“Local Cluster, Local Culture with English Together”, the sentence that was chosen as the English Festival 2011’s theme. Ahmad Hidayat was the Head of English Festival committee. With a jargon that was created by him, “we arEFamily”, English Festival was successfully held on May, 19th-21st, 2011. In three days, English Department students held a lot of events. What are the events?
1st day
The first day of English Festival was Thursday, May 19th 2011. An Opening ceremony of English Festival was done by a parade of Costume Plays. The costumes were western costumes, with some beautiful gowns, and also Indonesian heritage that was signed by Batik Costumes. English Department’s students who wore those costumes wandered around the Universitas Negeri Jakarta. It really attracted people who saw them wandering the university. Beside that event, there were also Seminar of Critical Thinking by Bapak Arif Rahman Hakim, Movie Analysis which aired “Sweeney Todd”-a musical thriller film-, Art performance from any faculty representatives of Faculty of Languages and Arts, and Bazaar.
2nd day
Some following events were held in the second day of English Festival. Stadium General of Plagiarism, Seminar of Study Abroad and International English Test, Book Analysis which discussed “Oliver Twist”-authored by Charles Dickens-, and still, the Art Performance. The Stadium General was presented by Bapak Ifan Iskandar; meanwhile, the Book Analysis was presented by Ibu Rahayu. Seminar of Study Abroad successfully built enthusiasm of either UNJ’s students or other universities. It reached at least 80 participants over 75 participants’ target that had been planned before. Oby Eka Rizky, who used to be a student of ED was the keynote speaker. For your info, he had got chances to study abroad in 7 countries over the world! How awesome he is! He shared his experience in each country and also gave a lot of scholarships information to the seminar participants. And the participants were really satisfied; moreover, the Seminar of International English Test just like TOEIC was also held. It really related to the seminar of study abroad.
3rd day
THIRD DAY! Yeay, that was the climax of the Engliash Festival 2011 events.on Sunday, May 21st, 2011, some English competitions were held. The competitions are Story Telling Contest, Speech Contest, News Casting, and Debating competition. The participants came from some Senior High School in Jadetabek. They were really enthustiastic with those competitions. They struggled hard to be the winners and got a lot of prizes; training fee, trophy, and sertificate. In the end of competitions, all participants from all competitions were gathered at Taman FBS. There were Art Performances from ED students such as band and theater. These performances were really relaxing and make them relaxed after the challenging competitions had been followed. Finally, the announcement-the most they were waiting for- announced. Here are the winners:
Speech Contest
- Feraldo Akbar Rozanandi (1st Winner)
- Lazuaryza Amina (2nd Winner)
- Annisa P.T. (3rd Winner)
Debating Competition
- (1st Winner)
Muhammad Hizrian Irda
Crysantia R. Michelle K.D.
Afriansyah Saleh
- (2nd Winner)
Yuko Arief ( Best Speaker)
Ayuningtyas
Irwansyah Ramadhani
News Casting
- Dewi Khoerunnisa M.J. (1st Winner)
- Alvin Krisnawan (2nd winner)
- Kevin D. Satria (3rd Winner)
Story Telling
- Amelia Virgiyani Sofyan (1st winner)
- Marcia Audita (2nd winner)
- Shara Elia (3rd winner)
CONGRATULATIONS for all of the winners!! You were great and you did it. And for those who havent been the winner, keep motivated and keep your spirits up! Next time “the winners” would be yours. The English Festival is over now. Hopefully, we can bring this EF spirit to the other events and EF will be held anually then. SPIRIT OF TOGETHERNESS, SPIRIT OF PROGRESS AND SPIRIT OF HAPPINESS.
ENGLISH FESTIVAL, we arEFamily!!
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