May 2012
6 posts
Serene
*looking through Hannah's school work*
Me: Oh my god Isaac she writes the word 'serene' and she's still in 5th grade. I'm 17 and never have I thought of putting such word like 'serene' in my writings.
Isaac: Yeah. You put 'promiscuous' instead.
Me: ...
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Another English project.
I present you one of my English project… We read Dante’s Inferno last quarter and basically the book is about hell. Neraka. Penulisnya orang Itali, Dante, dan buku ini adalah pemikiran beliau tentang neraka yang menurut beliau, terdiri dari 9 lingkaran (atau tingkatan) dan setiap lingkaran itu beda-beda dosanya. Yang unik dari buku ini adalah cara penulisan beliau, dalam bentuk Terza...
Dream
Omit
Let’s omit the fact that life
suffocates you
paralyzes you
blinds you
hurts you
with its devious, mischievous glint
and phlegmy laugh
that always succeeds in turning you to
someone
that’s not you.
Remember
Remember those days
when the ode to joy escorts us
as we march at our fresh, green grass-carpeted backyard
and the crisp sound our feet make
as we slowly lie ourselves down
and our...
Journal Invasion: STATE!
Okay so I once wrote a post titled “My lemonades.”, and remember the part where I wrote about Forensics and Solo & Ensemble? Or precisely where I mentioned about GOING TO STATE?
So two days after my birthday, me and my Forensics team drove to Madison on Friday (and then to Ripon the next day) for State!
Bagi yang bingung, District tuh kaya apa ya… kabupaten, dan State (in...
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Journal Invasion: Turning 17...
I counted down the hours I had left until I turn 17 as I was on my drive back to Waupaca from Florida. I spent a fabulous time there with my fellow band friends, and to think that it was my last 6 days of being 16, I asked myself a question… do I really want to be 17? I remember those times when I felt sick and tired of being the youngest of all my friends, and how I wanted to become a teenager so...
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Journal Invasion: Prom!
HOLA MIS AMIGOS, ¿COMÓ ESTÁS?
Akhirnya kesempatan juga duduk manis depan komputer buat ngebangunin draft-draft jurnal dari tidur panjangnya (tiga minggu…ampun Ibu!), kali ini kursinya aku lumurin getah pohon (naon ngasal pisan, because super glue is too mainstream mhuahaha) biar ngga kemana-mana sampe jurnalnya selesai.
Sebelumnya mau sungkeman dulu sama yang baca, ini jurnal-jurnal Izzati...
April 2012
6 posts
Question: Why is Hazel called Hazel?
John Green: Because it's an in between color and she has an in between life. In between health and sickness, in between adolescence and adulthood, in between swimming and drowning, etcetera.
Finally finished three out of four books I’d been currently reading this month. Yes. Four books. I’m not even kidding. They are The Fault In Our Stars by John Green, The Pretty Committee Strikes Back (the 5th book of Lisi Harrison’s The Clique series), Night by Elie Wiesel (a survivor from the Holocaust) and Manusia Setengah Salmon by our very own Indonesian’s top writer,...
Currently reading...
Indescribably amazing book. Probably one of the best books I’ve read in America so far. Totally in love John Green with his dictions, his choice of words, his super ah-mazing vocabulary, and his ability of weaving those words into sentences that simply hypnotize my mind. I don’t have his eloquence to describe how amazing this book is. I started reading it last two weeks and now...
Balada Tulang Kering.
HAI. Kayaknya aku belum pernah cerita di blog kalo bulan Maret lalu aku sempet ikutan olahraga musim semi, Girls Track & Field. Yang gatau Track & Field itu apa, kata Om Wiki sih: Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. Di Track & Field cabang olahraganya banyak banget, lari jarak jauh,...
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Wes, mainannya begadang. Hahaha. Kalo orang lain minum kopi supaya melek, aku…minum air putih kayak ikan biar kerjaannya bolak-balik ke kamar mandi mulu, hahaha. Tambah lagi, graham crackers di rumah disuruh hostmom diabisin… *loh*
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Dingin banget di kamar.
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I just got home from a three-days family trip with the Johnsons. Friday we started with driving to Madison to...
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My lemonades.
“But as for the favor of your Lord, report [it].” “Dan terhadap nikmat Tuhanmu maka hendaklah kamu menyebut-nyebutnya (dengan bersyukur).” (Ad-Dhuhaa : 11)
“So which of the favors of your Lord would you deny?” “Maka nikmat Tuhan kamu yang manakah yang kamu dustakan?” (Ar Rahman)
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Alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah.
