Dewi sagita
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English. I don’t know where from that word comes to my
life. Thing that I only know is that the memory of my childhood when my mother
used to tell me the list of animals name in English when I was around five
years old. Cat, elephant, dog, chicken, duck, butterfly, fish, cow, and many
more were often said by her. She tried to make me understand that name in English
from the Indonesian one. That might be the reason why until now, in my twenty
years old, I like English. When I was at school, from elementary until junior
and senior high school, I seemed only like English subject. That was the
subject i mostly take serious, fun, and easy one to learn since I have a
passion in that. I once ever said when I was a little girl; I wanted to take
them to go to many
countries around the world that can be fulfilled by speaking english.
Interested in that, I started to explore my own selves potential by joining the
English courses, participating in the English Club, and involving my self into
some competition like English Speech contest, Newsreader, and English Drama
competition in my hometown, Karawang, West Java. I enjoyed those things for
enriching knowledge and improving my abilities in English.
As the time goes by, since I like English, I want to
continue my study to university by taking this subject. I firstly interested in
teaching English, so that I tried to send the application to UPI (Universitas
Pendidikan Indonesia), a kind of university concerning in teaching major, but I
got failed. Other choice I was interested in at that time was UI , University
of Indonesia, since I think it has good reputation and lies in Depok, which is
a bit affordable and easily reachable enough. I wanted to have English
Literature so that I tried to fill the document application through online. At
the same time, I heard from my classmates about test in UGM (Universitas Gadjah
Mada) and then I took some considerations. After knowing that university was in
the first rank in within
University in Indonesia, I tried to follow the test in Jakarta. I chose English
Literature for my first choice, since I like to read novels and want to know
this deeper, and the second choice is International Relation. Several weeks later, if I’m not mistaken, I was
totally surprised to see the announcement of my selection to be new student in
English Literature major in UGM. I couldn’t believe that since I thought I did badly
in mathematic part in the test so that I guessed I would be failed, but thank
God has the other plan
for me.
This announcement couldn’t be the end of the relief, when
I suddenly saw the response of my parents. Both of them were completely
surprised, relief, proud and couldn’t be any happier for finding their daughter
was accepted in favorite university. But then they considered Yogyakarta was
very far away from our hometown, Karawang, and since I am their only daughter,
they were a bit worry to let me stay in Yogyakarta. It was worse added by the
news of earthquake that often happens there. But by thinking and thinking it
several times, they then permitted
me to study there. So, then I am here, now in the faculty of English
Department, taking the major of English Literature, Universitas Gadjah Mada. I
will not stand here, studying literary works, writing blogs for my Creative
Writing subject, if I didn’t take challenge and opportunity even though I felt
doubt about myself at the first time. What I’m going to say is that you don’t
need to be worried, in reaching your goals, no matter hard they will be and try
to be as good as possible through effort and pray. Life hopefully will be nice
then by finding unexpected things in the end, whether the sadness or happiness
are should be taken wisely.
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