my long journey

Long Life Journey

          My name is Rima Budiarti. I was born in Blitar, 11 September 1996 from a little bit big family. I am the third child in my family. My life is not as easy as folding back a hand and it is not as delicious as a piece of cake. My life has been 18 years for now. I have tasted all tastes in my life; sweet, sour, and sometimes bitter. I was born in Blitar but I live in Bogor in dormitory now, far away from my beloved family. I have stepped from a small city to the big city such as Bogor in order to get more knowledge, education, and experiences to build my hometown someday when I have finished my study. My live always make me surprised. I never thought before that I will stepped my foot in Jakarta too.

          My parents are the one who really appreciate high education. All has been started since I am a little girl. My parents always support me and encourage me to learn. It is been started when I was in kindergarten, I show my interest in art by joining some drawing competitions. From that, I learn a lots of things such as how to color by using pastel, water color, and also coloring pencil. And I improve my skill day by day until this my age and I decide to improve my skill until I die. My parents also support me by providing art facilities. Moreover, I am kind of perfectionist, ambitious and competitive person. I always try to give the best performance for both of academic and nonacademic. I always think that whatever the result, at least I have tried my best and my effort is directly proportional with the result. I join some competitions such as painting, choir, modeling objects from clay, gymnastic, and also traditional dancing. Even though sport is not my basic, but I always try to be elected in every competition as long as I am capable of that. Besides, in academic side, I always become best-five rank in my elementary school.

          Seems like God gave rough way when it was the time I am graduated from elementary and should enter junior high school. It was really difficult. When most of my friends have been elected in their destination school by because their National Examination score is appropriate with the minimum score required by their destination school. I choose the best junior high school in Blitar which is SMPN 1 Blitar and I have been so optimist to be elected. In my opinion maybe God want to give me more challenges for me. After the National Examination results are announced, my score doesn’t reach the minimum score required by that school. Because of that, I should take the other exams to enter that school. It is like I am in the deepest place in the earth and I feel that I can move from that. I am really stressed and I feel so sorry to my mom, my dad, my brother and my sisters.  But, I realized that time goes on and I have to be able to motivate myself to do every exam. I should prepare it really well because that is the only chance that I have in that time. I keep on studying every day until the day when the exam will be held, I got nervous. God, please help me to make my parents happy. That is my praying all the time. As People say that if we plant apple so there will be apple as the fruits produced. My effort gives the best result as the highest score for all over Blitar city in that exam. Of course, I am so glad and so proud of it. Finally, I can make my parents and my sister-brother proud of me too. As the result, by using that highest score I can be elected in SMPN 1 Blitar which is a school that I always dream of.

          My junior high school is RSBI, but I am not a RSBI –student. I am a regular student because I don’t have to pay education cost. In opposite, become RSBI-student was too expensive for my parent to pay the cost needed. Even though I am just regular student but since in junior high school I really like English. Actually my English is not really good at that time but I have a big courage to learn English. I prefer to write something in English rather than in Bahasa. I do not know why, my inspiration cannot be really developed if I use Bahasa. When I was in junior high school, I always want to be the first winner in my class. That is why my friends see me as an ambitious people. But actually, my reason to be like that is because I really want to make my parents proud of me. Every semester I always become the best 3 students in my class and also in my school I become the best 10 students. Besides in academic, every year I am elected to join art competition-FLS2N held by Depdiknas Jawa Timur and I always win in that competition. But, I never get the first winner in that art competition, so I cannot join FLS2N national level. Besides, I explore my skill in writing too. I never join Karya Ilmiah Remaja in Perpustakaan Nasional Bung-Karno in Blitar. Fortunately, I won that competition and I got money from that.

          Studying in junior high school fells just like three weeks only for me. I felt that it was just yesterday when I use my new uniform and I enter the gate of my dream school but then I just realized that it was over and I should move on. Almost in the end of my third year in junior high school, it was the time when I should choose where I want to continue my study in the senior high school. At that time, I really want to enter acceleration program in SMAN 1 Blitar. That is the program which only need two years to finis senior high school but it needs higher cost. I have passed all the examinations, but after my parents had interview section with that school, I fail to enter that program and I was elected to the lower program that acceleration which is enrichment program. Enrichment program needs lower cost than that. I feel so desperate and I browse some informations about scholarship. I was inspired by my seniors who were elected to the Sampoerna Academy Malang. Then I tried to enter Sampoerna Academy Malang and Sampoerna Academy Bogor. I apply that application. I still remember when I got announcement if I was elected to the firs election than I should take the second election which is paper test, interview and also FGD (focus group discussion test). This school is an international school which provides scholarship to the lower economical student. It was a controversial when my parents did not allow me to continue the election because Bogor is so far away from my hometown. They did not want to be far away with me too because they were so worried about me. I need to cry for one night until finally they allowed me to go to Bogor. In my opinion, I strongly want to study far away from my hometown to get better education because I really want to build my hometown in future.

          Now, I am a student in a senior high school in Bogor, which is Sampoerna Academy Boarding School. My school is authorized by Putera Sampoerna Foundation and it is used to create a great future leader to bring Indonesia to be a developed country and also world power as well. In the other hands, my school gives me a student assistant. Not only me who is given but also my friends almost all of the entire of Indonesia from Sabang until Merauke. Lots of my friends are from Papua. However, it brings diversity to become unity. Socializing with vary of people is not a serious challenge anymore for me because I have been familiar with that. My school applies dormitory system where I should work any kind of job by myself such as washing clothes, ironing clothes, tidying up my bed. At the first time, I feel that it is really hard because I am far away from my family, from my mom that always helps me to wash. But, by the time I realize that it is really great for me because a great leader is the one who can solve their problems by their own hands without burdening the others. It makes me discipline to manage my time also by obeying all of school rules.

                My school has a program for their students to build social awareness about society. It is a must for all students. Since in X-grade, once a week I run a community with my friends in Darussalam Orphanage which is near my school. I and my friends teach children there about English, dance, knitting, and also music. I feel empathy while I seeing them, those children are put in that orphanage by their family or even because they have lost their parents. They look so strong, they are just enjoy their activities with lots of smile. Moreover, those children are so close with me and my friends, it seems like they love us and it encourages me and my friends to be more helpful and care for them.  That is my great experience and I learn lots of things about caring somebody else, about social awareness, about sharing knowledge and also social interactions with people from different background. Because of that, I never regret to go away from my small hometown to study in Bogor because I get more than what will I get if I just stay in my small city. 

I love art very much. In my high school I join Student Council for about two years. The first year I am just a member of Commission of Art but in second years I am chosen to become Head of Commission of Art. Last year I designed the decoration of my school prom night and without realizing that I make the preparations for about full two weeks but I felt satisfy. It feels like I meet my real world when I am facing art and meeting other artists. Doing art is not tiring and really enjoy it. In senior high school I always join art competition every year. I always dream to become an international artist someday and I want to go around the world. Besides, I want to make an art gallery and also art furniture industry which use potential Indonesia natural resources and also to provide job vacation to people around me. I will dig Indonesian creative potential in art deeply so Indonesia will be stamp as a country which has a really good quality and creativity in art. I want to held many art exhibitions in many countries in order to promote that Indonesian is really creative in art especially its unique culture that other countries doesn’t have it. I want to contribute to my country to raise pride of this country toward art. Besides, I also decide to learn art in other country which has high technology such as Europe and America to bring science technology to be combined in art so there would be an amazing modern art project. So that art in Indonesia will improved toward the dynamically era.