Club of the Month January 2005
Madura Diamond English Club (MaDia Club)
Madura, East Java

This MaDia Club in Madura joined KGCC in April 2004. 
Upon joining the KGCC membership they wrote to KGRE.
Club Profile

"Actually we don’t know what kind of reply to give you. You are very kind, care and motivating on our educational development particularly dealing with improving our English quality. Frankly speaking, your explanation and special attention on our club directly makes us to hear an Indonesian idiom where most Indonesian always say – ‘Dikasih pipi minta ke hati’. Therefore your very valuable support to us would be a wide chance to whisper our heart vibration in order that you will catch what our club wish in the future".

Regular activities amongst the club members are internal reinforcement on language building. Thus conversation and writing skill are intended to be our good basic capacity to which a combination of language terms namely ‘Language Performance and Language Competence’ could be implemented integrally.

"The journey was solely intended for increasing members’ enthusiasm on English conversation as well as to celebrate National Independence Day. Before departing we made an agreement that ‘no serving, no talking and no joining us but in English’. Therefore we will ignore those who spoke other than English. This made us burst into laughter along the journey because there were always funny attitudes from members in expressing their English. The most important thing is we must talk in English to whatever we mean.

The first place that we visited were Panaongan Beach located in Pasongsongan village of Sumenep regency. Arriving there we saw the stretch of mountainous sand along the shore under which a villager recently has found several old graves. The wind blowed softly against our skin and hair. On the way before the beach we bought some fresh fish at Pasean market. So then we started to do ‘ikan bakar’. Some members collected dried wood to make fire and some others washing the fishes in the knee-high seawaters. The interesting thing was that everyone speaking English during the time. Various voices just flew out of our own mouth such as singing, spontaneous poem, expressing individual feeling and some just laze around on a high stone of the sea bank staring at the purple colour of the sea.

At three o’clock we moved to second place namely La’pala’ cave. It’s exactly on the slope of a hill in a valley – Tagangser Daya village – Waru, Pamekasan regency. To get to the cave we have to pass a half of a kilo meter walk and had to go down stony steep slope downward. As a result, little scream and shout sometimes blow out of members particularly girls. Something unique about this place is the roof of the cave has many stones of for about two meters tall. One of which is in he shape of man’s penis overhanging. That’s why it’s then called La’pala’ which derives from Madura language ‘Pala’ means something of the man’s. While the opposite cave is called Bini cave means woman. At the base of the hill between the two caves a river and waterfall with clear water slowly flow among the green trees juxtaposing at each riverbank. Forty five minutes we spent there before finally leaving the cave." 

Future Activities:
MaDia recently has conducted several meetings to discuss some future activities. The meetings has produced several kinds of activities to do once every week. They are:

• Formal activities: Correspondence, writing method, writing letter, linguistic study.
• Informal activities: Watching English movie to retell, English game, traveling study, comparative study

A Question for KGRE
Why don’t you carry out a meeting that will involve directly all KGCC boards? So that they can communicate with you not only through magazine but also direct interaction among them and it certainly makes our unity on KGCC become closer as your saying "Good Neighbours Make Good Friends" could be actualized in reality.

Response from KGRE:
We have been invited to visit Madura in early April by the Pioneer English Club in Sumenep to conduct teacher workshop and club meetings. We will certainly invite your club members to attend the Language Forum we have planned for Friday the 1st of April, 2005.

Later this year the Connection Clubs in Makassar are planning to hold their second KGRE Connection Club Get Together. Their first one was a great success back in 2002. Clubs need to initiate these types of meetings and then KGRE will support the activity by attending and helping with arrangements.

Club of the Month for February 2005

Stella Maris English Club
 Waikabubak – West Sumba

Stella Maris English Club joined the Kang Guru Connection Club network in October 2004. Thanks to Pak Paulus Nau who had the idea of setting up an English club so that his students can have extra time studying English outside school hours. Although they are basically new club but you can see from the pictures how keen the members are in studying English.

