Journal Two

Time flies really quick. It is been around 20 days since I posted my first journal. I really have to admit that time does fly super fast since I joined the university. It feels like it was just yesterday when I stepped my feet on the campus’ ground and started to face the next stage of my life. However, next week I am going to have to sit for the first middle term exam in my second semester. It also means that I am already quarter way done until my next semester. So far, I have learnt about so many new things in this writing class, something major and minor in a writing have been taught to me. As we know that in this 21st of century internet has taken over almost big part of humans’ life. Everything nowadays always has something to do with the internet as it is faster and easier to use. Same case as me and the other students have to use a blog as one of the new medias to study and apply our writing skills on the internet. I think it is great idea and useful that we are learning this now for a better one later on the future.

Besides those recount assigments that had been given to us, we were also told to start making an autobiography. I had not done it before so it sounded kind of difficult for me. However, I managed it because the lecturer guided us really well and made it easier by asking us to make sequels weekly. I found writing an autobiography interesting and kind of fun. It is meant to let others know about ourselves and some stories of our life. Writing an autobiography takes a bit of time, and it has to be minimum about 2000 words. Therefore, to make  such a great one, there are a lot of rules that I have to pay attention on, such as the structure of a sentence, grammar, contraction, punctuation marks and making a good paragraph with a chronological order.

They all have been taught to me well in this class. It is really important so that we can make a good passage which the readers can enjoy and understand easily. Although some of the rules are actually quiet easy, I still made some mistakes. Infact, I made a lot of minor mistakes which I really have to work on more for example, I always wrote “ Alot” instead of “A lot”  and “Abit” instead of “ A bit”. I always missed the space there. Not to mention, I sometimes even had some spelling mistakes here and there. They were such a minor ones but could be a bad habit if I did not work on it, so now I am working on it. I got a bit of problem in dividing paragraph as well.  My lecturer said that to make such a good passage, we need to divide the text into few paragraphs so that it will look nice and chronological. There is also this one important thing that I need to watch, it is that one or each paragraph needs to have one main idea, so we are not allowed to mix or talk about a lot of topics and put it in one paragraph. I kept that in mind, so now I have been trying to do my best in dividing my text into few paragraphs with one main idea / topic each. 

Those new knowledges and feedbacks I got are really useful for me. It is good to know and learn about new things. Therefore, I will always remember those corrections and try not to repeat or make the same mistakes again eventhough that is kind of impossible because everybody makes mistakes. Hehe! Good thing is that I have already made some improvements since I wrote my first journal. I tried my best to follow the instructions to make a really good writing and I will always do my best in making the next ones. It is now one more week until my middle term exam. Hence, I will work more on everything like, the structure of a sentence, contraction, punctuation marks, also dividing my text into a few paragraphs with a chronological order. I will keep learning until I can make a really good writing with almost no mistakes. Almost is the key word. Haha! Anyhow, I will do my best in the upcoming exam. Wish me luck!

Story of My Life

4 months old Me

      Everyone always has their own stories of life, things that happened in their life. Newborn or a baby comes out to this world purely clean. That is where the journey of life will start. On 31^st of March 1996, the day I was born, is one of the greatest moment of my life because that was when I finally could breathe the world’s air and feel the warm feeling from both of my parents’ arms. I was lucky because my mom went through caesar operation to deliver me and she was told that there was no amniotic fluid left in her  womb, so it was only me and blood left. They got me out at the 10^th month of my mother’s pregnancy. Thank God I was born healthy, but sadly I had to admit in the hospital for a week, because my body was yellow and  I got some of the amniotic fluids inside my lungs. That is the reason why I have got an asthma until now. I was such a chubby baby back then. My mom told me I could sit on my own when I was only 5 months old. I also had ever  won a crawling competition which made me received my first ever throphy in my life. Haha!

 

     
      3 years old Gisella was a giggly happy toddler. I lived in Jember that time. I learnt how to read at 3, and joined a kindergarten. I did not do well that time because I rarely attended it. My parents used to go to Malang a lot to visit my maternal grandma. That made me absent a lot, so my dad decided that I should quit. At the age of 5, I started the primary. The normal age was 6 or 7, but I insisted to start earlier because I had nothing else to do. Being the youngest in class was not so bad for me, because I could get a long both with the friends and the subjects. I had always been in the first 3rd rank, either 1st, 2nd, or 3rd.

