Touchdown at Cool-mar

 What's up!

It's 3pm and I finally got here - at the most beautiful city in Europe.. Colmar, France! It's my first time to be here. Reached here about few hours ago and just checked into a hotel. I'm going to travel around the city by tomorrow. It looks like I'll be pleased here, I can tell you it's a really nice place to be :D

I've see plenty of beautiful stuff here on the way from the airport. Also, I took some snapshots of beauty and colourfull sceneries I saw, and.. damn amazing! :O I really look forward to see many more during my quality time here, which about a week and four days long. Uuhh, can't wait to spend my vacation here!!

Oops it is time - I'm going to take a walk around the hotel with my family and my girl :p I'll send you emails about my activities here, take care of yourself. Here's a photo, enjoy :D

See ya

Ihsan

Ihsan Aring Trisarjono XB

E-mail : Aloha from Bora-Bora!

Aloha!
Guess what-now I'm writing in Bora-Bora! Yup, i'm here, like i've told you last week that i'm going to spend my holiday here! Can you believe it? Honestly i cant believe it at all. The view here is soooo UH-MA-ZING! The ocean is blue; the water is so clear. Here, the sun shines everyday, so i think i'll get tanned when i get back to home, teehee :-P

Got here by Air Tahiti, arrived in Bora-Bora Airport, I directly went to Hilton Bora-Bora Nui Resort and Spa. We were warmly welcomed by the Tahitian Dancing, performed by the local citizens.

We've been here for 2 days; yesterday I was snorkeling and scuba diving; and today i'll do jetski, kitesurfing, and swimming, and maybe take a little walk to see the view around here. By the way, I have to go now! My laptop's battery is low, and I've got so many things to do! I'm going to spend another 3 days, so don't miss me! Really, I wish that we could spend this fantastic holiday with you right now! I'll send you some photos later, and I'll reply your replies as soon as possible, bye! :-)

Best wishes,

Thira

Athira Presialia/XB/8

New York, New York!

Hey!

         Guess what, I just arrived at JFK airport! Yeah, now I’m in New York City! Can you believe it? Come to this astounding city it's one of my biggest dream and finally, that dream came true. I'm so   thrilled of seeing these stunning concrete jungles. I will stay in NYC for 3 weeks. I will see many well known districts and landmarks in New York City like Time Square, people call it "The crossroads of the World", Broadway theater, Central Park, the most visited urban park in the United States, and other New York's famed. I can't wait to taste serendipity frozen hot chocolate. Weird huh? Hot and frozen at the same time, but I heard it's so appetizing with its delightful overflowed chocolate and mountain of whip cream which seems very tempting.

         Well, there are lots of places that I want to visit and things I'd like to do, but of course I can't tell you one by one right now. Wish you were here so that we can experience these memorable moment together. I think I have to stop right here. I'm going to take my luggage, I'd  better hurry. Catch you later! :D

Your best friend, Sekar

Sekar Saras Ayu Hasanah XB  

Homework p.39 "email about my trip"

Hallo!
Now am in Bali! I was arrive here two days ago and it seems to be a great place. I'm so glad to be here, it's so relaxing. The weather is so hot with sunshine all day long, but I do not really want to get a sunburn here. There are so many beautiful place here, I am sure you will love it.

I have been touring for two days now, I have had so many great experiences. I have been eating at "Jimbaran" at the first day than at the second days I have been go to "Bali Bird Park", there a lot of beautiful birds there, I really like the peacock it's just so unique. I have been go to Kuta Beach too! The sunset was fascinating and I've got some photo in there.

I have to finish now! I'm going to see some Kecak Dance now. I am going to stay in Bali for another one day then I am off to Jakarta. I will write again as soon as possible. Bye!


Dhanti
(Dina Ramadhanti XB/13)

Teenagers' Point of View (Final Draft)

      This report presents the summary of what Indonesian teenagers think about their country. The approach accomplished by asking five of my friends and the questions are about culture, film industry  Indonesia.  

