Thursday, April 29, 2010
Time is really relative
I'm in US government class right now, and we're supposed to make a power point presentation based on the topic that we choose. I choose Civil Rights. I chose it because it sounds interesting. But when I start to make the power point, I realized the topic is sooooo broad. So I have to look for so many sources to get what I exactly want to be presented. Now I'm tired of researching. And it feels like the class is long, like I've been in the library forever. haha. Anyway, sorry for the unimportant update. I'll update more later
I'm in US government class right now, and we're supposed to make a power point presentation based on the topic that we choose. I choose Civil Rights. I chose it because it sounds interesting. But when I start to make the power point, I realized the topic is sooooo broad. So I have to look for so many sources to get what I exactly want to be presented. Now I'm tired of researching. And it feels like the class is long, like I've been in the library forever. haha. Anyway, sorry for the unimportant update. I'll update more later
a moment of my life, 1:39 PM.
Saturday, April 24, 2010
04/24/2010
Nashville, TN
USA
Wow, i can't believe April is almost over! My time here in the US is almost up, i only have 2 months 3 days left here. Wow. But that doesn't mean my mission here is over, though. The fact is, i'm still doing my mission! I've been doing sooooo many presentations about Indonesia lately. The latest ones were International Day and Presentation @ TSU. International Day was so much fun, I had an Indonesian booth, I had a poster about Indonesia displayed(well the making of the poster wasn't fun), I danced twice, the first dance was during the transition of 2nd and 3rd period class so not too many people were watching, but people liked my dance! When I was dancing people cheered so loud, I was so happy! I was nervous before I danced because that was the first time I danced in front of so many people. And I learned the dance just weeks before I came here to the US, so i thought I couldn't dance really well. I was so glad people liked it. And then I thought I wouldn't be asked to dance again so I changed my dance costume to my traditional clothes, which was Kebaya (a traditional shirt and a batik skirt), and people said, "Oh I love your shirt, it's so pretty!' It made me even happier! But unexpectedly, the coordinator asked me to dance again but I was already changed, I wasn't in my dance costume anymore! The coordinator said nobody will notice that so I agreed to dance again. The second one there were some part that I forgot and I wasn't in my costume, but as my coordinator said, nobody noticed! They still cheered! Even days after the international day, people still come to me and said that I was the one that danced in the international day and they told me they liked my dance, although I don't know them. Oh and people liked the food too! I shopped at International market because I was planning to cook some Indonesian food but I was too busy making my poster and my other works so I called my friend's mom who is Indonesian to cook Indonesian food. It was such a short notice so she couldn't bring the food in the morning, but she would bring the food at 11 or so. That was totally fine for me, but unfortunately, the teacher that made a kind of assignment paper for students that visit International day put a question that asks Indonesian food that was served! We were so unlucky, out of every cultural question the teacher might ask, he/she picked question about Indonesian food, which hadn't even been served yet! because i had to dance and stuffs that i couldn't stay the whole day in my booth, so I just wrote, "Food is not here yet, but the name is Sate (it's like a kabobs with peanut sauce, and it's really really good)" It was totally embarassing. Soon enough, the food came, and guess what? The food was so delicious, it was gone just 20 minutes after it arrived. And the next day in my Pre-Cal class my friend told people that and Indonesia had such a good food. I was so happy I felt like flying. I will tell you the story about my presentation @ TSU later because I have bunch of homework to catch up with.
Nashville, TN
USA
Wow, i can't believe April is almost over! My time here in the US is almost up, i only have 2 months 3 days left here. Wow. But that doesn't mean my mission here is over, though. The fact is, i'm still doing my mission! I've been doing sooooo many presentations about Indonesia lately. The latest ones were International Day and Presentation @ TSU. International Day was so much fun, I had an Indonesian booth, I had a poster about Indonesia displayed(well the making of the poster wasn't fun), I danced twice, the first dance was during the transition of 2nd and 3rd period class so not too many people were watching, but people liked my dance! When I was dancing people cheered so loud, I was so happy! I was nervous before I danced because that was the first time I danced in front of so many people. And I learned the dance just weeks before I came here to the US, so i thought I couldn't dance really well. I was so glad people liked it. And then I thought I wouldn't be asked to dance again so I changed my dance costume to my traditional clothes, which was Kebaya (a traditional shirt and a batik skirt), and people said, "Oh I love your shirt, it's so pretty!' It made me even happier! But unexpectedly, the coordinator asked me to dance again but I was already changed, I wasn't in my dance costume anymore! The coordinator said nobody will notice that so I agreed to dance again. The second one there were some part that I forgot and I wasn't in my costume, but as my coordinator said, nobody noticed! They still cheered! Even days after the international day, people still come to me and said that I was the one that danced in the international day and they told me they liked my dance, although I don't know them. Oh and people liked the food too! I shopped at International market because I was planning to cook some Indonesian food but I was too busy making my poster and my other works so I called my friend's mom who is Indonesian to cook Indonesian food. It was such a short notice so she couldn't bring the food in the morning, but she would bring the food at 11 or so. That was totally fine for me, but unfortunately, the teacher that made a kind of assignment paper for students that visit International day put a question that asks Indonesian food that was served! We were so unlucky, out of every cultural question the teacher might ask, he/she picked question about Indonesian food, which hadn't even been served yet! because i had to dance and stuffs that i couldn't stay the whole day in my booth, so I just wrote, "Food is not here yet, but the name is Sate (it's like a kabobs with peanut sauce, and it's really really good)" It was totally embarassing. Soon enough, the food came, and guess what? The food was so delicious, it was gone just 20 minutes after it arrived. And the next day in my Pre-Cal class my friend told people that and Indonesia had such a good food. I was so happy I felt like flying. I will tell you the story about my presentation @ TSU later because I have bunch of homework to catch up with.
