Bakti Desa

Bakti Desa is a SMAN 3 annual program. In this program, we go to a village for three days and help the people there. The purpose of this program is so that we could know the feeling of the people who work hard everyday just so that they can eat. It was held at Thursday, 23rd of October, 2014 until Saturday, 25th of October. The village we're going to visited is called Resmitinggal Village.

So, on Thursday, 23rd of October, we gathered in SMAN 3 at 6 pm. And then we went there at 8 pm and we arrived at 10. When we arrived, we were told to go to the Village Hall to present at Mr. Encang, our headmaster, and the mayor of the village speech. And then, we had lunch in Balai Desa. After lunch, we went to our house in each district. Me and my friends in XI IPA 9 went to Joglo District. It's a really nice place. I lived in Mr. Ahmad's house, with my other friends. In the morning, Mr. Ahmad went to his farm to harvest or plant some vegetable. In the afternoon, he rested and took a nap or went to his farm to flush his vegetables. In the night, he went to a market at 11 am to sell the vegetable he had harvested in the morning. So, in the first day, we went to Mr. Ahmad's farm to flush his farm. In the meantime, we also took some carrot and eat it raw. Mr. Ahmad said that it's healthier to eat it raw than the cooked one. And then, we went back to our house and Mr. Ahmad said that we have to get rest so we could go with Mr. Ahmad to the market later at night, to sell some vegetables. But, we went with our other friends to explore Joglo district. And then we went back to home and have a dinner. Then, we went to sleep so we won't be tired later. And, in the morning, we got up and realise that we weren't awoken by Mr. Ahmad. Next, we knew that Mr. Ahmad wanted to wake us up but he wasn't able to because our face looks like a really exhausted face. So, in the morning, we followed other family to farm and then we started to harvest a lot of carrot. After we finished, we go back to our house and took a bath. Then, in the afternoon, we went with Mr. Ahmad to take some tomato from one of his partner. And then we went back to our house, again. And it seems that we couldn't go with Mr. Ahmad to market later, because tomorrow morning we have to get ready to went back to Resmitinggal's Village Hall and went back home. And later night, there's a parade to celebrate Muharram New Year. We joined the parade and we walk really far until we arrived at Village Hall. The student's from SMAN 3 mustn't continued the parade because in the morning we're going to go back home. But then, there's a problem. My class, XI IPA 9, didn't get any vehicle to get back to our district, Joglo. So, we stayed in the teacher's house until the vehicle that going to take us back come. So, we went back home and quickly fast asleep because we're tired after the parade.
In the third day, we had a recitation with the villagers in Joglo district. After that, we went back home and repacking our stuff. And we said goodbye and apologize to Mr. Ahmad because all the trouble we cause to him. And he gave us some present to take back to Bandung. We're really happy. And after that all of us XI IPA 9 went to Resmitinggal's Village Hall. And then we went back home.

It was a really nice and fun experience. I hope that SMAN 3 will continue their Bakdes's program.

Matswapati

Hi. I'm going to tell you about one of my school's event, Matswapati.
So, Matswapati is a West Java culture festival. It's held at September, 27th 2014 in Bali Street field, near my school. This culture festival is the first culture festival SMAN 3 ever made after 7 years of vacuum.

Matswapati was opened at 10 pm, with an opening ceremony by our mayor, Ridwan Kamil.

And after that, a traditional musical instrument called Calung started to play. Calung is a traditional Sundanese musical instrument. It's also a prototype of musical instrument we called "Angklung". After that, there's another traditional performance, like Benjang, Degung, Reog. And then, there's Musik Klasik 3. Musik Klasik 3 is one of the extracurricular from SMAN 3, which performed a song with an orchestra. After that, there's Pencak Silat, and Tiloe's Theatre, another SMAN 3 extracurricular. They perfomed some kind of a drama, in a theatre. And then Keluarga Paduan Angklung 3, another SMAN 3 extracurricular again. It's an extracurricular that play songs with angklung, a traditional musical instrument from Java. And after that, there's Sambasunda Junior, Wayang Golek Giriharja, and the famous Saung Angklung Udjo, and Indonesian Bamboo Community. And then there's Barsena with Kelompok Vokal 3, an extracurricular from SMAN 3. And there's Indonesian famous singer, Glenn Fredly. Then the event was closed by a performance called Debus. It's a traditional magic performance that allowed the Debus player to do a lot of dangerous things, such ass eat glasses, walk on fire, etc.

It's a really nice event. I hope SMAN 3 will continue to represent their appreciation of West Java culture with a culture festival like Matswapati.