English I'm in Love

Language is a really exciting thing for me. Specifically, I’m really into English. I have loved it since I was child. I still remember well, when my elder sister came back home from school 20 years ago, I opened all stuff in her bag, included her books. FYI, I was 7 at that time and she was 16. From all stuff I found there, the most exciting things for me were chemistry and English books. I redrew the chemistry symbols in my own book as if I understood (but off course actually nope at all, lol). Then I read the English texts as if I understood, in a “bule” way. Without realizing it, it was the first time I found English is something I love.

After I was in hi school, for me, the only subject that I loved was English. But if you force me to give the second option, well, it might be French. My score for French on my last report was 91, while my English score was 90. Though, I love English more than French.

Then after I graduated from hi school, I chose to be in English department (for sure). And now, I am an English teacher in a private school in Pati, one little city in Central Java.

I have a kid now, his name is Azka and he is 2. Do you think that I teach him English as his native language? Nope. For me, an Indonesian kid should have a deep nationalism within themselves first. At home, I always speak in Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian) to him, and my husband does in Javanese (the environment as well). Thanks God, so far it works so well. Azka can understand and give responses in both languages in a very good way. He also knows that some words of the two languages have the same meaning.

Later, I’m sure that I’m about to teach him English. I hope that he also will be in love with it better than I do!

(On pict: Azka was sleepy while we were in a Pasar Malam)