Testimony:

I like Mr. Septa’s Creative Writing class, because he has taught me to fall in love with thinking, reading, and specially writing. I feel it is true that to study and learn about creative writing is important for possessing a good English.

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 12^th 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.

Testimony

I like your teaching method. Relax delivery makes it not stiff, not boring, and easy to understand. Thank you so much Mr. Septa for sharing knowledge to us.

Free Writing

Aerobic, A Secret Diary, and Something Unpleasant under the Bed

One day, I went to an aerobic class. After I finished the class, I went back home. When I was at home, I saw a book. The book was so interesting. I took and read it. For a few minutes, I realized that it was a secret diary. That was my uncle’ s diary who had passed away for a long time. After I finished reading the diary, I moved to my bedroom. I felt something wrong in my room. Then, I checked the things there one by one to make it clear, but there was nothing. However, I still tried to check under my bed then I got something unpleasant there. I found a bloody letter. That was my uncle’s bloody letter. Then, I opened the letter. “Stop reading my diary or I will kill you!”, my uncle said in his letter.

Memoir

The Fatal Mistake

Five years ago, I had a man that I really loved. I felt love drunk with him. Someday, we decided to meet each other. The weather was too nice in the tie we met. We met because we wanted to discuss about some subject. I didn’t listen to him well when he started talk to me. He felt offended because I didn’t pay attention to him. He was so mad and shouted at me. I shouted him back because I was so shocked. Then he chocked me. There was no air in my lungs for a while. I tried to release his hands on my neck. It was a bad day for me. I felt so scared to see him. He was like a Lucifer. I left him. I ran away from him. I was so shocked because of his act. I ran away while crying thought he was shocked too. He just let me go at that time. Someday, he came to my house but I closed the door for him. He texted me “Fanny, sorry for chocking you. I felt so bad” he said. I didn’t reply this text. Then he walked away from my house.
I blocked him in every social media but he still tried to communicate with me. I didn’t care about it. Then, I decided to leave my hometown because I didn’t want to see him anymore. The night before I went off, he left a rose and a letter, I knew because they were in front of my house door. I read the letter, then, I burned it along with the rose. I hated him about five years. It was not easy as people saw when I should go through this way alone without any support from anyone. Honestly, I didn’t tell my family about this problem because I was too scared that my family would seek and kill him. I still couldn’t imagine that I could stand alone without any support.
Someday I met someone who told me, “You should apologize what happened in your past. You shouldn’t hate someone who had made you feel trauma but you should let the pain go. Because of that, you will heal, find peace and win this pain”. Then I apologized him. It made me got heal and found my peace. Even though I felt it was not fair for him, I thought I should let my life go peacefully. I was not totally healed from this pain because there was still pieces of trauma which still haunted me until now. If I had a chance to yell from a mountain top to anyone who has got trauma by dating abuse, here’s what I would say: There is always a door where you can use to go out of this pain, come and see how brave you are! Be brave to apologize your past even though it will give you a bad memory but it also has a precious lesson for you to choose what is good for yourself.

