2014: the year of setting the goal series, fighting, and learning
2014, year full of learning process, year full of fighting series, the year i have never thought that i have gained so many life lessons. In this writing, i just want to share what i have learned in my unpredictable year, twenty fourteen. Since the twenty thirteen (written in Latin because i just train my English number writing skill..hahaha sometimes i miss some letters when i write English numbers). Okay, let just go ahead to my topic. Maybe some of us get what we want but some of us do not get what we want. Sometimes what we really want is not we want (trust me! this is the fact, haha i ever got into this kind of moment).
Since the new year of 2014, i have set all the goals i must achieve in this year. Just going back in twenty thirteen, this was the year when it made me collapsed in every parts of me (haha it's too hyperbolic, because i am an English literature graduate sometimes dramatizing the words is the common act in literature class). Yeah... at that time i was truly no idea where i had to bring my goals that i had set when i started the class in college. Twenty twelve was the year when i graduated from college. Since i graduated, i have applied for many jobs in many companies. Then, none of them made me satisfied with the jobs as a result i quit and enter from one company to another company. November twenty twelve was like the final destined journey in seeking the job. Finally, i have been a teacher in one of the senior high school in my district, an Islamic school with many "big" classes, each class forty eight until fifty students and all of them are about 1500 students. "Oh Ya Allah... being a teacher ...this is what i do not want since i started in English literature). In Indonesia, being a teacher maybe is an honorable job but a "moneyless" job. Sorry, i have to write "moneyless". I do not concern in financial terms.Just compare to private employees who works in companies, they are paid based on labor rate. As your references, the labor rate especially in big cities is more than 220 dollars per month and even now most labors force the government to increase the labor rate that is about 270 dollars. Then, most labor education is high school graduate even there are secondary and primary school graduate while most of teachers here are bachelor graduate. The teachers who are not in "PNS" status or working for private school, they are only paid under 200 dollars. you can compare to the labor rate that is far far from us as the teachers. We as a teacher do not mean stating we do not thank to what we have already got but please for the government, do appreciate us, a teacher teaches the next leader of our nation, a teacher creates the great leader of our nation, and a teacher educates the next man of this great nation. Most of teachers here of course have a part-time job to fulfill their daily need. Okay i think i must stop writing about teachers's job here. Although working as a teacher is still part-sided seen by our government, we are proud of creating the next leaders for our beloved country.
February 2014, while i was conducting my job as a high school teacher and part-time English tutor, i planned to apply for scholarship in US, this is what i really want since studying in college. I applied for English teaching training in Fulbright. I prepared everything for this scholarship. I asked the recommendation from my previous lecturer. This is not as easy as you think. I have asked some lecturers but they are busy with their jobs. Finally, my smartest and wisest lecturer, Bu Tiwik (she is still conducting her Phd degree in Australia), is able to give me the recommendation letter. Although we communicated by e-mail, she tried hard to give this letter. At that time, she could not get the scanner for the finger sign because of the worst winter in Australia. But Bu Tiwik finally gave my recommendation letter. Although she is in Australia, she is still able to be bothered by her ex-student like me. Anyway, thanks a bug Bu Tiwik (Hopefully she reads this writing). Then, getting the recommendation letters from lecturer and school principal were all done. The next step, i had to translate my bachelor graduate certificate and academic transcript into English because these documents are all in Bahasa. The place where i translated these documents is also recommended by Bu Tiwik. About a week, i finally get my translated-documents. The next step to go US is joining the TOEFL test. First i tried to have this test at my college where i studied English literature but i finally decided to take the test at another campus for the efficient time. As you know, morning until noon i have to teach at school and i have to work as a part-time tutor afternoon until night. Okay,Finally i got the score almost at the minimum score required by Fulbright. The time when i sent all the complete application is ony about three days to the deadline. April twelve twenty fourteen, i sent the application and the deadline is April fifteen. About two months, i waited for this scholarship. What i had really waited for finally came. There is a phone call from Jakarta. "Congratulation, you are invited to have an interview in Jakarta for the scholarship you have applied." Ya Allah i felt like a dream. It was like America came nearer to me. Then, June 26, i got an email for the returns flight ticket, Surabaya - Jakarta. This was the first time i went to Jakarta by plane. July third, i finally came to this very crowded city for the third times. The interview with the two lecturers there. I found no difficulties when i was interviewed in English. Then, they asked me to have a micro-teaching in Bahasa Indonesia and i must teach Bahasa Indonesia subject. In this session, i must be shameful because i am a native Indonesian but i did not answer the judges simple question. "What is the difference between "pembelajaran" and "pelajaran"?".....Oh how shameful i am, i could not speak at all at that time. Then, August 30, i got an email that stated "I am failed to be the candidate of the scholarship"....Ya Allah i was really broken i had no idea what i had to do next, all what i dreamed about America was just the wasted dream. Two months it was the time i was like a no use person. The achievement i got when i was in my study at English literature is all wreck. There is no use i got the highest GPA. At that time, i was really desperate but someone who always comes when i am in my difficulties or happiness warned me not fall further and further. Yes, i was finally recovered very well.
Then, September, the PNS recruitment was open. Okay, i gambled with fate. I finally register in Sampang, Madura not as a teacher for PNS. If i failed at this time, i would accept that i was destined as a teacher. Then the announcement came. I did praise thank to Allah SWT there is my name on list. I am finally accepted. Now, i am still waiting for NIP and SK to work.
