10:00 p.m. in Semarang.
Monday, 12 January 2015 we went to the English village, precisely in Pare, Kediri East Java. I went with 42 other friends from IAIN Salatiga using the bus that night sari. Rain accompany our departure from the Edi Mancoro islamic boarding house towards pare.
I am very grateful to be given the opportunity to learn in such an incredible place, and learn there is something amazing and proud for me. In there we followed the English language training program and join a program package for 1 month. I never forget that moment J.
5:00 am in pare,
That morning dawn call to prayer Voice greet us. We arrived at the village pare after a 6 hour drive. There we stayed at a camp for girls in Brawijaya street that we rent a week earlier, the camp provides a lot of room and one bedroom on the contents for 3 people. My single room with dian miss and miss mar'rah.
There we learn in one place English language courses named SURVIVOR club, with mr. Hidayat Soejono or commonly called mr.Jhon as a director, and assisted by three other tutor, namely mr. Hadi, mr. Gamang and mr. Dzikrillah (zee). We studied together for approximately one month.
During the week our schedule is five days to learn and the other two for a refreshing day. Within five days of the day we have to follow the five meetings.
In my daily routine, on Monday I woke up every morning at 5:00 o'clock hour after that i take ablution and prayer, take a bath and preparing for class, from the hours of 5:30 we learn vocablary, then take a break and go again in an hour 8.30 until 10:00 to study and practice of speaking, 12:30 to 14:00 o’clock we learn about the pronunciation of English is good and right. After that we went back to learn grammar at 4.00 unti 5.30 pm. Our break and dinner at the restaurant An-Nur, finished eating we go to class again to practice speaking until 8.30 p.m, we learn about speak without words or how to use communicate with body language, emotions expressed, intonation discours markers and language style and usually we are told to pratice it. After that we went back to camp and sleep.
In the early days we carry out the same activities except on Saturdays and Sundays because it is a free day and usually we use to take a walk, cycling, to do homework or to a bookstore. Over there I went to a few places, such as Kilisuci parks, surowono caves, temples surowono, Gumul and others, very happy because I can see a place that has beautiful scenery and interesting. While in the village pare We go anywhere using the bike. Sometimes this is very tedious and tiring but I am happy with the activities I did here. Because except get knowledge and new experiences I also get a lot of new friends from different regions.
One day we have sad moment, when we got home from the course, my friend's bag stolen by the evil and could not be found until now. She was very sad because in the bag there are valuables belonging to him, such as wallets, atm, money, mobile phones and more. That therefore he wasn’t able to contact their family and friends. We tried to comfort and advise him. And from that experience we can learn to always be careful wherever we are.
Pare, 8.00 pm, eight february 2015, our students in IAIN Salatiga bidikmisi held a farewell together all the crew survivors club. and there we give a memento and a tribute to the survivors and the team would like to thank the many teachers who have been patiently guided and taught us many things.