My Extraordinary House

I have my own dream house. It is not too big, but there is love, happiness, joy inside it, it is not only a house, but also a home for my small family and me later on. My own dream house is located near rice field and river to make my children know about their nature. When they know about nature, they will know how to make their nature green and clean. My own dream house has a green garden, 4 rooms, and complete facilities like hotspot zone, playing garden, small swimming pool, and a small house for one dog.

            I will have a green garden and 4 rooms inside of my house. My garden is green because there are many flowers, trees, and green grass. Roses, sun flowers, mignonette flowers are kind of flowers that are available in my garden. Between the trees and flowers, there will be some tracks to go to my own living room, 2 bed rooms and one kitchen. The living room is a place for my family to take their time to relax from the routine. 2 bed rooms are a place for my family to sleep at night or whenever they want to sleep and one kitchen is a place for me to cook something for my family. My green garden and my 4 rooms will be so gorgeous.

            My green house is not only green but also has complete facilities. There will be a hot spot zone in the middle of living room, playing garden, swimming pool, and small house for my dog is available near the green garden. A hot spot zone is very useful to help my family to find information or everything in the internet. A hot spot zone is same as a cybercafé. A playing garden and a small swimming pool can make my children later on feeling comfortable to stay in our house. The last but not the least is a small house for my dog. I really love dog and dog can help us to protect our house at night from thief.

            My green house will be so green, safe, and full of love, happiness and joy.  My dream house will not be ordinary as the other houses. My dream house will be so extraordinary. When I can build my own dream house, make sure you will not get jealous with me.

A TEACHER AND A FATHER

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires,” William Arthur Ward said about that 20 years ago. To be a teacher is easy but to be a great teacher is not easy because the great teacher has to make their students can learn about everything consciously or unconsciously.  Same as Mr. Suarnajaya who is like a father, shows me everything that I never know.

Mr. Suarnajaya is my Grammar teacher. He teaches me about all of grammar rules on literature. Mr. Suarnajaya is very smart in giving me an appropriate way in learning grammar which is very difficult to understand. He teaches me with all of patience that he has. He can also change my mood in learning grammar when I am so sleepy or bored. He will know if I feel so bored in studying grammar and directly he will give some jokes to make my friends and I laugh and ready to study grammar again. What he has done shows me that he is a funny person who can motivate his students in that way to learn everything again and again.

Mr. Suarnajaya is also a diligent lecturer who can come to his class 15 minutes before the meeting begun. Discipline is the important thing for him in learning process. Being discipline makes him success in everything. He appreciates students who can manage time well. He will not get angry if there are some students come late to his class. He will use his power as the leader of the classroom by noticing them not to being so late again. It shows me that he has strong characteristic in educating his students.

He gives me everything that I need as a teacher later on. He often shares his experiences to support his ideas about grammar or everything and I interested in learning grammar. He has ever shared about his experiences in studying English in Australia. He got his Ph.D. by hard working. He studies everything seriously because he knows that his family is waiting for him to come back to Bali with his success in his hand. He does everything as best as he can. From his experiences, I learn how to struggle and do everything as best as I can.

He is so handsome when he comes to class which his neat appearance that is way some students follow his dressing. He is always wearing neat shirt or Batik shirt in different color, belt, black trouser and appropriate shoes to go to campus. It can make him sparkling. As I know, Wisnu, Yudis, Didit, Tugus follow his dressing. He is little bit old but looks younger than his age. He has short black straight hair which become white. He has round and black eyes which can make all of his students pay attention on him.

Out side the course, Mr. Suarnajaya is very friendly and humble like when he is in the classroom teaching me all about grammar. He delivers his positive aura with his smile. His smile has a deep meaning in showing his characteristic wherever he is.  He always brings and hangs his keys in his belt. It is funny to see Mr. Suarnajaya in that style. May be that are not just a car key, but also a home key, a fence key, a burglar-proof safe key. All of that shows me that he is a unique person.

Mr. Suarnajaya is different from the other lecturers. There is a lecturer who can not be so friendly when he or she meets with his or her students outside the classroom. But Mr. Suarnajaya is different. He is not like that. He is also very kind in helping his students in knowing something that his student never knows.

