Club Activities Reports

........ posted on KGRE website Forum on 14/3

English Strikes Back finally finds success. Their recent Speech Event has been highly praised as the best competition in Yogyakarta for a long time. This year there were 23 participants in the Speech Competition and 36 participants in the Debate. English Strikes Back was a grand event that was really appreciated by the students. This was proven by the large number of participants. Organization of the competition began in January 2006, and actual promotion began in February. All types of media - website, newsletters, newspaper, television, poster and email promotions helped spread the word.

We had a nice disscusion with Josie (from IALF Bali) in Pizza Hut Mall Malioboro. There, we talked about many things and explained all about the preparation for the Speech Competition. Josie came to Yogya especially to be one of the adjudicators together with Suryanto from American Corner, Iwan Satriawan from the Faculty of Law, Matthew from EF and Tom from RELO. The Jury concentrated on current issues, comprehension, sensitivity, intonation, gesture, diction, etc. to finally choose the winner. This Speech Competition was entered by students from goverment and private universities across the Yogyakarta region. The topics were local autonomy towards democratization and good goverment, forestry open to plantation, the rise of Indonesian Movies, the threat of Avian Flu and North Sumatera reconstruction after the tsunami.

While waiting for the final announcement, there were art performances by the team of Dimas. This team has performed in “30 Detik Menjadi Bintang” on Global TV - Modern Dance both Javanese and Chinese. It was very entertaining. Then Josie presented a special KGRE Quiz. All winners were very happy to get KGRE merchandise. Congratulations to Andi, the representative from UGM who was the winner of the Speech Competition. And thanks to KGRE and Josie for their support.

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