Haiti Earthquake

2 days ago, on January 12th 2010 at about 5 pm, a disastorous earthquake struck Haiti, Carribean. This earthquake was a really bad earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 on the Richter Scale. This destructive earthquake killed about 100,000 people and a lot and lot of people were injured and are still missing. Lots of children are still stuck in the collapsed building and can't come out of it. 17 UN people died and 56 people were injured while over 200 UN staff are still missing. Lots of buildings and schools collapsed during this earthquake and all the people were running all over the place to survive from the earthquake. Even the palace in Haiti collapsed and the walls were all cracked. The telephone connections didn't work as well. Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the world with only $1.5 each day to spend. They are a poor country... and they even get this destructive earthquake!!! How unlucky are they? Again, lots of people are injured and are bleeding so they need a doctor but they can't find a good doctor with only that amount of money each day. Lots of Haiti police are still trying to find missing people and people that are stuck on the buildings. 19 countries including U.S.A, China, Brazil, UK and Ireland are helping Haiti by sending aids, and more. If you were at Haiti right now, you will see dead bodies and injured people bleeding on the street.

Back to School

From the 17th of December to the 10th of January, it was a December break. I really liked the December break and hoped it was way longer but unluckily, it wasn't possible. I did a lot of fun things during the December break like going to Bali, playing with my friends, playing sports with my dad, and lots more. It was great time then even though I had a lot of homework to do for my private lesson. I watched a lot of movies and dramas and it was really fun. I think 3 weeks passed really fast and it felt like December break started two days ago. Time goes really fast when you are having fun. After all the fun during December break, it was time to go back to school.

January 11th. Time to go back to school and the December break ended. I was disappointed that December break was this short and that I had to go back to school and study. Of course, it is good to meet our classmates again but amount of studying gets tripled and amount of homework gets doubled. Since January 4th, when i came back from Bali, I realized that December break only had 1 week left and I started getting worried all about more homework and studying. However, when I came back to school on January 11th, I have new classes such as Design Art and it was great having that for my electives. I have to get used to going back to school now. I really hope December break was longer and June holiday is even longer than this break.

HOLIDAY IS SOOOOO GOOD!

My December Break

Staying Home - For most of the time during this December break, I stayed at home and rested a lot. I read a few books, studied, and played with my friends. However, we finally got out of Jakarta on New Year's Day, where I went to Bali. Staying home might be boring for most of people, but I like staying at home, resting and relaxing.

Family - Like I said above, I stayed at home most of the times and that was of course with my families. I played a lot with my dad and had lunch & dinner outside with my family. I did a lot of sports like golf, tennis, swimming, and more. When I stayed at Bali, I spent all the time with my family and had FUN!!! I think this is the best part of my December Holiday!

Movies - I watched 3 movies on this December Holiday. They are:

1. Avatar

2. Gukgadaepyo

3. 2012

These are all great movies and I enjoyed a lot when I watched them. Avatar is about... (You all know), Gukgadaepyo is about skiing and 2012 is about Earth getting destroyed by natural disasters (Earthquakes, volcano eruptions and tsnamis). Beside watching 3 movies, I watched this Korean Drama almost everyday for 1 hour and it was really (x 100) awesome. For the next movie, I want to watch Alvin and the Chipmunks 2. "Movie" part of my December Break were really great.

Bali Day 4

This is the last day in Bali for us. I had breakfast in my villa and it was good! After resting a bit, I swam again until 9:30. I think swimming in the villa is really fun. Then I played board games again with my dad's friend and my sister. We also watched Korean drama again. When it was 11:00, we all packed our bags and got ready for leaving Bali. We drank milk and ate fruits. I said BYE to Bali and went to the airport. I rode Lion Air and returned home. I wanted to stay at Bali more!!!!!! =(. Bali was really good and I want to play with my dad's friend again because he is really nice. What a great trip~!

Bali Day 3

This day was just normal and I did nothing special so it's going to be short. First, I had breakfast down at the villa and had the same thing but I also ate pancakes which was awesome!!! Then, I played with 2 of my dad's friends' and my sister board games. It was sooooooo fun! I won all the games! I played board games until 11:00. All of my dad's friends' had to leave now... except for my favourite one! I kept on playing board games with him and my sister. Time for lunch! I had lunch at my own villa and had curry, saland and steak! After a delicious lunch, I came back to the villa and swam with my dad, my sister, my dad's friends', and my baby brother. It was so good!

