A HOROSCOPE, MAKE UP, AND A MISSING TOOTH
That time, I read a book of horoscope. It said that few years later there would be a big company that looked for a beautiful woman to be the CEO. After reading that book, I immediately took a good care of myself so that I would look beautiful and could be the CEO in that company. Few years later when the time came I joined the recruitment, and I was accepted in that company as the CEO. But there were some friends who did not like it, and they were planning to get rid of me from that position. They hit me with a very big block until my tooth was broken because of that very hard hit.
FRIENDSHIP
One day, there were Lakolo-kolopua and Landoke-ndoke who lived next door in a big tree. The Lakolo-kolopua was below, while the Landoke-ndoke lived above the branches. The two animals lived very harmoniously, sharing and helping one another. On one occasion, the two of them went to play by rowing their canoes at sea. When they were paddling for a while, from a distance they saw wood floating in the middle of the waves. It turned out it was not wood but a floating banana trunk. They also put banana stems into their canoes.
On the way home while rowing, Landoke-ndoke said, “We don’t need to make it together, but we are for two”. Lakolo-kolopua answered, “You may too,”. When they arrived they had a fight over each other’s parts, finally they agreed that Landoke-ndoke at the end and Lakolo-kolopua part of the banana tree.
About a month the two friends had only met. Landoke-ndoke asked Lakolo-kolopua, “O Lakolo-kolopua, how does your plant develop? Lakolo-kolopua answered, “The banana that I had planted has easy leaves to appear. How is your banana Landoke-ndoke?”, asked Lakolo-kolopua. Landoke-ndoke replied, “It’s dead, so that the stem is not visible. When they met for the second time Landoke-ndoke asked again, “How is your plant, Lakolo-kolopua?” Lakolo-kolopua answered, “It’s ripe”. “Then, let’s see”, said Landoke-ndoke
Then they went to the banana place. When they got there, Lakolo-kolopua tried to climb it but he could not. “How do you climb it?”, asked Landoke-ndoke. Lakola-kolopua answered, “I don’t know”. Then, Landoke-ndoke offered to climb, “What if I just climbed up, then you give me money?”. Lakolo-kolopua said, ”YES”. Landoke-ndoke immediately climbed up, when he got to the top he ate all the bananas. Lakolo-kolopua said, “Landoke-ndoke give me one”, and Landoke-ndoke answered, “Wait, let me think first”. Every time he asked, Landoke-ndoke always answered with the same answer.
Because Lakolo-kolopua was annoyed with Landoke-ndoke’s action, he immediately sought reason to repay that action. He sought bamboo, then sharpened and planted but covered with leaves. Lakol-kolopua asked, “Landoke-ndoke, do you want to get down on a hard ground or a soft place?” “I want to get down on a soft place”, he replied. “Jump! I have prepared for it”. Then he jumped, and as consequence his body was pierced by the bamboo.
His body was then cut by Lakolo-kolopua and sold to the other Landoke-ndoke. “Who wants to buy the tuna fish”, said Lakolo-kolopua when selling the meat. After being sold he said “Eat the meat of a fellow Landoke-ndoke. Hahaha!”, said another Landoke-ndoke. “What are you talking about, want to get killed, huh?” He was chased, but he hid behind a hole. Because the hiding place was discovered, Landoke-ndoke dropped a stone into the hole, and it killed Lakolo-kolopua.
First Time Adapting in Collage life
When I was 16 years old my parents had planned that I would go to college in Jogja. However, I refused because I didn’t want to be away from my family. They always insisted because they thought Jogja was a good place for me to continue my education. When I was 12th grade, I started to look for information about scholarships, suddenly my sister came and said “Elita try to copy your report card and write what you want. I will help you to find a scholarship”. I immediately photo copied the report card and write behind it that I want to major in English Education. I wanted a major in English because I realized that I did not have basic English, so I studied English Literature, so from there I would study English.
After a while, SMS came on my cell phone and the content was “Congratulations to Elita Damayanti. You were accepted at Respati Yogyakarta University majoring in English literature with a full scholarship”. After reading the message I immediately told my parents and they were very happy. But I was unhappy because I was accepted in English Literature was not in English Education, and in Yogyakarta. I did not want to be far from my family. Seeing my parents who were so happy, I decided to take the scholarship.
My days when I was studying in the English Literature department I felt very unhappy. I always did not understand what the lecturer had explained, because they always spoke in English while myself did not understand the language, and I saw my friends who all could speak English well. I always felt insecure and hopeless. I always considered myself that I would never be able to graduate. I was most stupid person and I would never be like them.
By thinking of myself as such I became lazy to study and do the work but the people around me always supported and encouraged me. Seeing there were many people wanted me to succeed, I always contemplated my stupid thoughts “If I always consider myself incapable then I will never be successful. Therefore I must believe in myself. Because I believe that God has made us all the same, there is no fool but lazy people”.
After realizing from those stupid thoughts, I immediately tried to study hard. I didn’t want to lose my friends and I always pray to God to make everything easier for me. Finally, I was able to finish the first semester with a pretty good grade for someone who couldn’t speak in English like me.
HELNI ANDHA
Ms. Helni was one of the first English teachers at my high school. She is the teacher most liked by students because of her friendliness. The teacher who has the hobbies of dancing, singing and traveling has a height of 156 cm and a weight of 56 kg. Ms. Helni was born in Binongko on May 1, 1985. She is the second child of four siblings of the couple La Andha and WaAmihi. His father works as an elementary school teacher and his mother is a housewife.
When she was 6 years old. She began her education at the Palahidu Inpres Elementary School in 1997. After she graduated from elementary school she continued her education at Binongko 1 Junior High School. After graduating from junior high school in 2000 she continued his education at Binongko 1 High School and graduated in 2003. She continued education at the college level in the city of Kendari at the University of HALU OLEO majoring in English Education.
Ms. Helni who has a hobby in the arts, actually wanted to become a nurse but because of her financial condition. She had a desire to continue her studies in the biology education department because of her ability. she was very superior in biology and this is very different or arguably incompatible with her hobby. But her parents did not allow and hoped her taking English Education. Because she wanted to make her parents happy, She finally followed her parents wishes to study in English Education and put aside her desire to study in another department.
During her days in college, her always found it difficult because her desire was always the opposite of what had happened to her. Thanks to her desire to make her parents happy, she was always patient and lived her day sincerely. She believed that her parents always wanted the best for their child so that God would bless her and she believed that everything done sincerely would be a valuable lesson that could lead her to be good. That’s why she always remembered when she had a hard time. Her confidence was so great that made her stayed enthusiastic and could finish college.
After graduating from college in 2008 she returned to her hometown and devoted herself as an English teacher in her native school, namely SMAN 1 BINONGKO. During 1 year of serving as an honorarium teacher, Alhamdulillah, precisely by the end of 2009 she was appointed as one of the civil servants and got a placement at SMAN 1 BINONGKO.
She was a person who was able to change difficult things to be easier, and was always able to create something as memorable as someone’s personal change that could be better because of her nature that was always encouraging, supporting and motivating her students. She was a patient, kind, and very friendly teacher.
Beside being an English teacher, Mrs. Helni was our dance teacher. Not only Being able to dance, she also had beautiful voice. She was a teacher who was able to get along well and close to the students so that she was one of my favorite teachers at my school.
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