Today is Friday, August 26 2011. The day before our Lebaran holidays. Everyone is missing. My class is so empty. There is supposed to be in total eight students in my class. But today, there's only two. Melina and me.
This is a new class absent record. Last year, there were times that there were only three students in class. Never only two or less. While everyone is enjoying their holiday, Melina and I are being smarter. We are such good students. Having double periods of Maths wasn't good at all. When we don't know the answer we just sat there very quietly.
We both are glad that both of us came to school; we were planning to not come. If Melina didn't come today, I would be left alone like Junior College. We hope that it wouldn't be like this again. The class is very quiet and very awkward. If this continues, we might be lesbians. :P
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Ministry
Every Sunday I go to International Christian Assembly. ICA (International Christian Assembly) is a church located in PTC rooftop. My family and I have been going there since 1999, the year it was founded.
About five years ago, when I was ten, my Sunday School pastor asked me if I would like to join the worship team. Since then, every once a month I worship as a singer in front of the Sunday School kids. When I was younger, I was more hyper. I had more energy to jump around. But these few months, maybe because I am old, I would be exhausted jumping for a few minutes. Waking up early, singing and jumping around takes a lot of energy, usually when I get home I fall to my bed.
After graduating Sunday School, I volunteered with my friend to assist kindergarten students. Kindergarten kids are very naughty and would never listen to us. Eventually, I became a teacher for Sunday School. Unfortunately I wasn't able to teach the kids, without adults with support, kindergarten kids are uncontrollable. So I moved to toddler two and three. Toddle two is a very peaceful class; the kids don't scream, they just eat and play. Most of them has their babysitter with them. Toddler three is okay. They don't have babysitters with them but they are quiet. Most of them still don't know how to talk much.
I love small kids so much. One day in April, I was asked if I would like to be a camp leader for a group. Of course, I accepted it. I have been joining almost all the Sunday School camp since the age of eight. I was very excited to be a leader. It wasn't as easy as I thought it would be. We had many meetings, we had to think of a devotion too. Time flies, it was already June 23, Camp JoDa. It was my first time to meet my camp kids, in my team. There were many kids I didn't know, especially the older kids. We woke up at 5 am and slept at 2 am for the past 2 days. It was very tiring, but come to think about it, I experienced many things. And I know how much nice it is to be young. The kids ran up the hill, 50 minutes trip to the waterfall. They had so much energy, I couldn't run up the slope like the kids did. All the leaders were at the very back, walking up very slowly. Some boys were carrying the kid's bag too. The last day, I had lost my mood. I wanted to go back to sleep in my own comfy bed. But when the kids in my team came to me and sang songs, gave me a massage, gave me a hug and thanked me, I was very happy. I never felt like that before, and last, when the kids gave me a hand-made bracelet it was just too nice.
Even after camp, when i meet them, they would smile at me and show the shoelaces; which symbolizes my team 'Shoelaces'. I thank God for all the opportunity he has created for me. :)
Sunday, August 21, 2011
What I love
Since yesterday I introduced to you what I hate to do, today I would like to introduce to you what I love to do, especially during my free times. And also it won't be fun just knowing what I hate to do.Well, I love to sleep. If i have time I would be sleeping. I am able to sleep, quite anywhere.
Why I love it so much? It's because sleeping reduces stress and it makes me go have fun in my own world for a while. No one told me sleeping is not healthy. When I am so tired and stressed out, I directly go to my bed and sleep. I wonder why I just can't marry my bed? It is so comfortable and we are so attached we never want to let go of each other. Like right now, I am on my bed.
I believe we should have sleeping class or sleeping tournament. I am so confident that I would get perfect grades and win the tournament. I guess that's all. The only thing i love to do is to sleep.
Why I love it so much? It's because sleeping reduces stress and it makes me go have fun in my own world for a while. No one told me sleeping is not healthy. When I am so tired and stressed out, I directly go to my bed and sleep. I wonder why I just can't marry my bed? It is so comfortable and we are so attached we never want to let go of each other. Like right now, I am on my bed.
I believe we should have sleeping class or sleeping tournament. I am so confident that I would get perfect grades and win the tournament. I guess that's all. The only thing i love to do is to sleep.
Friday, August 19, 2011
Things I hate
One thing I hate to do but I need to do is to study. I wish studying is as easy as remembering lyrics. Because just listening to the song twice or thrice, I would be able to remember 2/3 of the song.
I just cannot concentrate when I study. Reading books are fine, but not sitting in front of my desk with a pencil in my hand. Even if I hadn't started studying I feel so tired, ready to go to bed. To be honest, when I self study, I do not know where to start from. This makes me take forever, which is why I hate studying so much. I feel like it is just a waste of time.
I know if I don't study I won't be able to get good grades. That is one reason why I study, even if I never want to. For my future and for the money my parents earn from their job, I want to go to a good university and make my parents proud of me. To do that, I need to study and get good grades. Especially if I am aiming a very big university. I am not the person who can remember anything by just listening. Thomas Edison said 99% is from hard working, 1% is from birth.
