Third week

August 20, 2018

      Today, there was something really nice happened with me when I was trying to cross the street. I wanted to cross the stress but I was pretty scared to do it because there were lots of cars passing by so I just stood there waiting for the street to be empty which is not going to happen. Fortunately, there was a kind uncle appeared and stopped the cars for me so I can cross the street. I guessed he probably kept watching me standing there for a while so decided to help. I really appreciated his help. He really made my day.

      I had to teach grade 8 today. There are only 5 students in grade 8 so I can remember their names pretty fast. I taught them about telling personal news, giving compliments, giving opinion and asking for opinion. The class today was quite good as the students really participated in the class. By the end of the class, my mentor gave me some comments so I can take those comments to improve my next teaching.  

      In the evening, my friend’s parents (Addy) invited us all for the dinner at Kumpan Daun, it was very beautiful restaurant. What I like most about this restaurant is when you want to order something you gotta hit the bamboo to make a sound so the waiter can hear it and come to get the orders. Morever, the food there are very delicious.

After got back from the dinner, I just keep working on my lesson plan until late.  
 

August 21, 2018

          I was up until late last night so this morning I woke up bit late, I had to run to take Angkot while carrying my bag that weight like 10 tons because of my laptop and school books. Crossing the street to take Angkot will always be the most exciting mission that I have to do in each day. Just like yesterday, my mission’s today is taking Angkot from UPI to Hokben ( a restaurant ) and then take a school bus to go to school. The mission probably sounds easy for you but there are loads of cars passing by Hokben. To cross that street, it probably takes me more than 5 minutes but, don’t worry my story ends good. Remember that kind uncle who helped me by stopping the cars for me yesterday? He helped me again today. Indonesian people are the cutest human being ever.

          Today I had to teach Grade 12 , I taught them about folktales by teaching them  each important elements of folktale. Grade 12 were so cute, they reminded me a lot of myself and my friends when we were in high school.

August 22, 2018

          Today is school off, Eidul Azha the Feast of the Sacrifice also called the "Festival of Sacrifice" is the second of two Islamic holidays celebrated worldwide each year (the other being Eid al-Fitr), and considered the holier of the two. It honors the willingness of Ibrahim (Abraham) to sacrifice his son as an act of obedience to God’s command. Before Abraham sacrificed his son, God provided a male goat to sacrifice instead. In commemoration of this, an animal is sacrificed and divided into three parts: one third of the share is given to the poor and needy; another third is given to relatives, friends and neighbours; and the remaining third is retained by the family.

            I didn’t do much things today, just washing my clothes and taking a rest.

August 23, 2018

             Today, I went to Lab School to join the Qurban Day (Festival of Sacrifice). They sacrificed 3 cows and 6 goats. I had never seen something like this before. It was really great experience.

             In the afternoon, I and my friends went to Babakan Siliwangi and then Teras Cikapundung BBWS Citarum. After that, we went to Ciwalk for buying foods and snacks.

August 24, 2018

      Today, I had to teach grade 9 students, it was only 40 minutes. I taught them about what is ingredient, how to ask for ingredient and how to show the understanding. We played a bingo game; I asked them to write the names of ingredients on the boards and the asked them to choose some words and write it on the given paper. The winner of this game got prize from me, it was instant noodles from Thailand. The students really enjoyed the game. They asked me to keep playing but I couldn’t because I had an excursion to Gracia Hot Spring.  I finished my class around 1.40 p.m. and I had to be at UPI at 2 p.m.  I would say this is impossible mission because my school is quite far from UPI. I tried to book Grab bike on my but I couldn’t. Fortunately, my student from grade 12 helped me to book GoJek instead. It was my first time taking Gojek. I wanted the driver to ride fastest as he can because everybody is probably waiting for me and I felt sorry for that but, the traffic was terrible. I think the driver already tried his best. Finally, I got at UPI and obviously everybody was waiting for me. I was late like 30 minutes which is a lot. I really felt sorry for that really appreciated that they still waited for me. 

       We took the bus that provide by UPI to Gracia  Hot Spring. It was very beautiful place. We had really good time there.

August 25, 2018

         We didn’t do much things today, our lesson plans. I had to write 6 lesson plans which are quite hard for me but, I got loads of help from my friends. Even we just working on our lesson plans but we still had good time together. I am very lucky that being surrounded by these generous and talented people.  

August 26, 2018

      Today, we went Dago Dreampark. We were trying to dress like Indonesian people by wearing hijab. I had lots of fun there. We took lots of photos together.