HOW DO YOUNG PEOPLE LIKE US BUILD OUR FUTURE?

(presented by suryanengsih)
Opening Hello I am Surya, speaking for young generation at school of Robitoh, and willing to come here to speak with all of you, not only getting on speech for this competition as a participant, but also I am standing here to make all of us aware and to make our spirit alive, not only purposing toward every single one of you as a student but also all of you as a huge powerful group who is working with the one in your around community. And honestly, it is an honor occasion for me to get here to stand in front of you as being/whom you are a friend, future and prospective colleague, and also a great audience. Thank you for presenting me here today. And the second, I would like to thank to .as a standing house host to make this being held. Thank you very much. Content On April is the earth day, its just about few days more will come up to us. but I dont want to speech about that day, about the problem of global warming, because I know that is the mainly impact of what happened to our worlds fate right now is that many people are starving who cried gone on heard, and many kids living on the streets, and the number of beggars are growing up (yang makin bertambah) to now. They have no longer where life to go, they hardly got the meal to eat every day. So now, as a people who has a normally life as we have, its important for us to aware that how much lucky life we have, and this is much enough for us to always realize and grateful with our being now. So now, and I'm here today because I have something important to discuss with you. I'm here because I want to talk with you about our education. Now, I will give a lot of speeches about education. And I will talk about responsibility a lot. I will talk about teachers' responsibility for inspiring students and pushing us to learn. I will talk about our parents' responsibility for making sure that we stay on track, and we get our homework done, and don't spend every waking hour in front of the TV. I will talk a lot about our government's responsibility for setting high standards, and supporting teachers and principals, and turning around schools that aren't working, where students aren't getting the opportunities that they deserve. So, all we have to do as students are: 1. Put in the hard work! because at the end of the day, we can have the most dedicated teachers, the most supportive parents, the best schools, -- and none of it 1

will make a difference, none of it will matter unless all of us fulfill our responsibilities, unless we show up to those schools, unless we pay attention to those teachers, unless we listen to our parents and grandparents and other adults and put in the hard work it takes to succeed. That's what I want to focus on today: the responsibility each of us has for our education. I want to start with the responsibility we have to ourselves. Every single one of us has something that we're good at. Every single one of us has something to offer. And we have a responsibility to ourselves to discover what that is. That's the opportunity an education can provide. Maybe we could be a great writer -- maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper -- but we might not know it until we write that English paper -- that English class paper that's assigned to us. Maybe we could be an innovator or an inventor -- maybe even good enough to come up with anti-virus such ARTAV, our local website invention salingsapa.com -- but we might not know it until we do our project for our science class. But we might not know until we join student government or the debate team. And no matter what we want to do with our life, I guarantee that we'll need an education to do it. We want to be a doctor, or a teacher, or a police officer? We want to be a nurse or an architect, a lawyer? We are going to need a good education for every single one of those careers. We cannot drop out of school and just drop into a good job. We have got to train for it and work for it and learn for it. 2. 'This country needs every single one of us'! We'll need the knowledge and problem-solving skills we learn in science and math to develop new energy technologies and protect our environment. We'll need the insights and critical-thinking skills (kemampuan berpikir yang tajam dan kritis) you gain in history and social studies to fight poverty (kelaparan), crime and discrimination (kejahatan dan diskriminasi), and make our nation more fair (lebih adil) and more free. We'll need the creativity and ingenuity (kecerdikan) we develop in all our classes to build new companies that will create new jobs and boost (mendorong) our economy. This country needs every single one of us to develop our talents and our skills and our intellect so we, you and can help us to solve our most difficult problems. If we don't do that -- if we quit (berhenti) on school -we're not just quitting on ourselves, we're quitting on our country. So Indonesia depends on (tergantung pada) us!.

Now, I know it's not always easy to do well in school. I know a lot of us have challenges in our lives that can make it hard to focus on our schoolwork. I get it. I know what it's like. 3. Well get a lot of second chances! Some of us might not have those advantages. Maybe we don't have adults in our life who give us the support that we need. Maybe someone in our family has lost their job and there's not enough money to go around. But at the end of the day, the reality of our life -- what we look like, where we come from, how much money we have, what we've got going on at home -- none of that is an excuse for neglecting (mengabaikan/tidak peduli) our homework or having a bad attitude in school. That's no excuse for talking back to our teacher, or cutting class (tidak naik kelas), or dropping out of school (berhenti sekolah). There is no excuse (alasan) for not trying. Where we are being now doesn't have to determine (menentukan) where we'll end up. No one's written our destiny for us, because here in indonesia, we write our own destiny (takdir). We make our own future. 4. refuse ourselves to give up! That's why today I'm reminding (mengingatkan) each of us to set our own goals for our education -- and do everything we can to meet them. Our goal can be something as simple as doing all our homework, paying attention in class, or spending some time each day reading a book. Maybe we'll decide to get involved in an extracurricular activity, or volunteer (tenaga sukarelawan) in our community. But whatever we resolve to do, I want us to commit to it. I want us to really work at it. 5. Being successful is hard! The truth is, being successful is hard. We won't love every subject that we study. We won't click with every teacher that we have. Not every homework assignment (tugas sekolah) will seem completely relevant to our life at this minute. And we won't necessarily succeed at everything the first time we try. People succeeded because they understood that they can't let their failures define them so we do, we have to let our failures teach us. We have to let them show us what to do differently the next time. So if we get into trouble, that doesn't mean we're a troublemaker, it means we need to

try harder to act right. If we get a bad grade (nilai jelek), that doesn't mean we're stupid, it just means we need to spend more time studying. No one's born being good at all things. The same principle applies to our schoolwork. We might have to do a math problem a few times before we get it right. We might have to read something a few times before we understand it. We definitely have to do a few drafts of a paper before it's good enough to hand in (diserahkan). Don't be afraid to ask questions. Don't be afraid to ask for help when we need it. I do that every day. Asking for help is not a sign of weakness, it's a sign of strength because it shows that we have the courage to admit when we don't know something, and that then allows us to learn something new. So find an adult that we trust -- a parent, a grandparent or teacher, a coach or a counselor -- and ask them to help us stay on track to meet our goals. 6. Don't ever give up on ourselves because every single one us as a young people is an agent of change for ourselves. !

And even when we're struggling, even when we're feeling disappointed (berkecil hati/kecewa), and we feel like other people have given up on us, don't ever give up on ourselves, because when we give up on ourselves, we give up on our country. The story of Indonesia is not about people who quit when things got hard (menyulitkan). It's about people who kept going, who tried harder, who loved their country too much to do anything. So today, I want to ask all of you, what's our contribution going to be? What problems are we going to solve? What discoveries will we make? Now, our families, our teachers are doing everything they can to make sure that we have the education we need to answer these questions. They are working hard to fix up our classrooms and get us the books and the equipment and the computers we need to learn. But we've got to do our part, too. So I expect all of us to get serious this year. I expect you and us to put our best effort into everything we do. I expect great things from each of us. So don't let them down. Don't let our family down or our country down. Most of all, don't let ourselves down. Make us all proud. Thank you very much, everybody. Assalamualaikum. Wr,wb.