Short Story

Rebecca

Once upon a time, there were a mother with her daughter, Rebecca. Rebecca was an innocent girl. She was 15 years old. They lived in countryside which was a landfills. They lived so poorly. Rebecca mommy was not a good mommy for her. She always forced her to earn money. She eventually it her if Rebecca couldn’t earn money. Rebecca was never mad at her mommy because she was the only one that she had in the world. Rebecca’s childhood wasn’t like other kids who spent their childhood playing toys or sharing laugh with others. Rebecca earned money by picking up trash. Actually, it wasn’t enough for her and her mom. Rebecca’s mom didn’t go to work because she thought Rebecca was strong enough to earn money by picking up trash.
One day, Rebecca didn’t go work because she was sick but her mom forced her to go. “Why don’t you go work?” she asked. “I don’t feel very well, mom” Rebecca replied, but her mom hit her out of home and forced her to go work. “I don’t care if you are sick. I just need money” she shouted. Rebecca went away while crying. She felt so sad because her mom didn’t care about her health. Rebecca’s mom just need her money. After she left home, her uncle came to their home. Her uncle knew if Rebecca was an innocent girl. She was never in relationship. Her uncle also knew that they were so poor. That’s why he came to give a solution. “I have a job for Rebecca but she should go to city” he said. Rebecca’s mommy was so happy because her daughter got a job in city and it was too difficult to get a job there. “How much money she can get?” she asked. Her uncle explained that she would get a lot of money if she went there. Then, Rebecca’s mom went and asked her to come home as soon as possible. Her mommy explained the job for her even though she didn’t exactly know what the kind of job it was. She was just happy because her daughter would get a lot of money.
Three days later, her uncle came to their home to pick Rebecca. Rebecca and her uncle went to the city. Rebecca was so happy because she never saw a new thing before, but she was still sad because she left her mom alone. Then, they arrived at a home where Rebecca would work there. She was so shocked. In other side, she was also surprised because she never saw girls or women sexy clothes. She asked her uncle why they were here but her uncle didn’t respond her. After her uncle gave Rebecca to his boss, her uncle left Rebecca with some money because he successfully sold Rebecca to his boss. Rebecca was forced to wear sexy clothes. If she didn’t want to wear it, she would get an electric hit from the assistance. Rebecca also should put on make up to make her more beautiful. After that, they forced her to sit in front of the sits line. Rebecca looked like an angel. At the same time, a man came and asked her to have a crazy night with her, but she didn’t want it because she felt so scared.
Another woman forced her and they locked them in a bedroom. The man forced her to put off her clothes but she rejected it. Then, the man hit her. Rebecca cried but the man didn’t care at all. Then, he forced Rebecca to do the crazier thing. After it all, Rebecca cried so loud. She disappointed because it was her uncle’s plan for her. In other side, she also cried because she lost her virginity. When she cried, she took a knife near from the washbasin. Her heart was full of hate. She ran out of her mind. She walked close to him and she killed him.
She left the dead body in bathroom and she locked the bedroom. Two days later, someone who cleaned up the room was so shocked because he found a dead body. They didn’t not report it to the police because they thought it wasn’t their fault. Rebecca cried every day after that shit happened to her. Even though, she was a teenager, they still didn’t care about it. One time, Rebecca tried to run away from that place but she failed. The bodyguard took her back to the place. They gave an electric shock as her punishment. She made a promise that she wouldn’t run away anymore. Then, they left her alone. She went back to her room and make sure that she was alright. She took a slept for a while.
A week later, a man came to her to have a good sleep night with her. She didn’t reject but accepted it. They had a good sleep night but she thought what had happened to her. She cried when the man slept. She didn’t kill the man but she tried to run away again. Whatever she would get, she would accept it, but the bodyguard saw her. They ran to get her back. They hit her until her body was full of blood. They took her back home and gave her an electric shock again. She couldn’t do anything. She just gave up and cried. She felt so depressed. She didn’t eat after all. She thought that she was unworthy to live again. She felt nobody loved her except herself.
These pain make her decided to commit suicide. Because of these reason, she decided to commit suicide. She took the rope and locked the door. Before she committed suicide, she thought about her mom’s feeling if she died. However, she thought her mom wouldn’t get sad if she died. Then, she took a chair, tied the rope up and she hung herself. There’s no one who knew about it until the boss was aware if she lost her girl. The boss told her bodyguard to look for Rebecca. One of the bodyguards, Tommy, saw Rebecca already hung. He was so shocked. He couldn’t say anything. He just looked the dead body and felt guilt. After five minutes, he screamed for help. They came and brought Rebecca down. Their boss called her uncle and said “come and take away your nephew. She is dead”. Rebecca’s uncle shocked when he hear that. He ran and went to Rebecca’s home and tell her mom. Rebecca’s mom couldn’t do anything after knowing this news. She just cried and cried. Rebecca’s uncle went to city and took her back.
When Rebecca’s dead body was already at home, her mom just cried while seeing her daughter in a cold body, pale lips, and traces of the neck strap. She realized that she was failed to be good mommy for Rebecca. She was so disappointed because she couldn’t make her daughter happy as long she lived. It was no use crying over spilt milk. After Rebecca’s burial, her mom asked her uncle why Rebecca could commit suicide, what she did when she was in city, but her uncle couldn’t say anything. He was speechless. Rebecca’s mom asked him almost until 1000 times but he couldn’t say anything. Rebecca’s mom went and tried to know what Rebecca job was in city. A week had passed and she found Rebecca workplace. Even though she wasn’t a good mommy for Rebecca, she was shocked when she knew her daughter’s workplace. She went inside and asked “Does my daughter, Rebecca, work here?”. Rebecca’s boss asked her back “Who are you? Why you asks my girl?”. “ I’m Rebecca’s mommy” she replied. Because she said that she was Rebecca’s mommy, he told her that she suicide because she didn’t feel comfortable with this job. That’s why she decided to suicide.
Rebecca’s mom went away from her daughter workplace. She walked wit.h blue feeling She just thought about her daughter’s pain of this bad job. She came to her brother’s home, Rebecca’s uncle. “I’m so disappointed because you sell my daughter for that bad job, you make my daughter died. You are the kid of Lucifer. You are not human” Rebecca’s mom shouted. Her brother couldn’t say anything after that tragedy. He knelt down and asked her apologize but Rebecca’s mommy kicked him back. She slapped him as hard as she could. She felt so tired of this sadness. “Let’s end up this family relationship. I don’t want you to be Rebecca’s uncle anymore. You already make my girl gone” she said. Then, Rebecca’s mommy went away from the evil home. She came to Rebecca’s grave and cried there. She thought that she wasn’t worth to live again because she made her daughter gone but when she cried, she hear Rebecca voice, “Mommy it’s not your fault, don’t be sad. I love you”. Rebecca’s mom just cried loud because she heard her lovely daughter’s voice. Because she already hear her daughter voice, she decided to back home.
There’s a little smile in her lips but deep in her heart she still felt breakdown. Even though she lived alone now, she could feel her daughter voice and breath. She felt her daughter always beside to accompany her wherever she went. She decided to be a good mommy for every one after she lost her lovely daughter. She became a lovely mommy for everyone because she didn’t want other girl ended up their life like her daughter do was. Everyone who lived around her supported her to be a good mommy. They also gave her a chance to give her love to their child too. Because they thought it would help Rebecca’s mommy to share her love to the kid, also it helped her to be a good mommy as long as she could when she lived.

Biography

God’s Way

Not everyone knew my uncle if they didn’t live in Jakarta. Niko Kilikily was a gangster before he decided to be pastor. He was born in Jakarta, December 2, 1972. He has 7 siblings which became gangster but some of his siblings married with gangster too. He always brought his samurai to fight with other gangster. He was a debt collector too. Everyone knew him because he looked like an angel of death. When he went to work, he could hit people if they look at him. He was also known as “Commander” who wore white t-shirt and brought samurai. He ever thought, he was strong enough because people like to call him “Commander”. Go in and out of prison was something usual for him. His dad always supported him to be a warrior except if he stole, consume drugs or rape, but if he killed someone dad would always defend him. When he was in Singkawang, he met a pastor that made him repent his actions but it was only for 6 months.
After 6 months, he went back in his old lifestyle. He consumed drugs, got drunk. One day, he consumed inex, one of the drug product from Netherland. However, he got overdose causing blood flowing out of his ears, mouth, and nose. He was rushed to the hospital. When he was on the way to hospital, he felt cold slowly from his feet to his neck. Suddenly he remember one song of Sunday school when he was in elementary school. “Jesus… Jesus… he is a good doctor. There is no one can be my doctor, my Jesus. When I feel down, he would heal me”, he sang. He asked a nurse to pray for him even though his doctor said they couldn’t do anything, but miracle happened. Jesus came to save him. Then, he decided to repent. Of course he fell into poverty and people left him.
In the late of 1998, he decided to give his life to Jesus meaning that he wanted Jesus using his life being a blessing for others. Because of his repent, Jesus gave a big gift for him and his family. He served the gangster in prison community. Now, he served three thousands inhabitants after devoting himself to God. Beside that, he became President Director of several mining companies. As a result, he used to support three thousands converted thugs. After that, he went to Israel to pray. When he returned to Indonesia, he got instructions from God that he should come back to his hometown, Tepa, Maluku. In there, he found nickel mine. In addition to manage he nickel mine, he also managed coal and gold mines exported to Japan, China, and America. He had two mine companies in Jakarta. There’s no impossible thing in our life if we bring our life to God. This repent brought his life to be better and being blessed to others who living around him.

