Busy April

First of all I’d like to say Happy Easter to all who celebrate it this upcoming weekend. And away from that, I’m just saying that it’s always nice to have a little holiday from busy week, in which I will get this weekend from what they called it Spring Break. Finally I get to be released early from school tomorrow, and having no school on Friday and the following Monday, so its quite a good deal. But of course we actually having this break to do some Easter tradition like going to church and stuff. My family don’t celebrate that much, but I’m still happy and looking forward to it.
Soo I know I have been really busy at school, plus the computer at my house does not working at all which result in no posting for these last couple of weeks. Yes yes I have many random information and I am excited to tell you! :)
Ok so first I went to State Forensic last Saturday. I might have said earlier that I am doing a four minute speech about being a foreign exchange student in the United States. This competition has been going on for the last two months; we started at sub district then I pass so I made it to district. I performed at district in three rounds, one of the judges didn’t really like me but I still made it to State! So my performance at State went pretty well; I scored 24 out of 25 and I got silver medal and I am extremely happy :)

Then I had track & field going on. If you would let me explain, this is one of the sport choice during the Spring season other than baseball softball or golf (at least in my school). We do different events such as sprint or distance running, and there are also field events like throwing discus and jumping.

I chose track because although I am a very bad runner, I do like running. Plus our team is actually a combine team from two different schools, so I like to have more people around. Anyway… if you asked me which event am I doing, I have been doing so many different one. I’ve ran 55 meter dash, 100m, 200m, 400m, and 800m. My favorite is 200m because it’s is not as fast as those crazy 7seconds race and you don’t ran out of breath. I really like it. It’s fun and I got to get in shape before going home in couple of months (don’t want to mention it).

Oh I also went to UW-Madison Varsity Band Concert! It was so fun, even though it was kind of nasty weather on our way there. The concert was at Kohl Center and there were so many people came to watch. I got the very high seat, like I was sitting against the wall and in the very top level. So yeah it was kind of scary. But the concert was awesome, they played these famous songs from the Beatles up to Glee. My expectation was them to play "Teach Me How To Bucky" lol have you heard of it? It's a really cool song you should listen.

Overall it was pretty cool experience to see them performed, and one thing is that UW Madison is always one university I'd like to get into. I mean uhm who knows, someday :)

April has been a busy month for myself. I know my friends back in Indonesia has, too. They are currently in the middle of national exam so lets hope they will do extremely well!
Talking about busy, I haven't skype my parents in forever so I better soon. Yes, I do miss my life in Jakarta but I am having the best time in my life here!! These are the days when you feel like you can't wait to go back to your beautiful country but yet you aren't ready to leave the freedom. Yes, I do love living in United States but I do I do I do miss my country..... I don't know.

2.5 months.

Trip to Washington DC Part II-The Payback!

So on the first day at DC, we visited Lincoln Memorial, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Korean War Memorial, Thomas Jefferson Memorial and Kennedy Center.

And then on the next day, we actually had a tour inside the U.S. Capitol Building! And then we visited the White House, Old Post Office, World War II Memorial and the National Mall. We got to visit 2 out of like 10 different museums, so me and my friends decided to go to Holocaust museum and Smithsonian Airspace Museum. And of course, the Art Museum. Yap yap i don't think there is enough space to post all the pictures!

White House

Lincoln Memorial

Abraham Lincoln statue

Vietnam Veterans Memorial

World War II Memorial

National Mall with the Capitol Building on background

Overall seneng banget lah bisa ngunjungin bangunan-bangunan penting di ibukota Amerika Serikat! I hope you get to see what I got to see. Now I need to work on my homework :p

Toodles!

Trip to Washington DC Part I

One of the worst experience I had in the United States was get isolated in the hotel room, while everyone else's touring Washington DC. How was that exactly? So during the Arrival Orientation eight months ago, all the students get to visit their Embassy and go to different tourist site. They got to visit the Embassy, Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument, and some other places. Unfortunately since I was sick, I had to stay so that other people would not get sick too.

Pretty sad, isn't it?

So anyway, the art club in my school offered a trip to Washington DC around March. I signed up for it :) :) The long bus ride took out most of the fun part, but I enjoy the trip in overall. So I am going to post some pictures I took.

