The Beauty of Fire Mountain

Hi there!! How are you?? Hope you are doin fine 😃

In this time, I’m going to tell you about one of amazing place in Indonesia!! It is Mount Merapi! Yeayyyy! I choose this place because I ever visited this place when I was in junior high school and it was a memorable time for me. So, I wanna share it to you 😊

Mount Merapi

Mount Merapi is one of mountains  in Indonesia.  The name came from the Javanese  words;  Meru  means "mountain" and api means "fire". So, it could be translated as 'Mountain of Fire'. 

Mount Merapi is an active stratovolcano 

that located between Central Java and

Yogyakarta, Indonesia.  It is located approximately 28 kilometres north of Yogyakarta city.

It is the most active volcano in Indonesia and has erupted regularly since 1548. The latest erruption of Mount Merapi were in 2010. The eruption  produced many harmful substances and volcanic ash, caused many casualties and damage, and the other disadvantage.

There are two peaks of Mount Merapi. The first peak is before the actual crater summit of the volcano.  This is where people will normally camp if they are hiking to the top of Merapi. The second peak is the crater peak. This is where the people usually climb for watching the sun rise.

 

the peaks

We can explore the mount with a jeep, or we can call the tour as ''offroad''. But, the jeep can't take us to the peak (we need to climb). I ever did offroad and it was so fun! Even there will be a lil bit dusty and we have to use a mask on the way to the top, It's equal with the memorable experience. 

This is Dhea, one of my best friends in jhs, with the jeep we used

offroad!! ^^

When we are doing the tour with a jeep, we can visit the museum. There, we can see a replica of Merapi's Eruption in 2010.  There are some pictures of the erruption and some stuff that affected by volcanic ash like spoon, plate, glass, bones, motorcycle, clock, etc. When I visited this museum, I shudder, imagine I was there when the eruption happened.

This is some of the things in the museum 

The other  activity you can do in Mount Merapi is watching the sun rise from the top of the mount. Unfortunately, when I visited Mount Merapi, I didn't see the sunrise .. but I hope i can see it next time bc it would be very amazing :))

Maybe, climbing to the peak mount is the most exhausting, tired, and dusty part. But, the view from the top is 100% worth it. From the top you will see Mount Merbabu to the north and Slamet, Sumbing, and Sindoro mountains to the west. I think it’s really a special thing and I recommend to you who will visit Yogyakarta  for trying to climbing this mount because it’s so fun! :))

I hope I can see the sunrise with my family and my bestfriend someday .. and hopefully you -whoever you are-  can visited this amazing place too ... Aamiin :))

source : 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Merapi

http://discoveryourindonesia.com/mount-merapi

https://liburanjogja.co.id/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Paket-Wisata-Pendakian-Merapi-03.jpg

http://i1.wp.com/discoveryourindonesia.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/hiking-merapi-volcano-indonesia.jpg

http://www.hobotraveler.com/blogphotos/195-09-map-to-indonesia-mount-merapi.jpg
https://mountmerapi.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/ng2.jpg

http://www.nomadtravellers.com/images/articles/Merapi-Volcano-hike/Merapi-Volcano-hike-IMGP2668hdr.jpg

MEGANTARA!?

the poster

Maybe some of you confuse what "Megantara" is. Well, it is one of SMAN 3 Bandung’s event. SMAN 3 Bandung’s event. Again. First, I apologyze if you are bored with my post about my school’s event again again and again. But, I’m here to share my experience and some stuff like that .. so .. yeah hope you understand heheh :))

Megantara is a cultural festival and taken from Sanskrit word. ‘’mega’’  means  big and ‘’gantari’’ means brighten/rays/light. The word itself described about nusantara (Nusantara = Indonesian archipelago). So, “megantara” means “nusantara is a majestic rays’’

Megantara was held on last Saturday, 10th September. It started with parade. The participants are the first grade and some outsider(?) like children of some playground, and cultural team. The parade was supervise by the committe. In this moment, the girls have to wear ‘’kebaya’’ and the boys have to wear ''pangsi'' . It’s a traditional clothes from West Java. 

the girls wore traditional cloth

the parade

The parade start from Bali street ->  belitung street –> sumatera street –> aceh street – > merdeka street ->  java street –> and back to bali street. Here’s the route:

After parade, I took a break with my friends. We were changing our clothes at Daffa's house, eating 'siomay' near the gate of SMAN 3 at kalimantan street, praying and taking a break in a mosque, and then we were waiting for the open gate of megantara. The open gate is 11.35 am. But we went to the lapangan bali ( where the megantara was held ) at around 2.00 pm. There are a lot of food and drink stand, culture stand, photobooth, and a haunted house area ( but I was too scared to get into the house lol). 

The stage and the committee ( the committee wore maroon shirt )

The event itself have a fashion show competition, welcoming from mayor of Bandung, cultural attraction, and music concert. Fyi, my class winning the fashion show competition yeayyyy *party* ... the 1st winner is hafizh!!! He wore papua barat traditional clothes! 

the fashion show

tasya-hafizh-salfia

hafizh with mayor of Bandung, Ridwan Kamil

Over all, I really enjoy this event. But i was a lil bit sad bc my old friends was too busy to come there. This event was more crowded late afternoon and the climax started when T'sT 's show ( theatre ) til the concert of the changcuters and ran held (they are an Indonesian’s band). I really like T's T performance. I think they act so good as always ^^

the crowd

T's T - RAN - The Changcuters

The event over at 10 pm and yep. I’m so tired ... but ... I’m so happy at the same time lol. This event is like refreshing time from the study and lesson so I was just enjoy this event as enjoy as I can ^^ Thank you Megantara! What incredible night!

