Important Events In My Life

I do not think if I am a good, smart, and nice student because I have a lot of weaknesses in my life. I am twenty two years old and almost twenty four this May, but I do not have something special that I can be proud of. However, I think I am quite good at grammar. Quite good, please underline those words. I had an experience that made me quite good at that subject. However, I will write another experience that changed my life.

            At the first semester until sixth semester, I always wasted my time with my best friends. My friends and I called our group “Huwawei.” My group consists of eleven people. There are Priska, Ayu, Puri, Putra, Shendy, Silvi, Maria, Bunda, Eki, Clara, and me. You can have a look on my sentence before. There are Priska and Clara who are the smartest and the most diligent students in my group. The other members in my group have their own specialization such as Eki at Developmental Psychology subject, Shendy at Discourse Analysis subject, etc. Different with the others, I was the lazy and stupid member in my group, so I always asked the other members in my group to help me. I was very dependent upon them. However, God had a good plan for me. I did not pass some subjects, so I had to retake again those subjects and the consequence for that was I had to be separated with my best friends. That is my first important event in my life.

            When I had to be separated with the others, I did not have someone to help me. That condition forced me to be an independent person. I started to go to SAC to learn and do some grammar exercises, EDR2 to read some stories, DLL to listen to some music and watch some movies. However, I most often went to SAC. This is the reason why I am quite good at grammar. This is my second important event in my life and to be my milestone that made me to be a better person for my school.

Journal II

            From this writing subject, I have learned a lot. I have learned how to be a good writer for my blog. I got a lot of homework to accompany me in my weekend. Even though, that is for my assignment, I got something from those assignments. I hope from this subject, Writing I, I can get a lot of knowledge for my writing, so I can write my best for my writing at my blog

Still the same reason with my first journal, I want to improve my skill by choosing the right words and meaningful words for my writing, so people who read my writing can easily understand what I have already written on my writing. I also want to get some information about grammar, basic grammar, from this subject because if you talk about writing, you will also talk about grammar for your writing.

I do not have something special for preparing my mid-term test. May be, I will read a lot because by reading, I can write well. I will bring my dictionary to accompany me while I am doing my test.

My Precious Treasure

Others, you and I as a human in the world are social beings. Every day, we always meet, interact, and communicate with the others around us as a form of social beings who always socialize with the others. In this writing, I want to tell you about people around me, my families and relatives, and my best friends. I hope you can enjoy my writing and understand well about myself.

             First, I will tell you about my families and relatives. Why did I write families and not family? I have two types of family here. The first family is my real family including my mother, my father and my relatives. The second one is my social communities that I joined several years ago.

 Now, I will tell you about them one by one and start from my father first. My father is Chinese and my mother is Javanese. My father was born on July, 12^th 1960 in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia. He was a temperamental and nice man, but he did not talk toomuch. He passed away several years ago on October, 8^th 2013 because of lung cancer. My mother was born on April, 3^rd 1966 in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia. She is a beautiful, nice and kind woman, but she is very discipline. She had a dream when she was young. She wanted to be a female soldier or a policewoman. However, dream is just a dream. Because of her height does not comply with criteria of Armed Forces Academy, she could not be a female soldier or a policewoman. Poor her.

 I have relatives from my father and my mother. You can have a look on the first picture above, Chinese and Javanese combine into one. My father has two elder sisters, one elder brother and one little sister. My mother has two elder sisters, two elder brothers, one little sister and three little brothers. I also have relatives from my grandfathers and my grandmothers, but I do not exactly know how many relatives I have from my grandfathers and my grandmothers.

I have another family from my communities that I joined several years ago. I joined Save Street Child Surabaya that helps and teaches street children in Surabaya and Rumah Bahasa, a place for learning languages in Surabaya. Save Street Child Surabaya is formed by several youths based on the affection and concern about street children in Indonesia. They wanted to help street children in Indonesia, so they made this community in 2012. Save Street Child has some learning locations in Surabaya like H. R. Muhammad, JMP, Arjuna, Traffic Light Ambengan, etc.  Those learning locations have their own schedules. For example: H. R. Muhammad every Sunday at 10.00 to 14.00, JMP every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 16.00 to 18.00, etc. Even though I am a volunteer at H. R. Muhammad, JMP and Arjuna, I love all of Save Street Child’s members. I got a lot of lessons from this community such as loving one another, sharing with others and caring about anything around us.

At first, I joined Rumah Bahasa because I wanted to learn Chinese. However, I could not enter Chinese class because I had to wait until there was a new Chinese class opened. I could not enter Chinese class that was available at that time because I would be confused if I do not start from the beginning or have the basic of Chinese before. After that, I waited for the new Chinese class until now. While I was waiting for the new Chinese class, I entered German class. I was offered by one of the tutors at Rumah Bahasa to become an English tutor there. Initially, I did not want to be an English tutor there, but then I changed my mind. I got a lot of friends there until now whom I consider like my own family. 

            Second, I will tell you about my best friends. I have a lot of best friends from my school, my community and also near my house. I have two best friends at Elementary School, seven best friends at Junior High School, four best friends at Senior High School, twelve best friends at University and ten best friends near my house. I love all of my best friends. They help, support, and are always there for me. Even though we cannot always meet as before, we still keep in touch via mobile phone. Sometimes we hang out together to free our longing.

            They are my precious treasure I have ever had. I never thought how I could live without them. I hope I can always be with them forever. From my writing here, I hope you can know and understand well about myself. I hope you as one of the readers of my writing can also be my best friends even my family.

All About Myself

You are not supposed to judge a book by its cover because first appearances can be deceptive. However, that will not stop us for judging one another by our looks. From this writing, you can know me well because I will write about myself, my physical appearances and my personalities. I will write my writing nice so you can enjoy when you read it.

          For starting this writing, I will introduce myself. My name is Setyawan Haryono. My friends usually call me "Setyawan", "Setya", "Sety", "Awan", etc. I am the only child in my family. I was born on May 25th, 1992 in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia. I am still studying at Widya Mandala Catholic University Surabaya. I took English Department as my major there.

Different with others, I am not a special boy. I have a big body and big head because I am fat. I also have big hands, big legs, and big fingers. I have a nice black wavy hair and big brown eyes. I have soft tanned skin, a small nose, and small ears. I have a mouth with a pair of charming lips. I am quite tall but very fat.

            Actually, I do not know well about my personality, but I will write what I know until this time. I go not have special characteristics or personalities. I am a very kind, good, and nice person if others are also good, nice, and kind to me. However, I am a very bad, evil, and mean person if others are also nasty to me. Although looked or seen confident, in fact, I am a very shy person.

            Those are about me, my physical appearances and my personalities. I hope you can know me well from this writing and you can be my best friend after you read my writing.