My exchange year appears to be like a grand book of life lessons....
March 2012
7 posts
Now let us talk about hard times, which I believe are what I always put you through. But you shake your head silently. Soft, your whispers are, and as your words slowly climb up onto my ears, in creep your scent, filling my lungs. Yet I never feel satisfied, for I always have the hunger of your presences. My eyelashes flutter in worry, for they are actually holding the tears I have been fighting...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Dreams come true, yes they truly do! My whole exchange year in America has been, beyond doubt, the biggest and the most wondrous dream I could ever think about living. Most of my dreams came true here, even my childhood dreams. And what could be any better than that?
So ever since I was a little girl, I am the one who always express my feeling out. When I was five I had this odd habit: I waited...
March 11th
All the snow is almost gone and in exchange, Waupaca is now flooded with sun and warmth! I don’t think I’m ready to say my goodbyes to winter yet… but again I’ve been missing days with sun where I can go out and take a walk without my winter coat on like crazy, and today is the day! I had the best sleep last night, almost 12 hours of sleeping in and as I woke up, me and...
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I attempted to write a story...in English!
So this second semester I have the coolest class ever: Creative Writing, with the coolest teacher ever: Mr Neil Young. This short story is an assignment and I loved it—he told the class to choose a lyric from a song and turn it into a story. Truth is, it was ridiculously hard for me to write a story in English. Because I’m not used to it…..yet. But Mr Young read this and he made...
A slight drift of thought
In life, when you suddenly find answers to questions you never thought of asking, it means…
…I don’t know. What does it mean?
Took me time to realize that freshmen, sophomores and seniors lockers are all on the same floor, just different areas. And junior lockers are upstairs. And they are in alphabetical order, and that’s also how the teachers divided their students into...
February 2012
12 posts
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Day 195-197, Rotary Winter Conference!
Okay so this weekend I had my 4th Rotary conference! It’s Rotary Winter Conference and it took place in The Plaza Hotel & Suites, Wausau, Wisconsin. I had to miss an overnight Forensics meet in Durrand due to my attendance in this conference, that was quite a bummer but I regret nothing because CONFERENCE IS ALWAYS LIKE A BOWL OF CHERRIES… it is always a blast! Pleasant and...
Next time you eat, always learn the English word...
Kalie: Yep Izzati that's my favorite fish too. I know for sure that kind of fish is really delicious
Me: Look I'm sorry that I can't name it okay, when you eat fish you don't really need to know how they call it in 7 other languages... you just eat.
Fish
Me: Today Logan just told me never to trust the school's fish.
Kalie: Izzati. You never want to trust their fish.
Me: But I love fish
Kalie's mom: I bet you eat fish pretty much everyday back home don't you? What kind of fish do you usually eat?
Me: Gold fish--WAIT NOPE... Um, I'm not sure what's the English for it...
Kalie's mom: Like haddock, perch, or...?
Me: Yeah... I don't know, but it's like a fish.
Kalie: Like a fish. Way to be descriptive, Izzati.
Foreign language
Isaac: So Izzati what did you actually say there in class when Mrs Reeves asked you to speak in Indonesian
Izzati: *laughing* Ah ngga, ngga, ngga ngomong apa-apa kok
Isaac: IZZATI TELL US *starts shaking my shoulders*
Izzati: Aduh aduh ya ampun sakit brader sakit, lepas dong lepas!
Logan: AAHHHH WHAT IS SHE SAYING
Izzati: Ngga ngomong apa-apa haha aduh sakit serius inimah!
Logan: AAAHHHH KLJGFDSASDFXCHV *starts speaking in German*
Isaac: AAAHHHH *(^^%#@$^%^*, HAKUNA MATATA
Izzati: HAHAHAHAHA
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Waupaca: Day 188, Thank God It's Friday!
When life gives you a good day… you turn it into a journal :)
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I have been in an absolutely awesome mood since last night (Thursday). I got home and cleaned my room and I had my room filled with Taylor Swift’s music and when it comes to Taylor Swift, Izzati is never not in a good mood, haha! And truth is I hadn’t listened to any of her songs lately and I think that is why my...
A poem.
So in my Creative Writing class yesterday, my awesome teacher Mr Young introduced this thing called “Blockout Poem”. So basically you pick out random words from any article in newspaper or magazine or any of that kind, and then you juggle them and turn them into an original poem of yours. It looks so simple and easy at the first time, but I was wrong.
