LIVE IN 2011 at Pentingsari, Sleman, Jogjakarta

I think this post is gonna be long, so hang on :p

On February 16th to February 19th we had a Study Excursion and Live in at Desa Pentingsari, Sleman, Jogjakarta. We were all excited because we're the first of the Science Classes to ever have this kind of live-in things.

I'mma get things straight:

Class XI A1, A4, A6, A8 went to Garongan Village; that's Ingrid, Ilena, Tiau, and Inke

Class XI A2, A3, A5, A8 went to Pentingsari Village, that's Regine, Icil, Lydia, Devi, Sheryl, Bunbun, and Me (and also my crush)

Class XI S1, S2, S3, S4 and S5 went to Village I-forgot-the-name :p

A stands for Alam; basically it means the Science Classes

S stands for Sosial, and yes it's the Social Classes. I heard their village is tougher than us Science are.

by the way, I wore a tribal bracelet to match the look, can you see it?

DAY 1 - STUDY EXCURSION

We gathered at 5.30 at school, it's so early! I didn't get a proper bath I think :p

And then we put our things on the bus, and there we go!

For my class, we went to Charoen Pokphand Industries; a factory of poultry food and that kind of thing.

And we studied the ingredients of the "yummy" food for chicken, cow, and pork. The main ingredient is corn, I think. They also add MBM (I still remember, it stands for Meat Bone Meal from a cow, so it basically implies that cow eats another poor cow) and some X ingredients they didn't tell us. Some smelled really bad!

We stayed until near lunch, then we took off.

At bus, I sat right beside Bunbun (remember her?) and our seat was beside Mr. Andy (caking incident, remember him?) and we joked all the time. We had lunch at the bus and had a karaoke all along the way.

My class' bus was rather late, because when we arrived at Solo for dinner, the other three classes had already playing while waiting for us. Mr. Andy joked us that our bus is late because I asked to go to the bathroom twice, so the bus stopped at the gas station twice, to fulfill my needs :p

After dinner, the trip went on, and we arrived at our village at nearly 10 PM.

It was raining a little and our host (the owner of the house we stayed) was a middle-aged small lady living with her husband and two sons (who were busy all the time)

me, my host and her husband, Tepho, and Vanessa

I stayed with two friends from another class, let's call her Vanessa and Tepho.

She took us to her home (fortunately, our home was near the Gathering Point, so we didn't walk a lot) and offered us dinner at that late. We said no, and she insisted us to eat some snacks.

Then we went to bed at midnight.

DAY 2 - MUD, FIELD, COWS

We were separated as four group, each contains members of each class.

In my group I got Icil, Vigor, Erwin, and the boy I like.

We went to see the cow, and that's where the "cow-girl" nickname for me started. Because the cow loves me!

I stroke one particular cow, and gave her (it's female) some grass. Then she started moaning when I was stroking another cow. At this time, some other guys were already looking at our love-connection, including Mr.Andy.

And then I stroke her again. She smelled me, then she licked me. Licked!

Everybody was shocked, because no other cow have licked no other guys. I was the exception!

The cow moaned again when I left her, but I had no other choice.

Mr. Andy started calling me "the cowgirl" by then.

And then we went to see the plants and so on, I didn't really pay attention because the boy I like was so much more irresistible than the plants.

Then we went to the field, and this is where the chaos began.

The first part was save; planting a rice and harvesting it.

The second was, ploughing. With mud and cow. It started with one guy named Theo (in our group. We traveled per group) started throwing the mud to random persons. The war has begun.

We heard "Fire in the hole!" and in seconds, we're no more clean. Icil was the victim because all the mad thrower are my classmates (Vigor, Anthonny, Henry "Pe", and some others) while Icil knew none of them. It was a complete mess ;p

We took some photos and washed ourselves afterwards.

And I did an embarrassing thing in front of the boy I like, we called him Bingbing. It's the secret codename.

It was the three of us; Icil, Bingbing, and me. We walked one by one on a footwalk in the middle of fields, me on the front. I was trying to act cool, but ended up FALLING.

Icil was screaming a dramatic scream and Bingbing was trying to get hold of me.

I said, "I'm okay, it's fine!" and that's pretty much it.

I've never been that intimate with him, and when I am, that's what I did? Great.

After that we were given time to clean ourselves. I went home (to my host's home) and together with Tepho and Vanessa, we did the laundry together. It was hard thing because the mud wouldn't get away and we had to rinse it again and again. There was no washing machine, so we did it traditional way. Then we had a tour home industries there. The villagers made mushroom chips, cassava chips, Robusta coffee, and some more. I bought most of them as a souvenir, though.
Then we went back to our host's home, had dinner, watched TV (Tepho definitely freaked out when I switched the channel to a horror movie, haha) and then went to bed because we'd had another amazing day soon.

