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On the first day, we sat up the tent on the camping area. The air was so
fresh there. We took a bath on the waterfall. The waterfall was called curug
Putri. After played at waterfall, we felt hungry. Then, we cooked the food for
the lunch and had lunch together. The first night of our camping, the air was
so cold, we made a campfire, sang songs together and after we slept. We
used sleeping bag when we slept to make our body still in warm condition.
On the second day, we had some activities. We, tried to go fishing in the
river near the waterfall but we got a shoe. After that, we packed everything
we bought. we cleaned the area
When I was in the second grade in junior high school, I got an holiday.
My family and I went to Medan.We took aeroplane. Before we went to
Medan, we prepared all of our belongings and we didnt forget to pray.When
we arrived in airport, we were very happy. After that we waited for about 30
minutes. When we went into the aeroplane, I got the seat near the window,
so I can look around the sky.Inside the plane, I could see many islands,
rivers, and hills.It was so beautiful but I couldnt take the pictures.
For about 2 hours, we arrived in Polonia the airport of Medan. After
that, we went to my grandmas house.It located in Tebing Tinggi. From
airport, we took a car and it took 3 hours. When we arrived in my grandmas
house, we took a rest and then we ate mie ayam. Mie ayam in Tebing Tinggi
is different with mie ayam in Jakarta. I think it is more delicious than mie
ayam in Jakarta, because it has the special recipies that secret.
At night, we ate many durians. They are nice and sweet. I ate too
much durians, so Ihad stomachache. My family laughed at me. In the
morning, we went to the mountain. We could see the good view. We planned
to go to Lake Toba and then in the afternoon, we went by car. When we
arrived, we took many pictures. The view was so beautiful.After that, we
went to small river, and we played there. It was so fun and we laughed each
other.After that we played with children there and we saw the bufallos was
took a bath.And then we went up to the mountain, we saw many beautiful
birds and water spiders. We could sing at the mountain and joked each other
We were very happy about it. And then, my brother saw a mango tree.
My brother and I climbed and picked some mangoes. The mangoes are big
and sweet.
After that, we went back to the house. At night, there were many foods in
Tebing Tinggi such as martabak, sate Padang, noodles, and ice cream. My
favourite food was martabak. For ice cream I liked vanilla ice cream. We
were very happy about the foods. In Tebing Tinggi ,there were many
Chinese. They were very friendly. In the morning, we usually went
jogging.The air in Tebing Tinggi was so clean and fresh. The city was so
clean. There was no pollution.
Two fisherman tied their boat up, hurried out of the boat and ran down
the streets of their hometown.
"We saw a dragon on Komodo Island," they shouted. "We saw a
dragon!"
A man heard their shouts. He was an American named Douglas
Burden, Burden was a naturalist. A naturalist is a person who tries to learn
as much as he can about things that live. He believed what the two men said
but there was only one way to find out. He had to go to Komodo Island
himself and brought back on of the dragons for people to see.
So Douglas Burden and some friends sailed half way around the world to the
tiny Island off the coast of Indonesia. When they reached the island they
were afraid that the traps and cages they had with them would not be strong
enough to hold the dragons.
There were dragons on the island. They werent the same dragons
people see in picture, books, and in children stories, but they looked more
like dragons than any other animal Burden had ever seen. They were really
large lizard-some of them three meters long and as heavy as two men. Their
legs were short and thick and on their feet were sharp claws like knives.
Although they did not breathe fire like the dragons in story books, the lizards
had yellow forked tongues that moved quickly in and out of their mouth.
It was difficult and dangerous to catch the lizards. Sometimes the
lizards attacked the men. Sometimes the men had to kill the lizards to save
themselves.
Finally, Burden and his friends caught two live Komodos and put them
in cages on their ship. Then they sailed back to America.
When the two dragons were put into the Brooklyn Zoo in New York
City, people came from all over America to see them. Burden was pleased
that so many people had a chance to see two live dragons.
That was more than 45 year ago. Today there are no more live
dragons anywhere in the world except on the tiny Island of Komodo. They
still live there.
