STUDENTS’ WORKS

Sri Indah Cahyani, 1 SMA, 16 September 2005

A lot of teenagers think that the fast way to end their problems with suicide. Suicide is killing themselves. And they have a lot of reasons why they do that. One of the reasons is that they can’t handle a problematic situation. So they think the only way to end their problems is with suicide. They think nobody cares about them. So nobody can help them to get trough their problems. So they just run away from their problems with a very shallow way.

A lot of problems that make some teenagers choose that way such as financial problems, they are shy because they don’t have what the others have and that makes them feel desperate. And other problems are broken-home, their parents always at odds or abuse (whether physical or sexual) and those problems make them down and so desperate. Sometimes it is just because of a simple thing that makes them to take their lives.

I think it can happen because of lack of attention of the people around them. We start from family; maybe parents should give more attention to their children. Sometimes their children think their parents are careless of them. But actually maybe their parents are too busy with their career, or even the parents abuse their children.

And we should care about our friends too. Sometimes at school we like to ignore the nerds. What you feel if you are in their position. You must be desperate and hate the universe. Maybe they are weird but their just human being, so treat them like human too. So we start off to prevent a suicide from a small community.

If somebody tells you that he or she planned to commit suicide, you must give him or her advice that suicide is not a solution of his or her problems. If you think to do suicide just forget it and don’t think about that again. Against a suicide!

Ivandry Febriando (Ando), 1 SMA, 16 September 2005

If I only have one wish……….
Nothing more I ever wanted than you …….

Rush, to tell you that
I love you so much

Many times I’ve been
Around
Right soul I’m searching for
Dark is no longer
I found you in my emptiness
A gift from Heaven above
Now I know
The answer must be you
My love

MA DOG
Yosephine N. Maulany

I had a cute dog, named Chiko. My cousin gave him to me 3 years ago. I don’t know what race of dog he was. Since he was little he liked to play a lot, always bit everything. It always barked even in the midnight, I thought he saw a ghost. My brother, my father and I used to play with him every day.

After a year he grew up and tried to make a trouble with our neighbours. Once in the afternoon I rode a bicycle, and I saw my dog bit a little child. I was in panic!!! I didn’t know what to do? I told my mother and we took that child to a hospital.

After that my dog was removed from my house, my uncle took care of him. But when I was visiting him he looked very sad, very thin! I wanted to cry when I saw him. My dog always fought against other dogs, but in pairing-season he acted like a fool. He paired a female dog, and a few months later came Chiko junior. But the junior was not as cute as my dog. Last year I had to go to Netherlands. I was very sad that I had to leave him. When I went from my house to the airport I kissed him and he was barking. I really didn’t want to let him go, and neither did he!

From the Netherlands I always thought about him every single night, but what could I do? When my brother came here he told that Chiko had no strength anymore. Maybe he felt sad, no friends. Last month while I was studying I heard news from my brother that Chiko died. I was shock! I didn’t know what to say. I was crying, I always remember him. But I think he’s now happy. I can’t see my Chiko anymore. He’s the cutest dog I ever had; someday I will get another Chiko with my new family.
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GOODBYE HIGH SCHOOL…. HELLO COLLEGE
Ajeng Kinanti Sarwono

I’m a high school student. I go to the Indonesian Embassy School in Netherlands. This is the only one Indonesian school that left in Western Europe. I’m on the third grade that means this is the last year for me on high school. It is so hard for being the third grade student. We have to study very hard so that we will pass the final exam. In the third grade the students are divided into 2 classes: IPA and IPS. IPA is learning about the natural sciences and most of it is calculating. IPS is about social subjects. One of the students in IPS is I.

I have to study. I’m not just studying or learning from what I’ve got in the third grade but also what I’ve got in the first and second grades. It means that I have to start it again learning all the materials from the first grade. And there is also one subject that the teacher says I have to learn it myself with my group because I didn’t get that subject from the first year; that is Accountancy.

Days go by. I only have 8 or 9 months until the final exam. I’m kind of nervous. I’m scared that I wouldn’t pass the final because sometimes I get a kind of lazy in learning those materials. I’m scared that I should re-start the high school again if I didn’t pass the exam.