He feels like a father for me. A father who can take care his daughter and teach his daughter about everything without think about what will he get if he does so. Inside of my heart, Mr. Suarnajaya is not only a teacher but also a father who teaches me many things that I have never known.

LEARNING FROM A PIG

“Judge me all you want, just keep the verdict to yourself,” Wiston said that in a Wiston advertisement. What he said is like Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s experience in his essay “What’s in a Name?” Henry Louis Gates Jr. retells an incident that occurs in his father life and it is about how his father has been discriminated by Mr. Wilson but his father did not speak up. May be he did not speak up because he only cared to know that his family and he were also human being. He knew that simple thing that he said or did would change everything there except Mr. Wilson’s view point about Gates’ family because they are different.  Even though I never have been discriminated by the other, I also have an experience in junior high school likes Gates’ father in which I have been mock by the others. At that time I could speak up but I chose not to. As I look back at the mocking incident that I felt, I realized that I had not enough confidence to be who I really am.

In my junior high school, my friends and I were walking in our school yard, taking my time to relax from my duty at school in studying mathematic.  The school yard was very beautiful and clean. In my school yard, I saw Toby was talking with his friends. Toby was my ex-boyfriend who still loved me and wanted me to be his girlfriend. At that time, I already had Dedy Dipajaya as mine. I knew that he still waited for me to be his girlfriend. After walking in my school yard for several minutes, I realized that Toby was staring at me. I saw one of his friends whispering at him and I did not know what they were talking about. The condition in school yard which was hot turns in to cold. I could not restrain my self for not being so nervous because of Toby eyes. His eyes were very terrifying.

I was approached by Toby. Suddenly He said something that hurt me so much. He told me that I was so fat and I looked like a pig. He did not like me who was very fat at that time. I did not know how could he say something like that. Being mocked made me very shock and silent for a moment. Some words that came out from his mouth had deep meaning for me. It was not just words but it felt like some knives shooting my heart. A word “pig” ruined my self confidence.  I was trying to forget it and walking to my class without caring about him with my friends, but it did not work.

My friends asked me how could Toby say something terrible like that and I answered by freezing my body. Surprisingly, the word “pig” always had a place in my heart that hurt me so much. It could not be forgotten directly like I could forget about mathematic lesson as soon as possible after finishing that course. I always asked my self, am I as fat as Pig? It seemed unfair that I was so fat like a pig in Toby opinion but I did not realize that I was fat. Sometimes I really wanted to tell Toby that I was not as fat as pig but I quickly rejected that idea. I was so stressed and I could not eat anything because I did not have any passion to eat something for my body. I always had power to think about pig even I forced not to do it. Being mocked by the other was not a new thing in my life but a simple word “pig” from Toby could decrease my confidence easily. In my head, a pig was something about fat, ugly, and so dirty. I could not imagine, if I were a pig what we called someone who is bigger than me?  As far as I concerned, I had no choice. I felt disappointed because the word pig from Toby could damage me immediately.

Now that I am in collage, however, I see the situation differently. I can not believe that I have ever had a problem with Toby about being mocked. What is the problem of being mocked?  If Toby never told me that I was like a pig, I would not change my self, my confidence, and also my body. For example, what will happen if I never realize that I am fat? Can I be so confidence like today? The answers of these questions give me a sense of having a strong confidence. If confronted with the same situation today, I know I would speak out that being fat is not a mistake and I do not have to decrease my confidence of being so fat.

Toby is now an eight semester student at Udayana University. I feel amazed that I am not speaking out because of being mocked by him. I realize if I speak out about what I feel, I can also hurt his heart by mocking the negative side of his life. The worst that would happen to Toby is that he would be so shy because he had mocked a girl like a chicken and I will break our relationship as friend.  As you know real man never mocks a girl. That knowledge would help him in appreciating a girl in a good way later on.

Interestingly, Toby and I are no longer very close. Whenever I see him, I have the same reaction Gates’ father had when he had been discriminated by Mr. Wilson that they would change Wilson’s view point or white American about Gates’ family because they are different.