Here are the one we visited in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. Next post will be another tons of pictures in DC!

Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia

John F. Kennedy Grave and Memorial and Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial

Tomb of the Unknown guard. He paces 21 steps alongside the tomb, pauses 21 seconds, then returns.

The changing of the guard every hour*

It's the beginning of Spring!

Hi so today me and my friends went out to the lake near our town, and the lake that was frozen all winter turns out to be about one-inch of ice left. temen gue penasaran buat nyoba step on the ice dan hasilnya nyemplung ke lakenya oooops. She didnt let me put her picture in here hahaha but anyway it's the beginning of Spring and it was so nice outside! I hope it's a good sign and a lot of things going on in Spring. I am going out for Track and Field for sport and hoping to have good times and make more friends. Tomorrow I will be going on an art trip to Washington DC, from March 16 through 21. Looking forward to see the White House!
Here are some pictures from today:

Cadiz Spring lake, Wisconsin

Not-so-frozen Lake

Frozen lake setelah diinjak

Winter eyeshot.

These pictures was taken around Christmas 2010. I just thought that I might miss these since spring is already around the corner. Enjoy!

Our house from the back side

 

My snowshoes trail!

 

Magzie in snow!!!



Argyle common winter scenery



Ski trail and my cousins in the background


Becaming part of a team.



Junior Varsity Girls Basketball Team 2010/2011
Argyle High School, Wisconsin



Musicals!

last night i went to watch a musical called "The Boyfriend" at Monroe High School. i wasnt that excited about the story, just because my friend Sara(s) Quentin and Jessica was in it. but i think it was really really cool!

I should've not compared it with the one we did in Argyle.

but anyway, this is Argyle's The Phantom of the Country Opera musical.

It was pretty fun! I gotta go. See you all later :)



Memorable Disneyworld

I never had such a feeling of being, i dont know how to describe it. I found myself back in Argyle, sitting in front of a computer trying to catch up with school work. But Florida, that’s all in my mind.

As I (didn’t) mention before, last week I got almost a week off from school to attend a conference called Better Understanding for a Better World (BUBW). It is sponsored by the Civilization Exchange & Cooperation Foundation (CECF) and being held every year. The way I got to go was by participating in International Education Week, made presentations in which I ended up making 37 of them in front of local communities. Anyway

From the February 2-6, 2011

about 80 students from over 30 different countries stayed in Disney’s All Star Sport resort. Here is the picture near my hotel room:

Also one of the best thing, met my best best Indonesians: Untari Radiv Rizki Shanice and Dian!!!

First day

First thing on the first day was called Millenium Cultures Experiential program. So we went to Epcot, split onto groups and tour around the World Showcase. There were the replicas of typical buildings, landmarks from different countries such as Germany, China, Mexico and America.

After a following presentation session, we got to go to Disney’s Hollywood Studios!

In a tiny amount of time I went on two rides, Tower of Terror and Rock n’ Roll Roller Coaster. It was amazing.

Second day

Today is the Interfaith program, we visited a Church, Synagogue and Mosque and had discussions. I’d say Synagogue was the most interesting for me, and we found out that Jewish and Islam has a lot of similarities!

Interfaith program was very important and it was kind of this conference all about. Each religion in this world are related, and how we are all related to each other.

The day continued on! We dropped in Epcot and were allowed to spend time for the rest of the day. So me and my friends went on almost all main rides like Mission space, Test Track, Soarin’ and spaceship earth. We took pictures at character spot with Mickey and fellas <3 

Third day

Magic kingdom started the day!

the pictures described it all!

Around noon we all gathered and prepared for the Banquet in the evening. Most of us dressed in our national costumes and I think they all look wonderful J

Also noted that among other performances on Banquet night, Indonesia made some kind of a mini skit that basically perform our martial arts dances and song. It was funny because we just think of a quick concept, quick teaching then did a quick runthrough, then voila! We tried our best.

Here is the link to the video: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/video/video.php?v=1633617397739

well that was most of the fun part. although we all say Disneyworld was the best part, BUBW was not just about that. it was more than just Disney. i made a lot of new friends! right after the conference, all the kids tried to keep in touch and I'm glad Facebook's there.

so right now this first post is dedicated to my friends at BUBW for whom i miss.

see you guys in five years!