Here is my unforgettable experience. One day I joined a story telling contest.

Two of my
friends and I had been chosen to take a part in the final round at the district level. I was very
happy and eager to win the competition.

For preparation, I had to memorize and understand the story well.My teacher guided and
taught me pronunciation, facial expression and gestures. One day, before performing, my
friends and I were busy to prepare the props and costumes for the competition. Thing that me
sad was my teacher rented the props and costumes for my friends but not for me. My two
friends had beautiful costumes and luxurious props. Although I just wore the simple ones, I
performed my best to win the competition.

The competition started. I got number 29 and my friends got number 5 and 10. I was nervous
but I showed my best performance on stage. Lots of people took photos and videos of me.
Finally, anxiety was gone after I had finished performing. And then, the announcement came
which made three of us very uneasy. Luckily I was chosen as the first winner. I went to the
stage and all the judges congratulated me and gave a plague, trophy, and money. I was very
happy.

MY STIR AS A REPORTER

I usually woke up at four o’clock a.m. and went to the Press Center to check the daily
schedule of briefings and press conferences. It was usually held by the United Nation
officials or disaster mitigation team.
It was challenging to visit different refugee camps to find soft stories, human interest stories.
After that I went back to the Press Center to cover the press conferences of the day.

It was heart breaking when I saw these survivors fight for food and secondhand clothing.
Unfortunately as they said, the food and clothing were limited and inadequate. Emerging to
glaring, fool noon, it was time to go back to Press Center to write stories and race against
time. I was always fearing that the internet would come crushing down.

After everything was done, only then I remembered to eat. Most times, I only ate once a day
because I always had to rush and again it was difficult to find food. I had to travel quite far. I
needed to spend a 30 to 45 minutes by car just to find fresh food.
Last Friday, a friend of mine asked me to accompany him to buy a new shirt at a department
store. We left home at 03.00 p.m. by motorcycle. As soon as we arrived there, we went to the
clothes section. I let him choose one. An hour later, I got bored watching him confused in
choosing a shirt. So I left him and went to the cassette counter. Thirty minutes later, I went
back to the clothes section but I couldn’t find him there. My cell phone was broken so I
couldn’t call him. I went to the parking area. I saw his motorcycle was there but I couldn’t
find him. I waited for him for a few moments then finally I gave up and decided to go home.

When I arrived home, my mother told me that my friend called. She said that he was in the
department store looking for me. My mother asked me to come back to the department store.
Reluctantly, I walked to the department store and you know what? When I arrived there his
motorcycle was not in the parking area. He just went home. I was very tired. There was no
other choice, I had to walk home again. When I arrived home, I was so tired. I was very
angry but when I saw my friend’s broad smile greet me in front of the door, I just could not
help laughing.

Picasso was one of the most outstanding and important artists of the 1900’s. He is best known
for his paintings. Almost every style in modern art is represented in Picasso’s works.

Picasso was born in 1881 in Malaga, Spain as the son of an art teacher. He studied painting
from his father and his college level course of study at the academy of arts in Madrid.

From about 1895 to 1901, he painted realistic works in a traditional style. Then, entered what
was called the Blue Period. During this time, he only used shades of blue in his paintings to
show the poverty he saw in Barcelona.

After 1908, he entered into the style of cubism. Among his well-known cubist paintings are
“Three Musicians” and “Man with a Guitar”.

Picasso died in Moughins, France in 1973. He was really great artist.

 The Near-Death Story of Mellen-Thomas Benedict
In 1982,1 died from terminal cancer. My condition was non-operable. I chose not to have
chemotherapy. I was given six to eight months to live. Before this time, I had become
increasingly despondent over the nuclear crisis, the ecology crisis, and so forth. I came to
believe that nature had made a mistake-that we were probably a cancerous organism on the
planet. And that is what eventually killed me.

Before my near-death experience, I tried all sort of alternative healing methods. None helped.
So I determined that this was between me and God. I had never really considered God.
Neither was I into any kind of spirituality and alternative healing. I read various religions and
philosophies. They gave hope that there was something on the other side.

I had no medical insurance, so my life savings went overnight on tests. Unwilling to drag my
family into this, I determined to handle this myself. I ended up in hospice care and was
blessed with an angel for my hospice caretaker, whom I will call "Anne." She stayed with me
through all that was to follow.          

Holiday In Malaysia
Last holiday, My family was on vacation. we went to Malaysia. We used travel agent to
manage our holiday . We had booked two days tour in Malaysia. We went malaysia by plane.
The travel agent had booked ticket for us. The flight was only one hour from Jakarta. On the
plane the cabin crews were very friendly and they were very handsome and beautiful. They
gave us some directions before the flight. Our plane, garuda Indonesia had very complete
fasilities to accompany passanger during the journey, such as movies player, music player,
newspaper, magazine, etc. We had a very pleasant flight. On arrival at Kuala Lumpur, we had
to go to Customs and Immigration. The officers were pleasant. They checked the document
carefully but their manners were very polite. After that, the travel agent brought us to
Petronas Tower and took some photos there.In the afternoon, we went to hotel to take a rest.
The hotel was a well-known five-star hotel. The room had perfect view of city. On the third
floor, there was a restaurant serving American, african, Asian European food. They had
variety of food.In the next day, we went to Sepang circuit to watch MotoGp race. I wanted to
watch directly my idol Valentino Rossi and took photos with him. During the race, I was
surprised because that was my first time I saw motorcycles ran fast up to 300 km/hour in
front of my eyes. In the ending of the race, Rossi was the first rider who touched the finish
line. I was so happy because he won.The two days in Malaysia went by fast. At the end of the
second day, we were quite tired but we felt very happy.
 Study Tour To Bogor and Bandung
I went to bogor with my teachers and my friends. It was a study tour actually. Study tour was
held when I was junior high school. That was my first time I went to Puncak, Bogor. My
teacher, my class friends, and I were in the same bus. We left our school at 10 p.m. trip to
Puncak from Cirebon was about 7 hous.After 7 hours on the way, finally we arrived in
Bogor. It was about 5.00 Am. We stopped in a mosque to pray first. Some of my friends took
a bath in the mosque. But, I just brushed my teeth and washed my face because there was was
so cold. It made me lazy to touch the water.After that, we went to a restaurant to have a
breakfast. I was so hungry. Then, we went to Taman safari Bogor. We saw animal collection
there. The animal collection was very complete. In taman safari, every Sunday there was an
animal circus and fortunately we visited Taman safari on Sunday. So, we could watch the
animal circus there. The animal circus was very funny and made us entertained. After
watched the animal circus we went back to the bus and we we went to the villa to take a rest.
In villa I and my friends swam together. In the next day, we left bogor to visit Bandung. The
journey from Bogor to Bandung was abut 3 hours. Actually, it was a funny journey because I
spent all of my time with my friends, like playing games, laughing, and kidding. But I felt
that all of my tiredness gone all of sudden when we arrived at bandung. In Bandung, we
visited Cihampelas. Cihampelas was a very busy street. There were so many factory outlet
there. We used that moment to buy some clothes and souvenirs there. After From
Cihampelas. We went home to our city. Study tour made me very tired, but I was very happy
because I could spend many time with my friends.