Writing Therapy

gift from lecturer These two things are souvenirs from London. My lecturer gave it to me as the reward for being actively involved in class discussion (the green one) and for being an inspiring teacher in our peer teaching (the red one). Not only me who get these souvenirs, there are also several of my friends. I think, this rewarding system quite effective to make our class to be more competitive. For me, it works more than that.

This article is taken from TEFLIN Journal Volume 20, Number 1 February 2009. It discusses the culture shock that experienced by foreign students during Dharmasiswa (a program that established by Indonesian government to give opportunity to learn Bahasa Indonesia) that they followed. The study focuses on culture shock both in academic and social life. The result of this study is not too surprisingly for me as Indonesian student. It shows the weakness of higher education system in our country. I feel quite same with the foreign student, especially for lack of academic atmosphere in Indonesian universities. By spreading open-ended questionnaire, the writer tries to discover the kinds of culture shock that foreign students found. In academic life, they feel shock with three things: teacher’s role and attitude, poorly organized program and local student’s attitude. They get stressful and difficulties to overcome with these conditions since they never find these in their home country....

This article discusses how often Indonesian native thank in their daily life compare with Australian. Timothy Hassal, the author, is Indonesian lecturer at Australian National University. In his trip to Indonesia years ago, he found that Indonesian sparing to thank. In this paper, he tries to discover his hypothesis. This also has purpose to increase cross-cultural communication between Indonesian and Australian, since many students from Indonesia study in Australia and also to help teaching of Indonesian in Australia’s school. Overall, this paper surprises me as an Indonesia. I never realize that we thank very seldom in our daily life interaction. Thanking for Australian is very common. It seems influenced by cultural values what Wierzbicka calls ‘superegalitarianism’. Australians think, people don’t need to serve or do something to the others to get verbal thanks. Different from Indonesian people, they will say “thank you” if they ask someone to something for them explicitly....

Dear my lovely blog :) Hari ini hari yang tidak biasa.  Kemarin malam, saya tidak bisa tidur dengan nyenyak karena begitu khawatir hari ini akan datang. Saya belum siap. Well, inilah hari itu. Saya ditunjuk jadi ketua pelaksana Speech Contest untuk PG-MIPA BI. Saya menggantikan posisi seorang senior saya karena dia mengundurkan diri. Sayangnya, hari H tinggal 2 minggu lagi dan belum ada persiapan apapun.  Maka dengan percaya diri, saya sanggupi tanggung jawab tersebut. Saya pikir, semua akan lancar jika saya optimis. Ternyata, untuk berhasil, kita butuh lebih dari sikap optimis. Dalam 2 minggu itu, tugas saya sedang banyak-banyaknya. Dan kelas saya juga harus mementaskan DRAMA untuk tugas semester. Ditambah lagi beberapa tanggung jawab dari organisasi yang saya ketuai. Bisa ditebak, saya tidak fokus mengurus Speech Contest. Itulah yang membuat saya cemas. Dengan persiapan singkat dibantu 2 rekan saya (panitia speech ini hanya 2 orang),  Speech Contest i...

Different pond, different fish. This proverb works for many cases, one of them is in acquiring second language (L2). I do believe all people have their own way to acquire their L2. These differences occur because people born to be different, although we have similarities in our brain, body and so on. We have some weakness and strength in several factors that influence us to be different. In this essay, I would like to discuss how I acquire my L2. First of all I will define what second language (L2) is. According to Troike (2006), second language is the language that used officially by society and government for many areas and institutions. It is often acquired by immigrants who are native in another language. For example, I am Indonesian who is studying in Harvard University in USA . In this situation, English is my L2. In the real life, English also my second language since I enter English Study Program in University of Jambi . Why I use “since I enter English Study Program in ...

Nowadays, in Indonesia , spirit of entrepreneurship is spreading. Many young people want to be entrepreneur. We can see that, entrepreneurship can run the economy. It can reduce the high number of unemployment. Indirectly, it will also help government to against poverty. However, to survive in the tight competition in the market, an entrepreneur should be unique and also can contribute directly to help society around him. In this essay, I would like to discuss, how important we bring local potentiality in our business. Before we are going to our discussion, let we see the entrepreneurship in our environment. Many entrepreneurs can’t play their role as well as possible. Entrepreneur should be the person who not only run the business for the profit to himself but also develop the society and help other people by creating the opportunities. Actually, we already have some of excellence entrepreneur such as Sandiaga Uno. However, to give significant changes, we need more excellence entre...

Saya kira suasana hati dan peristiwa dalam hidup kita mirip dengan cuaca. Kadang cerah, mendung, hujan bahkan badai. Ketika sedang menghadapi masalah, tak jauh beda dengan orang lain, saya merasa menjadi keciiiil sekali dan kalut serta khawatir “bagaimana ini…bagaimana ini?” hahaha (lebay amat) Tapi, seperti lantunan Mariah Carey “there is hero when you look inside your heart…” akan selalu ada kekuatan dalam diri kita untuk bertahan dan mengatasi masalah.   Ini adalah sederet langkah-langkah ajaib yang selalu saya pakai dan ampuh sekali untuk menguatkan diri saya Saya akan berteriak dalam hati dan berulang-ulang mengucapkan “Wahai masalah, ALLAH Maha Besar!” Mengingat dan menyakini “Allah tidak membebankan sesuatu pada seseorang melainkan sesuai dengan kemampuannya” (QS. Al-Baqarah:286) Yakin bahwa rencana Tuhan selalu berakhir dengan kebaikan Menganggap masalah yang datang adalah sebuah tes untuk naik kualitas Tersenyum (walaupun sering...