My Experience,
Productive Vacation in English Village
On vacation last semester, I planned to take a vacation to
the English village. English Village is a village located in Pare, Kediri, East
Java. In this village there are many language courses, such as English, German,
Japanese, and others. I had planned before I graduated, I had to improve my
English skills, so I decided to go to English Village. By the way i go there by
myself, I want feel something new, on productive vacation alone, meet new
friends there and live like a freeman. I use train to go there. I live in
Bogor, so I took KRL train to Gondangdia Station and then I use Gojek to Pasar
Senen Station. Pasar Senen Station is one of station in Jakarta that provided
long distance trip, My last destination is Kediri Station. It took about 12
hours to go there. When I arrived in Kediri Station, I order Gojek again to go
to Pare. It took about 1 hours to go there.
While in English Village, I
studied English at Mr. Bob. Mr. Bob is one of the favorite language courses in
the English Village. In there I studied English for 2 weeks. While studying in
English Village, I stayed in a camp provided by Mr. Bob. I met new friends
there. New friends that come from many regions. In my room, I live with three
of my friends. This camp is specifically for men. In the camp there are rules,
such as always use English everyday, if you break the rules more than three
times there will be a penalty of writing a story with 250 words using English,
if you break the rules more than 5 times, then you will speak English in front of
Mr.Bob's office. The class where I study English is about 400 meters away from
the camp I live in. So I decided to rented a bicycle. In Pare, there are so
many bicycle here, many people, whether it’s local resident or comer, in here
many people use bicycle. And also there are many new things that I feel while
living in Kampung Inggris, such as food prices and laundry prices that is so
cheap.
While studying at
Mr.Bob, I took the Speakup class, the Prononciation class, and the Toefl class.
On Mr.Bob there are many choices of classes, we must choose what we want to
learn. Just like in a camp, when studying in class there are rules, we must be
able to do what the teacher asks, like in the Speakup class, I have to be able
to make instant stories, with themes that are made randomly. If we fail to do
the requested thing, we will be punished. Punishment in each class is the same
namely our face will be given powder. I am very happy with how to study like
this, I am not at all bored. I enjoy all the processes of learning English
here. I study from Monday to Friday, and every Friday night there will be a
camp gathering event, each camp will show speeches or dramas using English.
This program is very exciting because this program has many funny things.
On Saturdays and Sundays we are on holiday. In Pare, there are lot of car and motorcycle rental places. So, when day
off, we decided rent a car and motorcycle. Me and my friends went
for a trip to Kediri city, we visited a Simpang Lima monument, and we also went
to the mall in Kediri. And also during our day off, we went to places that were amazing, such as the cave of Selomangleng, Batu
Paralayang Tourism, and Mount Bromo. I am very happy with this experience. It's such an amazing 2 weeks,
I will never forget this amazing vacation. I get more knowledge about English
language, plus I get unforgettable scenery from an amazing places. I
really enjoyed my vacation while studying in English Village.