I was in the middle with purple T-shirt, Icil was on my right. Notice us?

By the way, my host is a Moslem's, yet she had a cute little dog named Melly. Obviously Melly was in love with me. I'm such an animal attractor, aren't I? ;p
P.S. After the home industries things, I went home to did the dishes. I wore a white pants and at that time I was relieved that I didn't stain my pants even a little. Then Melly, who just came from the wet garden, jumped into my lap, and my dream of clean white pants faded away :p

DAY 3 - SENDANGSONO and KENDURI
Today we went to Sendangsono, a domestic tourism destination for Catholic citizens. We had our host packed up our breakfast and we ran to the bus and had breakfast on the way.
Sendangsono is located in the middle of nowhere, to be short. Our bus stopped at the front gate of an uphill village at 7 AM, and we had to walk our way to Sendangsono for approximatively 2 hours because we arrived there at 9.30 AM and our feet was burned with pain. It's an uphill path anyway, so it doubled the pain.
We had a mass at 10 PM and then we got back to our buses by a public transportation rented by our school, thank God we didn't have to experience another pain :p
On the way back to the Pentingsari Village, Mr. Andy stopped at his mother's shop to take a bottle of beer (and yes, he drank it alone while we watched speechlessly, haha) and Bunbun and I was touched of how close their mother-son relationship is :p
Arriving back at our village, we were getting ready for the Kenduri held on the upcoming night.
Basically, Kenduri is a traditional party held to celebrate a purpose. This one is held to celebrate our staying there, because we were going to get back to Surabaya next day. I felt sad because I loved it here.

I had a bath then Bunbun and the others came to my house to have a visit. Then the others (except Bunbun and me) decided to go to the camping ground to watch a soccer match. Bunbun and I stayed a little bit then we decided to take a walk. This is when another embarrassing thing I did in front of the boy I liked  happened:
We walked to a T intersection, where Bunbun and I heading to a side, and this boy with others were also heading there from a different side. Devi was walking in front of this boy, when I said: "Devi, I had a hemorrhoids!"
Yeah if you asked what the hell with hemorrhoids, it's not hemorrhoids. I think I lost my mind because I saw this boy. Everything was insane on my mind.
And the problem was... I said it too LOUD so the boy I like COULD HEAR IT!!!
I didn't know this until Bunbun told me, though.
Well when I said that sacred word, Bunbun had her eyes on this Bingbing boy, who acted cool all the time.
Then when that word came out of my lips, Bunbun saw Bingbing eyes were widened and his mouth fell (to make it simpler, this boy I like heard the thing and he was shocked) for a moment until he realized Bunbun was eyeing on him, then he returned to act cool.
Bun told me everything when I arrived at Bunbun's house later on, and suddenly I lost my apetite (I was crunching snacks, haha)
Okay. Two is better than one? Not this time. I was like, "Why? Why?? WHY!?"

By the way. Kenduri went on and everything ran smoothly. We ate a lot and the celebration lasted until midnight. I saw the boy I like, but I couldn't look at him. I was embarrassed.
Then we went back to our house and took a nap. Before going to sleep, my host asked me to write on her personal book about what we think and feel. We said "thankyou"a lot on the book.

DAY 4 - MALIOBORO and JAMMED BUS
We woke up and went preparing for everything because today we would get back to Surabaya. I knew I will surely miss this place. We said goodbyes and took some photos, but I forgot to said goodbye to Melly, my loyal canine.

this funky car was owned by my host. Cool!

I promised to keep in touch with my host, and she asked me to come back there again. I said yes, though I won't be able to tell the road there.
Then we went to Malioboro.
I have never went to Malioboro before, and it took about 2 hours to get there by bus.
We were asked to travel per group, so I traveled with a total 12 guys from my class, including Bunbun, Sheryl, Erwin, and some others.
Erwin was the expert of haggling, so we just pointed the things we would like to buy; Erwin would haggle the price; and voila! We got the things we like at a cheap price.
We went here and there by a pedicab, each contains three person. My pedicab was Bunbun, a girl named Vita, and me. The pedicab driver was already old, but because we didn't know the pedicab fare, we just paid him far too low accidentally :'(
Others paid their young pedicab driver about 20.000 rupiah, that's about $2, and we paid ours only 7.000 rupiah, not even a dollar!
We didn't know! It wasn't our mistake completely!!
We left Malioboro at afternoon, and we were content because we got many wonderful things there. For example, I got a fur slipper (which I used in Malioboro because I forgot to wear a sock and got hurt by my own Converse) and wore it all the way home. We also bought a 20.000 rupiah fun glasses (mine is purple, Bun's is black) but Mr. Andy made us a joke forever since because we didn't haggle cheap enough (no Erwin this one) and our other classmates could haggle it until 10.000 rupiah, half of our price.
Anyway, we still love our glasses.

