Karya Sosial ke Rumah Kerang, Cilincing

Hari Kamis, 4 Desember 2008, Siswa kelas 9-12 mengadakan aksi sosial ke dua tempat, yaitu rumah singgah di Jalan Tambak, Manggarai, Jakarta Selatan dan kelompok yang lain pergi ke rumah singgah di Cilincing, Jakarta Utara. Kegiatan tahunan yang selalu diadakan setiap bulan Desember ini untuk melatih kepekaan siswa-siswi PSKD Mandiri terhadap penduduk yang kurang beruntung. Sedangkan dana untuk kegiatan ini berasal dari basar yang selalu diadakan bersamaan dengan pertunjukkan siswa-siswi PSKD Mandiri di setiap akhir semester.

Rumah Kerang

Kata "kerang" bukan hanya sekadar nama hewan laut yang menjadi santapan sehari-hari warga Cilincing, tapi juga menjadi sumber penghidupan. Sebagian besar warga Cilincing, dari anak-anak hingga dewasa, berprofesi sebagai buruh angkut kerang dan pengupas kulit kerang, khususnya kerang hijau atau ada juga yang menyebutnya serindet.

Lalu, apa itu Rumah Kerang? Rumah Kerang adalah sebuah tempat yang dikelola oleh Suster-suster Puteri Kasih bersama para relawannya untuk melakukan pendampingan belajar kepada anak-anak Cilincing dan sekitarnya. Umumnya, masyarakat di kawasan itu berada pada taraf ekonomi lemah ke bawah. (Kompas)

Sebelum berangkat, siswa-siswa ini membawa barang-barang sumbangan ke dalam bus.

Lucia dengan semangat memasukan barang-barang ke dalam bus.

Hanna sebagai koordinator acara memeriksa kesiapan barang-barang yang akan di bawa.

Jalanan macet... tetap semangat ke tempat tujuan.

Sesampai di tempat tujuan, kami di sambut dengan pembandangan yang cukup menyentuh hati... antrian ibu-ibu dan anak yang akan hendak mengambil sembako.

Suster Aurellia sedang menjelaskan bahwa ibu-ibu yang mengantri sembako selain mendapatkan sembako, mereka juga diajari untuk menabung. Dengan harapan mereka memiliki simpanan di saat mereka membutuhkan nanti.

Setelah berbincang-bincang sebentar, siswa-siwi PSKD Mandiri diajak berkeliling kampung untuk melihat kondisi nyata keadaan penduduk di kawasan Kali Baru, Cilincing. Daerah yang panas, becek, bau bukan menjadi halangan bagi anak-anak ini untuk tetap menelusuri gang-gang sempit di kampung.

Mereka berkesempatan melihat bagaimana ibu-ibu di kampung ini membuat ikan asin.

Berjalan di samping rumah, becek, licin, panas, bau......Tetap Semangat!!!

Gian di antara kuli pengupas kuilit kerang.

Berjalan di antara gang-gang sempit.

Terus berjalan menyusuri rumah-rumah penduduk.

Kami bertemu dengan sepasang kakek-nenek di sebuah gubug ukuran 2 x 1 dengan kondisi yang sangat memprihatinkan. Di depan pintu mereka tertempel piagam penghargaan dari pemerintah karena Si Kakek adalah mantan pejuang di era kemerdekaan. Ia adalah seorang veteran perang. Ironis!

Sharing pengalaman oleh Suster Aurellia.

Kenji, Gian dan yang lainnya membantu menurunkan sembako.

Secara simbolik sumbangan diberikan oleh Hanna (koordinator kelompok) kepada Suster Aurellia.

Foto bersama.

Pergi meninggalkan Rumah Kerang... kembali ke sekolah.

