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.