Marlina's entries, The Royal ARbritator

Wasted a little of my life in a day

I feel so blurred today.. The day just ended up too fast.
I don't know what the heck get into me.
Maybe this is just one of those days...
Where you feel like you wasted it away by being overslept..

I somehow ended up waking at 3 something PM. Too shock to feel anything else so i rush to take a bath and drive as fast as i could to IEC, and make the lesson plans for the 17.00 class and 19.00 class.

Right now 23.00 at night i feel like shit cause i miss taking care of the motorcycle showroom (suprisingly, no one look for me).
But thanking God that i don't have any college class until May.

I feel like i waste a little bit of my life today *miserable*

Shit.

PS: Tomorrow i will be up like sunshine! Yeah!

Ah, and i ended up watching both movie Yesterday ^^
I had a great time with my little sister! =)
PS. I love you is recommended. In the name of love is a movie i'm proud of as Indonesian.

Election Day

Today is North Sumatran Governor election day.

The Honda motorcycle showroom is not as crowded as usual.

No English class today.

The road is not crowded.

Today is such a perfect time.........

To go to CINEMA! YES!

Let's see.. Hmm.. What should i watch?
Indonesia's In the Name of Love or PS. I love You?
Both are romantic genre.. Should i watch both?

*confused*

Brastagi, Semalem, Binjai, Tandem, Stabat, Langkat.

Wow! The last Sunday was just an INSANE jouney around some towns in North Sumatera! ^^

Out final second semester exams were just over last Saturday. So me and my college friends decide to have a nice holiday.

On Sunday we left at 7 early in the morning. Excited and pumped up about the journey =) We used my friend's auntie's car! Ahahaha! (who was a clean kind of person, so we had to be careful and not to dirty her car!).

Our 1st destination was to Simalem, 1 exra hour driving from Brastagi town. After arriving there, we were all taken out by the real fresh mountain air and enjoyed the magnificent mountain view! From Simalem we could look down at the beautiful Danau Toba and Samosir island!

After a very nice time at Simalem and took a lot of photographs. We went back to Brastagi town and ate lunch at Restoran Asia. The best restaurant in Brastagi town and then we spent some moment in Mikie Holiday, amusement park. We played cliff climbing and Go kart, and walk around. After deciding that it's still too early to finish our holiday then we decide to go to my friends' homeland in Pangkalan Brandan.

Ahaha.. Before we can arrive to pangkalan Brandan we need to drive pass a lot of town like Binjai, Stabat, Tandem and Langkat! That's like 3 or 4 hours drive from Brastagi!

So we spent most of our times in the car, joking and listening to the song, joking about the songs. And... counting gas stations! We pass a lot of gas station that we lose count of them! Ahahhaa...

And after we had such a long moment in car, pee break, arrived at Binjai and in car and pee break, arrived at Tandem, arrived at Stabat and in car and pee break again  and finally arrived at Langkat, Tanjung Pura! And that's when my friends said that he didn't need to go back to his homeland anymore..! AHAHAHA.. Oh My God!!!! Pangkalan Brandan is like 30 more minutes driving!!! He's so silly and nuts! We all just shakes our head and laugh about it cause there's no use in killing him! He's the one who's able to drive such a long drive.

So we decided to just eat at Rilex seafood restaurant in Langkat (they serve very delicious meal and very nice coconut), the restaurant is a river side restaurant, the food was great but the restroom was not so great. It was smelly and terribleeeee... (it think the pee just flushed off to the river!!!! Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!! So creepy..)

And then after we ate, we then went and bought some dodol at RIA, which known as the best dodol maker in Langkat town, as a gift to our family at home. The dodol maker is so famous that she can buy a very nice house just from selling dodol!!! Wow! Salute! She got Dodol with Pineapple flavor, Pandan flavor,Durian flavor and the usual dodol flavor. They were all really delicious and nice! ^^

Ahhhh... then the clock tick on 7 PM and we all decide it's time to went back home.

The driving back to Medan was filled with plans to return the car to Cleany Auntie, pee breaks, and plan to drive everyone safely back to home.

Everyone were just so overwhelmed with the journey i think ^^

It was the longest  inland North Sumatera jouney i've ever experienced =) I am so happy and proud of my friends about it! ^^

Overall. It's a 8 hours in car! 2 taking photo time. 1 amousement park visit, 3 eating time. 1 dodol shopping time. and 5 toilet breaks! New inland record for me! XD

Now it's proven. Journey with friends is the best. Cause you will always have something to laugh about ^^ it could be your friends' sense of music, your friends' die hard habits or even the clumsy toilets you visited! ^^

The awesome view of Danau Toba from Simalem! (click for bigger picture!)

The crew of the crazy journey!

I had such a great time!Thanks guys!^^

Marlina Vs Little Kids

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..... So tired!!!!!!!!!!!!

So after taking care of the company since early in the morning..

At the afternoon i get to teach 2 English classes.
My first session was 1 hours class teaching Junior High kids. They were ok... I even took a liking in teaching them =) Although a bit silly and playful they learned fast.. So the first class passed so fast i didn't even realize it.

My second session was something i would describe as a................. HELL.
2 hours class teaching little kids (maybe in second or third primary school). At the first 45 minutes everything went fine and goes as planned. But when i do the Q and A session. It was like a demonstration in Television! The Q&A session start smoothly and then more voices and it gets noisier and then it was what teachers will call as "NOISY". Every kids wants to say something on the same time! And they all keep talking more and more louder... so chaotic i feel like just yellin' "SHUT THE HELL UP!" ahahahaa!!!!!!! but i cannot do that.. ah.. i feel like almost losing control of the class...

Fortunately, last night i just finished re-reading 'Chicken Soup and the Teacher's Soul'  that i bought a couple of years ago (god bless the writers). So i keep repeating love, patient,care , love, patient,care, love, patient,care in my head and then i decide yelling at them is a pointless and useless battle of sound level..

So i just walk up close to them, stand in the middle of the circle and fold my arms and give them the none smiling oh-you-guys-better-be-quiet-or-i-will-kick-your-butt face.

And.

They stop talking.

AHAHAHAHAH! I feel like singin' the "We are the Champion" song by Queen at that moment! XD

Anyway.. So i carry on the lesson and then play a little games with them not daring to be noisy anymore. At the end i ask them to do a writing about their favorite room at home. And they are doing alright! Some of them even do better than my expectations =) So i finished the second session, sign the attendance, clock out and go home completely, mentally tired XP

Next time I should have anticipate the situation before it gets out of control.

Ah.. teaching kids really feels like a right thing to do for now. It really gets me to be active and paying attention to details.