MY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LIFE
Last Sunday my family and I went to the Zoo. We went to the Zoo at 7
in the morning by a car driven by my father. The distance of my house from
the Zoo is pretty far. It spends about 3 hours. Therefore we went early in the
morning. At 10 a.m. we arrived at the Zoo. At that time the Zoo was very
crowded and filled by families who were on vacation.
After arriving, my father bought tickets to the zoo while we all waited
in front of the entrance. Then my father took us to enter the zoo. Once inside
we started looking for a place to picnic. We were looking for a place around
the field that was in the middle of the zoo. Afterwards we got a good spot
under a shady tree. My mom immediately held a mat and prepared meals
helped by my sister. While my father and I took some stuff in the car. After
all was ready, my father took my sister and I went around the zoo.
We went around all animals cages in the zoo and saw various animals.
There were so animals that can be seen starting from the smallest animals
such as monkeys, birds to big animals such as elephant, bear and bull. In the
zoo there were also so many rare and protected animals such as the
Sumatran tiger, Cendrawasih birds and many more. I also took our picture
together with the animals which were in the zoo.
After satisfied going around the zoo, we returned to the picnic area to
had rest and lunch. Promptly at 12 oclock we had lunch together in picnic
spot. After lunch we relaxed for a while. My sister and I joked with my father
and mother. After that we cleaned up our picnic spot and then went around
the zoo once again to take pictures together. After time showed at 14:00 we
all went home. That day I was very pleased to be able to spend my time with
my family.
HOLIDAY IN BANDUNG
My friends and I went to Bandung last month. They were Jezi, Kayla,
Gisel, Pevita, and Diandra. We rent a jeep car with a very high cost because
we didnt plan it long before the day. It could be called as unexpected plan.
But, its okay. We still determined to go by that car.
Our first plan was to visit tourism places in Bandung, such as Kawah
Putih and Patenggang. However, Kawah Putih was very crowded. So many
people visited it. Then we decided to cancel to visit Kawah Putih. Then, we
directly went to Situ Patenggang. When we almost arrived there, we could
see a very beautiful lake. We were so excited to see it closer. Whtengen we
arrived right at our destination, the situation was quite crowded and full of
merchants. We immediately came to lake Situ Patenggang. Wow, it was very
beautiful. Unfortunately, there were some trashes around the lake. Whether
it was lack of management or the visitor who littered was the cause of that
condition. I didnt know. I only hoped that the management officer of this
place and all of the visitors could maintain the cleanness of this beauty of
nature which has been created by God.
Besides Situ Patenggang, we also visited Tamansari Zoo. It was a very
nice and a pleasure to go there. We could see closely many animals. They
were very cute. I also saw some wild animals like python snake, tiger, and
lion. I took a picture with a baby of a tiger and lion. They seemed tame and
calm. It looked like a big cat. There was only me who was brave to take
picture with them. All of my friends who came with me were coward.
Since the road to many other tourism places was so crowded, finally
we decided to have culinary tours. It started from Kaliki Sand, Kampung
gajah, House of Sausage, The Valley, until the Paris Van Java Mall. All of the
foods were delicious. The price was also reasonable. I thought that I wanted
to go back there to have culinary tours with my family. The atmosphere of
Bandung was so romantic. It was really suitable to go with our sweetheart.
The next agenda after having culinary tours was shopping souvenirs.
We bought some special foods from Bandung such as brownies, banana roll,
Karuhun chips, etc. We also bought some T-Shirts for our family and
neighbour. Shopping souvenirs signed that the holiday was over.
Even though Bandung was always crowded in every holiday, we always
made it an alternative place to have holiday together. It was not really far
from Tangerang. There were also many delicious foods which I would always
miss it. There were still many beautiful tourism places which could relieve
our stress after hard working everyday. Moreover, it didnt cost much money
like going to Bali. It was a very nice holiday. It was short but meaningful. I
was so happy. So were my friends. Well, that was my story about holiday in
Bandung.