English Assignment - Holiday Report (Silmi Kaaffah)

Last holiday, my family and I went to Taman Safari. It is located in Cisarua, Bogor. The reason why we choose Taman Safari to spend our holiday is because my little brother and my cousin hasn’t go there yet and then in 2011 Indonesian government had awarded Taman Safari Indonesia as Lembaga Konservasi Terbaik. Unfortunately, one of my sisters can’t come along us because she has some project to do with her friends.

We left early in the morning because we didn’t want to get any traffic light. We go there by two cars. But, when we enter Padalarang toll road, it started to rain. It rain so badly. I’m hoping that when we arrive there it won’t rain anymore.When we enter Puncak, the scenery and the air is really good. But, what I’m expected is not became a reality. When we enter Puncak, it’s rainy and foggy. Besides that, we need to wait for three hours. The road was blocked because of one-way-system that operated in Sunday. Actually, there was a man who offered us some alternative way to go to Taman Safari, but I don’t think that’s a good idea plus my uncle said that the road is bad. So, we decided to wait patiently.

Finally, the road was opened. We continue our trip to Taman Safari. Not far from Taman Safari, my mom and my aunt buy some carrots. They said the carrots are for animal. Finally we arrived at Taman Safari gate. We have to get in line to buy a ticket. After we purchase the ticket, we can go inside. The first arena is Herbivore Wild Road.

 The animals aren’t stay still in their cage. They walk around, even in the road. We can feed animals in here. It’s really fun to feed the animals. There were tame animals, but there was a fierce animal too. For example the fierce animals, when we feed them, their mouth will go into the car. It’s so scary.

In there we can see elephants, zebras, giraffes, impalas, goats, monkeys, some deer, buffalos, and many more. After feeding herbivores, we went to see a hippopotamus. Seeing hippopotamus remind me of Gloria in Madagascar movie. Even in the real life, it’s still funny to see it. 

After that, we went to Carnivore Wild Road. In here we can see lions, tiger, cheetah, etc. We can’t feed the animals, because it’s dangerous. We have to close our windows and locked the door. There are a lot of lions in here. But, I think the animals in here were hungry, because they seems so tired and not excited.

 Besides that, the scenery in here was really good! The air was so fresh and cold because it was rainy when we go there. After we finished Carnivore Wild Road, we went to Amusement Park. There were a lot of games in here. For example; Roller coaster, Ghost House, Carousel, Midair Bicycle, Viking, Swimming Pool, etc.

We also watch animal attraction in Taman Safari. The first one is bird attraction. Unfortunately, my family and I can’t sit down in the chair because it is full, so we watch the attraction while standing. But, it didn’t make any effect to the attraction. In this attraction, we can see an Eagle that really big. The zookeeper chooses one lucky guy from the crowd to help her feed the bird, although at the first he failed, but after he tried again, he finally made it. After that, we saw sea lion attraction. The zookeeper told the sea lions to clap their hands, swimming, playing with the ball, etc. The best part of this show is when the zookeeper ordered the sea lions to splash the water to the crowd. It’s very funny! I feel this show is very entertaining among the other. When I go to lion attraction, the attraction is nerve wrecking to watch. I’m afraid the zookeeper eaten by the lion.

After saw the attraction, we went home because it’s getting late. We went home safely. Such a wonderful day!

Source :

http://www.tamansafari.com/index2.html

http://wahw33d.blogspot.com/2012/12/lebih-dekat-dengan-hewan-di-taman.html 

English Assignment - Holiday Report (Yasmin Lathifa S)

First I want to tell you about myself. My name is Yasmin Lathifa, I am 16 y.o My holiday was go to Jakarta. Uhm, actually its not holiday, because I went to Jakarta when everybody are in the school, studying. I went to Jakarta Friday night with my junior high school’s friends, so I skip the class in Saturday.

I went to Jakarta for watching the concert. The concert is SM TOWN. SM TOWN is an agency from South Korea. It was one of the three big agency in Korea. The owner of this big agency is Mr. Lee Soo Man. He is very rich and famous people not in Korea, because Korean Wave or we can say K-pop are popular in the world, Mr. Lee was famous too almost in the world.

SM TOWN singer like Super Junior, SHINee, Girls Generation, F(x), BoA, DBSK, Kangta and EXO was very popular in the world. SM TOWN Concert ticket was sold by just a minute. How great is that? And now, SM TOWN Concert is held in our country!!

So, I talk with my father and mother to buy me ticket for watching SM TOWN Concert. At first I think they don’t want to buy me the ticket, but they told me to book the ticket. I was very happy and hug my parents.

Fortunately, my friends is wanted to book the ticket too, so I go with her to Pasteur to swap the online ticket with the real ticket. Here is the photo of SM TOWN ticket concert:

Day by day I’m waiting for the d-day, and the time was so fast and I realize it was Friday 21th September 2012, so the concert is tomorrow! Saturday 22th September 2012.

