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Lieke A.M.
1 SMA, 8 August 2005

At first one might think that going by train to another city would be easy and luxurious. But alas, NS is not Thalys, nor ICE. It’s that yellow train that travels around Holland. A few years ago it was a train worth riding. Nowadays, it’s “werkzaamheden

Ms. Akinanti Sarwono, II SMA, 6th June 2005
(Theme: Reflections)

I am just an ordinary girl. As a teenage girl, I always have a dream. My dream is to be successful women in the future. Successful women that rich and famous, so that I can spend all those money for the entire of my life with my family. I’m not really interested for being a business woman, like working in the bank. Work as an actress or as a singer is more enjoyful and we can make a lot more of money.

In the future I picture myself get into the limosine and getting out of the limo and walk on the red carpet. And I also picture myself partying inside the limo with all my friends and having fun. When I go to the mall and shopping all the paparazzi are surrounding me and taking picture of me. I like singing better than acting, so then I prefer to be a singer than an actress. So then, if I’d be a famous singer then have a lot of money I will travel more often. Even though I’m a famous person I won’t forget all of my friends, and I will visit them one by one. Especially all of my true friends or my best friends.

I also want to buy a house for my parents in Los Angeles or somewhere in America, and I’m gonna buy an apartement for each of my sister. For me, I’m gonna buy a house for myself in Hollywood or around Bel Air area in Los Angeles. Outside America, I’m gonna buy an apartment in London so I could go there more often and shopping more often with my friends or my family. Beside London, I’m gonna buy one too in Paris, the most beautiful city I ever visited. Paris is good and it’s a fashion city and it’s also one of the most romantic city in Europe. And I will go to New York City more often for my album promotion and for partying.

If I could be that person in my future, I won’t change. I’d be the same person as now. I’d be the same person to my friends and I would still having fun with my old friends and I will still have the same attitude. I won’t be a chesty person that forgets all old friends. I will remember them and the every precious moment I spent with them. I will always remember that.

Sometimes, I think. Could I be that person in the next few years?? What would I be?? And what would I do?? But, I’m sure that I will have a great and bright future. I will try and I promise I will be that person no matter how and no matter what.

Amrullah Rafioeddin, II SMP, 3 June 2005
(Theme: Sport)

For the people who don’t now what Feyenoord Rotterdam is, Feyenoord is a famous soccer club from Rotterdam. Rotterdam is the largest harbour city in Zuid-Holland and the world.

In 1921 Feyenoord was still an amateur club while other clubs like Arsenal were already professional clubs. Back in 1937 there was a match between Feyenoord and Arsenal. In the first game Feyenoord lost from Arsenal but then Feyenoord took revenge and won from Arsenal with 1-0. About 51.000 people were watching that game. The goal-maker was Manus Vrauwdant and from that moment the success began by Feyenoord.

Because Feyenoord won many times against different clubs in the Netherlands, most people began to like Feyenoord, and then it got a stadium. The first match that was hold in the new stadium of Feyenoord was Feyenoord-Beerschot in 1956, and it ended with 5-2 for Feyenoord. The success of Feyenoord was growing and so past by years. The supporters of Feyenoord were growing to, so the stadium had to become bigger. Almost 50.000 people can fit in the stadium of Feyenoord now and that is a lot.

There are also memorable matches like once Feyenoord won from a German club with 11-4 back in 1956 and so the success of Feyenoord was growing and became a top club. Even Feyenoord was the national champion for many times, once won the Champions League and several times won the UEFA CUP.

And where there is a top club, there is also a rival top club. Feyenoord has a rival and that is Ajax, the club from Amsterdam, the capital city of the Netherlands. It was always a race between Ajax and Feyenoord, which the best club was. Sometimes Ajax won from Feyenoord, and sometimes it defeated Ajax. Back in the 60’s, almost every time Feyenoord won from Ajax. Feyenoord hammered Ajax with 7-3, 9-5, and the final score 9-4. Ajax supporters claimed that their keeper was wearing wrong contact lenses. It was rubbish of course but that was only gossip so not real.

Ajax has even bigger stadium that can fit 51.000 people. It is called Arena. Meanwhile, Feyenoord’s stadium is called De Kuip. Next to these two stadiums there are two cinemas: Pathe Arena and Pathe De Kuip.

Feyenoord had many star players like Ruud Gullit, Wim Jansen, and Johan Cruijff. Johan Cruijff played in Feyenoord and wanted to show anyone that he could make a club the national champion, and he did. He brought Feyenoord as the League and Cup’s champions in 1984. Now Feyenoord is not very good anymore but it still has fantastic players who are also the top scorers of the Dutch Premier League (Eredivisie): Dirk Kuijt and Salomon Kalou.