Poem

Testimony

To learn about creative writing gives a big surprise for me that we can write down our crazy idea into writing forms.

• THREE ELEMENTS

          –A Taxi, an Old Enemy, and Valentine’s Day–

In the Valentine’s day majority of people celebrate it at the moment. Because it was the only special moment for all of people in this world, and many kinds of way to celebrate it.For Example giving a chocolate to their girlfriends and traveling by a taxi to visit some beautiful places and the others.Valentine’s day is not always celebrated with a girlfriend, but on the other side there is a moment valentine’s day for mother and our old enemy, to invite them to forgive one another

• MEMOIR

My interesting vacation at Wedimbo beach

Three months ago… before I spent my vacation in Yogyakarta, the famous city in Indonesia, I had prepared everything before going there. We had a plan to one of beautiful beaches namely Wediombo beach.My friends and I went there in the morning by my friend’s private car, while driving, we saw some beautiful scenery: mountains, forest, and water fall as well as cars passed by.

We arrived at Wediombo beach at 10:15 .There I saw a lot of tourists because it was a famous beach in Yogyakarta.At that time Wediombo beach was very crowded because it was on a holiday and there i could learn one thing,English practicing with a foreign tourist.

James was his name. He was very friendly., That was the first time I spoke English with a foreign tourist. I was nervous, and always felt bad in speaking English, but confident was key of success for me.

At that time I asked many things to the tourist, about his destination,his address and  his interested to Jogja. He was very humble to me, in answering my questions. He said that Jogja was the only wonderful city, not only ‘’The City’’ but people here He was always polite and friendly to me. After we talked and shared one another, finally my friends invited me to return at 02:30 at daylight, I said see you again to the tourist before we went out from the place. It was very interesting holiday for me and my friends were happy.

>>THANK YOU FRIENDS<<

• POEM

=  IS MY COUNTRY PEACE =

If aspiration were no longer heard

To whom our loud voice can delivered

Move on the street in hard condition,shouted loudly,even in subordination of God…

Oh mister…we just want the dream of justice become true.

One day in our senior high school was ever asked by our teacher to all student in the class: what are you going to do for the country? We answered : justice must be served as well as possible.

Hey..president,police and government, get down to the street is not a solution for us

But only an arrangement when our voice is silenced.

Maybe you can step on us, slap, even kick to us, go ahead..!!! but we are very beg not to this country, because it’s a fighting and dignity.

• SHORT STORY

                                           =MY FATHER IS A HERO =

At that night the condition of my house was so cold,that was very different from before. All my family was silenced without any word. Surely my parent thought about how to pay my study tour fee.

Actually i had decided before the day not to join the study tour, but my father forbade me and said, “No..you must keep joining the study tour, go to sleep, and tomorrow dad will pay it.”

After that I followed what my father had said and went to sleep in my room, even though I couldn’t sleep. I tried to closed my eyes and not to think about anything, but my mother always cried in her room.

I really knew why my mother cried,but my father kept on struggle and striven me to join the school activities. I was very proud him.He was the only a figure of man who never let his children sad and shy because of his inability.

At that time, the night was not too late. It was about 08:30 in the evening. The sound of the door being knocked broke the silence in my house. A neighbour came to my house bringing an brown envelope. After the two talked casually, my neighbour handed the envelope to my father.’’This is land payment money a few months ago from the village’’

Instantly my father was shocked.The money that he never imagined before. Suddenly given to him Yes,at that time my father gave his land to the village become a public road.However it was the village policies to replace the land with some amount money.After that mother immediately entered to my room and hold me softly.

Without saying much she gave some money to pay for my study tour fee. Tears

fall without being stopped from our eyes. And that night my family was very gratitude to God for the helping and blessing.

• MY INSPIRATION STORY

NAME: AKHMAD MAWARDI

ADDRESS: PAMEKASAN MADURA

JOB: A TEACHER

>>Mawardi was born in Madura and lives in Malaysia right now. He was the only one that always inspired me every time and every day. In his life there is no time but reading book, and learning everything. Usually when he went to my house,he would never forget to give me motivation and spirit not to give up in looking for knowledge.Studying hard, working hard, and praying to God, are the keys of success for everyone. Wise words that I often remember everyday, and thank you brother for what you have given to me; the motivation and everything so that I can continue my study in Jogja this time.

TESTIMONY

A big thanks to my lecturer (Mr. Septa) that has guided and helped me in creative writing class. He is good, patient, and humble. The lecturing technique is very nice, easy to understand. Keep the good work and professionalism!

Testimony:

Everybody must have creativity in writing, but usually he/she does not improve, and less practices his/her skills. In this creative writing class I can improve the way of writing and can practice my writing skill. Indonesia needs medicine to overcome the fear in writing and reading. Creative writing is a powerful drug to overcome problems in Indonesia. Not only teaching, giving assignments can also potentially improve students’ potential.

Together

                Once upon a time, in the middle of Jogja City. There were living best friends in UNRIYO. Their names were Bono and Robert.  They were always together, eating together, smoking together and nature calling together. And also their had nicknames in the campus, their nickname were the AmbyarBros. Their lived in peace and harmony in the beautiful city of Jogja.

