TREE DAY 2015 AND AFTERNOON RACE

Wassenaar — To cheer the Tree Day 2015 our Students’ Association organised tree planting event and students race, Friday afternoon, 20 November 2015. The occasion was designed to strengthen students’ awareness to nurture green environment. Indonesia’s rain forest, home to among the most biologically diverse habitats on Earth, nowadays has been threatened by severe deforestation due to massive plantation and forest-products industry.

The fruit trees selected for the tree-planting event were sweet cherry (prunus avium) and sour cherry (prunus cerasus). They were chosen as, although cherry varieties are usually self fertile or self pollenising, the chance they would bear fruit would be larger if they were mixed. The trees were planted in our front yard. Our Principal, Mr. Budi Wahyu Rianto received the honour to plant the first cherry; and Nadia D. Zafira planted the second one on behalf of Students’ Association’s members.

Afterward the students had a run which was officially released at the starting line by Mr. Rianto. The route was from our school toward the students’ dormitory, the Freedom area and then returning to our school. On the way they carried out special and spontaneous pranks to celebrate the birthdays of some students that fall in November.