The Local Palace

Hello sweet strawberries, how was your life? Im sure you have got a wonderful day today.

Last Monday, my friends and I attended Seminar Budaya (Culture seminar?) in my university. This seminar mad a trip to go to Banten Lama. This place is full of history, especially for Banten Province. There are many historical places you can see here,  such as palaces, museum, old mosque, old vihara, and many others. You can get full information about Banten in here.

Unfortunately, the museum was closed because every Monday it need to clean up so it is closed every Monday. However, we enjoyed this trip so much. We could still enjoy the old destroyed palace. Yup! Palace! This is our palace. Kaibon and Surosowan palace. These are Palaces in Banten Province from our ancestry. However those palaces were destroyed on a war.

It was not my first time to visit this place, yet it was eventful and fascinating jurney, for we went there with many friends, not only classmates but also friends from other schools, universities, and organizations. We could meet and got many new friends from this agenda. What a good agenda Pandawa (a name of culture and art organization in my university) had made this year!

There were many participants, thus the committee prepared accomodation to get to Banten Lama. We went there by bus. There were five buses. We enjoy the trip as much as enjoy the way we got there along the road.

We loved the trip so much. We loved our togetherness, the jurney, the way we got there, the palaces, the mosque, the historical palaces, and many other things. We did love it much. Oya, we did also love the bus driver. Yeah, he was rock! He got us crazy during we were on his bus. Laugh of loud along the way there :D

These are some picture that I have taken from there. Enjoy! :)

Think to Teach

Hello sweet strawberries, how every is going today? I do hope you guys had an eventful day.

Today is Saturday, I went to an elementary school to teach English, as usual. I have been teaching since 2010. I just teach in three higher grade (grade 4,5, and 6).

Teaching is tiring yet fascinating job, for teacher need to know them well before teaching in class. I have a class which always drive me mad as a wet hen. I am confuse to teach in such kind of overload class. Yes, overload class. This class consists of 70 pupils which is actually should be devided into two or even more. Because of the lack of the class existance in this school, thus they are mixed in one room as one class.

This class, indeed, has different characteristics of each students. There are some of them can follow the materials but the rest need a super guidance to help them understand. I really dont know what to do though.

When I taught in a fast way, ones who can not get good understanding well will be left behind, but when I taught in a slow way, ones who can easily catch materials in a short time will lose their time to get the next materials.

This is a very challenging job to get them understand what I taught, yet confusing to use an appropriate way to applicate.

Any one of you can help me to solve this problem? Thank you :)

Weekend Surprise!

Hello sweet strawberries, today is Easter Day or Good Friday, and in my calendar this date is written in red color, means today is holiday. Yup! No activities like going to school/campus/work. Yeay!

Actually, I didnt celebrate it, for my religion against us to celebrate everything except Lebaran Days (Idul Fitri and Idul Adha). But I felt happy because it was holiday. Yeay! Yeay!

What was your plan, anyway?
I decided to visit my niece (2 months baby) in my sister home. I actually have one nephew, and four nieces. Yup, I have a very big family with lots of members in.

Unfortunately, I could not visit my newborn niece. Because I need to help my aunt to cook in the kitchen. To be honest, I cannot cook. I just helped her to cut and chop the vegetables and make some sambal.

This was a fascinating activity, for I can learn by doing. Yup, I directly practice how to cook with her. It was so tiring yet eventful. But I am glad I could give her a hand and ease her work.

Time flies, it was almost afternoon, too late to visit my niece there, I thought. I decided not to go anywhere. Then I took a short nap. Surprisingly all my nieces and my nephew came. Oh I felt so excited. I gave her a gift. She was so glad, umm... I meant her mother did :p

This is my gift, and this is my little newborn niece, Noyn. How cuteeeeee! Agree? ;)