Liger

The liger, is a hybrid cross between a male lion and a female tiger. A liger resembles a tiger with diffused stripes. They are the largest cats in the world, although the Siberian Tiger is the largest "pure" bred animal. Ligers and tigers enjoy swimming, whereas lions do not. A similar hybrid, the offspring of a male tiger and a female lion is called a tigon.Rare reports have been made of tigresses mating with lions in the wild. Such mating may have occurred when, in uncommon circumstances, tigers were forced into ranges inhabited by the Asiatic Lion, Panthera leo persica. However, since the present-day ranges of wild lions and tigers no longer overlap, it is generally held that such a combination of species would occur very rarely.Jungle Island in Miami is home to a liger named Hercules, the largest non-obese liger, said to weigh over 1,100 lbs, over twice the size of a male lion. Hercules was also featured on the Today Show, Good Morning America, Anderson Cooper 360, Inside Edition and in a Maxim magazine article in 2005, when he was only 3 years old and already weighed 408.25 kg (900 lb) at the time.The liger is the largest animal in the cat family and Hercules was in the Book of World Records as the largest cat. Hercules seems completely healthy and is expected to live a long life. The cat's breeding is said to have been a complete accident. Sinbad, another Liger, was shown on the National Geographic Channel. Sinbad was reported to have the exact weight of Hercules.

Rsources wikipedia

Jonas's Diary From The Book: "The Giver"

First Day as a Receiver

The first day as a receiver, I received the memories about snow. I receive the memory from an old man in the annex. Before I receive the memory, I must learn all the rules from the Book of Rules. The first time I learn, I can’t describe the comparison. I began to learn the coldness of cold air and snowflakes. After I received the memory, I learned another memory about sunshine and sunburn. That memory was also painful and it was not very pleasant to have, but it’s an honor to receive the memory. I was confused to call what the old man that gives me the memories. I asked him and he said to call me “The Giver”.

Second Day as a Receiver

The second day as a receiver, I learned that it’s not really hard to obey the rules, because my family didn’t question me much, and I think they are too busy describing each of their assignments. Back to the annex, I met The Giver, and he transferred me the memories about colors, and I began to see the different colors in my daily life. For example, I saw the color red for an apple, and I also saw that Fiona’s hair was red too. I was mad and confused why can’t other people knows all of these memories. I was mad because people can’t make choices and it’s all sameness in life. It’s not fair. The Giver told me that being a Receiver is not an easy thing to do. I can’t tell what I learned to other people, even my spouse in the future. Besides the memories of colors, The Giver gave me the memories about strong pain, so that I can bear some of The Giver’s pain for him.

Third Day as a Receiver

On the third day as receiver, I again had given the memory riding a sled. The difference was now I know the pain when I broke my leg when riding a sled.
The memory was so painful, so The Giver said sorry that he had to gave that memory, but it was he’s job to give that memory, and I went home. When Gbriel can’t sleep, and I was so sad, I desperately transfer the memory of silent, and she felt asslep.

Jonathan
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Saman Dance by Grade 10

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Grade 12 performing Tombo Ati in Lembaran Assembly

The Friendship Trip

Over these years, finally our school held it's first ever overnight camp for both, seniors and juniors at once. We were overwhelmed when we all found out about this trip. We were all going to a special place called Bumi Mandiri Centre in Padepokan, Sukabumi. There were many activities that thought about leadership; Ring Toss, Fish Catching, Flying Fox, The Elvis Bridge, The V-Bridge, Campfire and many more exciting events. We got to see the village houses and the people who lived there. A river near those houses provided a water source for them. Since the theme was friendship, so the main purpose of this trip beside leadership was working together and become one as a team.


We arrive there, with smiles on our faces and a feeling of curiosity. The event finally started, everyone was getting pumped up. We were separated into a few groups. And in each group, was chosen a leader to lead the team all the way through. The leader held the group together to find out strategies on solving the problems and challenges that were given there. Everyone had their parts in the group and every little thing counts. Even though each event for each team was the same, they were not being held at the same time. But we all had fun and had a great time.


We started out with an introduction. The instructors introduced themselves to us. Once we know their names, it's our turn to creat a group and also the yell-yells. Everyone was very creative in deciding their group's names and yell-yells. It was a really fun start.



Later that day played numerous games. But at the time when each group members have to cross the Elvis Bridge, apparently some were afraid of heights. But other members support and encourage those people to try their personal best. Guess what? They did it! Suprisingly those people have overcome their fears and succeded even though not completely. After all the excitement, it's time for us all to go back to our rooms and take a rest.











