Yup! I used to greet people every Saturday morning from a radio station.
While everyone is probably still sleeping, I had to wake up pretty early, catch a bus and travel 45 minutes to outside of the city. On Friday night, while everyone is out to see a movie or shopping at a mall or dancing at a club, I had to stay home and work on my script and prepare everything for the morning show on the Radio. “Spotlight”, that’s what the show called. It is a radio program that uses English as a primary language. Its target is a student, but everyone is welcome to join. It’s an hour program and I think it’s pretty good especially for those who want to learn English. As a radio program host, that works in a studio and speaks on the microphone where people can only listen to my voice on air, doesn’t mean I didn’t do much. Well, as a host I need to figure out how to make listeners interested enough to listen my program, so every Saturday, I came up with different topic. Sometimes I invited a guess to share their experience depending on the topic. When Nikki was here visiting me, I asked her to be my guess and shared her experience in traveling the world for 5 months, at that time the topic was ‘backpacking’.
Nikki is Canadian whom I met in my hometown – Jambi while she was little kid. She and her family lived there for two years. My mom was their cook and shortly, her family became my family since her parents are my benefactors. I moved to Jakarta with them and they lived here for two years. In summer, we would visit their family in Canada. They moved back ‘for good’ to Canada in 2004. I left behind because I needed to finish my study at university here. We never lost contact. I got to visit them to Canada and stayed there for the whole summer holiday. So, yeah that’s about it. Briefly :)
Anywaaaaayy… as a host, I also let listeners phone to the studio and share anything they like according to the topic we were discussing. Since it’s an English program, of course I also had to play English songs, of course. Sometimes I would throw a quiz to listeners and whoever won, they got a present.
Honestly, this job didn’t pay much. But, I was happy most of the time because it was just an amazing feeling that I get to share knowledge with everyone. It didn’t bother my main job. It also helped me practicing my English. So it was all good and positive for almost a year. There was time when I complained couple times for having to wake up early every Saturday morning, had wished to slept in instead. Nonetheless, I could still manage and looked at the positive things about it. It didn’t last very long. I was tired and I wanted to leave and I knew it wasn’t easy for me. But I wanted my Saturday back. It neither selfish nor silly reason, was it? So I said goodbye to all listeners in early February.
Now it’s been 6 months since I left the radio station. I miss being a host. I miss getting on the chair in the studio, talking to a microphone and greeting listeners every Saturday morning. I’m saying this, not because I’ve regretted my decision to leave the radio. I’m just.. you know.. I’m just saying
;) I think there’s nothing wrong telling a story about things I loved doing in the past. I’m happy where I am now and am sure I have made my mom proud of me, “Zwes, I’m proud of you for taking the world by storm” she said.
To all spotlight listeners… I love you guys!! :D
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