Tasya Kuswardani, II SMP, 10 June 2005
(Theme: Reflections)

I came to Holland on 11th October 2003. I was very happy that I could see the beautiful scenery in the country because it was not like in Jakarta. But it was so cold at that time. I came by a Garuda Indonesia aeroplane with my parents. And then we were fetched and brought to a hotel called ‘Golden Tulip’ in The Hague. We immediately went to bed because the trip was so tiring. The next morning, we had breakfast in the hotel and afterwards we went to The Hague Central Station by tram. That was the first tram that I ever rode. The tram number was 17. At the station, we had some nice food and we just looked around. After a long while we went back to the hotel.

On Tuesday morning, 13th October, I went to my new school: Sekolah Kedutaan Republik Indonesia, Nederland (SIN). I was accepted as a first year SMP student, and my new classmates were Amr, Andre, Kika and Zizi. They’re good friends and funny. But after 2 days, I got a bad news that Zizi was about to go back to Indonesia. So we only met for 5 days at school. She’s a nice friend and it was Zizi who introduced me to everyone in the school during my first days. I was too shy to do that, ha..ha…ha…ha….

All of my new friends in here are kind, hospitable, and they are not discriminative like in Jakarta. In Jakarta sometimes if they were older than you, they used to ask you to respect them, if not they would ask you many questions that you did not understand. I thought that they were about only one year older than you, but some of them, because of their manners, did not actually deserve respect. But in here it was not like that. We’re so close to each other.

After about three weeks staying at the Golden Tulip, we received a house in The Hague. It had been resided by Zizi’s family. But I was not so long there because we moved to another house nearby.

I would be in The Hague for maybe 3 years. After making some adaptations, I am so glad to have a new life in here but I am still missing my sweet home in Jakarta and my friends, too.

Virginia Laili, II SMA, 3 June 2005
(Theme: Reflections)

Saturday, 28 May 2005 was the greatest day in my life. I hung out with all my friends: Joe, Indah, Yusak, Donovan, Ricky and Ichan. First I came to a schoolmate’s birthday party. After that we went to the centrum (city centre). The centrum is a place where there are a lot of shops and places for hangout. Some restaurants are usually found in the vicinity as well.

That day was so wonderful because it was the last time my seniors (Donovan, Ricky, Ichan) had a Saturday evening in Holland so I was so happy as I could join the hangout with them. We walked together around centrum, and then we talked about everything and I enjoyed the amusing atmosphere.

Actually I didn’t want that day ended because I knew maybe I couldn’t do that again like we did before. On that day I got an accident. I felt like all of my friends were so kind and very care about what happened to me. But I remembered even tough it was just a little but Ichan, Donovan and Joe were comforting me. Besides, Yusak and Ricky bought a cup of tea for me and then I didn’t know where Indah was because I couldn’t do anything.

I know maybe sometimes I can’t accept the reality that my friends were about to go far away. It means several days to go they will be finishing their study at our school (Ichan, Donovan, Yusak, Ricky).

I can never forget that day, a ‘perfect Saturday’ I still call it.

From the centrum we went to the dormitory. Before that, we went to the central station with tram and then we got into the bus. Maybe around 17.30 we arrived in Kerkehout (bus shelter) in Wassenaar. It’s hard and very hard maybe I had to walk to the dorm because it was quite far from bus shelter. I walked with my friends and the weather was very cold so it made me very hard to walk and beside that my body was not too fit.

At the dorm I met with Ibu Asrama. She made a nice welcome. I was granted a permission to stay at the Asrama that day and night. The next morning we walked together to the school including the III SMP and SMA’s who were having their final exams within these two weeks.

Today, 3 June 2005 my seniors will be back to their home country, of course I’ll be missing them. I hadn’t have much time to spend with them before, but finally a few days earlier I was glad that we had a great time together with them.

Andrey Prayudya, II SMP, 3 June 2005
(Theme: Recreation)

Two weeks ago after “Shalat Jum’at” I went home to prepare the stuff we needed for a weekend holiday at het Vannenbos with my parents and other families from our Embassy. We left at 18.15. Before that my father had called one of his friends (Uncle Widjang) to ride in a convoy. It took about 1 our 42 minutes, and there was no traffic jam but the traffic was a little bit dawdling.

