New Term, Fresh Start

Welcome to term IV/2009. Apologies for abandoning this blog for most of the third term. If it makes you feel better, my other blog suffers from lack of care too. The point is, I shall try to post more often from now on.

This term, I have five classes: Blue 7, Elementary 2B and Basic 2A on Monday/Wednesday; Blue 2 and Intermediate 3 on Tuesday/Thursday. To be honest, I haven't had this many classes (and students!) before but I am getting used to it.

I have some interesting ideas lined up for this term. Let's just hope some of them will actually make it to this blog. I can't wait to show just how creative my students are. Anyway, that's all I have time for today. I have to get back to my class!

Have a great term at KELT!

What's Happening This Term

So, after a long absence (and a not so long term break), I have finally returned! In the upcoming weeks, I'll post some more of my students' glowing work in this blog. My Mid Intermediate 2 has a class blog of their own; I expect that one to be more active than mine. Also, KELT Blog has been updated. The Darmokali Branch has our own blog now. Check it out for upcoming events and announcements.

Basic 2 Commercials

A few weeks ago (I know, I know, it's rather late), my students in Basic 2 wrote and recorded their own audio commercials. To listen to them, you can click on the following links:

• Bahasabokek Course (Azlan & Selvia)
• Rianti Carpet (Guntur & Arief)
• Febby's Clothes (Febby & Yosia)
• John the Realtor (Setya & Ardian)

And if you want to leave comments, you can do so on the podcast website or here. Enjoy!

Travel Tips to Hogwarts School

Hogwarts School

• LANGUAGE : Just learn English, in the Hogwarts School everybody can speak english. But you should learn some spells (if you're a WIZARD not a MUGGLE )


• HEALTH : Don't worry.. if you're sick, you should ask your potions teacher to make you a potion, so your sickness is gone. Beware, sometimes the potions don't work well.
  
• VISAS : You don't need to use a visa to enter Hogwarts School, you should take the "Hogwarts Express". The train starts from "King's Cross Railway" Station platform 9¾.


• SECURITY : Hogwarts School is so safe, so you don't need to worry about the security. The Hogwarts School also has a caretaker named Argus Filch.


• LOCAL CUSTOMS : You shouldn't go to the Forbidden Forest, you shouldn't break the rules in Hogwarts . The school is so strict.


• LUGGAGE : Pack anything you will need in Hogwarts School, because you shouldn't go out of Hogwarts School, so you can't buy anything.


• TRAVEL INFORMATION : You should read the rules in Hogwarts School, because if you don't read the rules, you won't know the rules.
  

ENJOY YOUR TRIP TO HOGWARTS SCHOOL !! (but I think you'll never go to Hogwarts School.. just go to your own school.. LOL)

By: Afi & Ninda

Mid-2

Travel Tips to Akator

Have you ever heard that name? The conquistadors called it El Dorado (I think you must be had heard it), a legend city of gold. Read these tips before you go there.

1. Its location is behind a big waterfall. You ought to wear quick-dry clothes.


2. You should bring a gun or an arrow because there are mysterious people who live behind the waterfall and they are very dangerous.
   
3. The cave to Akator is dark. If I were you, I'd bring some matches and a candle or a LED light.
   
4. You ought to be able to swim. A journey to Akator and from Akator uses water to lift you up and to save you when you're falling down. The water is deep.


5. You should save your energy. You need strength to hit a big rock with a stone to enter the city of Akator.


6. You have to bring a Crystal Skull. It's the key to open the door to Akator.


7. You shouldn't take the gold and jewelries. They belong to their owners - the Crystal Aliens (the Crystal Skull is an alien's skull), unless you want to be sent to a space between spaces because you're very greedy.


8. You don't need a visa but you should be able to speak Mayan with the aliens - it's their language.


9. If the aliens would like to give you something, you shouldn't ever ask for a present of acknowledge because it makes you look too greedy, unless you want to be an alien because humans are not yet ready for aliens' knowledge (and you'd be sent to the sapce between spaces, you know).
   
   A bonus: Do you still want to know why it is called a legend city of gold if you can't have the gold? Gold is a word translated from an Ugha word, meaning treasure. But the aliens' treasure is not the gold (sorry to disappoint you). It's the knowledge.
   
   Well, good luck for your travel to Akator! :-)

By: Maria Rosa (Mid-2)

Travel tips to Mineral Village

Mineral Village is a very beautiful village, which is unpoluted and also very clean. Eventhough there aren't many electronic devices to entertain you, the view here is fantastic. It's not bad to explore the land, because you will certainly enjoy it.

1.Language
You don't have to learn their language, because they can also speak English, and because of that you'll be able to chat with them in English

2.Visas and Passports
You also don't have to bring your passport and your visa, because 'Mineral' here is a village, which doesn't have any immigration laws.

3.Clothing and clothes
You should wear very polite clothes, because the normal villagers do so, and none of them wear non-polite clothes like tank-top and some others. Don't ever try to wear any unpolite clothes, if you don't want be an outcast or forced to leave the village.

For the clothes, you don't have to bring many, but don't forget to bring a swimsuit (the polite one which is like a jacket with trouser), because there is a very beautiful beach .The air here is cool, and it almost never rains. You won't get wet.

4.Money
You shouldn't be carrying a lot of money. In this village, there are almost no shops / markets. There are still some shops, but the price of the things in the shop are very cheap. Besides that, the people there are very kind. They'll give you what you need, but if they don't, they will just tell you where to get / buy it. Maybe bringing lot of money will make you forget to take it back, or make you regret it because you won't use it much.

5.Security
In this village the people are very kind and religious. They won't steal / break your stuffs, your belongings and your money.

6.Luggage
You shouldn't bring too many things to avoid misplacing them. Just don't forget to bring acamera / handycam and binoculars, because the view here is fantastic. Also don't expect your phone to be able to send text messages or make a phone a call, because there is no phone signal there.

By: Andreas

Mid-2

Tips For Your Gotham City's Travel

Language:

There will be no problem to comunicate with the people from that town if you can speak English quite well. If you can't speak English, you'd better learn the basics of English language or you can buy an English dictionary to make it easier to you to communicate with the people in that town.

Health:
You have to check your condition first before going to that city, because that city is extremely cold. You better have some vaccinations to avoid the diseases in that city, And you need to buy some medicine too.

Security:
Don't carry too much jewellery and cash in this town because you may lose them. There are many robbers in this town, and many great criminals too like Joker and Two-Faces. And don't try to rob anything in this city because you will get beaten by the Batman or get caught by the police. It's better if you can do some martial arts techniques.

Local Costumes:
There aren't special local costumes at this place. You can wear anything you want but you should wear a jacket or you will get cold.

Visas:
Of course you need visas to enter this country, if you don't have visas and try to go into this city you will get caught by the police.

Luggage:
In this city you will never know what will happen latter, so you musn't carry too much luggage. Try not to carry too many things that you will never use.

Travel Information:
You have to bring a map of this city or you will get lost, because this is a big city. If you are lost you have to go to the near police station and ask them to help you. if you aren't do it you will probably get robbed.

That's all, make sure you enjoy your trip at Gotham City

By: Avicenna

Mid-2