NAME : KEVIN WIRATAMA

CLASS : VII.7
ABOUT : TEKS RECOUNT
Last week I went to the theatre. It was the only theatre at my town.
I had 1 free ticket to watch a movie.
I had no idea about the movie I would like to watch and I did not know the
schedule of that theatre. So that, I just wanted to come and see if there was
any good movie.
EventI parked my motorcycle at the parking area and I walked slowly at the
hall of the theatre.
I took my ticket on my wallet and go to the information section to ask about
how to use the ticket that day.
Unfortunately, I missed it. The ticket was already expired 2 days before.
I went home and I was very disappointed about that.
Two days ago I went to the Merapi Mountain. It was the first time I climbed the
mountain. I did it with some of my friends.
We start climbing at 8 p.m. It was so dark and we only used flashlight to get the way.
I felt no worry because all of my friends were professional climber. I just followed their
instruction.
We climbed slowly and enjoy the night there.
After 7 hours walking in the dark, we could reach the top of the mountain. It was at 3
a.m. early in the morning.
We were not alone. There were a lot of people who reached that top before us.
We waited the sun rises by cooking some food and making some hot drink to get back
our energy. We sang some songs together, shared stories and got acquainted with
people there.
After seeing the sun raised, we had to go back home. Getting down the mountain was
not as hard as the climbing process because we only spent a few energy and time even
we had to be more careful to do this process.
However, it was great experience i had ever done so far.
After all, that was my great experience I had ever have.
Last year holiday of Lebaran I went to Surabaya visiting my grandmother and
grandfather.
I had to go there because the previous holiday I wasn’t there.
I missed them so much because I lived with them when I was a child.
At that time both of my parents had to go to another city to earn money so they
left me with my grandma and grandpa.
After graduated from junior high school, I follow my parents living at Jakarta.
Since that, I had visited them only at holiday time.
Unfortunately, I didn’t have any ticket of either train and plane so that I went to
Surabaya by bus. It was so tiring because the traffic was too crowded and
stagnant.
Normally, the trip needs around 24-28 hours but my trip at that time took 40
hours from Jakarta to Surabaya. That made me mad.
The madness and tiredness during the trip had gone after I met my grandma and
grandpa. They were looked old. I was so happy knowing them in healthy
condition.
I had a very kind teacher at senior high school. He was math teacher.
He was never angry at class even the students were lazy doing the
homework. He always taught slowly so that we could have good
understanding.
One day when I was at third grade, we all got bad news. Our best
teacher passed away because of cancer in his head.
We were so sad. There was no class that day. All teachers and
students went to mourn and gave our last honour to him at the
funerary event. We all were crying. We all were praying for him.
He left us forever but leaved a good knowledge for us to learn math
in a good way. Thanks for him, for his kindness and wisdom as our
teacher and also our father.
Last week I was visiting Borobudur temple. It was a great temple and one of the biggest Buddhist temples
in the world.
I had been there for several times and I still love to go there again and again. I know a little bit about the
history of the restoration of the Borobudur Temple.
Borobudur temple was built in 9th-century in (now) Magelang city, Central Java, Indonesia.
That temple was built during the reign of Sailendra Dynasty as the symbolic monument retelling the life
of Buddha in which people can learn about Buddhist religion.
The temple was design in Javanese Buddhist architecture as the acculturation of Indian and Javanese
culture.
Some evidences and theories suggest that Borobudur temple was disappeared during the reign of Hindu
kingdoms and Islam in java in 14th-century and the years after it.
It was disappeared because of the eruption of Merapi Mountain that buried most of the surrounding
area including Borobudur.
But because of that eruption then the temple was survived and untouchable until in 1814 during the
British colonialization, Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles (the British ruler of Java at that time) got information
that there was a hill with carved texture.
After that Thomas Stamford Raffles made a project to dig and clear that area and after 2 mounts working
the Borobudur temple was appeared.
But of course at that time the face of Borobudur was extremely different from it appearance today.
Since it was found the British government restored that temple and continued by the Dutch government.
The largest restoration was undertaken by Indonesian government and UNESCO between 1975 until
1982.
Since that now we can enjoy and learn about the beauty of the Borobudur Temple.
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