                Until one day, Bono got a message The massage said that Bono must meet the lecturer in his room. Bono was panic and he asked Robert.

“What I must to do?”

“Stay chill dude! It is simple, face it like a man!”

Robert gave his answer with a man style and Bono was just silent and understand what Robert had said.  After that the AmbyarBros went to the lecturer’s room and faced it like a man. Finally, their arrived in front of the room.

“Knock –Knock –Knock! Assalamulaikum!” Bono knocked the door and gave greeting.

“Waalaikumsalam! Come in” the lecturer greeted back to Bono.

Bono turned around and saw Robert,

“Wish me luck!” Bono said.

Robert just smiled and said

“Don’t worry, everything will be fine!”

                Bono went into the lecturer’s room and left Robert alone in the waiting hall. Second changed to minutes, minutes changed to hours, Robert still waited for Bono in the waiting hall. Finally Bono went out from the lecturer’s room.

“What happened?” Robert asked Bono.

“Ahhhh!!!.. lets go to the canteen first! I need a cigarette to make my head better”.

They went to the canteen. After their arrived there, Bono shared to Robert what he got in the lecture’d room. Bono said, “Bert if I can’t get a good credit score at final exam, my GPA will be bad and I can’t go with you again in this Campus”

“Why you have a bad score? You are always with me, why you don’t have a score like me?” Robert asked.

“Yeah men, I am always with you! But, in the night I go out and get drunk! What must I do right now?” Bono said with confusing face.

 Robert turned off his cigarette and said, “Okay now it is time to fix it! Do you want to join or not?” Bono lost hope, saw Robert and said, “OKAY I’M IN!”

Their adventure to get a good score was about to begin.

                After that, they studied, studied, and studied hard like a man in the gym. They studied until the final exam came. They faced it like a hero fighting with a bad guy.

“Okay dude, the time has come!” Bono said to Robert.

“Yeah dude, anyway, see you in another side!” Robert said while smiling to Bono.

Day after day, week after week. Finally they finished their final exam. Like in the early story, Bono got a message again from the lecturer. The message said, “Congratulations for the significant change that you had shown”.  Then, the rumor about Bono would drop out  if he couldn’t get good score credit in the final exam became a joke.

                After all his journey, Bono realized that doing anything must be balance and finding or keeping a good friend to make fun together. A friend will always near you, a friend will always help you when you are falling, and a friend is willing to face every condition together. If we are together, the world can’t destroy us.

grateful

I have a dream

to live together with peace

its a good dream like an ice cream

but in real life its just a bullshit

I always have problem

and sometimes a trouble

but I still enjoy every moment

because I have grateful movement

Late

Once upon a time there was  a student sleeping in his room.  His phone was on, and he wake up. He saw a o’clock. He realized that we was late going to campus. He was hurry up his clothes,  taking books and preparing to go to campus. After he finished the preparation he saw o’clock, he was still late.

He ran to his motorbike but the motorbike was ran out of  gas. He was very frustrated. And then he thought going to the bus stop. After that he did it, and waited for the bus. The bus never came. He was very frustrated. He chose to run to campus. He ran, he ran, he ran and he succeeded to come to campus. He ran to the class. But the class had been lock up. He looked down and he screamed.

After his adventure. He became angry, sad, and frustrated, and he talked to himself.

“Why I came late?”

 He thought and realized what he did the previous night. He became sad and promised not do that to his life anymore.

A HOROSCOPE, MAKE UP, AND A LOSING TOOTH.

One day, there was a teenage girl living in the city reading a horoscope. The horoscope said, at that day she would get a bad luck. Because she was person who never trusted with such a thing, she didn’t care. After that she looked at the clock, and she screamed. She was late, so she quickly jumped into the make up table. She fell. She stood up and saw herself in the mirror. Guest what? She lost a tooth because of that falling.

Aby Rajab

This is Aby rajab, or you can call him Aby. He is my senior in my campus. Right now Aby is 22 years old and he is still a virgin. Aby rajab was born in Palu at 7 November 1998 and studied in SDN 22 Palu, SMPN 4 Palu, SMAN 1 Palu, and right now he is still studying at Respati Yogyakarta University and becomes the chief of the BEM FISE 2019/2020.

When he was in SDN 22 Palu, he was just a regular kid and got bully from his friends at school. Because he was angry, he learned karate to revenge the bullies. In SMPN 4 Palu, he was just like a regular kid, again. He got a premium class, learned about a religion, and joined an extracurricular like parkour, basket and free running. At grade 8 he became a master parkour traceurs and met his love at the same time. But he got bad score credit because of that. At grade 9 he got something, something that changed his life. He became chiller to solve a problem, more serious to study because he wanted to go to a favorite high school. He learned more because of broken heart, and became a game freak.

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In SMAN 1 Palu, he applied what he got from the online game (because he was a game freak) and he told me that it worked. For example he solved a problem in his circle. Because of what happened in the Middle East, he wanted join to be a part of international relations. Another reason why he wanted to be a part of international relations was because it was related with his life. After finishing study in Palu, he thought to move to Yogyakarta and take college entrance exam. Many college entrance exams he tried. Like UGM, UMY, UII, UTY, and UMM, but he couldn’t accept that because they didn’t have international relations study program like he wanted. Until one day he met RESPATI YOGYAKARTA UNIVERSITY and join to be a student there.

On August 2017, he was approved to be a student of UNRIYO. In UNRIYO he got a lot of experiences. Like in the first semester he learned about racism, terrorism, international system, environmental studies, feminism, and the most important thing was politic and economy. He was happy with what he had learned in the first semester. In semester 2 he learned about conflict resolution and diplomacy, and those were really useful for his daily life. In the 3rd and 4th semester he learned about mental health issues. Why did he learn that? Because he got something like that. He was diagnosed suffering some mental health issues, like mood swing, bipolar, panic attack, and anxiety. In semester 4 and 5 he started to politicize and became brave to nominate himself to be a chief of BEM FISE.