This year is the time when i lost some but i gain more. All of these i believed have been set by Allah SWT for HIS faithful prayer.
Since the new year of 2014, i have set all the goals i must achieve in this year. Just going back in twenty thirteen, this was the year when it made me collapsed in every parts of me (haha it's too hyperbolic, because i am an English literature graduate sometimes dramatizing the words is the common act in literature class). Yeah... at that time i was truly no idea where i had to bring my goals that i had set when i started the class in college. Twenty twelve was the year when i graduated from college. Since i graduated, i have applied for many jobs in many companies. Then, none of them made me satisfied with the jobs as a result i quit and enter from one company to another company. November twenty twelve was like the final destined journey in seeking the job. Finally, i have been a teacher in one of the senior high school in my district, an Islamic school with many "big" classes, each class forty eight until fifty students and all of them are about 1500 students. "Oh Ya Allah... being a teacher ...this is what i do not want since i started in English literature). In Indonesia, being a teacher maybe is an honorable job but a "moneyless" job. Sorry, i have to write "moneyless". I do not concern in financial terms.Just compare to private employees who works in companies, they are paid based on labor rate. As your references, the labor rate especially in big cities is more than 220 dollars per month and even now most labors force the government to increase the labor rate that is about 270 dollars. Then, most labor education is high school graduate even there are secondary and primary school graduate while most of teachers here are bachelor graduate. The teachers who are not in "PNS" status or working for private school, they are only paid under 200 dollars. you can compare to the labor rate that is far far from us as the teachers. We as a teacher do not mean stating we do not thank to what we have already got but please for the government, do appreciate us, a teacher teaches the next leader of our nation, a teacher creates the great leader of our nation, and a teacher educates the next man of this great nation. Most of teachers here of course have a part-time job to fulfill their daily need. Okay i think i must stop writing about teachers's job here. Although working as a teacher is still part-sided seen by our government, we are proud of creating the next leaders for our beloved country.
February 2014, while i was conducting my job as a high school teacher and part-time English tutor, i planned to apply for scholarship in US, this is what i really want since studying in college. I applied for English teaching training in Fulbright. I prepared everything for this scholarship. I asked the recommendation from my previous lecturer. This is not as easy as you think. I have asked some lecturers but they are busy with their jobs. Finally, my smartest and wisest lecturer, Bu Tiwik (she is still conducting her Phd degree in Australia), is able to give me the recommendation letter. Although we communicated by e-mail, she tried hard to give this letter. At that time, she could not get the scanner for the finger sign because of the worst winter in Australia. But Bu Tiwik finally gave my recommendation letter. Although she is in Australia, she is still able to be bothered by her ex-student like me. Anyway, thanks a bug Bu Tiwik (Hopefully she reads this writing). Then, getting the recommendation letters from lecturer and school principal were all done. The next step, i had to translate my bachelor graduate certificate and academic transcript into English because these documents are all in Bahasa. The place where i translated these documents is also recommended by Bu Tiwik. About a week, i finally get my translated-documents. The next step to go US is joining the TOEFL test. First i tried to have this test at my college where i studied English literature but i finally decided to take the test at another campus for the efficient time. As you know, morning until noon i have to teach at school and i have to work as a part-time tutor afternoon until night. Okay,Finally i got the score almost at the minimum score required by Fulbright. The time when i sent all the complete application is ony about three days to the deadline. April twelve twenty fourteen, i sent the application and the deadline is April fifteen. About two months, i waited for this scholarship. What i had really waited for finally came. There is a phone call from Jakarta. "Congratulation, you are invited to have an interview in Jakarta for the scholarship you have applied." Ya Allah i felt like a dream. It was like America came nearer to me. Then, June 26, i got an email for the returns flight ticket, Surabaya - Jakarta. This was the first time i went to Jakarta by plane. July third, i finally came to this very crowded city for the third times. The interview with the two lecturers there. I found no difficulties when i was interviewed in English. Then, they asked me to have a micro-teaching in Bahasa Indonesia and i must teach Bahasa Indonesia subject. In this session, i must be shameful because i am a native Indonesian but i did not answer the judges simple question. "What is the difference between "pembelajaran" and "pelajaran"?".....Oh how shameful i am, i could not speak at all at that time. Then, August 30, i got an email that stated "I am failed to be the candidate of the scholarship"....Ya Allah i was really broken i had no idea what i had to do next, all what i dreamed about America was just the wasted dream. Two months it was the time i was like a no use person. The achievement i got when i was in my study at English literature is all wreck. There is no use i got the highest GPA. At that time, i was really desperate but someone who always comes when i am in my difficulties or happiness warned me not fall further and further. Yes, i was finally recovered very well.
Then, September, the PNS recruitment was open. Okay, i gambled with fate. I finally register in Sampang, Madura not as a teacher for PNS. If i failed at this time, i would accept that i was destined as a teacher. Then the announcement came. I did praise thank to Allah SWT there is my name on list. I am finally accepted. Now, i am still waiting for NIP and SK to work.
This year is the time when i lost some but i gain more. All of these i believed have been set by Allah SWT for HIS faithful prayer.
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