Upon our arrival we had to find the keys of the bungalow and my father parked his car first, and then he got the keys. I was waiting in the park…and I just felt boring, and coincidently Arif was there, and I brought two rackets and shuttlecock so I played badminton with Arif. When my father approached us, we had to stop playing and got back to the car, and we searched the block of the bungalow that was being reserved for us. Not for long, we found it and got inside and brought along our belongings. After that I helped Uncle Widjang bringing his stuff into the bungalow.

After that I felt so tired, and I had to get my bag first to stay anywhere else because at my father’s there was no space available anymore. Uncle Widjang asked me to stay with him as he had room vacant. I spent the night with Arif and Adnan, Uncle Widjang’s eldest son. He was so funny and always happy and laughed.

The next morning I woke up and I got shower but Uncle Widjang was not there. He was at my father’s. I went my father’s bungalow and had breakfast too. Arif also woke up.

Uncle Widjang and my father rented bikes for Arif and me. We rode around and met GP (Adzhim’s nickname). We also met Tasya, Nia, and Indah. My father and some others go to Mass Mechellene at Begium but I stayed at the park with my friends. We rode all day long around the park. The weather was very nice at that time so I really enjoyed riding around the park. In the afternoon my father got back home from Belgium.
After that Adnan wanted to swim so we went to the swimming pool nearby together with Uncle Widjang and my father. We swam till 9 pm before we went back to the bungalow and I just felt very tired.

The next day I went to het Vannenbos’ plaza with Arif and GP where we played ding-dong and we got into a duck-shaped boat and we had to turn the pedals to row the boat moving around the small lake.

We went back to The Hague on Sunday, at 13.00 but we went to the factory outlet first at Roermoend. We bought something there. The outlet factory is a nice place even just to hang around. We spent about three hours there. It was so exciting and very nice. And that’s all about my holiday in het Vannenbos.

by Lieke, Indah, and Sandy

Tasya K, II SMP, 26th April 2005

When I was 9 years old, I went to West Java with my grandpa, grandma, and my aunt. I had a lot of experiences there because I could see anything what happened there a long time ago. The famous story was about Nyi Roro Kidul. Her father was a king. I don’t know much about the history of that kingdom, but I heard a fragmented story about it from the guide when I was there.

After a long trip by bus from Jakarta, we arrived at a hotel, and my aunt’s friend gave information about the province and gave the key of a hotel room for us to stay. The hotel wasn’t so big but the scenery there was amazingly beautiful; it was the most beautiful scenery that I ever saw. If we wanted to walk away, we could walk on there without sandals or shoes because the way was made of white sand. And after we put our stuff in the room, we joined my aunt’s friends whose number was many because that was an event of my aunt’s office. We ate some traditional food and drank tea without sugar because most of the people from West Java don’t give a sugar in their tea.

Yeah, it’s nice to know about the traditional food from there. But my grandma and grandpa had known the traditions of the West Java because they were from West Java too. Finally, I went to the nice bed, because I was so tired to have a long conversation with other children who were at my age.

The next morning, after we had breakfast we went to the hill nearby. The people must be above 10 years old to go up there, but I was underage. Fortunately I could go there because I was almost 10 years old. And we went up there until 2 hours. My grandpa didn’t look tired; I had thought he wasn’t strong enough to go there as he’s too old for that. But I was wrong; my grandpa was strong like a young boy although he was already old.

At the top of the mountain we went to the famous cave there. I was very scared inside they cave because it was so dark and no lamp. I couldn’t see anything. We only brought a flash light. I never saw a place like that, that’s the first time when I came to such a dark place. In Indonesian we called it “goa

Miss. A.K. Sarwono, II SMU, May 9th 2005.

It was late December at the time. My family and I and some of my father’s friends went to London. We departed at December 30th 2004. We got there by car. Our driver drove the car to a station in France. The car just got into the train and we were simply waiting for 30 minutes, after that we arrived in England.

On the way to London, we stopped by in the Bluewater. Bluewater is a shopping centre. It has 330 stores and 40 restaurants, bar and a 13-screen cinema. We ate our dinner there and after that we went shopping. And then we continued our journey to London. We stayed in my father’s friend house.

On December 31st 2004 we went to the Oxford Street for shopping. We went back to the house in afternoon to eat dinner and get ready for the New Year’s Eve. After we finished our dinner we left for spending our New Year’s Eve close to the Big Ben. Actually we planned to go to the Trafagal Square but it was very crowded at the time. Around the Big Ben it was also very crowded but not as crowded as at the Trafagal Square area. There were a lot of drunken people out there. When it was 12 o’clock everyone was yelling by saying “Happy New Year