- "English Days 2008" -

Hey guys..
I've just arrived back home from the English Days 2008 (ED) which was held in Mount Hermon, Puncak.
ED was an event for all of the students of the English Department Atma Jaya Catholic University batch 2008.. We were not allowed to speak Indonesian for 3 days, or else we had to pay 1000 rupiahs every time we caught by the committee while speaking Indonesian hahaha..
Even in our own bedroom we had to speak English because there were committees slept in our room. At first it was sounds weird to speak English all the time, but on the last day, it just sounds weird when we hear someone speaks Indonesian huahahaha.. So silly >.<
And since I'm gonna telling you about the ED,, I'll try to write this blog in English. I hope that I can do it well *finger-crossed* wkwk..

Actually the ED was so tiring,, but it was a lot of fun! We got so many friends and experiences there. We were taught how to be a leader, how to organize an event, how to work together as a team and trust each other, how to make a proposal, how to become a wise person, how to be more creative, etc. The games were also sharpened our mind and abilities.

On the first day, we had several sessions by the lecturers, we watched a movie which titled as "Dangerous Mind" together. This movie taught us how to be a good teacher, since most of us in this faculty wants to be a teacher someday.
My group, which is group 4 was in charge to organize the shower time for the 1st day and the dinner for the 2nd day. We prepared and did it well =)
Our group had a "Military Shower Day" concept for the shower time. We gave only 5 minutes for the boys and 7 minutes for the girls to take a bath. Can you imagine that?! It seemed impossible for us to organize almost 150 people to take a bath only in 5 or 7 minutes for each person. But WE DID IT successfully hehehehe..

As the last activity on the 1st day, each group had to perform several different performance such as a role play, acappella, sing and dance, and parody. My group was in charge to perform the "sing and dance" one. Do you know that we had to sacrifice a lot for this performance? We had to rehearse for the dance almost four times a week since the last 2 weeks. We also had to attend several meetings with our group to prepare everything before the D-day.
It was tiring, really. And we all sacrificed our time, our money and our energy for it. But we gave the best we could that night to perform our "sing and dance". And see,, we were the winner for THE BEST PERFORMANCE!!!!



When we danced, the audience were so enthusiastic, they even screamed, clapped their hands, and sang with us. And they screamed "WE WANT MORE! WE WANT MORE!! WE WANT MORE!!!" when we ended the dance hahahaha.. We felt just like a star wkwk =P
At the end of this session, we were asked to dance one more time with the audience. So we danced twice that night hehe.. It seemed that all of our effort has been paid by the enthusiastic response of the audience. That night we went to sleep with pride =D

For the 2nd night, we had a costume party. It was such a kind of fashion show. Each group had different themes of costumes. My group had a "sweet memories of high school" theme, so all of the member of my group wore the high school uniforms. It was really fun. Felt just like a high school reunion hahaha..

In the morning of the 3rd day, we played a game which is called as "the water war game". From the name of the game, we can already imagine what kind of game it was.
It was a battle between 2 groups using the aqua bottles that was full of water and had a small hole in its cap. Each group had a king and a queen, several attackers and defenders. The attackers had to attack the other group's king and queen, and the defenders had to protect their own king and queen. There were 3 rounds of the game,, the 1st round, the semi-final round and the last was the final round. We had to battle with the committee team at the final round. And at least, we WON the game!!! My group became the champion of this game!!! YIPIE. =D
We were succeed to protect our king and queen,, even all of us, either the attackers or the defenders were getting wet for the whole part of our bodies wkwk >.<
And it was so cold to be wet in the early morning in Puncak. Can you imagine how cold we were? hehe..

After took a shower, we did the English mass. It was my first time to had an English mass and I love it so much =D
If you just realize, the words written or said in the English mass are much deeper than those written in the Indonesian mass. They touch our heart deeper..

Well I have to go to bed right now, cause I've been so tired these last days. But I have no regret for being a participant of the English Days 2008.

Special thanks to:
- My chaperone, Daniel Indra, who worked very hard for my group. You're really a nice, wise and helpful chaperone. We're so glad to had you in the ED. Thank you for all that you have done for us, and we're gonna say sorry if we did something wrong to you T.T

- Group 4, my best group ever.. Thanks for all of you,, who made my days great! Samuel (our captain of the group), Felicia, Ayrine, Citra, Yuliana, Cecillia, Grace, Ellisa and me. We're a great team!! It's nice to worked with you, guys..
Remember our yell2:
We're group 4 and we're here to win
Forget all the rest cause we're the best
Don't even try to block our way
Cause we gonna beat you anyway!
Gggoooo... GROUP 4!!!
*made by Daniel Indra*



- Group 5, thx for being our partner in the sing and dance performance. Special thanks to Yonathan as our choreography, Emil as the captain of group 5, Laura as a partner of Yonathan's solo dance, and all the members of group 5.. We performed the sing and dance so greatly!! And don't forget to pose the wildcats position when we're sleeping hahahaha =P

- All of the committees who worked soooooo hard for the success of this event! I know that it's not easy to organize this kinda big event.. But you all DID it almost perfectly!

Congratulations to all of us!! =D
Great job!

So glad to have you, guys ^^