KGRE hopes that in the future this club will also do outdoor activities and have fun outside the classroom. KGRE also hopes that by making this club as Club of the Month, it will inspire other teachers and students in the area to get together and make an English club and study English together in fun ways.

Club Meeting:
We do regular club meeting twice in a week. The schedule is every Tuesday and Thursday. We usually do this activity in the afternoon from 04.30pm until 05.30pm. The reporting so far is done by the Club Leader because of several reasons.

Club Member:
The member of this club are junior high school students from SMP Katolik Waikabubak where Pak Paulus teaches. They are students who want to study and have fun with English.

Club activities: We still do activities in the school classroom. We usually do listening, writing, speaking and reading activities. The club members never doing events out of school like going on excursion, sport competition, or traditional dance and music performance.

Letters from the club:
"Members of the club would like to wish KGRE and staff A Very Happy New Year. May our cooperation full of success and happiness in 2005. And big thank you for your support to our club in the past year.

We are very pleased for your giving us a Kang Guru Connection Club number. We hope that KGRE would come and visit us in 2005." (President of the Club)

"Hello Kang Guru how are you? I hope you are fine. I know you from KGRE magazine. I feel amazing after reading your magazine. Thank you very much to my teacher which already teach us to write the letter. I am very happy. Kang Guru is the best" (Jennita)

"Hello Mr Kevin, how do you do? I hope you’re fine. My name is Ririan. I am 13 years old. I will tell about our school. Our school name is SMP Katolik Stella Maris Waikabubak. Our school yard is large enough. We have nine classrooms, one library, one laboratory, one space teacher, and six toilet. We have thirteen lesson. I like to study English language also read and studying content of your magazine". (Ririan M.S.) "Dear KGRE, my name is Ina. I’m a secondary school student. I writing and this letter to say thank you because your magazine can give information for me. Your every edition is full colour to make us comfort. Once more time, I say big thanks for KGRE magazine." (Ina Trombine).

Club of the Month for March 2005

Quantum Conversation Club – Bengkalis – RIAU

The Quantum Conversation Club (QCC) is the second club in Bengkalis  established by Pak Afrizal, the Adviser of Sebauk Conversation Club, and his friends, Khairuzzuhdi, S.Si and Sri Marni. So this club is like a sister club to Sebauk Conversation Club. Since joining KG Connection Club in October 2004 this club has shown their enthusiasm in learning and improving their English. The club members also have great interest with computer. Almost every members never fails to send their report on language activities using email. And KGRE is very happy with this development.

Profile of the Club
Located at Hangtuah Street No.19 D, Bengkalis.
Email: quantum_computer@yahoo.com

There are about 90 active members. The structure of the club is Chairman, Vice Chairman, Secretary and Counselor. Members are interested to do question on the Pouch, translate, chatting and using KGRE magazine. The club members also use ‘Tell Me More’ (an audio visual learning).

Regular Club activities

1. Listening to the cassette of KGRE which is converted by Mr Edy.
2. Listening to the Radio Suara Matra Wijaya on broadcast day
3. Checking emails, sending out emails, and chatting to friends worldwide
4. Language activity using ‘Tell Me More’ (audio visual learning).

Meeting schedules are every Monday afternoon, Tuesday morning and Wednesday morning.

Favourite club activities are : talking about daily activities and communicating with native speaker.

Excursion Activity
On February 6^th, 2005, club members went to Selat Baru beach by bus at 07.30am until 4pm. This is a very interesting place on the island of Bengkalis. During our stay at the beach, some of us talked in English and sometimes was mixed with our local languages, Malay. Suggestions and ideas are expressed in English just to make it feel at home. Before swimming and playing in the water, we had a short discussion on our next plan in English of course. Novita Mulyani, Ruby Kurniasih, Susana Dewi are the examples of active students. The club members were accompanied by the club leaders: Mr Khairuzzuhdi and the other committee members: Mr Afrizal, Mr Adlin, Mr Mawardy, Mr Yusri, Mr Elizar.

