last week i was chosen to be one of Jakarta's representive to compete with 300 other schools from all over Indonesia, aand here's the story
First day
so me, my three other friends, aand my two teachers arrived at the airport at 7 o'clock in the morning, but we have to wait for 2 hours in the airport and 1 hour to get to Surabaya, and it was very tiring. when we're on our way to the inn, we rode a car which is too small for the crowd, but we ignore it by telling stories to each other like how mr.Arif, one of my teacher got to sit next to someone who actually puke, i think it might be one of the experience he'll never forget. when we arrive we had to wait another 2 hours to get the keys to our room since there's a lot of student participating in this competition. so me and Sekar, one of my friend got the room 115 in building F1, it was pretty far from the lobby and we met two girls who's also the representive from Jakarta.
then all of students were ordered to go to Airlangga university auditorium at 6, and it was for the opening ceremony, and it was quite interesting, there's speech, singing, and traditional dancing, and also we get to listen to song played by classical instrument AND WHAT THE HELL AM I SAYING!!!! okay it's interesting and they played it good but come one all the students had to watch it for 4 HOURS people, can those guys respect the kids a little, the've come from far away places to compete, they need a rest people not seeing a stupid show, they've been generous of letting us seeing but like they would actually need it at a time like that. and the speech from the show just made things PERFECT, REALLY PERFECT. then we went back and we had to sleep at about 11:30 and we had to wake up at 5, jeez what do they want from us?suffer?
Second day
i didn't really sleep well that night, you know why? because in my bedroom there's only a pillow and a bed there was no blanket, and that's not all, we don't know how to turn off the AC so it was so sold i had to wear my jeans and jacket to sleep. then when i woke up it wwas a quarter to five and i immidietly took a bath, change and got ready to the contest.there were 4 subject, english, fisic, biology, and math, and 1 school has 4 representive for each subject, and i'm competing in english. and in this competition we didn't use paper, we used our laptop to answer, it was the first time for me to answer like that. some question were hard and some were easy, and there were 2 session, but in the end i lost though. but i meet a girl who sit next to me and i immidietly realize we had a lot incommon so we immidietly became friends.
her name was Luna whis means "moon" i thought it was a beautifull name, and she was pretty as well. she was from South Sulawesi, i was little surprised i was friend with some one from that far. then the students were ordered to get on the bus and then we had a city tour, though i slept from most of the part. she could even make her own comic though the drawing isn't like a pro it was very good.
our first destination was "LUMPUR LAPINDO" it is a lake made out of mud and harden. it was a pretty terrible site, and it was said that when the people were trying to dug some gasses, a mud came out instead and made a flood, and the mud flood spread to 72 vilagges and now it's under the harden lake. i even got to see a roof that got stuck on the lake with Luna and it felt like the roof was washed away, i even though it was a fake roof made to attract people.
after that we went to mosque to pray since most of us were islamic including me. then after that we rest, Luna then wanted me to go where we could eat something like a chicken soup across the street, then we met someone Luna knows that amazingly she knowed him from facebook, i was a litlle stuned by that. then we met a policeman and Luna said she wanted to take pictures of them and aamazingly we did, it was a little hard to believe. then after that me and lunne went to the bus and i shared some of the books i brought and we laugh together from reading the books. then we arrived at the inn but i slept before we arrived though, and so did Luna. then i took a bath, changed and went to sleep.
Third day
I woke up half past five today, and i got to the same routine, though there's nothing to do after that so i looked around the inn and what do you know? there was some kind of bazaar, and it's perfect for souvinier. i went back to my room and got my wallet, and when i arrived Mr. Arif gaave me and my friends 300.000 rupiah and with my allowance, that would make 450.000 rupiah, it looks like i'm going to buy a lot, i thought, oh and i found out that i was raked 82 from 300 students, i lost but it was quite a good rank. and i bought a watch, a broch, a key chain, a calendar pen, a pin and a bag, and they were all cheap so i still got 350.000 rupiah.then my friends and i have lunch, and i watched the news how in queensland the flood was so horrible that even mini bus were sweep away, and i thought the flood from jakarta is bad but that was horrible. then went to bridge "Suramadu" there were a lot of shop there selling dresses of Madura's batik and it was incredibly beautifull even though the shop was plain, i wanted to buy it but the sizes were to small for me. then it was 5 o'clock and we were all ready to departure, but some unexpected thing happened. the flight that was supposed to fly at 7:30 was delayed 2 hours because the presiden caame to Surabaya, and then after waiting for one and a half hours, it was delayed 2 hours AGAIN, so by the time i chated with my teacher and friends, i even fortune tell my teachers, then we went home and arrrived at my house about 1 o'clock in the morning, change and sleep.
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