How things have been

I haven't been writing detailed stuff, haven't I? Oh, I feel guilty for that. I don't want my grandchildren to read scraps about her grandma, I want them to know me thoroughly from the experiences that I have.

The past two weeks have been like going up and down with no special margins. That means, when something is exciting, it's just exciting; and when something isn't exciting, it's just isn't exciting. Except, the AFS test that I've endured, it's something new and very eye-opening to me.

Btw, don't you ever wonder why it's called 'eye-opening'? We open our eyes everyday, that's for sure. Why do they use the term 'eye-opening' to say that "We've finally seen things from a different perception thus making our horizon grow". What's new is our perception, not our sight. I personally think that it's better to say 'unlocking new doors of the heart and mind', rather than 'eye-opening'. OK, my term is a lot more impractical than 'eye-opening'... but I just don't feel that 'eye-opening' fits the meaning.

Enough gibberish. I'll write about the AFS test after this. In the mean time, I'll just write about the small boring bumps that I went through these two weeks.

We had our class meeting in these past two weeks, and there are only a few things to name that made me feel quite excited: a visit to UPTD (which I forget what that stands for), a cookout with my friends at school, and the outbound that my teachers arranged.

UPTD is a place of government-relation where the works of Samarinda people are displayed and produced. Though the workshops there specialize in marble, wood, and plastic, the displays don't stop there. There are clothing and food too. The UPTD also helps uplift sales of the works by promoting them through various ways.

Even though it was tiring, the cookout I had with my friends were fun. I don't cook often at home (which is a total embarrassment, comparing myself to friends who some spend time in the kitchen), and it's fun to learn some life skills from my lady teachers and my friends. One of my friend, who we all agreed that she had the best cooking skill among others in our team, said that she learned how to do things from Cooking Mama. We cooked cireng, donuts, wedang angsle, and iced cappucino with cincau. (Most pictures below are taken by Mr John, and some are taken by Ms Eka, so... credits to them!)

The outbound, on the other hand, made me feel ambitious. I don't know why, but me and my team-mates (who were also my cooking mates) were so determined to win something. Well, even though we didn't get first place in the end (because we don't know as much geography as another team does) it felt great to be done and be accomplished.

The outbound wasn't exactly and outbound, but I felt happy and excited anyway. They programmed it to be like those races with bases and challenges in every one of them, and riddles to get to them. At base 1, we were asked to make something out of banana midrib and pomelo (jeruk bali in Indonesian) skin. Our team, Chucky, ended up making swords from them, hahaha. After completing the task, we were given two sheets of paper, one a riddle, and another a cipher for the riddle. After deciphering it, we look for the next base from the info on the riddle. And on it goes until we go from base to base.

It's also tiring, knowing the fact that our school ground isn't small. But I guess that's what's fun about it.