title: Go for it

While watching the Olympics the other night, I came across an incredible sight. It was not a gold medal, or a world record broken, but a show of sheer determination and guts.
The event was swimming and started with only three men on the blocks. For one reason or another, two of them false started, so they were disqualified. That left only one to compete. That would have been difficult enough, not having anyone to race against, even though the time on the clock is what’s important.
I watched the man dive off the blocks and knew right away that something was wrong. Now I’m not an expert swimmer but I do know a good dive from a poor one, and this was not exactly medal quality. When he resurfaced, it was evident that the man was not out for gold — his arms were flailing in an attempt at freestyle. The crowd started to titter. Clearly this man was not a medal contender.
I listened to the crowd begin to laugh at this poor man that was clearly having a hard time. Finally he made his turn to start back. It was pitiful. He made a few desperate strokes and you could tell he was exhausted.
But in those few awkward strokes, the crowd had changed.
No longer were they laughing, but beginning to cheer. Some even began to stand and yell things like, “Come on, you can do it!” and, “Go for it!” He did.
A clear minute past the average swimmer, this young man finally finished his race. The crowd went wild. You would have thought that he had won the gold, and he should have. Even though he recorded one of the slowest times in Olympic history, this man gave more heart than any of the other competitors.
Just a short year ago, he had never even swam, let alone raced. His country had been asked to Sydney as a courtesy.
In a competion where athletes remove their silver medals feeling they have somehow been cheated out of gold, or when they act so arrogantly in front of their rivals, it is nice to watch an underdog.
A man that gave his all — knowing that he had no chance, but competed because of the spirit of the games.

by: Risqiqa Lisnadea

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Language Development Program (LPB) Serang Raya University incorporated with Regional English Language Office Center (RELO) of American Embassy has already organized successfully the  English International Workshop on 28th March 2012 at building B of Serang Raya University with the three professional American English Teachers (Jacklyn Gishbaugher from English Language Fellow, Hametto Benkreira and Kayla Lawson from Fulbright English Teaching Assistant) and 170 participants included Lecturers, Teachers and Students. this workshop entitled “How To Optimize Teaching and Learning EFL in Classroom“.

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Captured on 28th March 2012, posted by Imam Fauzi

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Korean Internet Volunteer Program has already made an agreement and corporation in developing Information and Technology educational program with UNSERA that become a partnership in education development. UNSERA is the one University that had built international relationship among American education consultant, Australia, and Korea.

These pictures captured on July-august 2011, University Serang Raya   incorporated with Korean Internet Volunteer (KIV) that was already hosted by UNSERA in the program of Culture and IT Education.  (Posted by Imam Fauzi)

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LPB UNSERA and BEM UNSERA incorporated to organize the TOEFL Seminar that was held on Friday 23rd Dec 2011 in its purpose is to motivate students awareness on how important the TOEFL Proficiency test for the study and career. Seminar and Try out Test of TOEFL were given to the participants.

the debaters performed greatly and impressively an English Debate performance at the TOEFL seminar 23 dec 2011 organized by BEM Unsera, Lembaga Pengembangan Bahasa and the course of Future school of English incorporated to provide sufficient information about the TOEFL proficiency test for all students of UNSERA who were interested in joining and participating this kind of seminar and its test. (posted by imam fauzi)