My mom told me to study so I need to go, bye people! :D
I just cannot concentrate when I study. Reading books are fine, but not sitting in front of my desk with a pencil in my hand. Even if I hadn't started studying I feel so tired, ready to go to bed. To be honest, when I self study, I do not know where to start from. This makes me take forever, which is why I hate studying so much. I feel like it is just a waste of time.
I know if I don't study I won't be able to get good grades. That is one reason why I study, even if I never want to. For my future and for the money my parents earn from their job, I want to go to a good university and make my parents proud of me. To do that, I need to study and get good grades. Especially if I am aiming a very big university. I am not the person who can remember anything by just listening. Thomas Edison said 99% is from hard working, 1% is from birth.
My mom told me to study so I need to go, bye people! :D
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Merlion's way Independence Day
Our school had an independence day ceremony on Tuesday, August 16th. Opening began with two teachers marching towards the middle of the gym. They faced each other and said something in Bahasa Indonesia which i didn't understand. I bet it was something very important.
Three students from Primary six walked straight to the flag pole. A girl who was between two boys was holding the flag of Indonesia. When they reached the pole, the two boys received the flag from the girl and attached the flag to the pole. It took quite a long time. The first time they raised the flag with their hands, it fell down. They had to reattach the flag. Waiting for awhile was very tiring, my knees started dancing, that time i thought i was going to faint any second. Finally the flag was raised, we sang the National Anthem. If it was last year, i wouldn't have been able to sing this song: i haven't had remembered the lyrics yet. But till now i do not understand what it means.
The first section of the ceremony was done. The next section was performance of each class from Primary three up to Secondary four. The small young kids performance was very cute. They way they sang and danced, if my class did it, it would have been horrible. Primary six was one of my favorite class that had performed. Most of the instrument players were girls, the singers were five boys. The singers had little movement of the body, it reminded me of super junior. They have a chance to be the next generation of super junior.
After the secondary one's performance it was secondary two and four, my class's turn. It was a little depressing that i could not join it as a bassist. Last time i practiced a lot for the performance though, i had to go to Bali so i passed the baton to Casey, she played the bass for me. I like this sing they performed. I have heard it many times but i still do not know the title. I understand a little about white and red, so i am guessing its something related to independence day since we played it at the ceremony.
Every class's performance came to an end. We had a break for about 20 minutes. The break was over, it was game time. Each class played a game for about 10-15 minutes.We are Secondary 4, so of course our game came the last. Waiting for it seemed like, forever. When it was about 15 minutes till 11am, it was our turn to play like small kids. We had a race, everyone including the Junior College will be paired up. The rules of the game was that we had to held hands with our pair and goal. But it wasn't just goal, we had to balance this object on our head. My pair was Casey, we were i think leading when the object fell off my head. We were so close to the goal. It was very sad, we could have won free lunch at the canteen. The winners were my classmates, Jesslyn and Yozellyn. They make such a cute pair together.
My first Independence Day ceremony finished. I was glad that it was done and nothing happened. I believe it was a big successful event. Happy 66th birthday Indonesia!
Three students from Primary six walked straight to the flag pole. A girl who was between two boys was holding the flag of Indonesia. When they reached the pole, the two boys received the flag from the girl and attached the flag to the pole. It took quite a long time. The first time they raised the flag with their hands, it fell down. They had to reattach the flag. Waiting for awhile was very tiring, my knees started dancing, that time i thought i was going to faint any second. Finally the flag was raised, we sang the National Anthem. If it was last year, i wouldn't have been able to sing this song: i haven't had remembered the lyrics yet. But till now i do not understand what it means.
The first section of the ceremony was done. The next section was performance of each class from Primary three up to Secondary four. The small young kids performance was very cute. They way they sang and danced, if my class did it, it would have been horrible. Primary six was one of my favorite class that had performed. Most of the instrument players were girls, the singers were five boys. The singers had little movement of the body, it reminded me of super junior. They have a chance to be the next generation of super junior.
After the secondary one's performance it was secondary two and four, my class's turn. It was a little depressing that i could not join it as a bassist. Last time i practiced a lot for the performance though, i had to go to Bali so i passed the baton to Casey, she played the bass for me. I like this sing they performed. I have heard it many times but i still do not know the title. I understand a little about white and red, so i am guessing its something related to independence day since we played it at the ceremony.
Every class's performance came to an end. We had a break for about 20 minutes. The break was over, it was game time. Each class played a game for about 10-15 minutes.We are Secondary 4, so of course our game came the last. Waiting for it seemed like, forever. When it was about 15 minutes till 11am, it was our turn to play like small kids. We had a race, everyone including the Junior College will be paired up. The rules of the game was that we had to held hands with our pair and goal. But it wasn't just goal, we had to balance this object on our head. My pair was Casey, we were i think leading when the object fell off my head. We were so close to the goal. It was very sad, we could have won free lunch at the canteen. The winners were my classmates, Jesslyn and Yozellyn. They make such a cute pair together.
My first Independence Day ceremony finished. I was glad that it was done and nothing happened. I believe it was a big successful event. Happy 66th birthday Indonesia!
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