Univ Pakuan PBI Students Visit

Also on July 230th, 20 students plus two teachers from the English Education Department, Universitas Pakuan, Bogor, visited the RELO Center. They wanted to know about the activities of RELO so far and to know about Educational System in the US.
So, RELO Assistant Kun Herrini presented RELO Profile and RELO Damon Anderson led the discussion about Educational System.

The visit was programmed for only 2 hours, but it went on animatedly for 3 hours, and yet we rushed the last minutes. The students were impressed and even planned on coming again soon, either for group or individual visit.

Workshop on Briefing Notes at the RI-2 Secretariat

In the morning of July 20th, RELO Damon Anderson facilitated a workshop on Briefing Notes at the Secretariat of the Vice President Office. PAO Charles Silver also dropped by and attended part of the session.

It was great to see RELO in contact with other Departments, not only with educational institutions. It was also interesting to learn that other Departments are also doing efforts in developing their English communicative competence in various ways.

Workshops in LBPP LIA and STBA LIA

On July 19, RELO Damon Anderson facilitated a hal-a-day workshop on Adapting Materials in LBPP LIA in the morning and continued with a talk on "Revisiting the Curriculum" with STBA LIA.

In both sessions, participants seemed to really 'buy' what was presented. Well, concerning English teaching, we have to keep on moving, updating our materials and curriculum if we do not want to be left behind. A lot of work, but that's how it is supposed to be.

Hopefully there will pictures sent re. these activities

UNIKOM Bandung Students Visit

On July 12, 34 students plus their 3 teachers from UNIKOM Bandung visited the RELO Center. They wanted to know more about RELO and its activities. RELO Damon Anderson and Assistant Kun Herrini teamed up in presenting the RELO Profile in an animated way. Here and there, students asked questions and gave comments.

The assignment from the teachers that students had to write reports after the visit made many of the students record the session, with video camera and tape recorders.
The day before visiting RELO they visited MetroTV and Media Indonesia, and so they got the 'style' of a journalist when in the field collecting data.


RELO Damon Anderson greeted the students


RELO Damon Anderson explained the content of the folder


Posing together with "Bruce Wilis"

UNAND Students Intern

At present, up to August 25, 2006, we have 4 students from Universitas Andalas, Padang, doing their internship. They help around the RELO Center,
especially with administrative matters, such as data base for book collections, updating RELO contacts, etc.

Internship also means that they are learning things they do not learn at school, such as office procedure, office ethics, interpersonal communication, etc. At the RELO Center they also learn practical skills like hosting guests, photocopying, etc. It is a great chance for them to meet ELF Professionals and join the Roundtable Discussions, meeting students of different universities, etc.

The following pictures show some of their activities:


Briefing by Damon and Rizal
Amie is missing


Candra joining the Roundtable Discussion on Writing Poem