Our First Observation

This is about my final thesis. I studied in English study program especially in education part that means after graduate I can be a teacher or not (actually I do not want to be a teacher because I think it is difficult to handle many students and I must to know what they want or their problem). Back to my thesis, my first advisor is Mr. Dr. H. Wido H. Toendan, MS and second advisor is Mrs. Olga Dona Retsi, S.Pd, M.Pd.  Actually it was my lucky I could be Mr. Wido’s advisor student because I am not his academic advisor student. Well, there were five people who became his academic advisor student and automatically they became his thesis advisor students, too. Why was I lucky? Because he is my uncle, and he suggested me to found a friend to helped me. So five my friends did other observation and I and my friend did different observation. I and my friend observed about multiple choices in English summative for Junior High School students meanwhile my friend did it for Senior High School. It is the first observation in English Study Program of Palangkaraya University and this idea was given by Mr. Wido. So both of us only applied the idea.  The observation started in January; I went to school and asked the English summative test sheet from the teacher. In the beginner, I was in difficult situation because most of the teachers do not want their problem to be observed meanwhile my thesis connected with teachers’ problem in making multiple choices for English summative test but fortunately I could answer the question about the thesis for the teachers (I was accompanied with my friends, Vanny) and they give the sheet to me. In the middle of process of the thesis, our first advisor changed planning. So, not only 2 people who did it but also the other five. He said the title and method that five my friends did will make a long observation and they can graduate in December (actually we planned in April, but in the end we graduated in August). 

So the planning changed and he said with me and my friend to taught them about our thesis. In order to making the different observation result, so Mr. Wido asked them to other regency. It was because I had already observed in Junior High School in Palangkaraya, so did Sri who in Senior High School. We scattered, Mifta in Kuala Kapuas, Esti in Samuda, Vanny in Sampit, Victoria in Pangkalan Lada and Jejes in Palangkaraya but she did it in Vocational High School. Then, I and Sri taught them about the material and gave many books (in condition, they had copied books that connected with their first title before), and they must went to regency and made thesis proposal and back to Palangkaraya in one week!.

 The process was going well and because in regency sometimes is so easy to ask English summative test sheet. In the moment, we were still sure could graduate in April, but plan changed again and again (beside, we are like ‘digantung’, we went to his home on time, gave our proposal and went home and must waiting without know when we were called, 3 weeks, a weeks, a month, three day or a day!. We must be ready). About the planning, there was one friend who joint last when we hoped we could do seminar proposal quickly (because it had been three month at the moment when we had made thesis proposal). Her name is Uci and she was being pregnant. Her first advisor actually was Mrs. Dewi Mulyono Santoso meanwhile second advisor was Mr. Wido. Because Mrs. Dewi is ill and can not do anything in while so Mr. Wido’s responsibility to helped her. I did not know how our face changed when he explained about it; I though my eyes were suddenly empty. But in that case, we got learning about how to helped person or people sincerely. After discussed it we openly wanted to help her and it must one week, too. Can you imagine in condition she was being pregnant, she must went to school to asked English Summative test (she did it Islamic Senior High School) and went to Mr. Wido’s home by motorcycle, alone! (We often went to his home in evening). Honestly, she is strong woman even when her pregnancy had been 8 month; she still went to faculty to administer about thesis, file, etc and it was also by her motorcycle.

 If I did not forget, in a week or two weeks we were be ready to face seminar proposal with 11 examiners and us, 8 people in a group. Yep, 11 examiners and most of them are senior lectures. The seminar was so long; it started at 9 a.m. and finished at 12 a.m. Honestly, I was messy to answering the question from examiner even I did not know what I said at that time. But fortunately when we were in seminar thesis, I was success to answer the question even with messy and weird English and in the end with Bahasa but I was happy I gave my opinion and answering well and the examiners understand what I meant. I am still satisfied until now.

In the end with my messy grammar and explanation above, in processing of our thesis I get many good things and experience. I was so helped with Mr. Wido, he is very kind in helping us although his tough, discipline, idealist and bad good mood character. In the past, the students did not know when he was good mood or bad mood, to be honest he was always angry and I can say he could not control his emotion. But now he is a kind lecturer, actually he was. Because his temperament, students did not dare talking or playing their mobile phone when he was teaching. He is still popular with that character. Then, he gave us ideas about our thesis even other examiners could not ask many questions because it is new observation and he said we must be proud and a little arrogant about it. The other good thing is we know how to help person sincerely (in this example is Uci). The last, we were working hard in a group every night to discussing and helping each other to solving the problem in our thesis. 

So, This is our group with our advisors and examiners after thesis seminar.