Something that inspired me is a him self. With whatever he lacks he still want to go straight forward and approve to the world. He still go with his lacks. And that its my friend, my chief, and my brother Aby rajab.

testimony

Okay, I was so grateful because I could learn more in this class about writing and posting my writing in wordpress. Thanks Mr. Septa, you’re a great man.

*free writing

Identical Twins, a Party Invitation, and a Locked Closet

I have a twin sister. We are identical twins. Sometimes, my family find it difficult to distinguish us. One day, my mother received an invitation party from her friend. My mother asked me to accompany her at party tonight. Before it, I already knew my mother’s purpose. She wanted me to marry her friend’s son. They intended us to see each others at the party that night. I overheard their conversation on the phone one afternoon. It was not so bad for me. The week before, I had seen that man. He was a handsome and very generous man. I liked him. I was so happy if I would meet him again. I couldn’t wait for that night.

At night, it was time for me and my mother to go to the party. I was ready and went to the closet. I locked the closet door. Meanwhile, my mother came to my room. She met my sister, then she told her to get ready. My mother thought my sister was me. Finally, my mother and my sister went to the party together, while I was still in the closet.

*poetry

HE

Poems are saved in my mind

When your name is everlasting on the sheet of paper

Since that day you are not a strange in my life

Complete story and the meaning of life

I didn’t want to you to be an empty rainbow when the time is end

Because you are water, without you I am thirsty

Without you I have no spirit spirit

Without you I’m not useful

Who’s fault when you come

I never request

Because no need reason you have been created

You and I are beautiful memories

Each time is worth

Each moment is always harmony.

Each moment is a mutual completion

*Memoir

My First Traveling

Before, I never thought to study in outside Sulawesi Island. The first plan, after I finished in my Senior High School. I would continue study in Bau-Bau city or Kendari, the capital of Province on my Village. However, decided to study at Respati Yogyakarta University.

    I come in Yogyakarta city with my friends. We used wood ship transportation from my Island, from Binongko Island to Bau-Bau city. It required 1 night trip to Bau-Bau city. All night we enjoyed the night playing guitar. We sang together in roof of ship, cold atmosphere under the moonlight that night. We arrived at Bau-Bau city around 5 o’clock. Then, we used Pelni transportation to Surabaya. It required 3 days and 3 nights. The first day in the ship, we got bored. But afterward, we really enjoyed our side. We started doing a lot of things. Passing deck by deck, going to the canteen, playing games, learning English, and others. My friends and I were most notorious group.

    That is my beautiful experience. From  the ship, I could see the anchorage of Makassar, the high sea, the waves crash, the dusk from the sea, and the night shift. When one Island looked dark and cloudy one was till cloudy. For me, that was my first extraordinary traveling.

    Arriving at Surabaya, we simply traveled by car to the city of Yogyakarta. Along the way, we sang in the car. We arrived in Yogyakarta at 2 PM.

    Really, that was my first trip. That was my extraordinary journey, my traveling from my Island until Yogyakarta city. Yogyakarta city is a strange city for me, but with friends it became so fun.

*short story

Story of My Village “Wa Ndiu-Ndiu”

  Wa Ndiu-ndiu is another name for a mermaid. In Wakatobi especially in the Wolio language, the mermaid is called Wa Ndiu-ndiu Supposedly. The mermaids are much sought by the public, because it’s famous with her tears. The tears of Wa Ndiu-ndiu have been believed to have healing of medicinal and magical.

Once upon a time in my area, exactly in Southeast Sulawesi. There lived only three people because the father was already dead. There were mother and her two children. He was named La Nturungkeo and his younger brother was La Mbata-mbata. They lived in poverty, so worrisome. She would work hard to make both sons happy.

    One day, her children whimpered. They would eat fish. They demanded his mother to get them some fish. The mother was confused, where she would get a fish. Meanwhile, she didn’t have the money to buy fish at the Market.

    The Mother’s heart was so tender like a silk. Her love had no limit. She felt so bad to see her children cried over and over again. She looked at her children. She cried. Then she slowly walked out of the house. She walked towards the sea. She went to sea to find fish and gave to her children. Every day was like that, until the scales began to appear on her body. Each day, the scales grew until the moment she left a letter saying that “If I didn’t back to give you fish, don’t be sad. When you miss me, go away to the sea and call my name. I would come see you. If you want me to come back again, you must collect the shark bones into the jar until it’s full. Then I would meet you again.” Finally, every day the two children went to sea and sang, “Wa ina wa ndiu-ndiu… maipa susu andiku. Andiku La mbata-mbata. Kaaka La Nturungkeo. It means that “My Mother is mermaid. Come and feed my small brother. My small brother is La Mbata-mbata and my broter name is La Nturungkeo.” Unfortunately every time, they called their mother, their mother never came back.

*Biografi

Pegita Rianinda Putry or Pegita was born in Palu, 28 December 1999. She is the second child from three siblings.

She is an alumnus of Elementary School 1 Luwuk, Junior High School 3 Luwuk and Senior High School 2 Luwuk. Then, she went to Respati Yogyakarta University and studied English Literature as I did.

Her father was Syahril Saini, an entrepreneur and her mother, Mastelda Alatinge, a guidance counselor at Senior High School 2.

Pegita has become a strong woman since her parents passed away. Shortly after her Father died on November 2017, five month before her Mother died. She had first felt very low in spirits, but she tried to cheer herself up because she had harrowing small sister in her life. The three of them were driven away by her Father’s family after her Mother died.

    She has been suffering from a tumor since mid-2018, but she doesn’t look like a person with a disease. She run her routine life with a smile, enthusiasm. she always feels happy in her own away. The most admirable thing of her, she always encourages others when they need encouragement. She remains firm, patient, and strong-willed.