The rules are not that hard...
Three magic words
*watching Beauty and the Beast, final scene when the Beast is dying*
Ben (my host dad): Oh nooooo the Beast is going to die, die, die
Me: No he is not he is not
Ben: But he's dying can't you see
Me: Ssshhhh not yet he's not, not until he say the magic words
Ben: What magic words
Me: Those three magic words
Logan: Yeah. Those three words girls always want to hear from the guys.
Ben: What are those?
Logan: "I was wrong."
When life gives you good friend(s)...
This is one of the expressions when one takes a closer look to an exchange student
February 6th, 2012. Some of the sweet little things that somehow keep me looking forward to my everyday life in America. Friendships truly are beautiful :’)
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…so yeah, (Insya Allah) I’m going to prom.
Let’s hope that this shall be another wonderful time with friends for me to...
Day 184
February 13th, 2012.
Right when the sun rises tomorrow, and the clock strikes twelve in the afternoon, my adventure in America will be exactly 6 whole months.
I’m nearly getting there.
Over than 40 hours odyssey: 2 hours drive from my hometown Bandung to the capital (Jakarta), 1 hour flight to Singapore for a 7 hours transit there before a 5 hours flight to spend another 2 hours transit...
Meet my agenda.
Hai. So this is what I meant by yo estoy ocupada or I am busy. January was ridiculously hectic with all the after-school activities and school assignments and other little things. So I was not kidding.
February is a little bit less hectic than January, for two of my activities will end in the same day: bowling and the all school play. And if you look close enough, the last two weeks of...
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Safe & Sound Music Video
Yo estoy ocupada.
Here are the list of the activities I’m currently getting myself busy with lately:
PLAY PRACTICE (latihan drama). THE SHOW IS ONLY TEN DAYS AWAY! The practices take almost every day after school for about two and a half hours. Just as a reminder for you guys, I get a part as a fairy in the play. I don’t have any lines but I get to sing a lullaby with my other fairy friends, get to...
January 2012
14 posts
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Once upon a January... #1
Haaaai people I’m back!
FINALLY a chance to sit down and decently journal. Oh whoa, I can’t believe it has been approximately twelve days since I wrote in my last post. I announced that I probably would tend to post-pone my journals because of the craziness life had brought myself into. I even thought that I should’ve taken a break in my microblog life, and by “microblog...
Life has been crowded. Indeed.
Jadi untuk yang menunggu-nunggu post dan jurnal terbaru, aku minta maaf banget ya, ini lagi berjuang sekeras-kerasnya untuk ngatur waktu dengan kegiatan sehari-hari.
Mudah-mudahan bisa secepatnya ngepost lagi.
Salam semangat!
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Izzati Menjawab Pertanyaan #5
“Apa Iz pernah hampir-ngga-sengaja makan makanan yang mengandung babi? Gimana ceritanya?”
Haha pernah mah pernah, paling sering kejadian kalo yang disediain tuh pizza. Waktu awal-awal aku masih ngga begitu ngeh kan kalo kebanyakan pepperoni dan meat yg dipake buat pizza itu mengandung babi, jadi begitu diambilin pizza trus udah mau ngegigit aja tapi alhamdulillah selalu keinget...
The best man that a human being can be is the one...
Hope I can become one,
amen.
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College #3
Despite the fact that I’m enjoying my life in America now and have been thinking a lot about coming back to either have a college year here or just re-visit my host families and friends, I’m positively sure that I want to come home first. That is my duty. To come back and finish what I have to finish. School. My upcoming project(s) me and my friend Levy has been conspiring about...
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College #2
I found myself as a kind of person who enjoys communicating with people. Meeting and making new friends. And I always look at humans as the most interesting subjects to learn… I believe each and everyone of us has a story that’s meant to be told, in many different ways. My sister majored in Psychology and she’s a Psychologist now, and she once shared me her experience in dealing...
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College #1
“As juniors, many choices await you in your near future, choices you may not be ready to make, but, nonetheless, you will have to face the fact that a year from now, you will need to know which schools you want to apply for admission. Typically, it will cost you $40.00 to apply to each school, so you want to be sure you have narrowed down your choices thoughtfully. Some of you may already know...
Working on a post
Yang nungguin jurnal *siapa pula*, sabar ya, tiba-tiba kepikiran buat nulis journal post yang “baleg” nih.
Hint: berhubungan tentang rencana kuliah aku di masa depan. Wez asik bener.
