Tag: school
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English is a Funny Language: Elementary Schools
I am actually really torn about what I found in elementary public schools across Indonesia. Torn between sadness and laughter.
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Library
Once I was asked, in one of my English lessons, what paradise would look like for me My answer was, and I still remember it until now, “Paradise would look like a place filled with any book you could ever think of, any book you want to read, and you are free to read there…
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Elementary Sweetheart (Part 5 – end)
Previously on Elementary Sweetheart: I was in elementary school. Me and this boy had mutual feelings but he never had the courage to tell me in my face. When he did, I rejected him, not nicely. We ended up having an awkward friendship, due to the distance that separate us both.
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Elementary Sweetheart (Part 4)
The highlight of grade six was – of course – his confession. It was once upon a Monday. I stayed in the class as I hardly bought anything from the school canteen and always brought my own snack to school. Having been injured on a tennis game the day before (yeah. he was such a…
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Elementary Sweetheart (Part 3)
We got back in the same class in grade five. As we see each other everyday, all day long, our ‘relationship’ did not go along well. He was too shy to talk to me in person and he kept on teasing me. We ended up having lots of fights all over again, just like when…
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Undergraduates VS Graduates
The contemporary who had ‘wasted himself’ in advertising now had his own agency. He had recently been quoted in the paper as saying that he thought graduates weren’t worth the space. “Give me a sixteen year old any day,” he had said. “I am tired of these graduates who think they’re God’s gift because they…