My plan is to go to Indonesia after I finished my exam; so then I could go to some kind of extra courses. I need extra courses for SPMB. SPMB is like a test so then if we pass it we can go to the popular university. Only few hundreds will be admitted from thousands of applying students. We have to retain good grades to pass the test.

I really want to go to Universitas Indonesia. But, if I can’t be into that university maybe I will take Plan B. The Plan B is that I will enrol to another university. Maybe I will choose Trisakti University because my mother and my father graduated from there or in Atma Jaya University. Atma Jaya is my last alternative because I don’t really wanna go there.

I wish I could be accepted at a good university. So then I will be a city girl. An independent city girl that always hangs out with my friends and being popular around Jakarta. So first I will pick up Nea, she lives in nearby my house and then we’ll go pick up Mira. After that we will chillin’ around Jakarta. Nea and Mira are my close classmates here.

That was just my plan. I don’t know whether everything will go as it is planned or not. Because sometimes thing doesn’t go as we wanted to. I just hope that I could pass the final exam with the best grades and go to college in Jakarta with my other friends. So then maybe I will say “Goodbye High School…. Hello College.

My Holiday
Didjah Rafioeddin

At the beginning of the last summer holiday my uncle called my mother asking whether my family would go along to visit a carnival in Tilburg.

My mother said that was OK for the kids but she said she could not go and neither did my father because they had to work.

From my family only my brothers and I coned come. We went there with my aunt’s car.
Some of my cousins were also coming along with us to the carnival.

The carnival was very funny. There were Haunted Houses, many roller coasters, games,
Nice restaurants, etc, provided at the entertainment arena.
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Holiday to Bromo
Zulfiqar Fadhil L

On 23 June 2005 my friends and I went to Mount Bromo by bus. It took 2 hours. We arrived and searched our bedrooms in the villa.

After lunch I looked for 3 friends to stay with me in a bedroom because. My bedroom mates were Idang, Kiky, and Ekky. Our bedroom number was 476.

We slept at 23.00 and woke up at 07.00 the next morning. But our friends in other rooms got up at 03.00. They went to the top of the mountain to see the sunrise. Because we got up late, the four of us in my bedroom could not experience the sunrise.

At 11.00 we were ready to go home with my friends to Surabaya.
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Holiday to Paris and Holland
Bonardo F.C. Girsang

In the summer 2003 together with my parents I went to Paris. I was very happy in the French capital because there were many beautiful types of scenery. We went to the top of the Eiffel Tower. After that we went to L’Arch de Triomphe. Then we went to the house of my father’s friend where we stayed while in Paris. The next day, we were back to Holland.

We went to Holland by train. We arrived in The Hague at 02.00 AM. In Holland I saw tulip flowers and gardens. After that with my parents and my younger brother I went Volendam by car. There we wore the traditional Holland’s clothes of Volendam. We also saw windmills in Volendam.

From Volendam we returned to The Hague. At the city centre we walked and saw many people, shops and supermarkets. Then we were back home in The Hague where I played with my brother, watched TV and went to bed.

The next day we got up and prepared to go back to INDONESIA by Garuda Indonesia airplane. We went to the Schiphol Airport by car and then we left for Indonesia. Before landing in Jakarta the plane stopped over in Singapore.
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Holiday at TMII
By Prabadika Radifan Harisuddin

I live in Bogor. On one Sunday my family and I went to the Taman Mini Indonesia Indah (TMII). There, I watched the Mystery Niagara movie in the Keong Mas Theatre. After that, I saw the traditional houses from all parts of Indonesia. There were for example Rumah Gadang from West Sumatra, Rumah Joglo from East Java, and so on. After seeing the traditional houses, I took a cable car so that I could see the sceneries from above.

Then we had lunch in a traditional restaurant. After that we went to the Aquarium Museum. In there, we could see many fish from the smallest to the biggest in size. There was the biggest fish from the Amazon River. Its length reached 5 metres. And the smallest fish was the cupang fish.

From the Aquarium Museum we went to the Bird Park. In the park we saw many kinds of birds from throughout the world. In there we could also feed the birds.

