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Hopefully, I’m not too late to say “Selamat Hari Pramuka 14 Agustus 2009” and “Selamat Hari Ulang Tahun Kemerdekaan Indonesia 17 Agustus 2009”. Two celebrations in the same month. In these celebrations, as an Indonesian citizen and as a member of scout movement I have a lot of hopes for our beloved country, Indonesia. Hopes for being “a safe and prosperous” country. It’s our hopes, isn’t it? And what we can do for our country is drumming it up with the knowledge we have and take a part in saving national stability.

Again and again, I couldn’t’ up date this blog timely. It was caused by my business in my work for several days recently. So, I just can say: I’m so sorry.

Today, I add some new downloadable files that may be useful for you such as EASY GRAMMAR and Language Focus material. And today, I also change the structure of menus in the right panel of this blog. I add some web site addresses as sources of references to learn English. They had been published last week in article entitled REFERENCES FOR YOU TO LEARN ENGLISH MORE. But, to make them easier to be found, I put them in the right panel of this blog.

Then, thanks to my friends, Friska Novitasari for downloading my FUN ENGLISH, hopefully it would be useful for you in teaching-learning process at school. Once you download my files, means that you have donated up to US $ 1 for blog development. And for Ovita Yanuar Lestari Putri and Teguh Catur Yunianto, thanks for joining this blog. Your presence in this blog as the follower would “invite” other alumni to join soon.

And then, for this blog development, please keep visiting this blog regularly to leave comments or give any ideas. Your support to this blog means that you are care about education issue, especially that related with English in SMA N Bukateja.

LONG LIFE LEARNING

One day, in a small talk with my friends, one of them asked me about how can and why I still want to write to up date this blog, although I’m not the student of SMA N Bukateja or the president of SPEC anymore. And they also asked me whether I get “salary” or “full access” to the school because of my willingness to be active for SPEC. I said no reason for being active for SPEC, but I want to learn forever with SPEC. Because of SPEC, I got a chance to learn English, practice it, and keep it in my mind. And, if it can’t be called as “being arrogant”, I’d like to say that I became “great” because of SPEC. I can speak in English because of SPEC. Then, I can teach English (although I never take formal education for English / study in university) also because of SPEC. SPEC is a room for everyone to learn, develop, and practice the English. No matter in what level the learners are.

Then, in other opportunities, my friends asked me again. If I want to keep practicing English through blog, why should I use SPEC’s blog? The answer is really simple: I and other alumni built this blog for SPEC. In the beginning, this blog is a “present” for SPEC, because in that time, the members of SPEC were so active. And to make them more active, alumni gave this blog to be managed by the SPEC members. But unfortunately, after alumni gave this blog to them, no more up dated news here. So, I and other alumni decided to expropriate / take over this blog again. Then, as a good chance, I promote myself to manage this blog. But of course, I’m not working by myself. I’m still helped by other alumni too. It’s better than make a new blog for myself to practice my English. By making new blog, I would work alone. But, by up dating this blog, I will get help from other alumni and of course, I get an opportunity to practice my English and I can dedicate myself for an organization that made me “great”. I called this as a re-compensation.

Here, I will learn forever. Imagine, I was born and grew up in a non-English speaker country. And I didn’t study English at the university, but I got much chances to learn English in SPEC. In its blog. Then, I called this as long life learning. I realized it. If I compare my previous articles with the recent articles, I could see that there’s a good improvement although my articles are not perfect yet. But it is better than never use my English, right? I didn’t know whether I would still be able to use my English after I graduated from SMA N Bukateja if I never use my English anymore. So, not trying to be arrogant by writing this article, but I just want to motivate and motivate you to not to be shy or hesitant to practice your English anytime and anywhere. Really, English will work for you. Thanks for SPEC, thanks for Mr. Fembri, Miss. Istiana, Mrs. Ari, Mrs. Siti Khoeriyah, and thanks for Mr. Tulus somewhere in Purbalingga. Thanks for my friends and other SPEC alumni for helping me so far.

WAITING FOR OTHERS

After so long time I write for this blog, I’m still waiting for other people to join or (minimally) to visit this blog and invite them to practice English together. But actually, it seems not easy and really not easy. In the beginning, I hoped that this blog would be a media to share and built a stronger communication among the alumni and students of SMA N 1 Bukateja.

The awareness to join, share, and develop the ability in English is still so poor, I guess. A lot of students and alumni look like more interested in managing their “useless” network. They built network in Friendster and Facebook, but they don’t share anything but only joining a trend. It’s not a bad thing to have Friendster or Facebook account. But, why they aren’t interested in something more valuable? Writing in blog, for example. Share ideas, tutorials, information, etc.

That’s the fact. Our students aren’t quite interested in education issue or something like that. Most of students don’t use their “network” as partner to do better things: give a voice for better education, share useful information, etc. You may prove it by searching for students’ blog, students’ forum, students’ Friendster or Facebook account that discussing about self development, education, technology, or other things that related with something more valuable than displaying a photo gallery.

But, I know that different people means different interest. I can’t force anyone to follow my thoughts. I just want to say: unfortunately, this site which is talking with the awareness to the education is so poor of visitor, even from its origin: SMA N 1 Bukateja. Where are the people who care about education?

Note:
Actually, this article is a criticism for myself who can’t manage and advertise this blog well. So this blog is lack of visitor, even from my origin: SMA N 1 Bukateja. Sorry, through this article, there is no intention to “touch” someone’s heart or someone’s awareness to enliven this blog.