay contribution of Rp 2,000 a month. In the meeting we discuss matters that are arising. Some
other activities that are conducted during meetings are debate sessions,
discussions and games. With the discussion activity we discuss some hot
news whether it is local, national or international. We usually allocate
one hour in every meeting for Kang Guru magazine and Pouch. We divided
the members into two groups and we discuss the pros and cons of
the theme that we choose.
A Note from KGRE : Thanks for this CAR. We are glad to hear that the club is continuing even though some senior members have left. Your activities sound really good and remember to look at their POUCH bulletins for more ideas on activities from other clubs. I enjoyed reading about your Beach Activity too - it is often a good idea top go some place new for a meeting as the new environment stimulates members to be more active PLUS it is fun, right? You mention that you need ideas about 'the method' of meetings. Why don't you write to other clubs and ask them what they do? For example the Pioneer Club in Makassar has a very set format for their regular Sunday morning meetings - write to them and ask them to tell you about what they do. It is a very popular club and very well run. Club
of the Month for May 2004 IKIP Conversation Club in Tuban
is an active English language club. Although they are busy being university
students they are still able to maintain their club and do many interesting
and useful activities with the club members. Two of their regular activities
are discussions and excursions which are reported below. This busy
club was also successful in KGRE's
T-shirt GiveAway Competition (see below). Dear KGRE, We would like to say thank you very much for helping us. A couple of months ago we had some excursion together to visit Putri Asih Cave. It was such a beautiful cave in Tuban. We send a little story about that cave with this letter but there is no photograph. About our next plan for the future we will sing from the same sheet of music with Mr Fathul Muin (KGRE & English interactive presenter on radio Swara Pantura FM) to develop our Club better and to get our new members from the freshmen in our campus so that all students of IKIP PGRI Tuban will know KGRE and join our club.
Excursion activities. PUTRI ASIH CAVE Tuban is well known as 'Thousand Cave'. There area many caves spread in many district. The most popular cave are Akbar Cave in the middle of the city and Putri Asih Cave is the biggest one in Tuban. Putri Asih Cave is located in Montong area. It is about seven kilometers from Montong center or 32 kilometeres from Tuban through Merak Urak or takes one hour by car or motor cycle or two hours by public transportation. The narrow street lane to this cave is so smooth and far from traffic jam. The scenery is so beautiful and in each side of the street is surrounded by corn field. The air is so fresh as in the mountain. From the narrow street to the location is about 2 kilometres. Each sides of this street is surrounded by Jati wood. It is very shady spot. Putri Asih cave was found by the villagers. There were Supriyadi, Slamet, Ah. Kamuji. The name of Putri Asih cave was given by Ir. Harmono, the chief of Perhutani in Parengan and now has moved to Ngawi. The width of this cave is about 2 hectare square but it could be more because the digging of this cave has not finished yet. Approximately 500 visitor a day visit the cave and in special occasion such as Lebaran or at Christmas over 4000 people visit the cave. The cave opens between 8am until 4pm everyday and the ticket is very reasonable. Getting through inside the cave has to pass the ladder. The ceiling of the cave is fully ornamented with 'stalactite and stalagmites' spread the entire cave ceiling and they have an excellent colours in orange and white, each of which sparkling like diamonds. Some of them has a unique shape like a curtain as if waved by the wind. Some of the visitors believe that the water from the stone can recover any disease but there is no convinced argument about it especially in medical resources. There is regulation though that women who have their period are forbidden to come into the cave. Buana
Pura English Club The Buana Pura English Club in Kota Bontang was established by Pak Saidiman who was former President of the Eagle Club in Bone – South Sulawesi. The Club has 38 members and they are teachers, workers, students and children. They listen to KGRE program on RRI every week and they often do fun activities such as: Millionaire Quiz Firstly, we divided the participants into five groups. Each group had to prepare themselves because they could be a millionaire. We prepared good questions before. We also elected a good vocal and attractive presenter to lead the activity. He had to tell each group the rule and the prizes. "Here is our Millionaire Quiz for this week. You can get much money – Rp 1,000,000 up to Rp 10,000,000 (high voice)", said the presenter. The groups gave applauses. They had to answer the questions before getting the money. "Prepare yourselves because the TV station, RCTI, broadcasts the activity", said the presenter again. All the participants laughed and gave applause again and again. Finally we gave ‘The Cheque" to the winner. They laughed and were happy. Actually they knew that the money was not real money. It was for fun only. The most important is that they enjoy the activity. Choosing Topic Some comments from the Club members about KGRE: "KG is my friend. You make me good at English. I do not know what
happens to me if I never join KG. You should know that I can speak English
now. Many of my friends sometimes ask me why I am able to speak English.
I always say that I am one of the KG connection club members, Buana Pura
English Club. Viva KG!!! "I heard information from my friend Saidiman, that he had an English
Club. He said that his club was one of the KG connection. I try to attend
the meeting. Fortunately now I have a good progress in English. I come
into the Buana Pura English Club. I like it very much. Saidiman and KG
help me speak English and know other information on Australia. That’s
great KG!!" "KG makes something new. I am a librarian. Saidiman always gives
me magazine for my library. Printing media like magazines are one of the
good ways to help students study English. They can know a lot of English
words, Australian culture and increasing their pronunciation by reading.
I hope KG can send me more magazines or other bulletins for my library
for my students." Pioneer English Meeting Conversation Club Makassar, South Sulawesi
You may know that Pioneer English Meeting Conversation Club (PEMCC) in Makassar is one of the active clubs in the KGCC network. They work hard to keep their club going with interesting activities that are beneficial to all members. Another interesting thing with this club is that their Club’s Headquarter is in Fort Rotterdam, a famous tourist place in Makassar. Here are some of their great activities.
Apart from those regular activities they also conducted
Fresh Air Meetings. Some of the places that they have been to are Bantimurung,
Losari Beach, Eremerasa – a swimming pool resort in Bantaeng and
it is 250 km from Makassar. Club
of the Month for February 2004 Dear Kang Guru, The other things I will tell you about our activities :
I showed your package to SLTP Teachers and they were interested to join the Kang Guru program. Now if they meet me they always speak English. Members have a good chance to practise and help others in English in a relax manner.
Club members get motivation after we get your letter, package of Kang Guru being member of KGCC and plan to visit the other English course. Now they are very active and happy to follow the English lesson in the club.
Club of the Month for March 2004 Medan English Society – Medan, North Sumatra The Medan English Society is undoubtedly a very active and dynamic English Club. There are several English Clubs in Medan that are in the KGCC network and yet Medan English Club is the only Club who never fails to communicate with KGRE. Emails and Club reports regularly arrived at KGRE office. And their reports are always interesting to read. It seems to us that this Club is well-managed and that all of the members are very committed to run this Club successfully. This is confirmed on the brief summary of the club:
So KGRE is happy to once again make this Club as Club of the Month. The following are some of the activities that the Club has done and has been doing.
Parroting (social
activities) English Indonesian What do you take me for here? Kau anggap
apa aku disini? The problems are they often forgot what they just got very easily. Gosh! They keep insisting us to play some games. We were really stuck because ideas are expensive and it’s not that easy to find the new ones. At last we made our mind to make a small competition among them. Still we need some ideas to make this activity more interesting and enjoyable. Help please!
Telling Story Competition KGRE note:
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