• Culture in Indonesia

         Indonesian culture is well-known of its varieties and authenticity. There are many astonishing cultures in Indonesia. All of five friends that i've asked, said that they are very proud of Indonesian culture. Unfortunately, Indonesian culture is lack of attention. Two out of five said that to make indonesian culture known is by making program to promote Indonesian culture to the world and to make people interest to Indonesian culture. Three out of five answered to preserve the Indonesian culture is by studied the culture such as traditional dance, sinden, etc. Another way to inherit our culture is by teaching others about Indonesian culture.

• Film Industry in Indonesia

Nowadays, most of teenagers like watching movies. Whether at the cinema, watch dvd's or simply watch television. All of five friends said that the film industry in Indonesia has a poor quality. Recently, the government made a limitation of imported films, and all of them disagree with this policy, because with its policy there's no quality movie to be watched. Of course not all of Indonesian movies are that bad. Most of Indonesian films itself gives us nothing but improper general views.  So, they like to see more foreign movies instead of Indonesian movies. 

      The conclusion of this report are, teenagers in Indonesia proud of their culture. And all of them prefer to watch foreign movies than domestic movies. 

BY: SEKAR SARAS AYU HASANAH

Wiil It Be Possible To Live Forever?

In My Opinion,No And Never,why? For Theis like me, The Holy Book told that Every soul will taste death. People who believe they can live forever in the future is too much watching Sci-Fi Movies, well take a look to your Computer,it's consist from a lot of part like Processor,Motherboard,Ram,Harddisk etc.just like Organ in human, well the part of computer have a durability,if it's broken we must replace or service it, but will we always replace or service it? The computer will finally broken and cannot be repaired, and we must buy a new computer,just like human our organ has a time for living. When our organs cannot work optimally, it will disturb another organ. And when our organs cannot work anymore we will die.

In the future i think medical technology will improve greatly,but no one can match the cleverness of God,so for a people who want to make an immortal machine,you better create different useful machine.

All great person in the world like Prophet Mohhamed S.A.W,Jesus,Buddha,Hitler,Newton,Edison,Napoleon,Da Vinci,Plato even atheis like Lenin and Marxis they all wasn't live forever 

The Verdict

People cannot live forever now and in the future

make people immortal is a very-very hard task, it's even harder than make a time machine or next generation spaceship

- Prayogo Prima Wahyudi X-B (30)

Teens in Indonesia (edited)

Hello! My name is Athira Presialia from XB, and yesterday I interviewed 6 of my friends, about what is popular with teenagers in Indonesia. I chose 3 topics, and there are music, foods, and movie. And here's the result from my interview.

MUSIC

        People love music. There are many genre of music, like classic, pop, jazz, metal hardcore, rock, RnB, etc. The majority of my friends said that they like to hear pop music, and the other love RnB and indie music. Almost entirely said that Indonesia’s music development is undeveloped, and it’s rare to find some band or singer who is trying to make something “out of the box”.

FOOD

        Indonesia is so rich of it foods. From Sabang to Merauke, each place has it own signature food. Here, I interviewed 6 of my friends about their favorite food from Indonesia. Well, for food i got many variants of answer. There are kerak telor from Betawi, Mie Aceh from Aceh, Nasi Liwet from Solo, Pempek from Palembang, Sate Padang from Padang, and Soto Betawi from Betawi.

MOVIE

        Nowadays,  teenagers love to hangout with their friends, and sometimes went to cinema to watch movies. Not only the Western movies, but now they also watch Indonesian movies. 2 of my friends said that they favorite Indonesian movie is Laskar Pelangi. The other chose Petualangan Sherina, Catatan Harian Si Boy, Fiksi, Ayat-ayat cinta and Kala. They all agree that to make a good movie, it depends on it scriptwriter, the script, the casts, and the director. Eventhough Indonesian movies are great, they had some advices for Indonesia Movie Industry. The majority of the answer is that Indonesia should decrease the horror movie, and start being creative. So, the audience will not be bored with the theme, and they will more respect Indonesian movies.

      The conclusion is, that most of my friend likes pop music, and they still like Indonesian food. Also, each of them have their favorite Indonesian movie, and they give an advice for Indonesia Movie Industry to make movie in this country keep better and better.

-Athira Presialia XB/8