MEGANTARA!? Kemilau budaya sinari nusantara!!!

You can visit instagram of megantara and see more pic @megantara2016 :))

HEIHO, IT'S WTTF!!

Hello good people!! How are you? Hope you are doin' fine :))

This time I'm gonna tell you about WTTF or World Tournament X Techno Festival. Umm .. this is not a ''world tournament'' actually, this is just a name of SMAN 3 Bandung's event lol. WTTF is one of a lot of event that held by SMAN 3 Bandung. This is the poster :

Nah, about wttf ... this is like an competition-event for junior (32019) and senior (32018) where each of generation need to finished every challenge in every posts. WTTF  was held on Saturday, 20 August. My class was just wearing sport uniform and a yellow ribbon on our left hand while the other classes wearing some unique accesories ( they have their own style but my class is so simple lol).

The special part of this event is ... we HAVE TO SPEAK ENGLISH all the time and that was a lil bit hard! Sometimes we speak bahasa accidentally and I think that will reduce our point :')) . Beside that, this event have a special theme (I think). The theme is outer spacee~~~ yeay! Every post is named by the planet : earth, jupiter, saturnus, etc.

the map

We all gather in Lapangan Bali at 06.30. Our committee was said that we need to compete our senior who have the same class. I mean..my class, X science 5 need to compete xi science 5. After that, we moved to our school and gather in corridor. There we were given a map that shows the route of the post. The map filled by a clue of the post..so we need to guess the place.

First post, held in Bangsal. The challenge is playing fifa, football game, or whatever it called ( I don't know what exactly the game is ) on computer. In this time, sadly, my class  defeated by xi science 5, our senior. The score of this game is only different slightly. 5-4! We just need one more goal, c'mon! :(

Second post, held in Lapangan Bali, in the football field. There ... we were playing ... FLAPPY BIRD. Can you imagine that!??? hahahah. It's so funny. I really want to participated but .. I'm late. My friends already made a line and participated in that game. This game's winner is .. MY CLASS! Yeay finally ... we got our first puzzle!! (every winner in a game will be given a piece of puzzle)

Next game is still held in the same place .. we play .. we play .. I don’t know what is the game called hahahah sorry. In this game, we need to steal the ribbon that wound in our enemy's hand and every participant need to protect their own ribbon and their queen. If the queen attacked successfully by the enemy, you lose. Fyi, I participated in this game yeay!!! *ignore this* This game's winner is our senior. again. and ... its a slightly different again!!! 12-13! We just need one more point!

Fourth, the game held in the basketball field. We play a technology-quiz there. My class was represented by Fina. In this time, we were draw with our senior and we both given a piece of puzzle.

Next. The fifth post’s challenge is recycle a used cardboard into a robot. The participant is all of the class member. I think some of my classmate was exhausted because the game held in Tongkeng Park and it is far enough from the basketball court. In this game, we gathered and made an circle and then start making the robot. It was so fun ... we scream each other, fight for just a cellophane tape, etc. Our robot is .. cute enough ( I think) .. but .. we lose again in this challenge.

Sixth post is in Photography Park. It’s near enough from Tongkeng Park. This is one of my favorite post. Why? Because .. in this post, I watched my friend, Hilmy and Vian, playing a funny game. We were laughing a lot because of them. I don’t know how to describe the game, but you can see that in this pic below :

From the Photography Park, we moved back to our school. There, we were taking a break for 30 minutes. After praying and having lunch, we gathered again and moved to yard in front of new hall.  And we did the 7th challenge. It’s a quiz game. In this time .. we beat our senior and got the puzzle yeay!!!

Eight post. It’s an eating challenge! Two person from each class have to eat all of the spicy-noodles that served. I admit that my senior was so good in this challenge. They eat all of the spicy-noodles just in a few second. Can you imagine that? My senior was so strong lol. 

My classmate was so enjoying this challenge (not like our senior who take it seriously). In the end of the challenge ... my classmate share the noodles to our class member and eat it together. I beg they don’t care about the winner or something like that ... and I think ... they are hungry, so they just eat the noodles slowly bc they want to enjoy the food (maybe).

9th post is one of my favorite post too. The challenge is playing a game called tekken. It was sooo fun. From my class, there are a girl who plays the game : MIA, while the other players is a boy. And  the point is : she can defeat our senior! YUP. WE WIN. My class was winning the game perfectly! Well done guys!!! Proud of ya all!

Because of time, we didn’t go to the last post in Centrum. We were back to Lapangan Bali. There, all of us (32019) compete all of our senior (32018). Actually, this is the ‘real  game’. We fight the aliens in Lapangan Bali with water-balloons and collect the pieces of puzzle as many as we can take.  And then .. 32018 and 32019 arrange the puzzles, each generation, as soon as possible. Guess who’s the winner!

The winner is ... MY GENERATION, 32019! YEAYYY~~

this is the puzzle of 32019 :))

32019 is the winner for the best generation in this event. Even my class not the winner of the best class, I’m fine. I hope we can be closer than before and more often to laugh together like this day :)) 

Thank you all, This is one of my best day. You made it!!

See ya soon~~

-ldm

 ~selfie time~