      In 2006, I moved to Malang because my dad had to take his master degree. I went to Saint Mary II for my secondary. I hated English so much that time, I always failed in it. It was so hard to try to know what was the best for my self. I felt like I was not good at anything. Haha! 3 years later, secondary was over and I got accepted in almost the best high school in Malang, St. Albertus Catholic Senior High School ( Dempo ). Since I found science kind of hard, being one of the science student there was a bit difficult for me. I had to struggle hard that time. However, the good thing is that I made it and passed right on the 3rd year. I was still the youngest. During the high school, I was learning how to learn and discover new things, more like finding where my passion was in. I still was not able to find it until I found this one thing.

 
      There was this social network called Facebook which was so popular. I was kind of outdated but then I decided to make an account there and be more "Up to Date". I met a lot of friends from around the world through it. I got fed up because I did not know how to talk to them as my English was horrible. However, I found it a bit interesting and challenging so I started to learn English more, and I started to like it. I could not believe how it happened as I hated it in the secondary. That was when I finally realized that my passion was actually in languages. I learnt all by myself instead of taking any courses. As the time flies, I could speak fluently. I watched a lot of English movies, I listened to English songs, and those online friends of mine taught me some. It is hard to cope with the distance when you are really close to someone. I have always wanted to meet my friends who are miles away from me. Also, I have learnt that in learning something, you have to understand it instead of memorizing it, because once you understand it, it will be automatically memorized and stored in your brain. I love languages a lot. Therefore, I want to learn as much as I can. So far, I have ever learnt Farsi, Spanish, Italian, Hindi, Polish, Japanese, and some Arabic. I know at least few words of them, although I am not fluent enough, and I will still keep learning more.

My Passport Page's Goals ;D

     Now that I  knew I love learning languages, I took English as my major in the university. I can speak English almost well now. I know how to differentiate the formal and the slangs but I want to master it more. English is everything nowadays because no matter how much you want to avoid it, you will always have to face it. If you want to get a proper job with a good pay, you have to learn it since it is the universal language. What I want to do when I grow up later also has something to do with English and the languages. Working abroad, living abroad, and travelling around the world have been my dreams until now. No matter how hard it would be, I will work hard and use my passion as proper as possible to reach it. My journey of life is still pretty long. I have so much ahead of me and I am working on it with my best and my passion.

Ohana Means Family

Family, familia, famiglia, la famille? They sound alike! They all have the same meaning which is one of the most important things in anyone’s life. I am nothing without family. I was born and raised in a family. Family means everything for me because it is where I began my life from. They have taught me so many things and raised me well until I have become like now. I am mixed although some people might not recognize it. My maternal side is the one which is kind of mixed the most. My grandmother from my mother side was a Dutch, but she was born and raised here in the Surakarta Kingdom which makes me holding the title “R.A” in front of my name for the rest of my life. I got to admit that is pretty cool sometimes though. Haha! My grandfather was a Chinese,  and was an army / soldier. He went through those scary wars long time ago. My paternal side is simply normal pure Indonesians. My grandfather was a biology teacher and was a so patient and loving figure for me. My grandmother used to work in a court. Getting involved in a court’s life with the judges is not easy, so she was great.  They both were Javanese. Although those amazing people are no more, they had given me the best parents ever.

I have got such a mixed beautiful mom and a very cool, great dad. My father is a mechanical engineering lecturer, on the other hand my mother is just a simply loving mother and a housewife. They both are young, and always there for me as parents yet bestfriends. People would never believe that they are my parents at the first time they saw us together because they look more like my brother and sister. They do look young, dress young, and they are young! This is such a good thing that I have a great relation with them so I do not feel the strictness and I can be open to them. They both are kindly open minded as well. They gave me one younger beautiful cheeky sister whom I am so close with. We four are so close. We have been told as a “Harmonic Family” a lot of times, and that makes us happy and grateful. We always go everywhere together, the malls, other cities, even nearby places.  This is the first time of us being separated as I moved to Surabaya for my study. However, it had to be done for everyone’s good. We are getting used to it now, but I still have not gone a day without contacting them.

Besides this amazing family I have, I am also grateful for my best friends. I have got such a fun and nice friends who are always be there for me in my bad or good times. I have one best friend whom I have been close with since my first day in high school. It has been almost 6 years now and we are still bestfriends. We used to hang out a lot, even had some sleepovers sometimes. She also lives in Surabaya but unfortunately we do not live close to each other so we barely meet. However, I have this group of girls who are always there for me. They have been there for me through a lot. Although we all had never met before we joined the university, we get along very well. We do crazy things together, and we are so loud. Once we get in the cafetaria the silent always breaks down and turns into voice and laugh war. Haha! This is a good thing for me so that I never feel bored or lazy to go to classes everyday. They are one of the reasons why I always have to attend classes, to meet and have fun with them.