My Opinion about English, Bahasa Indonesia and My Mother Tongue Now I am going to tell you about my opinion about English, Bahasa Indonesia and mother tongue especially Malay language and firstly I want to tell about English. English as we know is an important language because is international language. Not only adult but also children need to learn it and master it. We know that kindergarten now also learning English. If we can speak English well we can have so many friends from around the world we can talk about the country about the culture and then we have many knowledge. And then, nowadays we know that many company need a people who can speak English to work. And then the second one is Bahasa Indonesia. Bahasa Indonesia is important as well and It is our identity and but I found some of people cannot speak Indonesian well and they tend to use mother tongue. And then for me Indonesian has an easy grammatical and then I like to use Indonesian colloquially, but I hate Bahasa Alay for sure. And then the last is my mother tongue is Malay. For me Malay language is similar like Indonesia. And then Malay have some language variation. I mean Malay language have a kind of language. And then many people use Malay and I love the accent for me Malay language is have a soft accent. Even my friend from another country say that Malay language is heard like a people singing. Okay that’s all for me.

unforgetable experince I have an unforgetable experince.The experince is about I am going to Batam Island when holiday come.I went to Batam Island with of my sister.When I stayed in Batam my activities every morning delivers my cousin to go to school. I have visited to go to walk arround the Batam city with my sister.So, on saturday afternoon I visited to Barelang Bridge.The Barelang Bridge was beatiful scenery especially in the afternoon.Usually when the afternoon many teenagers hangout at the edge of the Bridge.And there many people sold food such as a roasted corn,roasted banana,etc.Finally,I came back to home happily.Because that is the first time I visited Batam.I will visit Batam next time.

Visiting PLTA Lake I have an interested moment. The moment is about we were going to PLTA lake by motorcycle for about two hours. We were going holiday. After arrived at there, I was getting surprise because in PLTA lake there are some tour place such as arau besar waterfall and cave. The first day we just playing around the lake. We made a camping in the edge of the lake and fishing in the lake. In second day, my friends and I visited arau besar waterfall by speed boat. There was a couple of tourist at there and I took a picture with them. After that we were going to the cave, there was nest of cave bat. I didn’t want go into the cave because the cave is very smell. Finally, we went back to the camp to prepared. I feel so happy because it the first time I went to Bangkinang especially PLTA Lake. My friends and I will visit the other places in Bangkinang next time.

Cultural Differences Guinea Bissau is a small country in Africa. Embalo said that his country almost has the same big as Pekanbaru city. He came to Indonesia to study and he got some culture shocks here. 1. Of course in a different country has its own food. In Guinea they also eat rice, chicken and other foods, but the way they cooking is different. He deals with it by bring some breads in the market for almost two weeks and didn’t eat rice. 2. In Guinea there will not find somebody who put someone hand in your head. They just have a shake hand. He said people Coping with Culture Shock He said that he will not do anything without asking first. He doesn’t take his own initiative, because he knows Indonesia and Guinea have a different rule in. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thailand is similar culture like Indonesia, not very different. They come to Indonesia to study. Asma said that there are some culture shocks when the first time she came to Indonesia. 1. Foods in Indonesia and Thailand not really different, they also eat some spicy, sweet and sour foods, but the first time they came to Indonesia they just bought some foods in a foods stall. 2. Muslim in Thailand is just a little, but they are more religious than most Muslim in Indonesia. Shaking hand between man and women in Thailand is not common for a Muslim, but in Indonesia they find most Muslim people can do it. 3.It’s hard to distinguish which a Muslim women in Indonesia, because some Muslim women in Indonesia are not wearing hijab. In Thailand all muslim women are wearing hijab. 4.In Thailand it’s easy to find a trash can, because almost everyplace has it’s own trash can.

Barelang Bridge If you go to Batam Island it's not complete by not visit Barelang Bridge. Barelang is an iconic bridge of Batam.It‘s the third longest bridge in Indonesia after Posopati Bridge in Bandung. The length of Barelang bridge is 2.264 meter. Barelang’ is an abbreviation of the three islands names: Batam-Rempang-Galang. Barelang Bridges link the tiny island of Tonton Nipah to the larger Setoko, Rempang, Galang, and Galang Baru Island together. All bridges afford visitors convenient access as though they are travelling on a single big island. People usually visit the bridge just to take pictures or to have lunch or snacks in many food stalls or warungs located near this bridge. You can buy a sweet roasted corn here and coconut juice. Dragon fruits, a local fruit of Batam are also sold here, as well as other local snacks. Barelang bridge was built in 1992 and completed in 1998. The bridge is an architectural masterpiece Barelang of Mr. BJ Habibie, who was serving as Minister of State for Research and Technology. Construction of the bridge is to cost more than 400 billion rupiahs. Amount spent is to be comparable when viewed from the splendor of this solid-looking bridge. In the afternoon and evening, the bridges become a tourist area for the residents of the island of Batam. On weekends and holidays, the tourists who come not only from local people, even from abroad such as from across the country like Singapore and Malaysia, because the location of Batam is very close to Singapore and Malaysia. If you stop by the city of Batam, do not miss a visit to the “icon” of city of Batam. They say, if you have not visited Balerang bridge, you have not been to Batam.