Jembrana - Bali

This active English Club in Bali is doing well and here are some of their interesting activities:

The Club’s English Cafetaria  is held every Friday and Saturday. The Cafetaria is run by Club members. Club members work as waiters or waitress serving their friends. Students are expected to speak English around the Cafetaria area. In this way it is hoped that the Club can motivate students to speak English.

English Performances which include quiz contests in their school, speech contests and by joining storytelling contests in the region

‘Thanks for sending us the ‘POUCH’ and for sending the Kang Guru magazine. They are very interesting to read. Through this letter we want to say sorry for being late in sending reports. We were very busy preparing to join the telling story contest that was held by the Education Department of Jembrana Regency. We worked so hard for two weeks in selecting the best students and in preparing them for the contest. As the result of the competition we must thank God because two of our Club members were successful, winning the third and and sixth positions.
We agree and are interested with your motto about Good Neighbours Makes Good Friends. We think there must be a good relation between us for example between one school to another school, one province to other province and of course between one country to other country like Indonesia and Australia’.

Madiun - East Java

Members of Madiun English Conversation Party have been working hard on keeping their Club an active one. Regular activities have been held for club members - participation in Club meetings, travel programs and English competitions in the form of quizzes, writing and reading love letter contests, funny speech contests and others. One of the interesting things that this Club has been doing is their good relationship with both RRI Madiun and RKPD Caruban as mentioned in their letter below.

‘On 7th of May, MECP was invited to have a live interactive programme on RRI Madiun. They asked us again about our activities and about the Kang Guru Connection Club network. It was really great and now we are prouder to be the Club member of your English learning Connection Club. Many listeners called us and most of them were curious to know more about MECP. There were even lots of questions about things we hardly know such as ADS and AusAID activities here and also some places in Australia.
On 26th of May, we held an “English Conversation Party” (our monthly regular meeting). Two important guests from RRI Madiun attended the meeting. We had a very interesting “English debate”. We sang together and also played games’.

They are also grateful for the POUCH bulletins as expressed in their letter.

‘We would like to thank you very much for sending us the POUCH. It’s great because all of our members are reminded to keep on improving our English and they feel motivated again. The POUCH helps us a lot. We enjoy reading it. Our favourite topic to talk about from it is the “cultural anecdotes” segment. It’s fun to read about funny things that usually happen because of culture-shock’.