Planning for next program

1. Celebrating Islamic New Year on Feb 10^th, 2005
2. Art Activities (when the new building is finished)
3. Sport competition – held in mid April 2005
   
   

Club of the Month for April 2005
Benteng Panynyua English Club
Makassar, South Sulawesi



Short History of the Club
Benteng Panynyua English Club (BPEC) is one of the English Conversation Club in Makassar which was established on April 7^th, 1986. It is a social institution which always conducts its weekly meeting as internal program. It is located at Fort Rotterdam, one of the tourism objects which we can see from the historical value of the place. BPEC itself has been recorded in the Guidance Book of Tourists who ever came there. BPEC welcomes participants from all levels of society; they are students from elementary school, secondary school, senior high school, college, employees etc. It has been eighteen years since the existence of BPEC and it really helps the people especially English learners to build up their speaking ability. Even most of them succeed in finding good position at many companies in South Sulawesi and outside South Sulawesi.

KGRE Notes: Pak Syahrir Badulu, the advisor of Best Forum English club and also presenter of KGRE English Interactive Program was also member of the PEC when he was a university student.

Club Activities:

1. Weekly Meeting
It is held every Sunday from 10am until 2pm at Fort Rotterdam. There are several activities that make all the participants interested and enjoy the meeting. Activities included: Welcome Speech, Wow … New Face, Warming up, Opinion and debating (discussion), Entertainment (sing a song, games, telling story, reading a poem), Building vocabulary, Announcement, Closing speech.

Since the club joined the KGCC, we make additional activity that is listening to KGRE Reading Class Set. This makes participants become more motivated and have fun in learning English.

2. Out Door Meeting
Out door meeting is a little bit the same as the weekly meeting but at different place. Out door meeting is conducted in one place which is far away from Makassar. On October 2 and 3, 2004 we conducted a ‘sun rise till sun rise through BPEC’ at Lembanna, Malino village town (Gowa regency). We wanted to do several programs in the evening but because the participants were frozen we could only do ‘telling the truth’ program. Each member had to talk frankly about many things about this club. We talked about problems we face and how to solve it. After that some members directly went to sleep while the others stay up and played ‘scrabble’ and ‘fortune teller using cards’. The next day we did what we call ‘finding the trial’. This activity is about the same as ‘hiking’. We divided the participants into two groups. We started from the waterfall and ended at the base camp. We climbed up and climbed down of the hill and through the valley of Bawakaraeng mount. That is why the place is called ‘lembanna’ which in Bahasa Indonesia means ‘lembah’ or valley in English.

Club of the Month for May 2005

ALFA English Club
Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara

Club Profile
Alfa English Club (AEC) was founded in Mataram, NTB on 17 August 2003. It was initiated by bunch of university students in Mataram who were aware and concerned that English is means of interaction and communication in globalisation era. Club members largely come from non-English departments. Furthermore AEC has become the base camp to practise English freely.

           

Club Vision:
Good command in English both oral and written

Club Mission:

• Conducting English discussion regularly
• Providing English material, supported by Kang Guru
• Facilitating Club members to practise English
  

Club Activities:

• English Party Online, every Sunday at 7pm on Pro 2 FM (RRI Mataram)

The program is hosted by Adel (Fadhil) and Emma representing ALFA English Club and division program of Pro 2 FM RRI Mataram. The show is dedicated to listeners who likes to practise English. The show has many fans.

• Happening Art

The event held on 1^st January 2005 at IAIN Mataram. It was held by ALFA English Club along with Students Executive Board (BEM) and Students Activity Unit (UKM) of IAIN Mataram. The event performed theatrical attraction to welcome new year’s eve 2005. Some of ALF members performed poem, acoustic guitar and special year reflection on what happened last year and what should be done next year.

• International Seminar ‘Islam in America-Interfaith Dialogue’

ALFA English Club appointed by IAIN Mataram to organize the seminar. It was attended by excellent keynote speaker: Prof. Dr. Hadsel and Prof. Dr. Abu Rabi who came from Connecticut –USA. The seminar objective is to strengthen the communication between Islam and Christian.

