Next Level with JB

"Mr. Jarred, what is 'frown'?"
"This is smile." he answered while smiling, "and this is frown." pulling the two edges of his lips down.
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"Give me one famous name?"
"Justin Bieber?"
"Okay."
"Give one example of non-defining?"
"Justin Bieber, who is famous..."
"Okay. You like Justin Bieber aren't you?
"No!"
"You keep mention him all this time. Let us put this non defining this way: Justin Bieber, who is admired by many people, was only 12 years old."
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Baju Bodo Goes International

At IEOP we have a very special weekly program called Community Interaction Class. We go to different site every Monday and they will have us introduce our culture in a presentation. My presentation is about Baju Bodo, a traditional ceremonial sacred (or not) clothing from South Sulawesi, my province.

I'm in Group 5 consisting me, Dwi, Aan, Sandro and Chao. Our team leader is Heidi.

Last time we had our presentation in front of retired adults at Watersford and now we're going to have it at Schilletter University Village Community Care. It's a daycare for children around 1-12 years old (something).

I really enjoy our CIC session today because the children were very excited and were enthusiastic to put the Baju Bodo on. I'll show you their cute looks with the clothing :)

Mindy from Zimbabwe wore it. Sisil said her mom has the Baju Bodo. Mindy was so cute. Patrick knew everything :D
Adrianne :)
This was Alex. He IS a boy, but he begged me to put the Baju Bodo on him since he arrived first to my table. What should I say? He left an impression. When he was wearing the dress, he was walking around the class, saying that it will be new fashion for boys :D I really liked him. He is a cute and smart boy. At the last conversation, he asked us : "is there any certain unique jobs in Indonesia that you couldn't find in US?" a very good question, Alex!
Serenity wore it. Her friends got jealous of her :) sorry kids.

It's hard for me to say goodbye to them. It was so much fun. But life must go on *too hard :'(

PS: Photoshoot before the ball (Photographed by Ireng Maulana)

Dear Mr. Brinkmann

Someday you might find this letter, or someday you might not. Because slowly your wonder about how come a stupid clue-less student like me was managed to join your high-level grammar class, about to erased.

Believe me Sir, it's not just you who are wondering so much about this condition. I, myself, can never understand why am i trapped in your class.

Mr. Germany-American teacher, i beg your pardon for being so stupid after all this time. I can't help it. It's not like i ever registered to some English course before, neither i ever made friends with native speakers. No, i'm not. So please be understanding of me. I asked you before that if i could move to lower level class, but you only said it's late for me. And now, how am i survive the whole semester with me not knowing anything.

I always doubt myself when i think i need, i really need to talk to you about my problem. That though i know how to use English, i don't know all the terms. But i'm afraid you ended act indifferently about this. My friends keep amuse me that i'm doing well, Mr. Jesse said i'm a natural, my father said i'm better than other students. Still, i'm not convinced about my English.

Until then, the best opportunity comes: i need to finish my test at your office. I finally talk to you all my problems, that i don't know what "clause" "compliment" "adverb" are. And i am surprised at how patient you are to explain everything one by one to me. Even though i ask you such silly question as: "what is relative pronoun?" or "what the difference between sentence and clause?". You even make sure that i understand all of your lesson. Thank you. Thanks a lot, Sir. I'm sorry for my prejudice toward you, i ashamed that i ever thought so. I'm sorry for all mistakes i've done, for being stupid in the class.

Regards,

Raida