Lil bit (choco)late, actually to post this
kinda awesome news. But it still awaits in the waiting list to be done.
Finally, after all of somewhat more important things accomplished to deal with,
here a time to share. No need such a beat in the bush, well ya, here we go!
This is about my summer vacation. Summer?
Excuse me? Summer??? Umm, let’s call it holiday season. Ya! Holiday season.
Just like how it used to be, I barely had any holiday in holiday season though the others did. But I always enjoy every
minutes of my routins. Never mind. In this season, I spent it in Malang, road
to Malang, and road to Magelang from Malang. I was not alone. Noverina and Ms.
Feri were with me.
On the beginning of May, there was an
invitation from Administration English Club (AEC) – Fakultas Ilmu Administrasi (FIA), Brawijaya University. It was
about National English Olympiad, some kinda English Competition at National
level. The competition itself is UB GLOWING; Shining, Sparkling, Inspiring. And
it was, what made me so mesmerizing.
To get there, we should pass some tests. We
conducted the first test in the end of May. It was conducted in our school, SMA
IT Ihsanul Fikri. The questions of the test was delivered by the commetee from
UB GLOWING, and we had to send the answer sheets back. There were 34 students of
our school joined the selections, both 10th and 11th grader. The commetee would
choose top 50 students from 10th grader and 50 from 11th grader from all of
participant through Senior High School in Indonesia. I hope there were some of
34 could be one of the top golden 50.
The announcement was announced in the official
website on June, 18th. I always stayed turn my in front of my laptop screen.
Can’t wait the result. But yeah, till dark, its result was nothing. We have to
be patient. Finally, I went back to dorm and decided to see the site again, on
the next day. Before I opened the site, Hirzi told me earlier;
“Noverina
counted in,”
“Really,”
“Ya,
number 35,”
“How
about your name? Did you find it?”
“I’ve
scrolled up and down plenty times, but the result remains the same,”
I browsed just to make sure. Is it that?
Nimbly I opened my laptop, turned it on, typed the address, quickly jumped to
the semifinalist number 35. Oh, so sad, I didn’t find her name. I scrolled up
and down. Again. And again. Still...didn’t find it. Hey, wait!!! I read the
tittle... “Ah, this is eleventh grader!!!!” Well, I searched in another page.
Nah, got it! Here, here... “Noverina Shirinovski. Number 35. Exactly!” Then I
printed it, hurried looking for Rina, gave her the printing, told her to read
it completely, after she’s done with it, found her name, then I hugged her. Cried.
I don’t know what the tears for, but, I was just happy about that at that time.
In short, I told Bu Yuvita and met the
Principal, Ustadz Jamal, not to mention, Bu Nuri ;) Not that short actually,
lil bit chocolate, eh, complicated. But, finally, we were going to go for Brawijaya
University by the date June, 26th. Due to holiday season, noone left in dorm.
Only Noverina and I who left in Daarul Marhamah. We prepared all kinda things
that we might need on the competition.
June,
25th
Early morning, after Subuh, Pak Umar and “Si
Putih” took us; Ms. Feri, Noverina, and I, to the bus station. We went to
Malang by EKA, but we had to transit in Surabaya first. By Malang, we were
picked up by Iffatul’s father’s relative. She’s a principal of Islamic School there,
also a mother of four children; Shofura, Zahra, Akmal, and Umar. She’s so kind,
and they’re so nice. We spent the night on her house.
June,
26th
We packed all of the things and we went to
Brawijaya University with those kinda stuffs, just like a backpacker. We
stepped on the 4th floor of FIA UB, did the registration, and entered the hall.
Ms. Feri met her college mate, Ms. Tiara who also accompanied her students. They
catched up there, while Noverina and I entered the hall.
The hall was arranged so well, there are a lot
of round tables surrounded by about six chairs in each table. We chose the back
row table, so we could enjoy the laser show before opening ceremony in a perfect
view.
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| The Main Hall |
After the master of ceremony opened the
occassion, the commetee gave a briefing about the competition. There were three
rounds. The first round was called BoB (Battle of Brain). The system was like Rangking Satu. There was no elimination.
The second round was Spelling Bee. The Spelling Bee itself was devided into two
round; written and spoken. In written test, there would be elimination. It would
only remained fifteen student. For the final round, story telling, there would remained
five students, and took three students as the winner, first runner up, and
second runner up, and only one student who won the prize to go to Singapore and
Malaysia.
When the first elimination was announced, I
looked into the screen meticulously, wondering there’s a name that I waited
coming up. There! Noverina Shirinovski from SMA IT Ihsanul Fikri. Number
Thirteen. Good. Let’s prepare for the next round!
The announcement for the second section of
Spelling Bee was attached on the door of the hall. Well got it. Rina got the
ninth position. It meant that she didn’t go to the final round. Well, it’s very
very very okay, since we know that all the total amount of UB GLOWING
participant through all Senior High School in Indonesia was 10.400 participant.
“Becoming
9th of 10.400 is very cool, though!”
FYI,
her score were just the same with the participant on 8th and 7th position. Very
great. Proud of you, Rin! *tap*
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| ms. fe ~ me ~ nover *ups sorry... there's nothing wrong with your eyes, we really did the blur for the photo :p |
Well, here we go for dinner. It was also
conducted in the main hall. There were several performances; AMC and Yohana
(X-Factor). I was there for a lil bit a while, then I walked to look around,
out from the main hall. There was a stair with a huge clear window glasses
there. I sat down and looked the view of Malang traffic at night. More reasuring,
then. I turned my head when I heard a crowd behind. Ah, what’s that? Oh, someof
participants took pictures of Yohana. Well, I didn’t really know her, so I just
kept busy with my own. Ah, there’s something more interesting on the table I
thought. Es Kopyor! *lol* I took a bowl and enjoyed back that
great view.
After closing ceremony, we both of three were
going to go home by Bis Malam; EKA
(again). It was 9 pm. Before leaving Brawijaya, we took some picture and buy
something, some food, and yeah... some others. A public car brought us to
Malang town square. Hey, were looking for a merchandise shop, actually. But then,
we were lost I thought. We were around looking for public car (again). We found
a police station. Wow look! The coolest police station ever! The door glasses,
an LCD tv, and air conditioner. The police was so kind too. In front of the
station, Rina and I took some pictures.
“Heyh!
Both of you! What on earth are you doing! Oh, really! If I don’t come with you,
I don’t know whether you’ll arrive home or not!” Ms. Feri shouted to us after
realizing when we left behind.
“Wait
a moment, Miss. It’s once in a life time,” I said.
“This
is the coolest police station ever!” Rina said.
“Well
Rina, take some pictures of me here!” I asked.
We got public car to bring us to bus station
finally. Yeah, it’s 10 pm. Our destiny was Surabaya. We got there at midnight
exactly. Because of the bus that would bring us to Magelang was full, so we
decided to go home via Semarang. And a bus again from Semarang to Magelang. We
arrived by Dzuhur. How exciting!
Here my holiday season in this season. Though I
barely have holiday, I took it as a free ticket to spend the so called
holiday. What’s on my next holiday season? Let’s see!