a moment of my life, 8:20 PM.
Friday, April 16, 2010
Wow. I can't believe it's already halfway through April. Even more than halfway! God, this year has been so fast i can't even believe it. it seems that it was just yesterday when i arrived here in the USA. And now, it's almost time for me to go home! Things have been great lately i've been enjoying here too much, i sometimes feel like i really want to stay here, but i really want to go home too. what a sick feeling. Anyway, did i tell you that i've been soooo busy lately? I have Young life(its like a club at school where we hang out, sing, play games, just a club to have fun! it's basically christian but so far it never felt like christian club at all. idk how to describe it but no worries, ok?), i've had frisbee, and so many other things. Because i've been busy that it feels like time just flies by, i decided to take some rest. Yesterday, instead of doing something after school, as I usually do, I chose to go home. Gosh, it felt so weird to be home that early. It just felt not right to be home at 2.50, u know... I didn't know what to do at home so i just watched DVD! Gilmore girls 2nd season DVD, actually. I looooove that show, so much! Lately I've been seeing that series even during school days. I sneaks out to the movie room, and watch it at night when my sisters are in bed! I like it so much i feel like i can't stop watching it! hahaha. Surprisingly I didn't get to the internet yesterday! Idk why, i tried to but after a few minutes, i got bored. Weird,huh?
And not only yesterday i chose to rest. I'm resting today too! So, this morning I went to my sister's school, Currey Ingram academy, because they had this pancake breakfast thing for a fundraising. It ended around 7.40ish and we dropped my other sisters at their school, and on our way home to grab stuffs i needed for school, i just had this crazy idea of staying at home and not going to school at all. I was already late, anyway. Waaaaay late. And more surprisingly my parents said, "Fine!" So they allowed me to stay! They said i've been a good sudent lately, just skipping school for a day won't hurt. Yippee. I was soo happy, until i figured out i didn't have anything to do at home, alone! So, instead of taking a lazy nap, I cleaned up my entire messy room, i cleaned every corner of it! even my bathroom and my balcony. It's so neat now so i feel good. it finished earlier than i expected to so i ended up watching dvd again. I enjoyed it. what a wonderful day doing literally nothing instead of doing everything. This kind of day doesn't happen a lot so I'm trying my best to relax and take a rest.
And not only yesterday i chose to rest. I'm resting today too! So, this morning I went to my sister's school, Currey Ingram academy, because they had this pancake breakfast thing for a fundraising. It ended around 7.40ish and we dropped my other sisters at their school, and on our way home to grab stuffs i needed for school, i just had this crazy idea of staying at home and not going to school at all. I was already late, anyway. Waaaaay late. And more surprisingly my parents said, "Fine!" So they allowed me to stay! They said i've been a good sudent lately, just skipping school for a day won't hurt. Yippee. I was soo happy, until i figured out i didn't have anything to do at home, alone! So, instead of taking a lazy nap, I cleaned up my entire messy room, i cleaned every corner of it! even my bathroom and my balcony. It's so neat now so i feel good. it finished earlier than i expected to so i ended up watching dvd again. I enjoyed it. what a wonderful day doing literally nothing instead of doing everything. This kind of day doesn't happen a lot so I'm trying my best to relax and take a rest.
a moment of my life, 3:09 PM.
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Ok..let's continue the story about spring break
and her the 2nd part begin...
