Place I Want to Visit

I want to tell you about the place I want to visit. It is Sumatra Barat to be exact Lintau, my hometown. It was near Batusangkar and doesn’t appear on the map but you can search it in Google. It takes 6 hours by car to Padang so when I visited my hometown every Eid Fitri, I didn’t go to Padang because it’s so far away. My hometown is not too crowded, but also its not too quite. But, the vehicle that passed the road always on high speed and it’s not save to cross the road when its crowded.

Something that everyone likes the most about Sumatra Barat is its traditional food. Because everyone loves rending and nasi padang. Who doesn’t?  But every time I visit my hometown, we never buy something from Padang restaurants, my grandmother always cooked for us, and it was the traditional food of Padang.

Its 2 years already since I didn’t visit my hometown because last year my brother should find his senior school and this year is my turn. So I really miss my hometown and I really want to m=visit my hometown this holiday. 

MEGANTARA

This year, SMAN 3 Bandung presented a cultural festival called Megantara. it's about Nusantara so everything in this festival characterize Indonesia. From food, stands, stage, and traditional games were presented in this festival. I joined the committee in food festival division. So my job is to find food stands and food trucks to sell their food in this festival. the food must be traditional food and if its not traditional food, it was not allowed to characterize another country
This festival was held at Lapangan Bali 10th of September 2016 and the gate was open at 11.35. there are a lot of performance in this festival. The guest stars were RAN and The Changcuters. There were also performance from T'sT, vocal group, angklung, and fashion show that was joined by the 10th grade, But, I didn't really enjoy this festival because i had to look after the food truck so I'm the one who had the responsible to one of six food truck in this festival, it was Bobogi food truck, they sell milkshake and i got free milkshakes from them. I only watched The Changcuters performance but I was so excited, I didn't watched RAN performance because i had already watched it when they performed at SMPN 5 Bandung. The point is, this year's festival was so cool and I'm so proud of it :)

My Unforgettable Moment

My unforgettable moment was when I cracked my nose when I was practicing cheer at school. My nose bleeds for almost two days. It happened because at the time I was the back base and my flyer was practicing her double twist and her hand hit my nose several times. At first her hand hit my lips and then my jaw then hit my nose. one time when my flyer tried her double twist and her hand hit my nose, it was bleeding, After I caught her in my arms, I immediately let go of my flyer and pinch my nose. When I removed my hand, the blood were stream down to the floor then I cried immediately. My couch said that if I cried my blood wouldn’t stop stream down. So I stopped crying and I wasn’t allowed to join the practice at the time.

On the next day my mother was taking me to the hospital so I skip my first and second class. My doctor said I wasn’t allowed to join cheerleader anymore because if this thing happened again and I could break my nose and that was not good. So I stopped cheerleading and my father was so mad at me. But after a month, I joined cheerleader again but my couch changed my position to front base when we were going to regional competition and changed my position again to back base when we were going to the national and international competition in Bali.

Why I Choose SMAN 3 Bandung?

So it started when I moved to Bandung. When my parents were looking for my sister’s school, they read something about SMAN 3 Bandung, something good about it’s achievements I think. So after that, they constantly want their children to get in this school. By the way at the time I was at 4^th grade, my brother was at 5^th grade, and my sister was about to start her middle school and she was taking the RSBI test to enter SMPN 5 Bandung. My parents tell us about our soon to be school, to me and my brother was SDSN Banjarsari and to my sister was SMPN 5 Bandung.

That’s how my parents know SMAN 3 Bandung at the first time. Now I'm gong to to tell you how I know SMAN 3 and why did I choose this school. At the beginning of he school year (the first day of school in Bandung and I’m so excited) my teacher asked the students where are we going after we graduated from elementary school and some of my friends said SMPN 5 Bandung, some of them said SMPN 2 Bandung,  some of them said SMPN 7 Bandung and the others. Then my teacher asked again where are we going to when we graduated from that school and most of them said SMAN 3 Bandung. And I’m the only one who remained silent because I didn’t know much about it. Because of my curiosity, I asked my chairmate why is everybody want to go to SMAN 3 Bandung? And she said that this school have the best alumni and the test to get in there was so hard. And if you already get in there you have to study hard like 10 times more than what you already did now. After I heard that, I was like “oh I would never get in there, I was too lazy, I couldn’t survive when all of my friends were  ‘Einstein’ wanna be.”

So when I graduated from elementary school, I started to think where would I go when I graduated from middle school. I was motivated by my sister who get in SMA 3 after she graduated from middle school. But when I see her, she always study at night, and what I did everyday was watching television, reading comics dan the other. So I want to change myself and be a better person and study hard to get in there and make my parents proud because when my sister get in there, my parents  looked so proud and almost cry and at the time when she graduated, she passed the test to Faculty of Medicine Universitas Padjajaran and make our big family proud because she will be the first doctor in our family. So that’s why I choose SMAN 3, because I want to make my parents proud, and this school have the best alumni, one of them was my sister. :)

Woman Emancipation

Raden Ajeng Kartini was one of the most popular figures as a pioneer of women emancipation in Indonesia. She was born in Jepara 21^st April 1979 and died at the age of twenty-five . She came from an aristocratic family. Kartini and other women life was tamed by Dutch at the time, they were not able to go to school or get an education. They were forced to stay at home and dothe house chores.

Her father was a Regency Chief of Jepara and her mother was a religion teacher. At the time, a chief must married a woman who came from highborn, because of that rule, Kartini’s father married daughter of King Maduraas his second wife.kartini was the 5^th child from 11^th children and she was the eldest daughter from both of her mother. Her grandfather was Pangeran Ario Tjondronegoro was a Regency Chief and the first one who allowed his children to get an education. But as her grandchildren, Kartini only allowed to get an education until she was 12 years old because at her age she can marry someone, or do the house chores to prepare herself to be a good wife for her future husband, because the governments think that only man who needs an education. But Kartini continued to educate herself at home, and she always sent a letter to her Dutch friend Rosa Abendanon. Kartini could speak Dutch really well so they became close-friend and Rosa Abendanon always supported her as a friend.

Kartini likes to read newspaper and she always describe her feelings with a letter. On 1911, all of her letters that was sent to her Dutch friends were recorded by Mr. J. H Abendanon, ‘Door Duisternis tot Licht’. This book was only published in five copies and in the last copy there was a letter by Kartini. But on 1938, there was another version of the old one. It were devided to several chapters, it showed changes in Kartini’s way of thinking during her corresponding time. There are eleven copies of this book. Her letters were translated in English by Agnes L Symmers and also translated in Sudanese and Javanese.

In 1964, the president of Indonesia at the time declared that Kartini’s birthday as ‘Kartini’s Day’ to remind all woman in Indonesia because of her kindness and spirit she taught us that woman had the same rights as man did and all woman could get a normal education. Not just that, every Kartini’s Day we always celebrate it by wearing our traditional clothes and sing ‘Ibu Kita Kartini’ that was written by W.R Soepratman song as appreciation of her and every women in  Indonesia struggle to be self-determined.

As a women, we should be super duper extra mega proud to be Indonesian and have Kartini as our hero. Because without her every woman in Indonesia wouldn’t get an education and have no rights to tell our thoughts.