notice our glasses? Haha :p

We arrived at Solo to take our packed dinner, and this is where the nightmare started. Our bus was jammed on Sragen at about 5 PM. The driver told us it's just the carburetor or such a thing. Most of the buses (there are 13 in total) also stopped to ask what happened. One hour later the driver told them all that our bus has been fixed and ready to go. Most of the buses took off, remaining three including ours; the bus of IA5 and IA8. Then at 6.30, the driver told us to grab whatever to be grab, and enter another bus because our bus was on a fatal problem.

We, who were still shocked, were asked to move immediately and were asked not to panic.

In reality, we panicked. It was getting darker and darker by seconds, and all of us were... transmigrated.

Unfortunately I enter the XI IA5 bus, the class had a "problem" with our class and we didn't feel welcomed even a bit.

I was stressed out, I sat beside Yesicha and the funny thing was: when I gave Yesicha a candy (she couldn't even eat her packed dinner) she didn't remove the packing and eat it whole.

I couldn't help but laughing! You got to see her stressed out face!! LOL!!!

Yeah and then fortunately we changed bus and we entered IA1's bus (they had moved A1's girls, including Ingrid to another Socials buses, to make room for our class. THUMBS UP LIVE-IN 2011 COMMITTEE!) and we traveled home safety. We arrived at 12 in the night; 2 hours later then another normal buses.

The bus tragedy will forever be in our mind; etched deep down together with our memories at Pentingsari :)


Oh finally! Told you it's a long long post!

A sudden one-month-earlier Birthday Surprise

Well, blame this to ICIL!
Haha, so, let me tell you the whole story:
First, I went to school to have a sin confession at a church beside the school, with Icil.
Icil was being clumsy; tripping on a flat ground and kicking other' (means, mine) leg.
Then we went to the nearby convenience store to buy a instant noodle and one liter of chocolate milk.

Yeah the milk was the source of the problem, to be hyperbolic.

We also had two cups around us and we kept on pouring the milk from its bottle to our cups.

Umm, please note that this tragedy happened at school, where other hundreds persons were supposed to be attending, thank you.

I took a seat, and our dearest Icil, with one full cup of chocolate milk, was planning to sit beside me.

Then this heartbreaking clumsiness approached Icil, and Icil, for one more time, tripped without any reason.

This should be okay and normal if she wasn't holding that one full cup of that, for goddess' sake, sweet and milky and sticky chocolate milk!

Yeah I was the victim.

My birthday is next month on January 10th, so Icil said, "Okay Yo, I won't pour anything upon you next month," with a big grin and her typical haosek face, haha :D

I cried in front of my whole class

Yes, I did.

I was in such a misunderstanding problem. On 6 AM. I wanted to cry but I was alone. Then I went to school. The first friend I saw was Priscilla, my lovely Icil, as she was stepping out of her car. I looked at her, and I cried. In our school's front gate, yes. In front of other students, yes.

Then she accompanied me to my last. My eyes were fully teared; everything was blurry. Then I saw Bunbun. Then I cried. Then I saw Regine. Then I cried. And it happened again and again.

 

When the school's bell rang, my whole class had known that I was crying, but they remained silent. Poor me, it was me who got to be the one to read the daily reflection that day. So, I stood up and swept my tears. Stand up. Walk to the front. Open the reflection book. Read the first sentence. And cried.

It was like hell. I was sobbing. I said, "Hold a second," then I tried to sweep my tears. But my crying got worse. The whole class was amazed. Then Bun replaced me to read the reflection and I got back to my seat. And cried. A lot.

My father-like homeclass teacher, Mr. Andy (Yes, which birthday we celebrate, then we got suspended. Yes, that one.) asked me what happened. Aaw, he was such a caring homeroom teacher. But then I cried badly in front of him. My whole class was watching. I told him I had such unimportant problem that morning, and all I wanted to do was crying. He let me cry.

He continued his teaching. The class started learning. Then it was my turn to read the sentence. And guess what, my sentence was; "To stop his crying, the little boy (blablabla I forgot)"

Mr. Andy said, "This sentence is so you!"