Tuesday March 16th to Saturday March 20th Morning
We left Savannah on Tuesday morning. We took a walk around the town and the town was so historic and gorgeous. I learned that Savannah was the city where Methodist church was found in US. It also has history about Revolutionary War all around the city. I wish we walked a little longer but the Smith kids started to whine "My feet hurts, I wanna go back to the car!", etc, so we hurried up and left Savannah around 10 in the morning to go to Amelia Island, Florida. We arrived there in the afternoon, we went to the beach but it was so cold and windy so we stayed there only for a little while, then we went to the neighborhood swimming pool. I never like to get wet in the cold weather so I decided not to swim, but the Smith girls wanted to swim whether it's cold or not. It was so funny when they touched the water and said, "Oh, the water is not that cold!" so Tennent jumped to the water! And guess what happened after that! She froze to death! Not literally, but the water was really cold so she ran out of the pool and we almost ran home because Tennent was really freezing. We headed to the home where we stay in Florida. it was a house of a friend of my Mom. The family was very nice to give us a place to stay, they rent some movies for us to watch, they let me use the single bed room because I needed privacy and space, they even gave us prizes like green hair and beaded necklace for St Patrick's day, and an Easter bunny stuffed animal which is sooo cute! They took us to the beach several times in the afternoons because they work in the day. It was too cold to swim or sun bathe but all I did was looking for Shark tooth. I heard it's very easy to find shark tooth there but it's not true. There were so many shells so it's hard to tell which one is the real shark tooth and which one is not. But after struggling for several days, I finally found one on Friday, my last day there! The last day there was so perfect, it was sunny but it wasn't hot. It was a little bit High Tide and I wore jeans (I think) but I didn't care that I got wet as long as I found a shark tooth. I was very happy when I found one. I wanted to look for more to give to my sisters and friends back in Indonesia as souvenir but I ran out of time.
Oh anyway beside going to beach, in Florida we went to the downtown to buy the famous fudge and Ice cream, to see the Pier, to take pictures, to buy souvenirs (I got tons of them, some my host fam paid for but some I paid by myself). And we went to Jacksonville Zoo, and it was fun. It's kinda childish but i tried to enjoy it. I think it was the best zoo so far because we can see the animals from any side and we were not too far to see the animals. And I don't remember what day, we took a little trip around Amelia Island and then had a very short ferry boat trip. It was fuuuun. we got Popsicles afterward. Mine fell,tho. haha.
Shortly, my spring break was sooo long but it was fun. We always had something to do. We kinda skip cities so we could visit many cities. That made my spring break!
and her the 2nd part begin...
Tuesday March 16th to Saturday March 20th Morning
We left Savannah on Tuesday morning. We took a walk around the town and the town was so historic and gorgeous. I learned that Savannah was the city where Methodist church was found in US. It also has history about Revolutionary War all around the city. I wish we walked a little longer but the Smith kids started to whine "My feet hurts, I wanna go back to the car!", etc, so we hurried up and left Savannah around 10 in the morning to go to Amelia Island, Florida. We arrived there in the afternoon, we went to the beach but it was so cold and windy so we stayed there only for a little while, then we went to the neighborhood swimming pool. I never like to get wet in the cold weather so I decided not to swim, but the Smith girls wanted to swim whether it's cold or not. It was so funny when they touched the water and said, "Oh, the water is not that cold!" so Tennent jumped to the water! And guess what happened after that! She froze to death! Not literally, but the water was really cold so she ran out of the pool and we almost ran home because Tennent was really freezing. We headed to the home where we stay in Florida. it was a house of a friend of my Mom. The family was very nice to give us a place to stay, they rent some movies for us to watch, they let me use the single bed room because I needed privacy and space, they even gave us prizes like green hair and beaded necklace for St Patrick's day, and an Easter bunny stuffed animal which is sooo cute! They took us to the beach several times in the afternoons because they work in the day. It was too cold to swim or sun bathe but all I did was looking for Shark tooth. I heard it's very easy to find shark tooth there but it's not true. There were so many shells so it's hard to tell which one is the real shark tooth and which one is not. But after struggling for several days, I finally found one on Friday, my last day there! The last day there was so perfect, it was sunny but it wasn't hot. It was a little bit High Tide and I wore jeans (I think) but I didn't care that I got wet as long as I found a shark tooth. I was very happy when I found one. I wanted to look for more to give to my sisters and friends back in Indonesia as souvenir but I ran out of time.
Oh anyway beside going to beach, in Florida we went to the downtown to buy the famous fudge and Ice cream, to see the Pier, to take pictures, to buy souvenirs (I got tons of them, some my host fam paid for but some I paid by myself). And we went to Jacksonville Zoo, and it was fun. It's kinda childish but i tried to enjoy it. I think it was the best zoo so far because we can see the animals from any side and we were not too far to see the animals. And I don't remember what day, we took a little trip around Amelia Island and then had a very short ferry boat trip. It was fuuuun. we got Popsicles afterward. Mine fell,tho. haha.
Shortly, my spring break was sooo long but it was fun. We always had something to do. We kinda skip cities so we could visit many cities. That made my spring break!
a moment of my life, 9:04 PM.
