2015 Plan

           

             

             I  love the start of a new year. It’s the perfect time to get organized, refocus energy, and start fresh. Usually people like to make some resolutions in the beginning of a new year. But sometimes it doesn’t work well. We can not reach or realize our target. Why does it happen like that ?

            One reason why New Year’s resolutions can be hard to achieve is because we simply set too many. We are not focus on our priority goals.

            Resolutions and goals are often easy to let go because there’s no accountability for getting them done. Try sharing our plans for 2015 with family or best friend who can offer support is a good way. We are more likely to stick with a plan when we make a public commitment.

            To make our plans run well, we should consider our possibilities, characters and abilities. As a primary teacher that requires love for children, much patience, profound knowledge of subjects and the ability to explain and to teach, I will learn much more to improve myself. It is a great responsibility to educate the children.

             So I will take some training, seminar, workshop, read more books and also learn from other people who have much experience. The closest plans are : preparing lesson plans and semester plan for the students, attending Cambridge Day 2015 the international seminar on February 4^th in Surabaya, also re-connect the teacher partnership with other teachers or schools aboard.

            Hopefully I can do my plan as well, Amiin.. 

Run Forrest, Run !

        

                One day there was a boy with legs disability named Forrest Gump walked together with his friend, a girl, on the way home.  Suddenly, a group of boys came and disturbed them. Those boys were riding bicycles and threw Forrest with a couple of stones. The girl suggested him to run away from those naughty boys.

                Of course, that was such a difficult thing by Forrest Gump to run . Those naughty boys were chasing him. Forrest was so panic and  tried  to run  as fast as he could do. An amazing thing happened! Both of the leg braces that he wore were broken while he was running. He could run very fast. He never thought he could walk normally instead of run!

                That was the first time for Gump begins his running journey. Later on, he became a  very good runner. From that story part, we can conclude if someone has a great determination to do something, there must be a way to reach that.  

Dove; You Are Beautiful More Than You Think

Some selected women were asked in turn to describe their personal appearances to the sketcher. The sketcher sketched them based only on their descriptions about themselves behind the curtain that separated them in between.

            The next time, the sketcher sketched the same women. But in this time, the sketcher sketched them based on other women descriptions that they had met each other before.

            Both of the sketches were shown to those women (subjects). The first sketches were being made based on their descriptions about themselves. The second sketches were being made based on other women descriptions that the subjects had met.

            The first and second sketches were contrast. The second sketches showed their faces accurately but the first sketches showed their faces worst than the real appearances.

             In this case, we can conclude that most of those women had undervalued themselves. They had negative thinking about their appearances or personalities. In other way, other people they had met did the contrast things. They described other women correctly, accurately based on real expressions or appearances  they had seen.

Study Trip to Malang

It was Wednesday morning. That day was the day that all of  1^st grade students waited for. We were ready to go to Malang for a study trip to Brawijaya Museum and Firefighter Department. We already asked all students to pray  together . A bus full of 40 students and 5 teachers slowly moved out from our elementary school parking area. I and other teachers kept busy texting to students’ parents whether their kids still alright and happy going out with all friends. 

            Arrived Brawijaya Museum Malang, we asked students to check their stuffs and stand in line entering the museum. We wrote some notes about precious things there. We also took some pictures inside, of course we had asked a permission to the museum officer first. After that we  had our lunch inside the bus and then continued our trip to Firefighter Department, still in Malang.

            At the Firefighter Department, we met some of the officers. All of  them were very welcoming to us. They explained about their job description and showed their uniform. Kids were interested to the explanation and also tried to wear their uniform.

            The most exciting ones was having short trip around Malang using Firefighter trucks! Students kept waving their hands to all people along the street. Fortunately, it was not the only one exciting moment. After having short trip, the firefighter officers allowed students to spray  and play with water canon. So, it did not take too long time to make all of them got wet!

            Finally, it turned into our job as their teachers, to help them changed their clothes. We were ready to back home. It was so busy and happy day for us, especially the students.