My Reflection in Learning English

One day at March 12, 2009 I’ve got an exercise from Mr. Marsigit as my lecturer of English II. The first activity that that must we do is praying before begin that class. So, after praying he asks us to prepare one sheet of paper and a pen. So I was very nervous because I think I am not really has a good preparation for this unplanned exercise. When Mr. Marsigit at that time starting his instruction to answer some questions, I just can preparing my self to be calm and can thinking seriously. Mr. Marsigit starts with number 1, 2, and 3 and continued to latest number. It’s all 50 numbers of questions.
I think that it’s not too difficult questions if I prepared my self before, but I think that my work is not too good because I have not prepared my self before. In that exercise, Mr. Marsigit always remembers us to be honest in every part of job, every part of life. Because he thought that honesty is the most important thing that we must has to be a succeed person. He also asks some students to move to other chair when he looked there are some unwanted activity of the student. I think that’s very good to make us always has self confidence.
When the test was ended we start to make a correction from the result of that test, so finally I’ve got not good mark from this exercise. I was very disappointed and really sad, because from that mark I know that I am not too good in this lecture.
Mr. Marsigit also thought that it’s not too good mark enough from us. Mr. Marsigit told us that we must take a change and use it to be the process if we want to be better from before. We must be always doing the self reflections because the mark is showed that all of student in my class is not too good in English lecture especially in English of mathematics.
After the test, Mr. Marsigit told us a real story about a student from USA that got an international scholarship. Before she get the scholarship, she must pass the TOEFEL test by excellent. She is a student like us that has a good competency and very smart to make challenges to be a change. So we as the student too, we should always has a good competency.
Mr. Marsigit called us like a child of bird that still has no fur, so when we want to fly, we can not do it. Mr. Marsigit compares us with the student from USA. He told that she alike a child of bird that has the fur to make her be able to fly into the sky and reach her dreams. So, from this comparison Mr. Marsigit hopes we can get the fur too to can fly like her. The way to can reach our dreams is we must leave the laziness and we must take a change and challenges. Although in some ways we fail, but we not must to surrender.
The question that appeared after this is how to improve our competent in mathematics, English, attitude and etc. one of that way is by answering “How to use preference?” If we can use the preference by maximal, we can get a lot of materials and it can make us cleverer than before. There are so many ways to use the preference, for example is attended the lecture, using internet access and always search information from other people.
If we want to be a good person, we must always thinking about the greatest and the biggest dream. After we have some great dreams, we must search the way how to make that dreams comes true. The only one answer is we must have no fear factor when we pass some problems.
From the test, the result of the test, from the Mr. Marsigit’s advices, finally I know that I must be strong when passing the hard problems that I find in journey to reach my dreams, and always keep our curiosity with everything and always trying to find the answers of it. It’s all about the reflection in learning mathematics.
I was found from here that life is a struggle to be better and better. So, according me I see that life is the changes and the challenges, and we must take it to can make us better. My second assumption of life is there is just only two results in the end of life, failed and succeed. So what’s your choice?