    Since her parents died, she works all the away to college. Although sometimes the wages she gets is running out for the treatment of her ailment, she is a tough woman. Maybe if I were in her position, I wouldn’t be able to live the way she does. 

*Testimony

In my opinion, the teaching method delivered by Mr. Septa is good. I am happy with the way he explained the materials. It was not too serious. I mean he always interspersed with jokes. So that, the teaching and learning process became neither tense nor boring. The materials presented were also supported with examples that helped students easily to understand.

In addition, I agree with the way he gave assignments by posting on the blog. In my opinion, along with the development of advanced technology, we need to use internet. Rarely do the lecturers and students use blogs. Most of the lecturers gave assignments and the students were required to submit in the form of papers. This not so bad, but it would be better if we could save paper and apply more effective and efficient ways of learning. That’s all from me. Thank you.

First Time Experiencing an Accident

When I was a child, I joined a course near to my home. Absolutely this happened when I was in the 6th grade of elementary school. The purpose was just like other people in general that was to get great score in the national exam. And here is how the story began. In the middle of sunny day, me and my friend were on the way back to my home. I rode my own motorcycle, so  my friend did. I rode my motorcycle like a rude boy, just to make my friend happy and put the best smile on his face. But, guess what!? I hit a little goat with my motorcycle. This goat was running beside me before, but suddenly the goat jumped in front of me. I was shocked and didn’t have enough time to step on the brake pedal, so I bumped the goat. After that I lost control and got down on the right side. We just laughed in the middle of the street. When I took a look at my friend, I saw him also fell from his motorcycle. I asked him how he could also fall from his motorcycle, than he said that he almost stepped on my hand with his motorcycle. Suddenly he took a brake but he was not yet ready with that, so he also fell down behind me, really close to me. Then I tried to get up and see what happened with my motorcycle. My motorcycle was broken, my handle bar was bent, my brake pedal was broken. The little goat ran away from us just like nothing was happened. When I got home my mother got angry with me because the motorcycle was broken. So that’s all about my story that will never be forgotten.

Poetry

I don’t know how to make it

I just try to write it

And don’t forget to feel it

I always try

Even my body is flying

I will never say goodbye

All I know is just about you

You are something new

And I will always think about you

Thank you

Teenagers Problem

In the middle of Yogyakarta city lived young boy called Muska. Muska was 17 years old, he studied in Bopkri Dua senior high school. Muska had a close friend in the school called Robert. Robert was also 17 years old and he was Muska’s classmate. Robert was the person who could keep Muska from any problem that Muska faced. Robert had an adult mind and he was very patient when he had to do something. For example when Muska fought with an unknown guy, Robert was the person who would keep Muska and made Muska take a peace way. Muska and Robert always went back from school together riding Muska’s motorcycle because their houses were also close to each other.

One day at noon on Friday, Muska and Robert wanted to go home after the last class. When Muska rode his motorcycle and Robert in the back seat, he got a punch from unknown guys that also wore school uniforms coloring white and grey. As Muska and Robert just had reached in their chool gate. They didn’t know what it meant and what the problem they had. Muska didn’t think that he had a problem with other, so did Robert. Then they went fast and tried to catch those guys who had given them punch.

Luckily Muska and Robert didn’t fail at that time, so they could go fast and successfully caught those guys. Then Muska hit their steering wheel and they fell down to the asphalt. Muska went to beat those guys without mercy. Robert just tried to stop what Muska did, and told to start talking with the guys. But Muska still beat that guys and broke the motorcycle with a rock that he took near from that place. And then the security came and Muska stopped his action, that guys were still silent. These guys told us their names after the security asked their names.

Their names were Dika and Fikri, they were students from another school and they hate BopkriDua senior high school. Dika and Fikri were already famous because they were mostly caught by the police just because their own case. As long as I knew, Dika was the boss gang and Fikri was the loyal follower. So they were always together when they went to make a problem with other people. Dika was also ever get arrested cause he hit a people with his gun. And now he got caught by Muska and Robert. After all, the security called the police to come in this place.

And now Dika got arrested again and Fikri got arrested for the first time. How poor their parents were. Even though they were the best hope from their parents. In other side, Muska and Robert lived in peace and could go home without any problem and meet their own family. So, don’t do stupid things that can make yourself get lose and make your family feel so sad .It will never give you a best story of life, but just give you the worst.

Identical Twins, a Party Invitation, and a Locked Closet

In the middle of busy town, there lived two girls. They were beautiful and young identical twins. In Monday morning they went to school by a car. In the school they met a classmate who gave an invitation. Guess what, it was a Monday night party invitation. Almost all teenagers in that town would come to that party. They were very happy because they got that party invitation. But when they went to choose their party clothes apparently they just met a locked closet. So they couldn’t join the party, because they had no party clothes. So, they never went to any party anymore.

Amrizal Irghan Afghany

He was born on June, 15th 1999 in Maguwoharjo, Yogyakarta, from a family that was neither poor nor rich, but simple. He was my best friend since childhood, even now we still often met and talked about anything. We laughed at the world together and we helped each other when any of us got a trouble. And now he chose a different way to fill in his youth moment. He was not in college, but he chose to join a group of clothing convection. He went to work from 9 o’clock until 17 o’clock, he worked on Monday until Friday. When I asked about college, he said that actually he wanted to be a college student. But he missed the test at that time, so he searched for some job and he got what he wanted.

Almost 1 year he did good job, and he tried to open his own clothing convection after he got enough experience in the convection that he worked in. He said that he made his own convection without his boss knowing. He bought the tools one by one with the money that he got from working hard. And now he just need a little more tools to make his own clothing convection perfect.

In the middle of 2019, he ever think that he want to try to join a college but in the end he don’t do that because he don’t have enough time to do. He said that he just prefer to make his own clothes convection.