In the school I was like excited and want to go home faster. Arrived at home, I change my uniform with pajamas because I depart to Jakarta in the evening, and I’m packing my stuff. After I’m done prepared my self and my stuff, I’m saying good bye to my mother and she is telling me to take care and becareful in the trip.

It was 5 pm, and I went to my friend’s home. Yes, I planned to go to Jakarta with 2 my friend. Shalsa and Rizka. In 7 pm we are ready to go, and depart from Rizka’s home. Rizka’s parent is going with us, and on the way to Jakarta, Rizka, Shalsa, and I is talking about how exciting we are to watch the concert together, and what we plan to do when watching the concert.

In 10 pm we were arrived at Rizka father’s apartement, and we look for our bedroom. The three of us sleep together because it more fun then sleep alone. 

In the morning, Rizka was the first to wake up. She wake me up and then told me to take a shower first. I’m done with showering and wearing my clothes, the SM TOWN Concert clothes. 

  Finally, the three of us are ready and eat the breakfast faster than usually. It still 9 am but we already depart from apartement and go to Gelora Bung Karno stadium. Yah, the concert is held in that big stadium. In 10 am we arrived and look the noticement in the street. After see that, we become more exciting.

While waiting, we and the people around us heard the music playing from inside football field. The song was Gee from Girls Generation. Someone says it was the idols were doing rehearsal but someone say too  that the music is to entertain us so we aren’t boring when waiting.

Just then, the song from inside is Hope, the encore song from this concert and someone yelled in the inside “I Love you Indonesiaa!!!” and the outside was like crazy. It was Changmin’s voice, he is one of the best singer in SM Entertaiment.

Finally, it was 4 pm and we can enter to the stadium. I was very happy, but it’s not easy to enter the stadium because everyone want to enter the stadium first.

Inside stadium, we see the stage and it was very shining. But we have to waiting again because the concert is begin in 6 pm.

This is some of my picture while I was waiting inside the stadium…

When the sky is getting dark, we all turn on our light stick. Yes the light stick is Sapphire blue for Super junior, Pink for Girls Generation, Green for SHINee, Red for DBSK, white for EXO, and soft pink for F(x).

In the picture you can see, sapphire blue light stick was very dominant. It means that there are many Super Junior’s fan than the others.

The concert was very spectacular. Many fireworks, balloon, and the idols was more handsome and pretty when you watch them live then from television. Some of the was talking with bahasa like “Aku cinta kalian” “Hai apa kabar kita super junior” but Chanyeol from EXO was saying “Aku cinta saya” and then the stadium was burst out for laughing.

The concert is done in the midnight so three of us go home in the very good mood, but a little bit disappoint because the concert is end.

Adele - English Assignment (Triana Delya)

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Early Years

Adele Laurie Blue Adkins was born on May 5, 1988 in North London, England. She was the only child of Penny Adkins, an "arty mom" who was just 18 at the time of her birth, and a Welsh father, Mark, who left the family when Adele was only 4 years old.

Mark, who never married Penny, remained in contact with his daughter up until her teen years, when his problems with alcohol, and increasing estrangement from his daughter, caused their relationship to deteriorate. By contrast, Adele grew close to her mom, who encouraged her young daughter "to explore, and not to stick with one thing."

Early on, Adele developed a passion for music. She gravitated toward the songs of Lauren Hill, Destiny's Child and Mary J. Blige. But her true, eye-opening moment came when she was 15, and she happened upon a collection of Etta James and Ella Fitzgerald records at a local junk shop. "There was no musical heritage in our family," Adele told The Telegraph in a 2008 interview. "Chart music was all I ever knew. So when I listened to the Ettas and the Ellas, it sounds so cheesy, but it was like an awakening. I was like, oh, right, some people have proper longevity and are legends. I was so inspired that as a 15-year-old I was listening to music that had been made in the 40s."

While at school, Adele cut a three-track demo for a class project, which was eventually posted on her MySpace page. When executives at XL Recordings heard the tracks, they contacted the singer and, in November 2006, just four months after Adele had graduated school, signed her to a record deal.

Commercial Success

At the 2009 Grammy awards, Adele took home Best New Artist. In addition, the album earned the singer the distinction of being named the "Sound of 2008" by the BBC. That same year, she earned the Critics' Choice prize at the BRIT Awards.

She found herself with two top-five singles and a pair of top-five albums in the same week, the first artist since the Beatles in 1964 to achieve that milestone. Adele also broke the solo female artist record for staying at No. 1 for 11 weeks.

In 2012, Adele swept the Grammy Awards, taking home six wins, including Album of the Year. In 2013, Adele won her seventh Grammy (best pop solo performance) for her hit single "Set Fire to the Rain." That same year, the singer won an Academy Award for best original song for "Skyfall," the theme song for the 2013 James Bond film of the same name. She also won a Golden Globe Award for the song.

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