SEF ITB, my new Home in Debatopia

morning in 1st September 2010,
a Message that come into my cellphone enough to make me jump and scream like a girl. I was accepted in Student English Forum ITB!
After through 3 meetings of initiation program, compete with 290 candidates now another target has been accomplished. Sure it's not an end. It is the beginning of new world for me.
Another level of debatopia just unlocked. It's a varsity level! Let me review what happened in the initiation program.

day-1
The first meeting of SEF. all candidates was separated into 8 small groups. Each group was accompanied by one or two mentor(s). my mentor was Marsha. we got a job to pick 2 Brands that we like or dislike and we have to convince the others to feel the same on that Brand. we were given 1 minute to explain why we like/dislike that brand. This is a fun initiation program because you might find vary reason of liking/disliking a brand. sometimes there are some people who explain brands that compete each other. for example (in my group) one people chosen McD and the other choose KFC. it led to a conspiracy debate behind both brands. I was taking Power Ranger as my Brand :p I explain how good power rangers as our role model due to 2 reasons. 1st they are college students just like us yet they can manage their time well so they can juggle between study and fight. the 2nd they have influence all over the world. everyone (who have happy childhood) They must know about power rangers!
The Thing that we can take from this program was How to convince people. In debate we have to convince the adjudicators about the case that we brought.

day-2
Again we were separated into small group. But the task was different. we were in case of almost-sinking-ship and there just one Life Jacket. So, we had to take role as character that have been mentioned by our mentor. we can picked one from the list given. there were names such Ariel peterporn, Lady Gaga, Tiger woods, Megawati, Adam Lambert, etc. actually it was the day when Grand Final PEDC was held, right beside ITB (sabuga). so i couldn't enjoy it very much. (I did enjoy the Final and after-Final-Party in PEDC, that I described in my previous post Debatopia: World of debating)
The thing comes from this program was how we analyze nature and character of something and compare it to another to prove which one is the best.
There was another task in that day. We were given a paper written some case and we have to justify the action was done in that case.There were question about Genocide, Right of the defendant, gay marriage,etc. It was the test for how we justify something

day-3
Last day of initiation. Again we were separated into small groups and we have groups discussion and some modified-debating-system. 3 groups debated in a match but despite having opp-gov team we consider team from stakeholders. so in the motion of Corporal punihment, there are 3 stakeholders consist of Parents who agree of it, Parent who don't agree and Teacher who agree. But before the discussion was started, all HS debaters was called and notified to be more silent in the discussion in order to let non-HS debaters think and show their skill.
The point of this program was how we see a case from one stakeholder point of view and other point of view.

well, It just a beginning of New Level in Debatopia. I have opened its gate and The first destination that I saw is NEWBIE COMPETITION!
wish me luck guys