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I've joint a training today. Mr. Fery whom I adore gave feedbacks, constructive feedback I mean that I've never thought.

I can't give you a detailed text, but audio recording. Here is the link.

Things I learned in EDSA UIN competitions 2017

Hey, I have been in UIN Sunan Kalijaga. Surabaya for me is so goddamn hot. I could barely stand with the weather. But that's not the main portion of this post anyway. I just want to share to you how competition in UINSA was.

A. The story telling competition

First competition I joint was the story telling competition, it sounds crazy when you focus on "story telling". I thought it was not that odd considering that this competition is meant for high  and college students. But my presumption was wrong. Almost all competitors here brought something that was too plain for us as a college students. Anyway, the theme for this competition was world classic history - heroes with no capes. And yes, I was lost. I am sure that I could not make it because I didn't follow the existing rule. The commitee urged us to bring and modify an existing story from folklore, novel or something, but I instead brought a story of my own, about a young man named Jon who was gulped by a book and went to the past history of mankind to unite two soldiers factions that were in dispute. The story was quite lively and good I believe compared to most of the speakers, the problem once again only lies on the story that was not based on any story that had existed, that's why, I just got a best speaker.

The another problem that I presume hampered me to get a champion was a lack of preparation, I just discovered the Competition around 2 weeks before the day date and preparing everything around 10 days or so before the day. It made moss Cindy, a professional illustrator I've just known from Diana sick as she struggled hard to draw 20 pages of illustration before the competition began, but my expectation didn't come true though as she couldn't finish it well and on time, I managed to skip my turn by going to the toilet. That's why, from that moment, I began marking a  yearly event in my Google calendar to keep in touch of something like this.

Speaking of properties. I guess it was not really contributing onto overall calculations of score, but at least it could help me on getting higher score. Thing that I assume made me get lower score was because using microphone. It somehow limited my hand gesture and made me less expressive. I guess if the mini wireless microphone was provided, I'd just use it but they didn't prepare any.

Furthermore, talking about preparation and mastering of transcript. I was supposed to reach a level where I didn't need to reopen the transcript papers over and over or else I would mess it up. It was really tangible when I skipped a lot of parts. Including when Jon made an oration and some mumbling parts and grammatical errors that weren't  seem discovered by other audiences.

Then, about presentation, it's messed up, I've paid an operator with a cane of coffee but he didn't cooperate well. He didn't master the transcript but I would blame myself actually as I skipped too much part so the operators were confused. So, again, don't try to do an experiment on improvisation especially if you rely on operator of your presentation.