That night, after the short rest, we had dinner and we all prepared a number of performance for the campfire session. Each group perform a play or song. The teachers did perform a dance and everyone was entertained. We end the night by eating grilled corns and cup of hot tea or ginger water. Then we all laid down in our mats, talking and joking around just right under the stars. The lights were turned on again and the instructor said that we need to take our rest. We went back to our room and go to sleep. We can't wait to see what obstacle and challenges we will face tommorow.



The next day, we all woke up at 5am and we can't believe that this is the last day in this trip. We started our day by going around the village nearby. We saw beautiful paddy fields and the people there starting that day. It was a really good and refreshing walk because, we got to see something that we rarely see in our neighborhood. Kids were running around the streets with their mother and father preparing to go to work. It was quite exhausting. We move to our next activity wich is catching fishes. Everyone was hipped up. When we got to the pool, evryone start running around trying to catch a fish. Some girls were screaming but the boys, well they run oraound trying to steal the fish their friend have captured. Waters splats everywhere and laughs and whines were filling the air. Every group captured at least one fish. This activity is finally done. Next up, River Journey! We went on to our next and last activity, right after we finished catching fishes. It was one of the most memorable activity that day. Students were pulling their teachers in to the river and splatting them with water. Some were, busy splatting, some were just sitting on the side. But we had a lot of fun.












After all the activities that day, we have to fill our stomach up and eat. The food provided was delicious. Everyone ate a lot and when we're done eating, the closing ceremony starts. Here, the instructor announced the name of the students who has done a good job. Well, everyone did a good job though. Prayer comes after the award ceremony and we went back to our room, take a bath and went home.
















Since this is the first trip, we were very excited. Everyone went home with a big smile on their faces Hopefuly, some other time, we would hold another camping trip for senior and juniors again!

Task for grade 8

Guys, this is task for you along this week. Choose 2 kinds of frame from http://www.insidegraphics.com/frames/default.asp .

Good luck.

Journalism and Photography at Media Indonesia

Today, some of the students from PSKD Mandiri is sent to represent the school at a journalistic and photography seminar. This event is being held at the Media Indonesia Office in West Jakarta. Rindra, Odelia, Jennifer and Anabel are the ones chosen to represent. There, they were trained to write a good journal and photography. There, some journalist and photographer attended the event and shared their experience and thought with us. Rachmania Arunita is one of them. She wrote the novel Eiffel I'm in Love and there she shared her experience writing it and tips to write a good story.

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Odelia taking pictures on the photography session

Mr Agus Wahyu explaining about dummies

We celebrated Independenceday at PSKD Mandiri

August 15 was the right time for us to celebrated Indonesian Independence day. Two weeks before the day, all classes decorated their classes as theme they got, for example grade 7 they got Sumatra Barat, grade 8 decorated with Bali, Papua was the theme for grade 9. For senior classes, they chose Aceh (grade 10) and Dayak for grade 11 and 12.


All students and teachers were so enthusiastic not because this was kind of a competition. But they were happy to have this yearly activity.


Back to the celebration. August 15, we started with raising the flag by senior students who already prepared as "Paskibraka". Actually this was a normal assembly, what make us different today was the costume. All students from early childhood to grade 12 were wearing traditional costume. While all teachers a wearing red and white and staff wearing Kebaya. They were so wonderful.... We saw Unity and Difersity in our school.

After the "Paskibraka" had finished raising the flag, we had a traditional costume show coordinating by Bu Anne and Pak Budi. Every class sent their representatives to do like a 'fashion show' but in traditional costume. Some parents and Ibu Laurel who joined the assembly looked so happy to see some students walked in the 'cat walk' while showing their costume.

Not only traditional costume show, some classes also performed volk songs, angklung perfomance, and presentation from grade 7.

Rindra, Thalia and Odelia was presenting about Indonesian Proclamation.

Our celebration not finished with some traditional performances. We changed our traditional costume and then..... we had some games.. We played soccer dangdut, catching eel, sack race, eating cracker and collecting coins from watermelon.

Go Billy... you can do it!

Go girl...

Pradnya and her team got many eels.. Well done girl.

Miss Tanya was competing with Jennifer in a sack race.

Pak Budi raced with his students..

We were happy. We had so much fun in celebrating Independence Day.