Arif Rahman W., II SMA, 4 May 2005
Red is our blood
White is our bone
Democracy is our principle
Eagle is our emblem
We are friendly
But we are not promiscuous
We are peaceful
But we are not blind
We always respect others
However we also need to be respected
We are not backward
Although we are developing
Success is our motto
Harmony is central in our civilisation
Indonesia is our nation
Forever and ever…peaceful
Andrey P., II SMP, 26 April 2005
One morning in the autumn 2004, I went to Paris with my parents by train. It was a 3 hour journey. After arriving at the Gare du Nord station in Paris, we had to find the hotel, and firstly I was asked by my Dad to study the map of Paris and I just couldn’t read it so I returned it my Dad to read it. But we still couldn’t read the map, because it didn’t show the right direction to the hotel. It was an out-of-date map. And we asked the people but they gave wrong answers. And we walked, walked, and walked and asked again to the people and they just couldn’t understand what my Dad said. Then there was woman got close to us. When my Dad asked her she answered with her language (France) and my Dad understood it a little bit what she said. She told us after the Moulin Rouge we had to turn left. And finally we reached the hotel, and I was really, really, tired and so were my Dad and Mom.
And the next day I went around with my parents, just to know where the Eiffel Tower was, etc. I saw a very big palace with large yard and with a fountain. And I just relaxed there having ice cream. After that we went around and I saw the Eiffel Tower. It was so big, but I couldn’t go there because we were so tired so we went back to the hotel in the evening by metro/subway.
The next morning I got shower and so did my Dad and Mom, and we were ready to go to the Eiffel Tower by bus. Then we got close to the Trocadéro Gardens, which was enclosed by the half-circle formed by the two wings of the Palais de Chaillot, and we took some pictures with the Eiffel Tower as the background. After that we queued to go up to the top of the tower using a lift. At the first story we took some pictures and just looked around. Then we to continued to the second story which I didn’t like because it was not really high, so we continued to the top. There my mother was so scared, and when I looked down, it was so high, wow! I could see the whole city of Paris. Not long after that my mother felt not so well, and I felt so cold on the top of the tower, and when I looked up, I felt as if the tower was moving. And it is very cool. After that we went downstairs, at that time beside me stood a very very stinky man and I felt I wanted to vomit.
When we reached the ground we walked to the Champs-Élysées, where there were a lot of shops. I wanted to climb the I’Arc de Triomph but I didn’t have friends to do it. Around there I took some pictures with my parents, after that we went to McDonald for lunch, after that we went to the shops and I bought a watch, it was a Swatch. Before we returned to the hotel in the evening we just went around. Be side the hotel there was a restaurant so we had dinner there.
In the night I went around with my parents to the Eiffel Tower by bus to see how it looked at night. On the way I saw the tower which was sooooo beautiful. At the top of the tower there was a spotlight which was spinning around. The tower was overwhelmed by colourful lights. We took some pictures with the Eiffel Tower as the background. I just relaxed to enjoy the colourful lights of Eiffel Tower. After that we went back to the hotel and I saw the colourful lights stopped shinning and returned to the normal lights. And I think Paris is a very beautiful city. The next morning we went back to Holland.
Virginia Laili, II SMA, 15 April 2005
Love is the word that almost everyone can say about. Every single day, every time, people talk about love. Love is a part of human life. Everybody needs love, but love requires ‘take and give’. Love doesn’t grow up if each other do not respect about that. Love is mysterious, difficult, complicated, fun, enjoy, perhaps. Love is all that we need. Sometimes we have question, problems or the situation that is very complicated that love can answer that all. Love is comforting someone and letting him or her know that somebody cares.
Love is decision. Sometimes love makes people mad, sensitive, very confused, and hurts.
Being jealous is the part of love. It is not a judgment that she or he is very possessive, but it means that she or he is really-really loves with their partners. The most important thing in relationship that we must have is strong faith in each other. Try to always completely of being honest is the good thing in our relation. Maturity in our relationship is everything.
How about abuse in relationship? Is this a good thing we must to promote in our relationship? For the answer of course not. Abuse in relationship happens when one person against another using intimidation or gets control of other to do what he or she wants.
