Describing Friends

I would like to describe you about my friends. His name is Muhammad Mara Ikhsan, or usually called as Mara. He was born in Lampung, 12 February 1998. He is my classmates, and also lives in the same rent house with me.

He's tall, he has white skin, and he wears glasses, just like me. He's very smart, especially in math subject. I think he often studying by himself because he's capable of joining some mathematics Olympiad and even gets to the final.

In daily life, he looks like a less-socializing person that doesn't talk too much. But if you know him well, he's actually funny and likes to hangout with friends. And that's the things I can describe about my friends, Mara.

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Unforgettable Moment

           One of the most impressing experience that I've ever had is when I joined Study Comparative in Junior High School and went to three countries. Study Comparative is one of the program in my school, and it’s only held once a year. I joined Study Comparative in the beginning of 2012. The destination of Study Comparative for this year is Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore. Our main objective is to visit the school in every country that we visited. On my trip in Study Comparative, I always stick together with two of my friends, Alvin and Sena. 

             In Thailand, we visited Chinatown. But, we went there ourselves. The teacher didn’t want to visit because it’s already dark and very crowded because of the Chinese New Year, so it’s impossible if all of the students and teachers goes together. Finally, only the students who want to go that went to Chinatown, and the students must leave in a group. We went to the Chinatown by using public transportation. It was very crowded and there were a lot of fireworks.

From Thailand, we went to Malaysia. In here, we also visited the school and some interesting places, for example Genting Highland. Genting Highland is a big entertainment center that placed at a very high hill. That’s why it's named as Highland. To get here, we had to use cable car. Genting Highland is a very big and interesting place. It’s also very cold there, because it’s very high above the sea level.

            After Malaysia, we went to Singapore. We only visited Singapore for a few hours, because we had a very busy schedule. From Singapore, we went to Batam, stayed for one night, and go back to Palembang. At Batam, I got a very unforgettable accident. At the night when we arrived at Batam, the teachers told us to wake up at five o’clock in the morning and go to the airport at six o’clock. Unfortunately, me, Alvin, and Sena, that slept in one room; awake at nine o’clock. We were very panic, because the airplane scheduled to go at 9.15 in the morning. Finally, even in hurry and panic condition, we arrived at the airport before the airplane takes off. Fortunately, the airplane hadn't taking off yet because of some technical problem. We really thanked to God for that. Finally, we arrived home safely. 

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Narrative Text

THE LITTLE JACKAL AND THE CAMEL

Once upon a time, there lived a young little jackal. The little Jackal likes to eat river crabs. He had eaten all the crabs to be found on his own side of the river. He knew there must be plenty on the other side, if he could only get to them, but he could not swim.

   One day he thought of a plan. He went to his friend the Camel, and said,

   ``Friend Camel, I know a spot where the sugar-cane grows thick; I'll show you the way, if you will take me there.''

   ``Indeed I will,'' said the Camel, who really likes sugar-cane. ``Where is it?''

   ``It is on the other side of the river,'' said the little Jackal; ``but we can manage it nicely, if you take me on your back and swim over.''

   The Camel was agreed, so the little Jackal jumped on his back, and the Camel swam across the river, carrying him. When they were safely over, the little Jackal jumped down and showed the Camel the sugar-cane field; then he ran swiftly along the river side, to hunt for crabs; 

The Camel began to eat sugar-cane. He ate happily, and noticed nothing around him. The little Jackal had no mind to wait for his slow friend; he wanted to be off home again. So he ran to the sugar-cane field, and as he ran he sang and shouted, and made a great voice. Of course, the villagers heard him at once.

   ``There is a Jackal in the sugar-cane,'' they said; ``he will dig holes and destroy the roots; we must go down and drive him out.'' 

So they came down, with sticks and stones. When they got there, there was no Jackal to be seen; but they saw the Camel, eating away at the juicy sugar-cane. They ran at him and beat him, and stoned him, and drove him away half dead. 

When they had gone, leaving the poor Camel dying, the little Jackal came dancing back from somewhere or other. 

   ``I think it's time to go home, now,'' he said; ``don't you?''

   ``Well, you are a pretty friend!'' said the Camel. ``The idea of your making such a noise, with your shouting and singing, had brought this upon me! What makes you want to do such a crazy thing? Why did you shout and sing?''

   ``Oh, I don't know why,'' said the little Jackal, -- ``I always sing after dinner!''

   ``Ah, very well, let us go home now.'' said the Camel.

He took the little Jackal kindly on his back and started into the water. When he began to swim he swam out to where the river was the very deepest. There he stopped, and said,

   ``Oh, Jackal!''

   ``Yes,'' said the little Jackal.

   ``I got a strange feeling,'' said the Camel, -- ``I think I must roll over.''

   `` `Roll over ?!'' cried the Jackal. ``Don't do that! If you do that, you'll drown me! What makes you want to do such a crazy thing? Why should you roll over?''

   ``Oh, I don't know why,'' said the Camel slowly, ``but I always roll over after dinner!''

   

So he rolled over. And the little Jackal was drowned, for his sins, but the Camel came safely home.

So, the lesson that we can get from the story is, the way people treat you depend on the way you treat people. If  you do good things too others, they will do good things to you too. And so do if you do bad things.

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Who Am I?

My name is Muhammad Dzaky Farhan, or usually called as Dzaky. I live in a family of five, wih my father, my mother, me, and my younger sister and brother. My father works as an employee, and my mother is a housewife. My younger sister is a fourth grader in elementary school, and my younger brother is still in the kindergarten.

I’m a Moslem. I was born on 18^th November 1998, at Tulungagung city, East Java. And I just celebrated my birthday, so I'm fifteen years old now. I live in Bandung, West Java. I live in a rent house at Jawa Street number 46. Yes, I live alone here. My family live in Palembang. Actually when I was in Junior High School, I also lived in Palembang. But when I entered Senior High School, I wanted to study at SMAN 3 Bandung, and so do my parents. So here I am, studying at SMAN 3 Bandung. 

I like to play music. I like to do sports too, especially basketball. I love to eat traditional food, because it's very unique and delicious. Actually there's still a lot of things about me, but I think that's enough for now.

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