There were more than 10 students from SMA DWIWARNA would like to take part on this year's conference, but unfortunately every schools can only send 4 students and 1 teacher. After doing series of fit and proper test, finally we found 4 students as the delegation from SMA DWIWARNA. They are:
1. Husyati Amaliah (XI-CIBI STUDENT)
2. Nadya Natasha (XI-SOCIAL SCIENCE 2)
3. Ahmad Zulfikar Pical (XI-NATURAL SCIENCE 2) and
4. Devina (X-C Pre-Social Science Program)
After submitting their names to the 2nd SGGS International Students' Conference 2011, then all participants had to make 10 pages of paper about "Youths of Today, Leaders of Tomorrow" and poster about "Serving the Community". We were also asked to sent names of the students who would be selected as Chairperson, rapporteur, and responder.
From more than hundreds papers and posters, Husyati Amaliah's poster was selected as the second best poster, but it was not the winner yet. The best ten posters which won the first qualification will be presenting in front of 2 Judges
1. Wong Teik Aun
Bachelor of Arts Cum Laude, Pomona College, United States and
2. Aliza Mansoor
Bachelor of Arts (Hons) (English Language Studies), USM, Malaysia
on Monday 30th, 2011.
Uchi the nick name of Husyati Amaliah is not the only person selected on the activity. Nadya Natasha or famously called as Nanas was also selected as the Chairperson on one of the workshops held during the conference. While Ahmad and Devina took part on journal competition.
After doing correspondence with the committee for almost 2 months, we finally met the last day of preparation. All delegations from Indonesia were invited to a meeting in Indonesia's ministry of education, building D-17th floor. On the invitation we were asked to come on the location punctually at 13.30. Since all SMA Dwiwarna students, teachers, and staff are taught to be punctual, so we didn't meet any problems.
We left our beloved school at 11 am by taxi. We had to take taxi because that day almost all school transportation we have were busy driving students and some teachers to an international exam at 81 senior high school and a seminar at london school. The meeting held on Friday, so we have to stop at the nearest mosque to do our Jum'at pray. We stopped at Univ Islam Negri Ciputat and did our Jum'at pray. Lucky that the taxi driver is also a muslim like us, so he didn't have any problem to stop and pray. After praying, we continued our journey to ministry of education. We arrived there at 13.00 and found some delegates from other school had come and sit nicely in the room. I was expected that the meeting will start on time, but it seem to me that it is very impossible to do that if we dealing with government. we had to wait for almost an hour just to have the activity opened by "dirjen"
He gave an opening speech to us and reminded us of 2 things.
1. All students are representative of a very big country, so we must keep the hospitality and proof that our country is a well behaved country. All students who fly to Penang Malaysia must not burden their shoulder with the word winning. winning is not a must, but doing your very best is the must.
2. Indonesia is proud to have all the students in the room, since we are on behalf of our country, so we have to show them our best as a nation. not as a particular school.
After finishing his speech, the committee invited every school to take a picture with him. we got the first opportunity to do it. After the photo session, The agenda was wrapped up and we had to go home and prepare our belonging.
I would like to thank pa Toye for picking us up after the meeting. He seemed in hurry that day, hopefully he didn't have any bad news from home. I arrived at home after maghrib and met my beloved family. My wife told me to take a suitcase from my brother in law before I went to badminton court and played with my Dwiwarna badminton club. I was so exited, so I did every things as quick as possible and be ready for the match.
I went to the court with my wife and babies by our motorcycle. I was so happy that night, but the unpredicted moment happened to us. The back tire leaked and I had to find a nearest repair shop to fix it.
I finally found the repair shop to fix my bike. While waiting for my bike fixed, I watched badminton match on TV. The semi-final of Sudirman cup between Indonesia and Japan. it was the match between Kenichi Tago (Japan) against Simon Santoso (Indonesia). All the expectation to win the match put to his shoulder due to his position as the best player played on the competition from Indonesia. Knowing that he was expected to win made him play like someone doesn't know how to play badminton. It was the worst match I had ever watched.
We were arranged to came to the airport at 04.00 am and it was 12 o'clock at night. I took a shower and be ready to go. When I started my motor cycle, suddenly God sent HIS mercy by sending a very heavy rain. I woke my wife up, and we rode my bike to school (thank you honey)
We leaved our school exactly at 01.00 am and arrived way too early at the airport. we arrived at 03.00 am and had to wait for other delegates to come. After all participants had arrived then we started to go to the immigration and get our passport stamped by them. this process took more than an hour, so the announcer keep on calling us and informing that the flight was about to take off.
Bismillah we flew to Penang by Airasia and arrived there at 09:15
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