December Edition
EDO 2014 : Let’s Do It!
Last
week ( November 10, & 13-15) was a busy week for all FLL students, why?
Because all of FLL students were participating on the annual olympic event in
FLL called EDO (English Department’s Olympics). EDO is a sports competition for
FLL students. The theme of this year’s EDO is "lEt's DO it". Ones
'13, the chair person of this event said that the theme was chosen so that the
committee fighting spirit could be also be shared with the participants.
"We know that we had only 2 months to prepare for this event (EDO). We
want that our spirit in preparing this event is also spread to all the
participants, so let's do it!." This year, EDO added a new type of competition
that is badminton, while the others were the same as those in the previous EDO:
basketball, futsal, volleyball, cheerleaders, and mini games. The event was so attractive
and intense. So, there was so much extra times because the matches were very
tight. The result for this year is 2011 (Eleveners) became the new best angkatan
for this year. At the
end of the competition, there is a DJ performance. Everybody who attended the
closing ceremony enjoyed the moment with their fellow students.
Mario ‘12
ACCESS – WHAT’S NEW
Access’s office was moved to F108 two weeks ago. Even though it
wasn’t announced
officially, Access crewmembers have moved and arranged many things in their new
room. Access’s previous room was together with LK’s room, in F512. The main
reason of Access to move to another room was because the members wanted to have their own room.
It was a bit difficult
to share a room with other people. Let alone when they
had a meeting and needed their privacy, but LK members were also busy with their
work in the same room. Access
members sometimes had difficulties in finding another room for their meetings.
Now they have their own room that they can use for their own work. According to Ima’11,
the previous room was better than their new room, because their new room was
formerly a warehouse. They had to clean the room first
and arranged the room again. It’s not a warehouse anymore, but sometimes when there is an
event, the room will be used for storing stuffs from that event. Besides, they
feel happy because the room is wider than the previous and they have their own
room, so that they have their privacy now. In the new room, Access will be doing Open Recruitment on
December 1st, 2014. Three position will be offered: columnists (5), layout
setters (2),
and illustrator (1). To apply as columnists, applicants should
submit their own writing with a theme of their choice. For the setting layout position, applicants should show how they set layout. As for the last position, illustrator, the applicants have to show how they make an illustration based on a theme that
they choose. In addition, there will also
be an interview
for all applicants
on December 1st,
2014. So, all FLL students, if you are interested to
join Access, make sure
you join the recruitment process. Access hopes that they can get new qualified crew
members to strengthen the team so that they can work together for improvement.
Novia (Tia) ‘14
EDance : The Pride of FLL
One
more achievement that makes us proud came from one of the KBM (Kegiatan Bakat Minat) in our faculty, EDance. On
November 9, 2014 EDance was involved in a dance competition which was held in
SMAN 2 Pati. Raising a theme “I Dance Because I Love”, this competition was
held to celebrate the 4th anniversary of Eternity (a dance community from
Pati). The dance competition was divided into two categories. There were two criteria
in this competition. The first one was for high school students and the other
one was for public. In this competition, EDance competed in the public category and won the
runner up position.
As the representatives, there were
five gorgeous and energetic girls from our faculty who joined this competition.
They are Temmy ’12, Adven ’11, Vicky ’11, Ayu ’11, and Fanny ’11. As their
preparation to face this competition, they practiced the choreography for ten
days with the concept that had been chosen earlier.
For this competition, this team chose to work on a concept about nigga.
After the competition, Temmy ’12 expressed her excitement, “I’m so glad and
thankful for being the runner up in this competition. I hope that the next
generation of EDance will be able to continuously become the pride of our
faculty.”
Well, PoWers also hopes that EDance
will get more and more achievements in any dance competition and always give
pride not only for the faculty, but also for our university. Once again
congratulations to you all guys.You’re awesome!
Oviera
‘12
English Competition Club’s Stories
ECC (English Competition Club) have proudly won a speech
competition at UNDIP (Universitas Diponegoro) Semarang, and plan to join AEO
(Asian English Olympics) at BINUS (Bina Nusantara) University, Jakarta.
On Friday, November 14th, 2014, ECC which was represented
by Stevy
Semuel Asa Binowo (Sem) – 112012015 joined a speech
competition at UNDIP, Semarang. He won the first place at the speech
competition defeating 25 other participants. The theme of the event was about technology,
and Sem, chose “the youth addiction to technologies” as the topic for his
speech. The competition was held from 7 am to 7 pm. Due to his busy schedule as
a student, Sem spent only two days preparing for the speech competition. At the
end of the interview, he kindly shared his tips in delivering a speech. “Do not get too focused on the text content of your speech,
but improvise a little. Sometimes when you are on stage you will forget what you
want to talk about. So instead of memorizing the text, you should just memorize
the important points only, and the rest is up to you, what you want to say. Do
not forget to catch your breath” said Sem.
Next on February 10th – 14th, 2015, ECC is
going to participate in AEO (Asian English Olympics). With the theme “Tribe of Warrior”, AEO, the biggest
English Competition in Asia invites senior high school students and university
students from all over Asia to participate. The competition will be hosted by BINUS English Club (BNEC) and will
be held at BINUS University, Jakarta. The competition itself is divided into
six categories including Debate, Scrabble, Story Telling, News Casting, Speech
and Short Movie Making.
“We are opening a recruitment for ECC members only and we
will send three representatives for each category offered in the competition,
so we will send 15 people,” said Devi ’13 as the leader of ECC. The recruitment
will be held on Tuesday, November 18th, 2014. Powers do hope that the
representatives from ECC will bring the victory for FLL.