Then I laughed... together with tears.

My neck snapped by Ingrid

Umm, I'm so sorry I rarely write here :(
This event had happened long long time ago and I just have the time to write it here NOW!

So, now I forget what was the problem, but I said something fun (but not fun to Ingrid), then the next thing I know, she was trying to tickle me on my neck. But as you know, anything Ingrid-like is always full of violent! (Haha, a little bit hyperbolic here); but this was what happened. She tried to tickle me, but she was just too strong! She ended up choking me! I was in pain, so I was screaming like an idiot in front of our crowded canteen. Nah, see?

I went to the school clinic and found this balm. It's called Counterpain and it's working well!

The worst part was I can't move my neck. It hurts when I turn my head. It hurts when I laugh. It even hurts when I nod! Oh my gosh I was tortured!

And this is what Ingrid wrote on her blog:

"But it's not like I tried to choke her, I was just trying to tickle her neck, since lots of people have that laughing nerves on their neck, and I knew that Yoan has it. So, apparently my tickling was too hard for her neck.Which results to the neck nerves snapping incident. Then she started to complain about the pain in her neck. I didn't know that it was serious. I though she was just joking or faking it, until she went to the school's clinic that afternoon. The funny part was, I actually prefer her like that, because she didn't move much, she's usually very active (hyperactive) and kinda annoy me with her "around-ness", haha. Still, I'm soooo sorry Yoan, wish you complete and instant recovery."

Yeah, yeah~
By the way, because we were such a camwhore, we took some photos in the school library:

Left to right; Icil, Ingrid, Yoan

Ingrid HATE her lip here. I just LOVE her blurring hand :p

They DO look diligent. Which is such a lie, haha. Icil looks like a foreigner, though.

Seems so diligent? But again, no. Another lie, yes.

Things keep getting weirder and weirder, and the next thing I know is Ingrid had already lying on this cold, pale floor of the library. I don't know that we're allowed to lie here!

Well, my class got suspended

The birthday-boy :)

And yes, we really got suspended because we made a surprise for our beloved homeroom teacher!
It was pretty shocking because:

1. We were suspended because we put the cake on our teacher's face and we're the first case of this scenario.
2. We're Science student; not the Social ones, and Science students are known as more well-mannered and tamer students.
3. We were actually happy, because we didn't have to do the deadly Mathematics pretest.
4. Our headmaster, teachers, and staffs had a meeting, only discussing about this matter.
5. Our beloved homeroom teacher, a.k.a our victim, also didn't know that there's an unwritten regulation that students may not put any cake on anyone's face.

I mean, yeah, it was happening on our school!
Everyone asked us, "Are you IA7?" and we're like, "Yes?"
And they said, "Wow, you're the ones who's being suspended! Cool!"

He's 28. He's young, not so teacher-like, funny, and has a good sense of fatherhood :)

And yes, this is the cake-on-the-face I'm talking about :p

This is my whole class, IA7, but some are absent, so it's incomplete :(

We were suspended for one day, meaning that day, no teacher should give us any lessons, but we must remain at class. One of my clever friend was asked to teach us Physic and believe me, he taught us BETTER than our original teacher (for your information, our class is having an "issue" with this Physic teacher)

It was so much fun and our class, didn't know why, enjoyed it so much!
It was like a one-day-earlier holiday for us~

We're the last estafet pair

First, let me introduce her.
Her name is Felicia, but she is called Bunbun because she came from a place called Pangkalan Bun. She is innocent, brilliant, and very romantic~
She's my current good friend at my new class :)
By the way, Bun just told me something that's so far away from the word "innocent", so maybe she's not that innocent after all :p

Okay, so this is how we became the last pair who came up at the estafet (by the way, I look up what is "estafet" on English, and it turns out: "relay race"):
We never did it right!
I didn't know where's our mistake, but every time Bun give that relay baton; it wasn't quite right!
So our physical education teacher kept on asking us to repeat it again and again, but we kept on making mistakes again and again :'(
It was so depressing because our other friends (I mean ALL our classmates!) had finished, and we were still doing it again and again :(
Then when it's finally just us on the field, all of our classmates were cheering for us, they were like, "Come on Bun, Yo, you can do it!" and I felt like we're on a REAL relay race, haha :D
And then, when we finally made it, they're shouting for us! It was really nice, I was touched :')

I ♥ IA7, I ♥ you my friends, haha :D
For your information, IA7 is my current class, and we're rocking it together :D