Many people in this world had a problem of love. For example is about long-distance relationship, they worried about that. Actually distance is not the end of the world in a relationship. Although you may feel like you are losing faith in your relationship at the time. To resolve that problem the two couple must try to always be honest, trust in each other, and they always must have a good communication even though is to difficult. However couple must seriously consider if they plan to make a long distance relationship.
Now I turn to the interaction between a relationship and friendship. Essentially you need a friendship; a good friendship is a base for a relationship. I want to make an argument that you can’t build a friendship to be a relationship but you can build a relationship to be a friendship. That argument stems from the facts of love.
Ajeng Kinanti Sarwono, II SMA, 25 April 2005
Prince Henry Charles Albert David is the youngest son of Prince Charles and Princess Diana. His eldest brother is Prince William. He has been known as Prince Harry and he is the third in line of succession to the throne. Prince Harry was born on September 15, 1984 in St. Mary’s Hospital, London. Princess Diana died when he was only 12 years old.
He started his school at Mrs. Jane Mynors’ nursery school in West London, same like his brother Prince William. After that he went to the pre-Wetherby School, also in West London and following his brother to the Ludgrove School. In 1998 Prince Harry started his college in Eton College, Windsor. Prince Harry finished his college in Eton in 2003. He is planning to go to Sandhurst military school in May 2005.
When he was 17, he got caught smoking cannabis and under-age drinking. Prince Charles sent him to drug rehabilitation centre. This Britain’s Prince Harry also known as a Party Prince or a Playboy Prince because he likes going to the clubs. There is a good thing that he likes and that is sports.
On his gap year in 2004, he went to Lesotho where he worked in an orphanage. He also made a documentary titled “The Forgotten Kingdom – Prince Harry in Lesotho.
Amrullah Rafioeddin, II SMP, 29 April 2005
About three years ago I went to Greece. I went there together with my father, my mother, my brother, and my sister. We went to the myth country with aeroplane and stayed there for about one and half week, I think.
In Greece the weather was hot, or it is a sunny land like most people say. Our flight destination was the capital city, Athens. In the Athens the weather was hot and it was very beautiful there. When arrived at the airport in Athens, we grabbed our bags and then we took a taxi to our hotel. We took 2 rooms, a big room and a small one. The small room was for my sister and my mother, and it has a balcony. And the other room was for my father, my brother, and myself, so that means one room for the ladies and one room for the gentlemen. At the hotel we immediately went to bed because we were very tired.
The next morning we woke up, had wudhu’ and did our prayers. After that we took a bath. My brother and I stayed in the bathroom maybe one hour or more. When we got out of the bath, our legs were so tired that we couldn’t walk, but after we had a delicious breakfast at the little restaurant in the hotel, we could walk again. After we had breakfast, we took a tour bus with other tourists.
After that, we went to many places and monuments with the tour bus. We also got out of the bus and visited the monuments, like the big monuments of the old Greeks. There were many monuments and colossal. We also visited the graves of the old Greek armies. The graves were like a big hole, I almost fell in one of the graves but fortunately there was a lady who held me back, so thanks to that lady I was safe.
Subsequently, we visited the grave of Hercules. You all know that Hercules was a big and strong warrior that had lived many years at the time of the old Greeks. The grave of Hercules was big and was inside a monument with all of Greeks signs and letters on that grave. After that, we visited the big old Olympia stadium, and in that stadium, like any other Greeks stadiums there were running lanes and I ran on the tracks for one round. Just one round made me so tired, that I had drink maybe two full bottles of water, not the large bottles but little bottles. But my brother ran maybe two or one and half rounds so he was very tired too. After that we went with the bus to another place.
In the bus there was a lady that taught my mother some Greeks but she talked English to my mother so my mother could understand it. My mother said that Greeks is difficult. That lady had a little kid who was playing with my sister. After the tour with the bus, we took a cruise with other tourists for one day. After all of this, it was night, and we wanted to eat, so my father changed his money, because when we were going to Greece there was no Euro (€) yet. Then we ate at a fish restaurant.
The next morning we visited the Centrum (City Centre) of Athens. The last day of our visit my brother, my sister, and I swam in the beach of Athens.
What I noticed in Greece was that there were many cats and dogs that had no owner, so they just lived on streets. It was very pitiful. Another thing that I also witnessed in Athens was that there were many electric buses like in Arnhem.