Band Sekolah!

My host family in Perth lives quite far away from Melville Senior High School. My host sister decided to enter Melville SHS because it has a special music program, and for that she has to travel a long way everyday (and, during my stay here in Perth, so do I). But when I came to her music class last week, I knew it was worth it!

Dalam band Melville SHS, terdapat alat-alat musik tiup seperti terompet, saksofon, trombon, dan tuba, juga terdapat bas, gitar elektrik, keyboard, serta drum. Bagi saya waktu itu (dan saya rasa juga bagi semua orang lain yang baru pertama kali melihat band Melville SHS), band tersebut tampak seperti band jazz.

So when the music teacher played a rock tune out of his laptop, I didn't get it. It just didn't make sense (because I thought the band was a jazz band). Then the school band started playing the exact same song, but with all those brass instruments, the song sounded very different. It was awesome.

Benar-benar mengejutkan, karena saya belum pernah melihat band sekolah seperti ini di Surabaya. SMA saya tidak memiliki band sekolah. Beberapa SMA di Surabaya memiliki band sekolah, tapi saya belum pernah melihat band sekolah dengan alat musik tiup yang memainkan musik rock!

Wish I had a really cool school band back home.

Ide baru untuk pelajaran musik di Indonesia, mungkin?

How fantastic it is....!!!!

Friday, 3 August 2007

Everyone will say that It was a Great Day for Our life... Why??? Because we turned around Perth city and visited many beautiful places. And of course, we felt so happy....

Friday was our third day in Melville. We've got exciting activity that day because I and my friends went to Mosque in William Street. Some of my friends had to do Friday pray. I was surprised because there were many moslems from other countries and some of them gave us a greeting like Assalamualaikum..... Oh My God! I couldn't believe I will see them...

Tetapi sebelum ke mesjid, kita juga punya pengalaman yang fantastic yakni kita jalan-jalan dulu ke semacam central city, karena dari sana kita bisa melihat suasana perkotaan di Perth. Banyak gedung perkantoran, central kesenian dari Egyptian, Bank West, dll. Saya juga terpukau dengan Stasiun kereta api yang tertata sangat rapi dan terlihat modern.

The one that I missed so much was Indonesian food because we had to eat Australian Food since we arrived in Perth. But sometimes we could eat it in our homestay. Oh... It was very delicious and I love the chicken fried noodles. My friends looked very happy to eat it. Although, some of the food have different taste. It was in Sparrow Indonesian Restaurant in front of William Mosque. After we visited the mosque, we turned around someplaces that made us very surprised.

Tempat yang pertama kali kami kunjungi adalah Kings Park. Oh... Entah apa lagi yang harus kami katakan kecuali Luar biasa... Karena di tempat ini kita bisa melihat pemandangan kota Perth yang sangat indah. Teluk yang melengkung membuat kota ini terlihat begitu fantastik. Pokoknya kita bisa melihat pemandangan Perth secara utuh dari sini. Tentu saja kita semua beraksi disana maksudnya foto-foto gitu deh. 20 menit yang sangat berharga mengunjungi tempat wisata ini dimana terdapat bangunan bersejarah seperti monumen untuk menghargai pahlawan Australia yang gugur di perang dunia ke-2.

And then, we visited Cottesloe Beach about 15 minutes. Oh my God...!!! How beautiful it is!!!!

The beach is very clean and well arrenged. I went close to the beach and felt the water. It was windy and made me so sleepy enough. And once again... We took some pictures there. Maybe it would be more exciting if we could stay longer. But we hoped that we would come back somedays...

At 03.00 p.m we arrived in Melville and we talked many experiences each other. How wonderfull it was.... then, We had ESL lesson with Mrs. Steward. It was a great day.....!!!!

Bye.... Have a nice day...

Love,

Marina.R

Our Arrival in Perth

We arrived on Monday afternoon after a long, boring journey. It took about ten hours to get to Perth from Surabaya because we had to transit in Denpasar, Bali. Miss Kate and Miss Penny met us at the airport with two other Melville students and we were happy to see them. When we got out of the airport, we were surprised by how windy it was. It is windy and cold in Perth!

After that, we went to Melville SHS and met our host families. Our families are very nice and warm (some of us have many sisters!).

Some of our first impressions:

Oh my goodness!

It is warm inside, but cold outside!

Good dinner!

What a big school!

They speak too fast

They walk so fast!

There is good icecream

A few of us live a long way from school.