And the fact he got busy schedule in his own clothing convection. It meant that he would get some more money from that. The one thing that made me so proud of him was t

Hen he got so many orders from customer, he didn’t give a high price for it. Because he knew what the best for customer was and what kept him profitable. One time he told me to join his own clothing convection, but I thought I couldn’t join because I was bad in managing time and I thought it could make my study worst, so I said no for now but I didn’t know if after my study was finished.

TESTIMONY

During my study with Mr. Septa in the creative writing class I felt different. It was different from other classes, because with Mr. Septa I felt more excited because he was so friendly but still authoritative. One thing that made me excited in the class was because the way the material delivered was not boring and didn’t seem scary. Although I was not very smart the classes, I was very comfortable learning with Mr. Septa. I feel my writing more developed when studying with a lecturer like him, because he was never angry at me. Actually being angry was not a big problem, but if it became too much, I thought it might ruin a student’s mental as well. I think that’s all that I can write about creative writing class. Big thanks to Mr. Septa and also please forgive me if I had made so many problems in the class.

We love you, sir!

Free Writing

That night I went to my cousin’s party. At the party, I met my course friends, they were identical twins. They were my cousin’s classmates so they also got the party invitation. I greeted them, and entered the party room together. After that we were separated, and I decided to look for my cousin, my uncle, and my aunt. After talking with them, I went to the toilet. I washed my hand, and when I wanted to go out, I heard someone shouted and pounded on the door. I went to the closet where the sound came from. I opened the door, and someone came out from a locked closet. Apparently, she was one of the twins.

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Poem

List of Sad Thing
(LOST)🥀

Your presence will never be seen again by my side
The facial expression that became encouraging was gone
Dusty photos become memories on a silent wall
And now I’m here fighting alone
Wrap my head around

Lost you was a bolt from the blue
Lost you leaves an unexplained emptiness
Many things are thought of, like a perfect storm
But difficult to express

The feeling of longing can appear suddenly
In everywhere and every situation
No matter in the crowd though
So sometimes I have to be smart to hide emotion
And I was still feeling a bit under the weather

But loss has taught me many things and now I face each day
With hope, and happy memories to help me on my way
I hope every cloud has a silver lining
The fact that you’re no longer here will always cause me pain
But you’re forever in my heart until we meet again

I cried when you passed away
And I still cry today
Although I loves you dearly
I couldn’t make you stay
Your golden heart stop beating
We laid you down to rest

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Memoir

My Hardest Struggle

There was one of the hardest time of my life, where at that time I had thought to stop continuing my study. It was on 17 April 2018, in my hometown Central Sulawesi. That was the day I had just lost my mother after 5 months before I had lost my father. During the day I felt completely empty and discouraged because I had lost everything and even lost the spirit of my own life. So, the thought arose to stop my study because there was no longer any reason for me to continue, that’s my thought that day.

A day, two days, three days, even weeks I spent my time thinking about this. Every day I asked myself, will I have to stop or continue? If I stop, I might disappoint many parties, in this case my family. But if I continue, I will trouble and even hurt myself. At that time, my heart said that I really did not want to continue my study.

Until one afternoon, at that time I was tidying my mother’s room. When I was in that room, immediately all the events that had happened between my mother and I even with my father, everything popped up again. It’s like a video recording played back. I remembered the time when I asked permission from my mother and father to study outside the island of Sulawesi, and was very far from home. I remembered when my mother and father were so proud of me for trying to live independently, and I also remembered their faces that looked heavy to let me living away from them.

I remembered all the struggles they had put in so that I could realize my wishes, and be in this position, and how they tried so hard to make my wish come true. Instantly these memories made me felt guilty and aware that the thought not to continue my study was the biggest mistake. How much they tried so hard for me to be in this position, if I stop my study I will greatly disappoint these two people whom I love so much.

After what happened that afternoon, I thought again, and apparently there are so many reasons for me to continue my study. There was so much support that I got from my sisters, and the whole family. And I remembered what my father and mother said: “Finish what you have started and never give up no matter what happens”. Finally I decided to go back to Jogja and continue my study. And from this problem I learned not to decide anything when you sad, and never give up no matter what happens.

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Short Story

My Love Acski

This afternoon, after school I was picked up by my father as usual. Such a tiring day ruined my mood. All the way home I just remained silent. Arriving at home I immediately headed to my room, on the second floor. When I opened the door, I was shocked to see my room so messy, pillows and dolls scattered everywhere, milk and chocolate spilling over the bed. There I saw my little sister Adel, playing a puzzle and looking at me like she was innocent. I felt very upset, my mood was increasingly broken.

I left my room and sat in the living room. Suddenly Acski, my pet dog came close to me. Every time I came home from school, Acski always welcomed me, and I always held him to spoil him. But it was different that day, because of my bad mood, I did not care about Acski’s existence around me. I just turned around and slept on the sofa. Slowly the sound of Acski’s footsteps moving away, I thought he was annoyed. But I decided to continue my sleep.

In the afternoon I woke up from my sleep. I saw quiet around me. I decided to enter my room again. And I saw my room was clean and neat again, it seems my mother had tidied it up. I took a shower, and change clothes, I feel refreshed and my mood was getting good. After that I decided to go down to the first floor, looking for my family. I saw my mother cooking in the kitchen, my father was drinking coffee. I just greeted my mother and father, after that I decided to go to the yard to find my sisters. There I saw my older sister Susan doing work on the gazebo with her friends, and Adel was playing swing.

After that I decided to look for Acski. I went to his cage but nothing. I searched around the cage, in the front and back yards of my house, in my house, in my room, in all the rooms, but I still couldn’t find him. I also asked my father and mother, as well as my sisters but no one knew where Acski was. Because I was upset and I got angry and blamed my father, mother, and my older sister for not taking care of Acski, I also blamed Adel because she often invited Acski to play and forgot to put him back in his cage. I was upset and immediately cried and left. I looked for Acski in my mother’s garden. And how happy I am when I was see Acski sleeping near an orchid. I walked closer, but after I saw clearly it was Max, Susan’s pet dog. I was sad and upset again. I decided to look for Acski around my house complex, to the park, but there was nothing.

