Hunting Foreigners

Sunday, 20 April 2014

That day was a great day ever for me and my little students. We had much experience in chasing many foreigners to help us practice English. We decided to go to Borobudur as our object in hunting foreigners.

We went there around eight in the morning. My students and I got off from a car at parking lot and we tried to find a foreigner there as soon as possible. But, the result was nothing, so we decided to go to entrance area and trail after two female foreigners. They entered a specific office just for foreign visitors with hurry steps. Oh my God, that was difficult for us to find foreigners at the first minute.

But, not so long we could meet two foreigners from Norway. They were Britt with two braids and her husband with glasses. I tried to ask her in helping and supporting my students to be brave in practicing their English.

“Excuse me, I’m Riska and I’m the teacher of theirs. They are my students who want to practice English, so, can you help me to motivate them practice their English?” I asked Britt with a nervous tone.

So, with a bright smile, Britt asked my students name and she explained her experience. That was a nice beginning. We said thanks them and made high five, they finally went to another place with their guide.

Some minutes later, we were still there to find other foreigners, but the result was nothing anymore.

I saw a young male foreigner with shorts and a backpack that I thought he was female, I tried to get closer and asked to speak English to my students. But, when he answered, I realized that he actually real male.

“Excuse me, I’m Riska and I’m the teacher of theirs. They would like to speak English to foreigners, and can you help them?” With high confidence, I asked him.

“Uhu, yea....” he tried to help me with a confused face.

“Hey,,, bla bla bla...” There was an old man called him and asked him to get closer to him. I thought that he was his guide.

“I’m sorry, I have to go.” He said with apologizing blue eyes.

I just showed my smile and let him go.

Finally, my landlady accompanying us asked me to buy tickets and enter the gate.

“I think we must enter the gate to get more foreigners.” My land lady tried to whisper me while giving me much money.

I bought some tickets and we finally entered the gate. I found two foreigners again under a big tree. I tried to introduce myself and the students of mine. They were Angela having short curly hair and her husbands with blue t-shirt. They were kind and friendly.

“My name is Angela, what is your name?” Angela Asked Izza, one of my students.

“Hello, my name is Izza, nice to meet you..” Izza answered the question and tried to be brave in practicing English with a foreigner.

“Do you like Indonesia?” Izza asked to Angela.

“Of course, Indonesia is green and the people are friendly like you.” The kind Angela answered.

Suddenly, there were two girls came in and greeted us.

“They are my daughters, one of them can speak Indonesian.” Angela explained me when they got closer to us.

“Hallo, apa kabar?” Tania greeted us with a beautiful smile.

“Hi, can you speak Indonesian?” I asked Tania with wavy blond hair wearing red dress and red scarf

“Yea, bisa, saya bisa bahasa Indonesia.” With a foreigner accent she tried to answer my question.

“Well, but, my students want to practice English to foreigners, can you help them to speak English?” I asked Tania and Nadine after I introduced myself to both of them.

“Oh, okay,, my name is Tania and this is Nadine. What is your name? Asked Tania to my students.

After we met them, we went to other places and decided to go to the peak of Borobudur. On the way, I met the young male foreigner and he greeted me then got closer to me.

Izza, one of my students got closer to him and asked a question, but, there was an old woman pulling him.

“Oh, I think you have to go.” I smiled, he looked so confused and guilty in leaving us two times.

“I’m so sorry, they are my family and we are walking up, are you walking up?” He asked me with a hurry tone.

“Yea, we are walking up.” I answered and tried to keep smiling although I didn’t like it and the weather was getting hotter.

“See you.” He tried to make me feel better.

“See you.” I answered.

Before continuing our exploration, we were asked to wear saroong. So, my land lady and I got saroong to be worn on our hips.

Then, my students and I continued the exploration until the peak without my land lady. She was tired and did not want to go to peak.

At the peak, we found Yumiko from Japan, a beautiful Russian, a granny from a country that I couldn’t catch what she said. Actually, she couldn’t speak English. Oh my lord, I was so confused what I should say when I met a foreigner who cannot speak English. I was also almost dried there because of the sun bright. When we decided to exit, I saw the male foreigner again and I hope that would be our last meeting. I was so ashamed because when my students and I would like to practice our English with him, there must be something disturbing.

Finally, we could exit from the gate, but the way to exit and to go to exit gate was so far. We were exhausted and felt so hot. We were also starving and weak. We waited for my landlord in picking us up to go back. Then we had lunch at a siomay store. Afterward, we went back to the boarding house and talked much about our experience. That was really nice experience for us although we must be tired and ashamed.