Outside class activ.

Video Game in class!

End-of-year!

Dear Blog!

Ok, forget the last post. I was depressed at the time. WE were all depressed. Three useless homework mounting before us.

A couple of days after I the post before this one, we had our annual assessment (Ujian Akhir Semester). Many teachers told us that it plays a role in determining our grades. Except Arts, we had to go through 17 tests. It was an interesting affair....

Anyways,,,, all of that is over. The holidays has arrived. My final report was good enough for me to pass.

School pressure...

Dear Blog!

I don't usually write a sincere heartpour, but I have something to share. It's 3 days until the end-of-year examination but school work has reached its climax. Er... well I have 3 stories... One is as unlikely as the next. But its getting late now so I'll have to go.

Hope I'll write those soon...

More images of my chaotic of a class..

Everyone is into card games...



No. They are NOT gambling. Anyway its the teacher's fault. They failed to supervise the students. Duh? But, since I introduced it, everyone is into Mattel's Uno.

The need of Public Relation!

Dear Blog!

Just like any other prestigious schools (?) the need to market the school is emphasized. In a school claiming to offer a "plus" program, there exists a school board willing to tell the world. Making sure that the general public and eager parents are aware their school exists and boasts that they are thus the best.

So just recently. Probably 2 weeks ago (around the time Angels and Demons was released in South East Asia) there was an education fair at the local mall, Duta Mall, Banjarmasin. The fair included a kindergarten claiming to adapt a Singaporean curriculum, vocational schools, and the well-known public schools.

I'm trying to upload the images, but damnit, why is Firefox so slow? While waiting I'm listening to Аляксандр Рыбак (Alexander Rybak), a Norwegian artists and violinists that I admire.

Above is an image of the SMK Negeri 5 Banjarmasin stand at the education fair. A vocational upper-secondary specializing in engineering and tech-crafting. Pretty impressive.


Above is a picture of the SMP Negeri 1 Banjarmasin booth. A rather well-known government middle school in my city. Providing a rather home brewed education for the young generation. Keep it up.


Now this is quite interesting. Above is also a middle school. It has been dubbed as a National Standard school. I personally think it's the best. Just look at those colorful decor. Oh yeah, as I've heard this is the first school to adapt the moving class system.

Ok so those are some of the schools who set up a stand at the education fair. So where's my school?
(Un)Fortunately my school did set up a stand but it was so "dinky" and lame... It gives the feeling that "we" were selling thropies.



So we can say that my school's stand presented nothing with the exception of some gold-painted plastics and screen shots of the school........
And we had minimal help from the adult PR staff of our school. No teachers ever bothered to even set eyes on it, I recalled.

And just to let you know. I didn't attend the Senior Prom because I had no obligation to do so. Which was held at the same time as the ed fair...

(Аляксандр Рыбак's music has reached Indonesia. Though his album has not...)

We just had to clean our class...

More pictures of the chaotic of my class!

Playing with ladder

Playing Limbo

Reading magazine...

When the teachers skive off learning...

A revolution in cafetaria... (Kantin kejujuran)

My school built this canteen. Situated below the stairs, it is entirely wooden. And it's tiny and cramped. The canteen sells snacks and small beverages. The difference between this canteen and other school canteens is that the students put the money in a box under no supervision from anyone.

Needless to say most students do not pay....

Sweating to the suns heat...

Every morning in class, I sit beside the window and every morning I (maybe we) sweat to the morning sunlight... Vitamin D?

So buy a curtain! Yeah right...

The class cooling system

Below is the picture of my class cooling systems... (note: only the left fan work)

Below is a picture of my Junior High School...

The new library!

Dear Journ...
So after many months of uncertainties we now have our new library (see older post). When I was in Junior High the Deputy said that a library is the vessel of learning, the window of knowledge. I quite agree. My love of reading things has not been tampered with.

I personally think that my school library is worthy enough to be boasted with. It stands two storey high. The library is located in front of the student gate. I have no shame in saying that its the best school library in my region.

Notice the empty space? The librarian promised units of computers complete with internet connection so that students may access references on the net...

For a school library, it is stocked with comic mangas, newspapers, text books and novels. It even has its own television. For an Indonesian library its great. Students flocked to the library at reecess to do some light reading, loan a text book and access references.

Scenes from the closing ceremony!

See my earlier posts about a school festival...

Well this was the closing ceremony (March 21st, 2009)

Discussions

One of the things I love about the curriculum are discussions. I enjoy interacting with my fellow students in social issues and school work. Here is a picture of a decent discussion.

The Guy got it wrong!

Every class in my school has this plaque. You can see many typographical errors and weird English. This is my class. What does "Grade Tent" mean?

Update 28/03/2009: I just noticed that whoever made the Typo plaque "recalled" its product and is nowhere to be seen...