English is Beautiful

Beside of my mother language, Indonesia and Javanese, I love English language so much. Really. I do. English is a beautiful language, the idiom, the phrase, the word, the accent. However, several people think that love another language beside of Indonesia is a crime, dangerous for our nation social integration, and so on. Ouch, damn, that’s stupid and unreasonable.

I don’t know, perhaps when you read my posts you’ll probably find bunch of grammar error. I’m in the process of learning by the way, I hope you understand it, and don’t blame me for those reason. It is difficult actually to become so fluently in ‘doing English’ such speaking, listening, reading, writing. I’ll share my past story to you; it is when I was in junior high school.

I come from a countryside called Jember, in small town called Tanggul. Yeah, and I can forgive anyone who called me ‘villager’ recently. That’s okay, I never pretend to become an uptown girl, just enough with the developing of my brain from ‘rural to international’, and the rest will followJ. I was just so-so student in my class, the one who never go to cram school because of short of money, and I need to study by myself all the time. That time, I entered 7B class, the best class, in Indonesia we called it ‘kelas unggulan’. All students there got the highest score in school entrance exam (no offense :3).

My favorite courses were all about language, started from Java, Indonesia, and English language. I even become a pro in scout and got specialized in communication code, such as semaphore, ‘sandi’, and so on. That was the only time I loved what I did. I love reading, whatever was that, newspaper, magazine, novel, encyclopedia, paper, etc. But the matter, at that time, my English was badly damaged. Until now actually --. I always try to be better tough J. Because of that, my english teacher in 7 grade ever told me, “It is better for you to not speak english to me, it’s disgusting!”. Since that time, I promise myself to never stop learning English, no  matter what people say, no matter where did I came from. I was sad at that time honestly, but without that mean words I’ll never be this one and probably this blog would never exist. So, thank you for any kinds of motivation you guys gave me these times along. Thank you. I’m sorry for harmed your eyes with bunch of grammar errors in my writing on this blog, or anywhere.

Finally, I would like to say my gratitude for all of my ESL teachers, especially Ms. Diah, who guide me since my first step in this great school of Sampoerna Academy, Ms. Kiky, who gave me Cadbury and quarter dollar (actually thank you for appreciating our hard works on your assignments). About that quarter dollar, Ms. Kiky told us that it’s a symbol of pray, that people who just came back from US give that dollar to another person for a pray, wish that person can go there too someday, Amin :D. Next, Mrs. Haryati who always give her smile to all of us here, we’re so happy and motivated with your words ‘Great!’, ‘Nice!’, ‘You almost there!’, ‘Wow, good!’. Mrs. Anis Ken, although she never teach me, but I know her as great English teacher from Cambridge oral test that I took in 10 grade, thank you for cheer me up and made me forgot my nervous while having the speaking test :). The last is Mr. Najib and Ms. Dee, The great and youngest ESL teacher I’ve ever had. Thank you for accompanied us, XII SSC 4 until we have our drama’s project nicely done :D. Thank you:). Thank you that I finally able to make this score, although maybe this is not the highest here and I still defeated by my boyfriend (Kak Tiko's TOEFL score was 574 --). My first ‘real’ TOEFL score, Alhamdulillah :)