Britzone 2

The sun was shining and it was a lovely day when I attended the second meeting of My English Speaking Club. I came to the class when Farhan and Pras were explaining a game before the members. Quite at loss in a second, to get involve in the class activity coz of my lateness, but in another second I had followed the Instructors’ advice to do a simple game given that asked us to choose 5 pictures and discussed them with our partner. Yanti was my partner that day, and it was a kind of ice breaking session which just took a minute.

In the second session we jumped to a psychological test to know our willingness to study English. It was quite interesting however, from my score of the test an interpretation said that I actually love English but haven’t really struggle for it yet, so I need to make a strategy and an intensive study if I want to be a good learner. Hmm…a good advice for such a ‘jumping-bug’ learner like me (hehe)

Then we went to the third session. We were divided into 3 groups comprising of 6-8 persons. We got 5 pieces of pictures that must be arranged into a story. It was a little bit wasting time when dealing with the theme of the story, because each of us in the group had different Ideas about the story going to be created. We also found difficulties coz there was no similar face in the pictures given. Finally we decided that the most important were the theme and the plot, nothing to do with the different faces for each character. Then, our group made a story about Juvenile delinquency - Drug Abuse - and luckily, we could make the story flowing succinct and didn’t raise any criticism.

Then it was a rather alluring session when we heard stories from other groups. Ali’s Group picked “Tukul Presidential Campaign” as their Theme. Even though we could create a story in ‘a dreaming country’, anyway the story stimulated me to criticize the theme. I said that promoting Tukul to be a president didn’t make sense at all related to his background, and experience. They came no surprise on my criticism and finally I could grasp the Idea that it’s a cynical story made to satirizing the political condition today when many actors or actresses turn to be Politicians.

Then the third groups told the story about Brad Pitt’s Advertisement Company which cooperates with the tobacco manufacturing to make odd but beautiful ads for their products. They came to an end by making a curly haired woman with improper-smoked cigarette between her lips to be their fabulous Ads, and this theme also attracted, many criticisms related to the prevailing law regarding Cigarette Ads, locally and internationally. Then we ‘wandered’ in law sphere discussion for a while.

we arrived to the closing part, and quite surprised by an impressive agenda for next Saturday, that we will have an English native speaker – Mr. Brian – as our keynote speaker, for an ‘under confirmation’ theme.