The day was getting late, and Acski was still missing. I felt sorry because I had ignored him earlier, he might feel upset and no longer want to see me. I’m afraid that Acski left me. I came home feeling upset and very sad. When I got home, my mother told me to have dinner first, and after that we would look for Acski together. My father, my mother, Susan and Adel apologized to me for not taking care of Acski. Instantly I felt very guilty for venting my frustration to them, even though this was my own fault.

After dinner we looked for Acski again, in all corners of the house. And suddenly Adel called all of us to my room. We all gather in my room, I saw Adel standing in front of the cupboard where I kept my dolls. Adel opened the door and there was Acski who was sleeping between the dolls. How happy my heart was, I approached the cupboard, and immediately hugged Acski. Acski awoke from his sleep and saw me hugging him. Acski also looks happy, seen from his eyes.

I apologized to my father, mother, Susan and Adel for venting my frustration to them. Not to forget, I thank to Adel for finding Acski. Through today’s incident I learned that, don’t vent your anger to other people, moreover blame others for your own mistakes.

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Biography

My Great Uncle

Yosdrik Alatinge or commonly called Yos, was born in Lukpanenteng, on April 17, 1977. He is an employee at a company in Japan. He is my uncle. He is the 8th child of 9 siblings. He is my mother’s little brother. He had a nice and bleak childhood. He liked to play in the forest and set bird snares with his friends, he also liked to shoot fish in the sea. But because of his pleasure, he was often scolded by his father, mother and siblings.

He went to elementary school in SD Lukpanenteng. After graduating he continued his junior high school at SMPN 1 Luwuk but only reached grade 2 because he often skipped classes. So, finally he went out and returned to his village in Lukpanenteng. Then in the village he raised chickens for 2 years, then continued his junior high school at SMP Tataba and graduated in 1995. Then he continued his senior high school at SMKN 2 Luwuk and graduated in 1998. After that he took the KLK course in Nambo for 3 months. Still in the same year he took an internship test to Japan but failed. While waiting for the next internship test, he worked as a construction worker. In May 1999, he took another internship test to Japan and passed the test. After passing the test, he took a Japanese language course at BLK Palu for 1 month and BLIP Ceves Bekasi for 3 months. In September 1999 he went to Japan for an internship.

During the internship, he lived his days well and passionately. Because so much time and energy he had sacrificed, and also so much effort had been done by his parents and siblings so he could be in this position. In order to realize his dream to work in Japan, he left the people he loved, especially his mother who was sick. Lack of communication tools at the time, made it difficult for him to give news as often as possible to his family in the village. He could only call to the village once in 2 weeks even sometimes longer than that. Lack of communication with his family made him worried about the news of his family, especially his mother. But he still tried his best to stay focused on his main goal.

Until one night, in 2001, he dreamed of meeting his mother, and in that dream his mother said that she would go. Before he could ask where his mother was going, he was awake. After the dream, he called his older sister (my mother) and told his dream, but my mother said that everything was fine. He agreed with what my mother had said, but he kept thinking about his dream. One month later after his dream, his mother died. But no one told him, because his family was afraid that something unexpected would happen to him. Until after almost 2 weeks his mother died, still no one dared to tell him. Until finally he called to his village, which initially only to ask how his family was doing but instead ended up receiving news that he did not want. When he called who received it was his older brother Mastopel, but his brother also did not said anything about it. He only said that to call my mother in an hour, there was something that my mother wanted to say, he said. Hearing the orders from his brother, made him a little suspicious that something must have happened. And an hour later he called my mother, and there my mother told him the truth. And my father said “Yos must be strong, we have tried our best but God has called mom”. He knew the news that his mother had died, after his mother had been buried for 12 days.

One night he cried, until the next day he did not come to work. For more than 1 month he lost enthusiasm and almost gave up. But he remembered his father’s message before he took the test to Japan, he said, “If later you pass the test and go to Japan, whatever happens with our family in Indonesia, even though your parents died, you must not go back home just finish your internship, finish what you’ve started “. Remembering the message given by his father, made him knit his enthusiasm and stopped giving up. He continued his internship, and his life returned to the way it was before, he returned in high spirits. He wanted his mother who was far away, proud of him.

When his internship for 3 years was finished, he returned to Indonesia to get married. He married with his wife Hagihara a Japanese nationality. After his marriage he returned to Japan and worked as an employee at the Yugen Gaisha Company Nanri Seishakusho in the field of production machinery serving as the head of the group. He also became a permanent citizen in Japan.

For me, he is an extraordinary person. He is cool, he is able to realize his dreams, he is able to remain enthusiastic and not easy to give up. He is successful in his work. He has a salary that is more than enough to fulfill the needs of his family, even he is still able to help his siblings who need his help, and also helps others who are not even his family. He is a great husband, and a great father of course. We have almost the same story, the loss of our parents that we love the most. But he is still able to live his life, he loves his life, and he does not live despair. From him I learn to keep the spirit to live my life, and love my life. I want to be like him, realize my dreams, and be succeed with the job I choose, so that I can help others who need my help. But he said to me, “You must do something more extraordinary than I do”.

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Testimony

 I would like to say thank you to Mr. Septa for teaching me in Creative Writing class. In this class I can learn how to write creatively. I can learn how to write a good poetry, short story, biography, memoir, and so on. Maybe my writings are not good enough, but I will try to make better compositions in the near future.

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🌺Testimony:

Firstly, I want to say thank you to Mr. Septa who had already taught me in Creative Writing Class. In this class I learned many things, like to make good sentences, good paragraphs, good poetries, and others. Actually my writing isn’t good enough, but I will try to be better than before. I also want to say sorry to Mr. Septa, if I had made mistakes in this class. Maybe, it was because I couldn’t understand several things you had already shared to me.