I just rested again and again and played board games with my dad's friend again. While I was playing, my dad, my mom, my baby brother and my sister went to a spa where they massage you and drink juices. I didn't go there because I thought it was going to be boring but when I looked at the pictures after they came back, it looked awesome! I regreted... again.

We all went to a Indonesian restaurant called Made for dinner. I had nasi goreng special and lemon squash. It was soooooo delicious!!! At the beginning, I said this day was just normal but the dinner was the best out of all days. After the best dinner, we went to Starbucks and rested. I drank this classic juice and also drank sweet coffee with ice cream on top. It was really delicious and this was the first time I tried coffee.

I came back, and my dad and his friend talked about work. After 2 hours, it was 12:00 and I wasn't sleepy. I watched this Korean drama with my dad's friends until 1:00. My sister didn't get to watch it because she slept early.

Bali Day 2

I woke up early morning at 7 o clock. All of MY family woke up at 6:30 but 3 out of 4 of my dad's friends' were still sleeping in their bed, peacefully. I wanted to wake them up and play with them but my dad didn't allow it because they slept late last night after going to a cafe and drink. I just rested (AGAIN) and read book and stuff like that. When it was time for breakfast, I woke all 3 of them up and headed down for breakfast. We had breakfast inside the villa. There were white bread, chocolate bread, nasi goreng, mie goreng, fried and scrambled eggs, and lemon tea. I had mie goreng, white bread, chocolate bread and lemon tea (I'm allergic to eggs). I went back to my villa and jumped down at the little pool and played with my baby brother. He just liked it so much!!!! It was our own little pool and every villa has its own. Then, we went back to the big pool and the pool was warm. It was better for me because I can go right down to the pool. If it is cold, I can't get down to the pool right away.

Now this is the best part of staying at Bali. Going to the ocean and playing water stuff! We divided ourself in two groups. One was the ocean thing and the other one was going to a temple and also seeing monkeys on roads. In the ocean thing, they had banana boat, jet ski, fly fish, parasailing, water ski, diving, snorkeling, seeing dolphins, turtles, and lots more. I decided to do banana boat and fly fish with my sister and one of my dad's friends'. Banana boat is like a long small boat you ride on which looks like a banana and we just go through the ocean really fast. I wanted to fall down to the water but the guy didn't let us fall down so it was BoRiNg, but also fun because it went fast. After resting while drinking Pocari Sweat, we did fly fish where you lie down and a thing flies around the sky and go down, fly around, and go down. It was really fun. Then I just rested while the others did parasailing. I was scared to do that because I'm scared of heights. When they came back, they said it was awesome!!! I regreted. My sister did Jet Ski and the rest of us didn't. We had lunch at this water place and I had hot dogs.

When I came back to the villa, I was tired so I played board games with one of my dad's friend's and my sister again. It was awesome! Then, we decided to go to a restaurant called La Lucciola and had pasta, ribs and more. It wasn't that good but the scenery was AWESOME! It was the best scenery I've ever seen. Then, we all came back to the villa... BUT my dad's friends went to the cafe again! So... I had to do homework and read in my room. After that, it was 10:00 pm but I went to the swimming pool with my sister, my mom, and my little brother. I waited for my dad's friends to return, but they didn't come so I just slept.

Bali Day 1

I should have posted all these days in Bali but there was no laptop so... i have to post all now. Well, Bali Day 1. After a 1 hour 3o minute fly to Bali, we went to our villa called VivaLavi. We had lunch then in an Italian Restaurant called Trattoria Pizza which was just awesome!!! I had pizza and pasta. When I came back to our villa, I played board games with one of my dad's friends. It was really fun and I played board games a lot during this trip. Then I decided to swim at the big swimming pool outside with my sister, my mom and one of my dad's friends'. Since it was the first day, we didn't do much things but just rest in our villas, sleeping.

After playing board games and resting with my dad's friends', we decided to have dinner outside at a restaurant in Seminyak. We had steak and chicken sate which was realllllly good. I wanted to return home and play board games with my dad's friends' again, but all of them wanted to go to a cafe and drink beer and coffee. Our family only had to return home and sleep. However, I watched tennis (Nadal v.s. Fererro) on TV when I returned.