marutadewa's world: September 2009

Last Saturday, all the newcomers of English Language Study Program of Sanata Dharma University were joined together in English Welcoming Days or we all know as EWD. It’s an annual event, so it must be fun. As a newbie, I had to join this event for knowing each other closer. The EWD was held in Wonogondang, Cangkringan. It was located on the hill of Merapi Mountain. So, it was already known that it will be freezing cold at night. Before we got there, we had to attend the English Language Program’s expo which also held in our campus. In this expo, we were introduced with all the extracurricular that our study program has, such as the Debating Club, the Photography Club, the Choir, the Drama Club, the Movie Club, and many more. We were also introduced with almost all the lecturer of this study program. After that, we also had a time to practice our performance for the talent show. My group was Group Fourteen leaded by Rendy, our senior. We joined Group Seven for the Talent Show’s performance, they’re leaded by Monique and she is also our senior. After we had practiced, we were going to Wonogondang by bus, it was such an experiences.

We got to Wonogondang in the afternoon. Next, we had a time for unpacking and taking a bath. Then, I wanted to take a bath as soon as I finished unpacking. When I got to the bathroom, I was surprised by the water, it was very cold. I gave my self a spirit for taking a bath, because I wasn’t sure that my body could handle the cold water. I was screaming at first, but it wasn’t that cold when I continually showered my body. Then, I felt very energetic and fresh. Next, all of us were gathered in front of the stage. We sang and danced for the EWD’s jingle. After that, we had to show our ‘yel-yel’ and luckily my group was the first group to show off. We did a little bit dance for our group’s ‘yel-yel’. Then, the sun was set. Later on, we had our dinner. After that, the Committee was setting up the camp fire, because it was getting colder by night and we had to show off our performance, it was the time for talent show. And luckily it was my group again that being called for the first time, what a luckiest day in my life. We showed off our fragment, it was about a reality show. By night, EWD was getting colder and colder while we were showing off our performance. The Talent Show was over and we had to go to our resting-tent before we did tracking. On the tent we got only a few minutes to rest then the committee told us to prepare for the tracking. We were the third group to go. Unfortunately, my group was incomplete, one of us was sick and we joined with Group Seven for tracking. We finally took our first step. It was freezing cold. We walked in silence. However, our journey was accompanied by the stars. It was an amazing feeling that me and all of my friends felt. That’s why many of our senior said EWD was a great opportunity to know each other.

On the tracking we got to find six posts, on each post we had to do something that the post-guards asked. On the first post, we had to play a game which called Magic Ball. After we had finished it, we kept on moving to find the next post. On the second post, we played Bamboo Gila. And on the third post, we had had to play Magic Fire before we moved to the next post. On the fourth post we had to play Ember Bocor. We played on a freezing night but the fun of all that games covered it. The fifth post was the serious one, the committee challenged us to reveal the truth and they blamed us that we had done something bad before we did the tracking. The situation was cold and silence, none of us had enough guts to say a single word. However, the committee released us to move on to the last post. On our way to the last post, unfortunately our friend, Ega, was sick. She was unconscious in a sudden. At first, we’re panic but our leaders already knew what they had to do. Ega was saved by the committee. Then, in this last post, all of our eyes were covered by our own handkerchief and we had to hold on to our friend’s shoulder. Next, we walked like a train, it was thrilling because we didn’t know what the committee had prepared for us. After that, the committee told us to sit down and open our right shoes. Then we felt our right foot was washed by the committee. It was like a surprise. And when we opened our eyes they told us that we were officially English Language Study Program students in Sanata Dharma University. Then, they told us to sleep and be ready for tomorrow activities.

The sun had risen. I was opening my eyes when my tent mates came back from their tracking. I was thinking about how tired they were because they didn’t have time to take a rest. Then I prepared my self to take a bath. The water was definitely cold. But I was getting used to it. After all of the participants had taken their bath, all of us were having morning snack and hot tea. Next, we gathered in front of the stage and we had to warming up. We did the jingle. Then, the committee told the outbound groups to all of the participants. Our group, group Fourteen, matched up with group Two. We had to compete in all outbound activities. First game was The Leaky Pipe, this game was making all of us wet, but it was so fun. Then we move to the next game, we had to compete in all seven from eight outbound games. The last game was The Pillow Fight. Our group was represented by Enan and he absolutely won it. After all the outbound activities which made us knew each others closer as a friend, we cleaned ourselves and packed up. I felt English Welcoming Days 2009 giving a great opportunity to know what PBI students must had, we had to have friends for accompanying our journey in the study program. EWD was absolutely amazing event to start our new life in campus, for exactly in PBI itself.

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