Yup daripada baca jurnal garing tiap hari, asik kan kalo baca yang bermutu dan grammarnya bener? Ha ha *nyepet diri sendiri* *jedukin kepala ke dinding* *dimarahin Ibu*
Jadi, tunggu ya.
Oh iya btw...
Waupaca: Day 142
January 2nd, 2011. Monday.
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IT WAS ILLEGAL TO HAVE SCHOOL TODAY.
Lol.
That was my best friend Kalie told me.
I heard everyone buzzing that Waupaca was the only town that had school today. I didn’t quite understand why we weren’t supposed to have school…although I had to admit that I preferably choose staying home and sleeping in rather than having to go to school today. 6...
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Izzati Menjawab Pertanyaan #4
“Assalamu’alaikum Kak Izzati, muehuehehehe. Aku mau nanya nih seputar beasiswa kakak ke Amerika. Kakak dapet beasiswanya itu darimana kak? Maksudku dari google atau mungkin dari sekolah kakak? Aku excited banget kak setiap baca-bacain journal kakak :p Dari dulu cita-citaku itu pengen bgt ke luar negeri, sekolah disana trus pake beasiswa. hehehehehe. Trus, test exchange nya itu...
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WatchJanuary 1, 2012. Sunday.
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Welcoming 2012… My first day of the year began with one new experience! POLAR BEAR PLUNGE!!!
Me and Chris, watching the football game at Wheelhouse (minutes before the Polar Bear Plunge started)
My ridiculously brave school friends who participated in Polar Bear Plunge
Orang-orang count down sebelum lari dan lompat ke danau.
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Parah ngga kebayang...
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Happy New Year 2012!!!
Pamer scarf baru *uhuk* *uhuk* *dilempar*
New Year is quite a big thing here in America. People throw parties and gather together with family and friends and do fun activities. Back home, my family is not the type of people who see New Year as something that needs to be festivally (?) celebrated… Last year it was only me and my mom and she went to bed at 10, left me all alone counting...
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First Days at the Johnson's
I’m loving them.
Chris, Stacia, and Max. And Hailey, too, although she’s in Bolivia right now.
I get along really well with Max, he’s an awesome little buddy. He helps me with a lot of things. He teaches me his “games” and helps me to win it and plays my “games” and never hesitates to share and also listen to silly stories and games and riddles I make....
December 2011
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Day 137, Madison
December 28, 2011. Wednesday.
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Stacia took me and Max and Cari to Madison to meet her brother and sister in law and their children! We spent the whole day strolling around town, go to Trader’s Joe, to an Art Museum, and drove back home around 6. Fun day!
Chilling at a coffee shop with Cari, Stacia and Max
Cari and Stacia
Me, (not) a Liberty statue, and Max
Max loves whipping...
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Waupaca: Day 136
December 27, 2011. Tuesday.
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I always love meeting new people.
Note this… if you are an exchange student, it is important to be open minded and eager to meet and talk and mingle with new people. Today I got very excited to meet one of Stacia’s siblings, her brother Sean and his little daughter Jasmine, and Stacia’s sister Sandy with her children Jack (28) and Cari (30)....
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Izzati Menjawab Pertanyaan #3
“Pengalaman-pengalaman yang “bakalan aku inget sampai kapan pun” itu apa aja sih? =D”
Nyaaaaau banyak banget! Bentar ya aku nostalgia dulu, lupa soalnya HAHA. Ngga deng becanda. Eh ini pengalaman yg di Amerika atau apa nih? Karena lagi di Amerika jadi jawabnya pengalaman seputar kehidupan di Amerika, ya! Hihihi.
Nyampe Amerika dan muter-muter bandara O’Hare,...
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Waupaca: Day 135, New Home!
December 26, 2011. Monday.
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Behind every hellos, there’re always goodbyes.
In Rotary, an exchange student has to have at least 3 different host families to live with. My sister Nina lived with 3. I got a friend who even lived with 4.
And today, right after Christmas, I moved out to my second host family.
Ben knocked on my bedroom door in the morning. He gently woke me up and asked if...
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Waupaca: Day 134, CHRISTMAS!
December 25, 2011. Christmas Day, Sunday.
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I heard Hannah and Sam and Simon tiptoed into my room and shook my shoulders gently, dragged me away from my dreams. As I opened my eyes, they met Hannah’s which were big and hazel and full of joyful and excitement.
“Izzati, wake up,” she whispered. “It’s Christmas!”
I rubbed the sleep off my eyes and then slowly...