Collection of 3 SMA Students’ Works (1st Week of September 2005)

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.