Sri Indah Cahyani
1 SMA, 12 August 2005
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Lieke A.M.
1 SMA, 8 August 2005
At first one might think that going by train to another city would be easy and luxurious. But alas, NS is not Thalys, nor ICE. It’s that yellow train that travels around Holland. A few years ago it was a train worth riding. Nowadays, it’s “werkzaamheden
Ms. Akinanti Sarwono, II SMA, 6th June 2005
(Theme: Reflections)
I am just an ordinary girl. As a teenage girl, I always have a dream. My dream is to be successful women in the future. Successful women that rich and famous, so that I can spend all those money for the entire of my life with my family. I’m not really interested for being a business woman, like working in the bank. Work as an actress or as a singer is more enjoyful and we can make a lot more of money.
In the future I picture myself get into the limosine and getting out of the limo and walk on the red carpet. And I also picture myself partying inside the limo with all my friends and having fun. When I go to the mall and shopping all the paparazzi are surrounding me and taking picture of me. I like singing better than acting, so then I prefer to be a singer than an actress. So then, if I’d be a famous singer then have a lot of money I will travel more often. Even though I’m a famous person I won’t forget all of my friends, and I will visit them one by one. Especially all of my true friends or my best friends.
I also want to buy a house for my parents in Los Angeles or somewhere in America, and I’m gonna buy an apartement for each of my sister. For me, I’m gonna buy a house for myself in Hollywood or around Bel Air area in Los Angeles. Outside America, I’m gonna buy an apartment in London so I could go there more often and shopping more often with my friends or my family. Beside London, I’m gonna buy one too in Paris, the most beautiful city I ever visited. Paris is good and it’s a fashion city and it’s also one of the most romantic city in Europe. And I will go to New York City more often for my album promotion and for partying.
If I could be that person in my future, I won’t change. I’d be the same person as now. I’d be the same person to my friends and I would still having fun with my old friends and I will still have the same attitude. I won’t be a chesty person that forgets all old friends. I will remember them and the every precious moment I spent with them. I will always remember that.
Sometimes, I think. Could I be that person in the next few years?? What would I be?? And what would I do?? But, I’m sure that I will have a great and bright future. I will try and I promise I will be that person no matter how and no matter what.
Amrullah Rafioeddin, II SMP, 3 June 2005
(Theme: Sport)
For the people who don’t now what Feyenoord Rotterdam is, Feyenoord is a famous soccer club from Rotterdam. Rotterdam is the largest harbour city in Zuid-Holland and the world.
In 1921 Feyenoord was still an amateur club while other clubs like Arsenal were already professional clubs. Back in 1937 there was a match between Feyenoord and Arsenal. In the first game Feyenoord lost from Arsenal but then Feyenoord took revenge and won from Arsenal with 1-0. About 51.000 people were watching that game. The goal-maker was Manus Vrauwdant and from that moment the success began by Feyenoord.
Because Feyenoord won many times against different clubs in the Netherlands, most people began to like Feyenoord, and then it got a stadium. The first match that was hold in the new stadium of Feyenoord was Feyenoord-Beerschot in 1956, and it ended with 5-2 for Feyenoord. The success of Feyenoord was growing and so past by years. The supporters of Feyenoord were growing to, so the stadium had to become bigger. Almost 50.000 people can fit in the stadium of Feyenoord now and that is a lot.
There are also memorable matches like once Feyenoord won from a German club with 11-4 back in 1956 and so the success of Feyenoord was growing and became a top club. Even Feyenoord was the national champion for many times, once won the Champions League and several times won the UEFA CUP.
And where there is a top club, there is also a rival top club. Feyenoord has a rival and that is Ajax, the club from Amsterdam, the capital city of the Netherlands. It was always a race between Ajax and Feyenoord, which the best club was. Sometimes Ajax won from Feyenoord, and sometimes it defeated Ajax. Back in the 60’s, almost every time Feyenoord won from Ajax. Feyenoord hammered Ajax with 7-3, 9-5, and the final score 9-4. Ajax supporters claimed that their keeper was wearing wrong contact lenses. It was rubbish of course but that was only gossip so not real.
Ajax has even bigger stadium that can fit 51.000 people. It is called Arena. Meanwhile, Feyenoord’s stadium is called De Kuip. Next to these two stadiums there are two cinemas: Pathe Arena and Pathe De Kuip.
Feyenoord had many star players like Ruud Gullit, Wim Jansen, and Johan Cruijff. Johan Cruijff played in Feyenoord and wanted to show anyone that he could make a club the national champion, and he did. He brought Feyenoord as the League and Cup’s champions in 1984. Now Feyenoord is not very good anymore but it still has fantastic players who are also the top scorers of the Dutch Premier League (Eredivisie): Dirk Kuijt and Salomon Kalou.
Tasya Kuswardani, II SMP, 10 June 2005
(Theme: Reflections)
I came to Holland on 11th October 2003. I was very happy that I could see the beautiful scenery in the country because it was not like in Jakarta. But it was so cold at that time. I came by a Garuda Indonesia aeroplane with my parents. And then we were fetched and brought to a hotel called ‘Golden Tulip’ in The Hague. We immediately went to bed because the trip was so tiring. The next morning, we had breakfast in the hotel and afterwards we went to The Hague Central Station by tram. That was the first tram that I ever rode. The tram number was 17. At the station, we had some nice food and we just looked around. After a long while we went back to the hotel.
On Tuesday morning, 13th October, I went to my new school: Sekolah Kedutaan Republik Indonesia, Nederland (SIN). I was accepted as a first year SMP student, and my new classmates were Amr, Andre, Kika and Zizi. They’re good friends and funny. But after 2 days, I got a bad news that Zizi was about to go back to Indonesia. So we only met for 5 days at school. She’s a nice friend and it was Zizi who introduced me to everyone in the school during my first days. I was too shy to do that, ha..ha…ha…ha….
All of my new friends in here are kind, hospitable, and they are not discriminative like in Jakarta. In Jakarta sometimes if they were older than you, they used to ask you to respect them, if not they would ask you many questions that you did not understand. I thought that they were about only one year older than you, but some of them, because of their manners, did not actually deserve respect. But in here it was not like that. We’re so close to each other.
After about three weeks staying at the Golden Tulip, we received a house in The Hague. It had been resided by Zizi’s family. But I was not so long there because we moved to another house nearby.
I would be in The Hague for maybe 3 years. After making some adaptations, I am so glad to have a new life in here but I am still missing my sweet home in Jakarta and my friends, too.