Lately, I have had a stranger feeling. Suddenly, I miss English very much. I really don't know what's happened to me.
Actually I've ever joined the english course, but its very long long time ago.
I am a lecturer now. I'm majoring in management science. I like writing. Write anything. Sometime I research something relevant to economics.
Lecturer..., it sounds great. But, the University where I dedicate myself is not a huge or a famous one. University 45 Surabaya. Its name will remind us to the past situasion when Indonesia soldier fighted to be independent nation. Yes, right ! The most special word that we always listen at my University is strugle..strugle and strugle. That's all.
You can imagine this.., University 45 is located at the main street, Mayjend Sungkono, but unfortunately...it's not familiar by people, I mean, not many people know it. Even It doesn't promote itself because of the funding scarcity.
So now, why English is sunddenly interesting for me ? ' cause I've been feeling that I'm on maturity stage in my career, now. I've been feeling that I'm just like an average person. I'm not different anymore from others. I mean, my abilities are the same as others...Yes, I used to be different. I used to be different when it were just a few person that could reach the post graduate sertificate. It was happened in 1999. Now, every person can reach the post graduate sertificate easily.
It drives me to think hard about what activities can make me up, then.
When I opened the website of Ditjen Pendidikan Tinggi, I found that there are many opportunities to be reseachers that their reseach activities would be funded by government. Indonesia government join with foreign one.
so, my mind and my eyes became opened. I said myself. Why don't I try. Why don't I take these opportunities. What will be the first thing I do? I've got it !!!
I think English mastery is the most important capital for me to compete with anyone that choose 'a lecturer or researcher' as profession/job.
Without English, I'm just an average person. But with English, I will have a differentiation.
I wish, some day in the future, I hope, by the next year, people will see my research report or my article will be provided at an international journal. And, I find my name aridha, there...(I need Kelt)