Luky
‘12
Hectic Week
Hi ED’ers !!
Welcome to the hectic week. As FLL students we have
the time to be stressed out with all of the awaiting tests
and assignments. Here are some of the opinions from a representative of each
“angkatan”.
·
According to
Anastasia (2014), even though her first semester has been really hard with so
many assignments, tests, and also the activities as a committee member, she
still doesn’t want to regard it as a burden. Instead, she tries to enjoy this
semester, which approaches its end. Moreover, she
wants to be well prepared for the next semester. If she feels frustrated, she will
hang out with her friends and after that she will
be ready to go back to her regular activities. She also gives us a message,
“Don’t do something with a half heart.”
·
Likewise, Lia (2012), who is in the fifth semester, has never thought this semester is hard. She has never felt under pressure because of so many tests
and assignments either. In fact, she is currently a member of SMF (Senat Mahasiswa Fakultas, the faculty student
body) and several committees, such as: The Annual Drama (The Lion King) and ECC
(English Competition Club). Nevertheless, she always has the strong tenet with
her. “Don’t think too hard about everything. Do it slowly,” said Lia’12.
·
Lastly, to Natasya
(2011), this seventh semester with its numerous assignments, as well as the
proposal writing task and the teaching practicum is the most difficult
semester. Thus, she decided not to join any committee. However, even though
this semester is really hard with the assignment deadlines from the courses
that she is taking, she also has the same
thought as Anas’14, Aya’13, and Lia’12: she does not want to think this
semester is really hard.
So, guys, in conclusion, do not think this semester is
too hard, do it and you will pass this semester easily. So, keep your spirit
guys!!
Pamela’12
THE GIFT OF
BLOOD IS THE GIFT OF LIFE
Many
teenagers are afraid of donating blood. They assume that blood donation is something
dreadful although they themselves have never tried it. When they were asked
about it, they mostly said that knowing there is a needle pierced on your skin,
taking a pint of blood is one of the scariest things ever. “I’m afraid of
trying that. It must be very painful,” said Nadia ’12.
However,
Grace ’12 has a different opinion about it. “Blood donation is not as scary
as it seems. I have tried it.” She explained that it felt nothing when the
needle was pierced on her skin. “And shortly after donating blood, I felt that my
body became much better and healthier,” she added.
Actually,
what Grace said is true. Blood donation indeed brings many benefits for our
health. First, we are far from the risk of heart
disease because we are removing high blood iron which has a significant impact
on atherosclerosis, or the hardening of the arteries. The decreased iron level
also keeps us away from the risk of cancer.
Second, blood donation has been
found beneficial to those wishing to lose weight. A person who donates blood
burns about 650 calories with every pint donated, as the body has to work to replenish
itself.
Considering its advantages, our
faculty together with PMI (Palang Merah
Indonesia, the Red Cross) decided to hold an event of blood donation which
will take place at Kartini campus on Thursday, November 27th 2014,
from 09.00 a.m until 02.00 p.m.
Prepare yourself and make sure
that you join this event because more than 4-5 million patients need blood
transfusions each year and one pint of your blood can save up to three lives. (Sita 2012)
The 8th International Seminar
I
know you // But I don’t know you // But I know your name // How do you know my name when I don’t know your
name? // Because you know I know you so well
That was one of material that Tan Bee Tin (a speaker from
University of Auckland, New Zealand) presented in the last seminar. In that
session, we learnt how to make a dialogue using the word ‘know’. Funny isn’t
it? Well that was only one of the other sessions.
This year, the international seminar was held
on November 11th& 12th, 2014 at BalairungUtama(BU) and
F Building. The theme was “Engaging with Literature Creativity”. Actually, the
purpose of this seminar is to raise awareness towards literature in society because
literature doesn’t have a good position in societyyet. The seminar is hoped to
open the participants’ eyes that literature can actually improve personality,
give wisdom, build tolerance, etc. The plenary speakers of the seminar
were Prof. Alan Maley (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK), Prof.
JayakaranMukundan (Universiti Putra Malaysia), and Prof. Kirk Branch from
United States.
The
sound of the gong hit by the rector of SatyaWacan Christian University
officially marked the beginning of the seminar. After
that,the participants were spoiled with adance performance from Papua and some
songs sung by EDVoice. On the 1st day, Prof. Alan Maley presented
his work on “Literature in a World of Distraction” in BalairungUtama. Later in
Plenary Session 2 from Prof.Jayakaran Mukundan presented about “Should
Literature be Entertainment or Just Hard work with no Play?"After the
second plenary session, participants were moved to F Building to join Parallel
Session 1-3 and Workshop 1.
The next day, Prof. Kirk Branch presented his
material about “Treating Students Like Writers: The Teacher as Reader” for the Plenary
Session 3 in BalairungUtama. For the
next agenda, participants were again moved to F Buliding because there were
Parallel Session 4-5 and Workshop 2. Despite the absence of several presenters,
the parallel session could run smoothly with the substitute presenters.As the
Parallel and the Workshop Sessionswere over, the participants returned to participate
in the panelsession(the question and answer session with the Plenary Speakers).
At the end, the seminar was closed with a performance by the Sunday Morning
band from the Faculty of Performing Arts.
Ms. Suzana Maria hoped that the organizing
committee for the next year seminar will work earlier so that the seminar can
be organized well. Furthermore, she also hoped that the number of participants
will increase, too.
Lastly, see you in the next FLL International
Seminar!
(Irene A.T ’14,
Kartika D.A’14)