Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Inspiring Story

Hello guys :)
I'm going to share an inspiring story. I'm pretty sure this will inspire you a lot. Enjoy.

Story:
February 2014 YES Student of The Month
Muhammad Barustan from Indonesia has been selected as February 2014 YES Student of the Month. Since arriving in West Salem, Wisconsin, he has embraced his community and life with his host family, the Andersons, and has immersed himself in community service, sports, and school clubs.

As the holiday season came around, Muhammad noticed that a lot of donations were for children in need, and that not very much was done to recognize adults or parents. Muhammad took matters into his own hands and organized a community service project, “Bags of Hope,” to create gift baskets for adults. Muhammad went around the community and his school to ask for donations of such things as shampoo, lotion, deodorant, toothbrushes and toothpaste, combs, magazines, and activity books. He filled 70 bags in total. On the night the bags were to be distributed, he got his school choir to donate its time and sing while the bags were being delivered.  This project inspired his host family to give back, too. His host father, who is a bus mechanic, decided to fill a bus with food as part of a food drive. Muhammad was extremely excited to be able to serve the community that has accepted him and helped him integrate so well. Muhammad wrote in a photo essay after the activity, “My goal in life is to be a useful person for the people. When I get back to Indonesia, I’ll bring my volunteer activities and fundraise for people in my country.”

By February, Muhammad had completed 45 hours of volunteer service, with his goal for the year to complete over 100 hours. He volunteers weekly at the Good Samaritan Center, joined in a clean-up with his host family and has participated in numerous other local projects. 

Muhammad has been a great addition to West Salem High School, where he earns straight A’s, played on the soccer team and is currently on the wrestling team. With his school’s Business Club, he undertook a project exploring how to make the local Oktoberfest more family-friendly. Muhammad, who also enjoys music in his spare time, aspires to be a doctor and a businessman in the future.

Muhammad’s local coordinator, Sherry Kneifl, considers him “impressive and inspirational” for herself and everyone in his community and notes that he is a wonderful role model for his younger host brother. His placement organization, ACES, recently awarded him a scholarship to participate in the Better Understanding for a Better World conference.

Questions: 
1. Who is Muhammad Barustan? 
a. West Salem citizen 
b. The Andersons son
c. Community service officer
d. YES 2014 February Student of The Month
e. The Andersons grand son

2. Where does he study?
a. West Salem High School
b. Home-schooling
c. Not attending any school
d. West Salem University
e. West Salem Non-Formal Foundation

3. What does he do?
a. Collecting donations for beggars
b. Helping his father driving the bus around
c. Collecting merchandise for his family in Indonesia
d. Asking for others kindness to pay "Bags of Hope"
e. Collecting donations for adults

4. Where does he come from?
a. France
b. Thailand
c. Germany
d. Indonesia
e. Russia

5. What is Barustan's habit?
a. Driving the bus around weekly
b. Volunteering at the Good Samaritan Centre weekly
c. Cooking foods and snacks for children in the orphans weekly
d. Writing an essay weekly
e. Calling his family for 10 minutes weekly

6. What is Barustan's desire in the future?
a. Community service officer
b. Bus Driver
c. Doctor
d. Manager
e. Wrestler

7. These statements are false, except...
a. He distributes the Bags of Hope for adults and beggars
b. The dance community always help him during the distribution
c. He had completed his 100 hours volunteering services
d. He distributes the donation at night
e. He is a local coordinator for Sherry Kneifl

8. Barustan is currently participating in...
a. Soccer and wrestling team
b. Soccer and swimming team
c. Wrestling and judo team
d. Athletics team
e. Science Kids of West Salem

9. What is the scholarship he got?
a. Business school
b. Music school
c. Boys Scout Summer Camp
d. Better World Conference
e. Oxford University

10. Those are the gifts for Bags of Hope, except...
a. Deodorant
b. Comb
c. Magazines
d. Body Lotion
e. Waxing Gel

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Holiday

Ciao!
It's have been a long time since my last post, then I write "Holiday" as the title, so it supposed to be a nice post but no guys I'm sorry I can't make it. 
In this post I'm going to tell you about my 3 days holiday. It happened in the middle of April that seemed impossible for my school unless the 12th grader having a National Exam, yeay! Goodluck seniors, God always with you. So, let me tell you what I did in my 3 days holiday.

--1st day. Monday, 14 April 2014.
Not much for Monday. I went to a public swimming pool in town and swimming there for 2 hours. I love swimming, it makes me relax and happy. I think water love me, it accepts me everything I am and it could make me feel so comfortable. I love you too, water.
This is the old photo of the pool. I'm sorry I just have the old one :(
After swimming, I had a nice lunch with my mom. We ate delicious foods and had a great chit chat for half an hour or maybe more. Then felt full we head to my course place. Even though it's holiday, I still remember my duty to attend the course. 

--2nd day. Tuesday, 15 April 2014
Yesterday I spent my day with mom again :) She took me to the restaurant around Dago. We had a lunch there and again had a nice chit chat for hours. We enjoyed the dish and the view there. The breeze also perfect made us relaxed a lot.
Our good time, just us :)
After lunch we head to the mosque for Ashar prayer together and then she drove me to EF. Yeah I still remember about my duty :) In EF I also had a nice class. We discuss about so much thing especially phrasal verbs. After class me and my friends bought seblak (an Indonesian cuisine taste spicy and a bit weird for me) and everyone got chaos because the seblak was really spicy! Hahaha.
In the night before I went to sleep, I had a super nice chit chat with my friends through Line (chatting application). It was a nice closing for my day.

--3rd day. Wednesday, 16 April 2014
Today, I woke up with God blessings :) 
All of sudden I thought that I needed to write. Then I opened my blogs (on blogger and tumblr). In this blog, I wrote about my holiday while in tumblr I wrote a poem.
This is what I wrote. Fyi tumblr is so damn fun!
After that, I had lunch in Dago. I ate Mie Ayam (Indonesian cuisine contain noodle and small sliced chickens tasted sweet and salty) that was super! Moreover I didn't grab my breakfast hehe.
Then I head to Selasar Sunaryo Coffee & Art Space for coffee time. I ordered a Latte Machiato, it tasted nice. I classified as okay, not my favourite but still nice. I had my cup together with the nice breeze and view. Relaxing me a lot. What a perfect closing for my holiday :)
My Latte Machiato.
That's my holiday, where's yours?!
See you later...