After enjoying the Bird Park, we went to have our dinner at Sundanese restaurant. And then we went home. On the way we had a problem that was the crowded traffic jam. I arrived home at 20:30.
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Journey to Italy
Qodri Dalimunthe

On 1 January 2005 my parents and I went to Italy. We went there by plane. In the Frankfurt Airport we waited about 1 hour for the airplane to take off.

While I was waiting, I bought a magazine and my parents watched TV. Finally we boarded into to the plane and it took off. On the air we saw the Alps Mountain. We arrived in Italy at 10 AM. After that we went to a hotel. At 13.00 we went to the centre of Rome with a taxi. There we had pizza.

The next day my father attended a meeting in Indonesian Embassy meanwhile my mother and I went to the Piazza Dispagna.

Next day my parents and I went together. We visited Vatican, Fontana Trevi and the Coliseum. In that place we took some photos. In the evening, on the way to the hotel we stopped to a restaurant for dinner.

After three days in Italy we went back to Frankfurt am Main. It took two hours from the Leonardo da Vinci Airport in Rome to Frankfurt am Main.

Kamis tanggal 1 September 2005 siswa SIN mengikuti Latihan Dasar Kepemimpinan (LDK). Jam 09.00 kegiatan dibuka secara resmi oleh Bapak Kepala Sekolah. Kemudian Bapak Iskandarsyah, Ibu Emma Rodini dan Bapak Wariso menyampaikan beberapa arahan. Siswa dibagi ke dalam 4 regu, yaitu regu R.A. Kartini, Cut Nyak Din, P. Diponegoro, dan Imam Bonjol. Setiap regu didampingi oleh 2 orang guru, yaitu Ibu Roos Daradjat, Ibu Lamyarni, Ibu Tati Marsanah, Ibu Halimah dan Bapak Gunaryadi.

Kemudian seluruh peserta dan guru pendamping menuju Dauinrell, sebuah entertainment park yang terletak tidak berapa jauh dari sekolah.

Di Duinrell kami dianjurkan mencoba setiap permainan, namun kekompakan regu harus tetap dijaga. Setiap regu menentukan sendiri permainan/hiburan apa saja yang ingin mereka coba. Di taman hiburan ini terdapat banyak sekali permainan. Ada yang bersifat santai, tetapi juga ada yang membangkitkan adrenalin, seperti mad mill, splash, dll. Sekitar jam 14.00 kami semua harus kembali ke sekolah untuk mengikuti program acara berikutnya. Di sekolah, sehabis Shalat Dhuhur, kami menikmati makan siang bersama, alangkah nikmatnya!!

Sehabis makan siang, siswa mengikuti berbagai permainan yang membutuhkan kekompakan tim dan semangat kompetisi. Kegiatan pertama adalah baris-berbaris yang dipimpin oleh Bapak Wariso untuk menumbuhkan kekompakan dan disiplin. Permainan berikutnya mencakup lari bendera, tebak gambar, dan jaring laba-laba. Dalam lomba menerobos jaring laba-laba yang diperlukan adalah kerjasama dan kekuatan tiap kelompok karena tiap anggota harus lolos melewati tali yang berbentuk seperti jaring laba-laba tanpa menyentuh jaringnya. Permainan puncaknya paint ball, yaitu balon yang diisi air yang dilemparkan ke regu lawan. Pemenang dari regu putri melawan regu putra. Pertarungan itu sangat menarik!! Kita harus belajar mengatur strategi bagaimana menghadapi musuh dan menghindari lemparan balon air mereka.

Waktu sudah sangat sore, kami pun sudah merasa lelah. Tetapi acara tidak ditutup begitu saja. Tiap regu mengutarakan pesan dan kesannya tentang kegiatan LDK yang sudah mereka ikuti. Kami semua merasa senang, terutama rasa kebersamaan yang kental, dan dapat mengenal teman, guru dan sekolah lebih baik. Melalui sebuah diskusi khusus di sela-sela acara, para guru menentukan pemenang per regu dan individual. Lalu kami berfoto-foto di depan sekolah. Demikianlah kegitan Latihan Dasar Kepemimpinan di sekolah kami. (Karya Joe)