From an Interview to Descriptive Essay

What will come to your mind if you heard someone interviewing others in order to make an essay? I know it should be many answers for that and of course some of you may think who will be the interviewer, an actor, actress, entertainer, a very successful person such as Oprah Winfrey. But in this case I have interviewed a new American English Native Speaker in my school. The participant of Fulbright English Teaching Assistant, Rajiv Jayadevan has been chosen as my source of doing this descriptive essay. Actually, the requirements asked to interview someone who really influence our life such as parents, idol, or somewhat but my advisor of this competition asked me to write about Mr. Rajiv Jayadevan. I can not say anything since he was a new teacher in my school and absolutely become an over year idol in my school.

Well, it is quite unbelievable for me as a student of that school because the new teacher never got such a very good response from the student like what he got.

As usual I went to the library in order to find him. It was busy Monday (November 2009). But he was not there. I tried to ask one of his students who also like to practice their English with him. They said he was in teachers room, so I went to that place and found him there. I asked him to get out from teachers' room and he did it. I started my conversation...

Me : "Sir, Youth Camp asked me to write a 400 words descriptive essay and I choose you as the object, can I write what I wanna write about you?"

Mr. Raj : "Sure. I can tell you my hobby. I love running, drawing, and ..... (Well, I don't really remember what he told about his hobby)

Me : "Hmm.. I think what I'm gonna tell is your physical appearance"

Mr. Raj : "Oh, my height is 5 f 9 and my weight is 165 pounds (check it out on my descriptive essay bellow :) )

Me : "OK, now, let say that you are handsome (he shew his sweet and big smile, LOL) and I think what make you handsome is your eyes, but I can not describe your eyes"

Mr. Raj : (still with his gorgeous smile) "I have brown eyes", "But you see me everyday so that it will not be a big problem for you. I think 400 words is not too much. It is only three or four paragraphs

Me : "OK! I think that is all. Thank you, Sir!"

Mr. Raj : "OK! See you!"

Yeah, it was a short dialog but from that short dialog I can write a descriptive essay which contains 400 hundred words. It is my essay!!!!

English Teacher of SMA Xaverius 1 Palembang

Outline:

1. General Statement

Ø Thesis statement: Rajiv Jayadevan got great responses from many students in SMA Xaverius 1 Palembang because of his nice personality and his good physical appearance.

2. A little thing about Rajiv Jayadevan

3. Physical appearance

4. Personality

5. Conclusion

32 American students were chosen randomly from their university to be an English Teacher in Indonesia. They followed one program, called FULBRIGHT. One of the followers was sent to Palembang, South Sumatera (SMA Xaverius 1, located on Jalan Bangau) as an ETA (English Teaching Assistant). His name is Rajiv Jayadevan. Rajiv Jayadevan got great response from many students in SMA Xaverius 1 Palembang because of his nice personality, and his good physical appearance.

Rajiv Jayadevan, who loves running very much, comes from the family of four and he is the last of two. This handsome guy with his nice brown eyes was born in India, March 13^th, 1987. Besides running, the boy who is Indian but spends his whole life in New York is also interested in drawing scenery and beautiful view. He also likes reading non-fiction books especially about medical. He likes reading book about medical because he plans to continue his medical study as soon after he goes back home to New York.

Great responses were gotten especially from the girls because Rajiv is the first English Teacher who comes from other country (USA). Another reason that make that kind of responses came to him is his physical appearance. He has a body which can be categorized as an ideal body because his height is 5 feet 9 (equals 1, 79 meters) and his weight is 165 pounds (equals 74, 8 kilograms). Not only his ideal body, but his handsome face also takes many girls attentions in that school. Many girls said that he is handsome because of his big and brown eyes, while others said that his pointed nose is the main factor that makes him look handsome.

His good physical appearances are the only reasons which make him got a great response. The other reason is his nice personalities. At first, I thought that Mr. Rajiv was an arrogant guy. Indeed, he is quite friendly because he welcomes many students, who want to improve their ability in speaking English. Besides friendly, he is also a good teacher. According to the students there, Rajiv has made them love English very much. Not only that, Rajiv also made them enthusiast in English lesson.

From the short description above, we can say that Rajiv Jayadevan is an ETA (English Teaching Assistant) in SMA Xaverius 1 Palembang, who got great responses from the school, especially the students because of his personality traits and his good physical appearance.