• Posko Aceh

ALFA English Club participated in collecting donation for Acehnese and northern Sumatra tsunami victims. During February, every day ALFA member were on duty at the Posko to welcome people to handover some money or material. We collected Rp 375,000 and three boxes of t-shirts and pants.

• English Speech Contest

It was held on 8 – 10 February 2005 and participants were from SMA, SMK, MA, Mataram wide. Each school represented by two students, one boy and one girl. Topic of the Speech Contest was ‘Touch The World With English’. The winner of the contest was MA 1 Mataram.

• Study Tour

The study tour was conducted at Kuta Beach in Central Lombok on 27 December 2004. All club members participated on the activity. At Kuta Beach each member had task to collect signature from western tourists as much as they could. Besides they had to make report on that trip.

Club of the Month, June 2005
Al YA’Lu English  Club
Malang, East Java

Here are some of their interesting activities: 

Al Ya’lu Teachers’ Club Meeting
There were thirty two participants in the teachers’ club meeting. Firstly Mrs. Nada opened the meeting. In this opening session, Mrs Nada informed the participants that we had a native speaker guest, Mr. Path, an Australian English teacher in Al-Ma’arif Junior High School. 

 Al Ya’lu Students’ Club Meeting
The students’ club meeting was on Saturday, April 23^rd, 2005. There were 12 children at the meeting. They were being guided by three AEC teachers - Any Fatati, Husna and Indah. Firstly the teachers asked the students to make big circle. In this session we sang two songs and the students enjoyed them. And then we had a ball game. In this game one of the teachers thrown a ball to a student and the student who received the ball must say what colours they were wearing. Next we asked them to sit on the grass. 

Club of the Month for JULY 2005
Posisani English Club
Palu, Central Sulawesi

A Short History of the Club
Posisani English Club is established because of a considerable numbers of reasons. Firstly, English is still less interested in Palu. Secondly, some friends were confused to find out a medium in increasing or developing their English speaking because they are from some other provinces but live in Palu, so they establish the club and called ‘POSISANI’ means togetherness in Palu language.

Club Activities
Club meetings are held every Saturday afternoon at 4pm at many different locations.  Some of the Club activities were:

March 6^th, 2005
We had a meeting in ‘Taman Kota’, it is one of the famous park in our city. The position is in the city centre. Our program was Special Guest and his name is Nurlin. He is a Tourist Guide. He has many experiences with the culture or tourist characters. And he told us about his experiences and of course the most interesting or the funniest experience that he had. Then around 5 o’clock we were visited by a foreigner. Her name is Mona. She comes from America. She told us about her experience for visiting this country. And finally we asked her many questions. This program held from 4-6pm and was attended by 19 members.

March 20^th, 2005
We had a meeting in ‘Taman Kota’. We chose this famous park because we would like to promote our club broadenly. The location in in the city centre so everyone could watch our activity there. We were discussing about ‘the unforgettable memory’ that ever happened in our life. So everyone from us must talk about our experience that we couldn’t forget as long as we live. This program held from 4-6pm and it was attended by 23 members.

April 17^th, 2005
We did the meeting in ‘Dikjar (Dinas Pendidikan dan Pengajaran)’ park. The place is in the Setia Budi street. This time we discussed about ‘scariest story’ that ever happened in our life. So everyone must talk about our story that we can’t forget as long as we live.

Report on Club Activities:

Gebyar Pendidikan 2005 – "Education Day Party – an action for 2005" We did Gebyar Pendidikan on 18 May 2005 at Kebon Rejo Park in Blitar to celebrate education day in Indonesia. There were many program held in this event such as speech contest for junior high school, Celoteh Anak (telling story) for kindergarten and elementary school students, English mading for elementary school. The program was attended by many students and also their parents. They were very appreciative of this program.

Listening Report This is our activity to improve English and increase members. We tell them to listen to English program on Radio or TV. In Blitar we have KGRE on radio PERSADA FM every Wednesday, RRI Malang every Sunday and BONANSA FM in Kediri – a new station that has cooperation with KGRE. In every week we must report what we have known about the  program.