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.

Grandpa's Ranch

My favorite place to go is my grandpa’s ranch. It is located near Banyuwangi city. Ranch doesn’t  common in Indonesia. We usually call it “farm”. But I prefer call it ranch because it consists of large areas. Some workers help grandpa to take care the animals. The way to go there is an interesting  journey . The beautiful scenery of mountain, beach and village make us feel so relax.

            Grandpa’s ranch consists of more than 20 horses  and some cows. Some of them are good horses.  I like horse. I always try to ride few of them if we were there. I also like to feed them with fresh grass.  I  feel upset if grandpa decides to sell some of them.

            My grandpa’s ranch surrounded by his clove field. The weather is quite cool. There are small river across the ranch, completely with colorful flower plants on the left and right side. In the middle of the area is a small pond where a lot of goldfish live inside. Their color are red and black.  Grandma sometimes cooks those fish into delicious “pepes”.

            Spend the holiday in grandpa’s ranch is always enjoyable. A lot of interesting activities we can do there, so two weeks or a month holiday seems to short for me.

My Dream House

                In the future, I  want  to have a big house and wide yard around like the house where I spent my childhood. I like to do some exercises or swimming.  A large swimming pool and green garden where I can plant some tree and flowers, a dining room completely with the big dining table where I can invite friends and my big family, a barbeque corner, and  a small  tree house on the backyard seems exciting !

                My big house will be near the beach. The sound of sea gulls, the blowing wind, the white sand, and so  many colorful fish down there…  Beach environment is always relaxing for me.