College Life Chapter One

This is the first time I’d like to write about my college classes. Well, since it’s all about the self-study matter, so I enforced myself to do this.

July 18th, 2011.

Hospitality Calculation with Mr. Ir. Kusmayadi, MM.

Okay, this is our first time to study in college so Mr. Nervous came along the way as always. Fortunately, Mr. Kusmayadi wanted this first time class to be an introduction for all. He also introduced his subject, Hospitality Calculation, a bit to us. Sometimes, my friends and I discussed “Why should we learn about Aljabar or Statistics so far? Will it be used by us in hotel operation?”. This time, i think Mr. Kusmayadi had opened my mind. He asked us to make a future plans for five years forward. It is not a mistake or a big question for us to learn anything for reaching the higher level of education, because education is education. It just enrich us with thoughts and experience that would be a help for the future. The case is can we challenge ourselves to put our best in it. It’s a big thanks to Mr. Kusmayadi to remind us all.

July 19th, 2011.

Psychology Services with Mr. Yohanes Sulistyadi, MM.

At first, I thought that he is the kind of so certain lecturer or maybe the one that won’t laugh for a teen joke (I’m really sorry for that). But the world is always full of surprise, he is so funny! I believe that he is the most enjoyable lecturer I’ve ever met. All of his thoughts and material are delivered to us perfectly. I felt like we were so close to each other so that all of his theory is so easy to be understood. Wow, i hope he was my junior high math’s teacher... Hahahaha. Okay, that’s a joke. Well, he also did the same like what Mr. Kusmayadi did, this first class of him, was an introduction too. But this time, he asked to form a group of five and do a simple discussion about our personality, whether we’re a loser or a confrontative personality. It is like to match the idealism of a hotelier personality and I got the unconfrontative type of personality. I thought so. Hahaha, that’s a very nice class of him. It’s all thanks to STP Sahid and Mrs. Shilma to gave us such a wonderful opportunity in education.

July 20th, 2011.

Computer with Mr. Harisz.

English for Accomodation with Mr. Drs. M. Aritonang, MA.

It has to be like written above, but then it was cancelled because of some business. Hmm, so pity right~

July 21st, 2011.

English for Accomodation with Ms. Dra. Eva M. Mangunsong.

We learn about some conversation about making and taking a reservation. We practice a lot. I’m so happy to have her again teaching in my class, but this time as my lecturer. She is so kind and so understanding as a teacher, she thought of her students a lot. In class, she asked us to make some testimonials about the conversation and to make difference between one conversation to another. It was so fun, but the time goes by so fast.

July 22nd, 2011.

Front Office II with Mrs. Oky Dewayanti, S.ST. Par, M.Pd.

She was also one of my teacher in vocational high, I’m glad to meet some teacher again as my lecturer. This time is also an introduction class, but it seems like she was concerned to the non-Htel Acomodation students, such as F&B, because our college major is Hotel Accomodation only so that’s why there is no chance for them to choose any other major. Then, she asked those F&B students wheteher they already knew something about Front Office and then we all had to discuss it together, about every section in F.O department.

Food Service with Mrs. Dra. Shilmawati.

All right, she was also one of my vocational high school teacher, a great one for sure. This time she taught us about Banquet Service. Why there was no introduction if you might ask, that’s because she already knew us all better than anyone. Okay, so the case opened with a question “What does banquet means?”. Nobody answered correctly, then she answered “Banquet is a long chair which is sticked to the restaurant’s wall. I don’t know if I translate it right, here is the Indonesian translation: Banquet adalah kursi yang memanjang yang menempel di dinding restoran.

Therefore, the banquet staff normally consists of the following:

The above chart is the simple one, the complete chart was so blur so I can’t read it or even to post it. Here is also the duty of each position in Banquet Department.

• Banquet Manager : over all in – charge of administration, dealing with guest and coordination all arrangements.
• Secretary : handles all correspondence and filling and often takes bookings by the phone.
• Banquet Supervisor : coordinates the implementation of function arrangements and controls staff job allocation.
• Waiters : make the actual arrangement and do the service.
• Assistant Waiters : make the actual arrangement and do the service.
• Casual : do the service.

All right, I think that’s all about the Banquet Service, there are no much time to discuss a lot more with her, but I was satisfied enough with that.

July 23rd, 2011.

Housekeeping II with Mrs. Yuri Kusumawardani, S.Pd.

Here it is the Housekeeping class. Thanks God, we’re with Mrs. Yuri again. Hehehehe... Guess who? Yup, she’s my vocational high school teacher too. This time she lectured us via ex-student of 57 Vocational High School, Mr. Nasrullah or we could call him Mr. Anas. He made a presentation about K3 (Keamanan, Keselamatan dan Kesehatan Kerja) or in English: Security, Safety and Healthy at Work. He showed some amazing pictures that I’m really sure, nobody would volunteer theirselves to do such things. So that means we should work with the following S.O.P (Standard Operational Procedure) in order to our own security, safety and healthy working. Then the class ended with an assignment given by Mrs. Yuri which is we have to make such a presentation just like what Mr. Anas did.

Lastly, this was a nice week of education. I felt like an universyty student (that’s what they told us to feel like anyway). I hope it’ll going on very well in the future.