Kang Guru Connection Bulletin	August - September 2002 Page 3

A Popular KGCC Activity - Camping

Many KGCCs have sent in reports about camping activities that they have undertaken. These types of outdoor activities really get Club members involved and are a great way to strengthen relationships among Club members. Most importantly many interesting things can be done on a camping trip to learn and improve English together.

Australians love camping too. Camping in Australia is almost a national past-time. Aussies love to go camping at the beach, out in the bush or even far out beyond the black stump.

This is often done during school holidays or even long weekends.Camping equipment includes tents, cooking equipment for open fires, bush showers and sleeping bags. People often use 4 wheel drive vehicles such as Toyota Land Cruisers when they go camping especially if the campsite is at the beach or in the outback. While camping people do many different sorts of activities. Sometimes they go fishing, go bush-walking or just laze around the campfire and relax. The most important thing is that they are outdoors in the fresh air and away from the modern world of telephones, televisions and traffic.

KGCC Update
There are now 95 Clubs in the KGCC network and it is great to see some of the newest Clubs sending in their Club Reports already. Great work and a great chance to really work together - but don’t leave the Club Report writing just up to one individual. Share the workload around with everyone being responsible in some way for the Reports.
In early June KGRE met representatives from three KGCCs from East Java in Surabaya to discuss the possibility of holding Club Get Togethers. From the those discussions and experiences learnt from Club Get Together in Makassar, it was decided to hold Club Get Togethers for East Java Clubs in several different locations. At the moment we are still in the planning stages for a KGCC Get Together in Jombang and on the island of Madura. The organising committee for those Get Togethers will be headed by Pak Hakim from the Excellent Club for Jombang and the Pioneer English Club in Madura will help organise KGCCs in Madura.

Start Contacting!

As we have suggested before to the ‘older’ Clubs in the network, the latest Clubs should begin corresponding with other Clubs as soon as possible. This form of contact is a terrific way to make new friends, find out about other Clubs and groups AND of course to practise English. Don’t try to write to a lot of Clubs but just choose two or three that sound interesting to you or Clubs that are in a location that you want to know more about.