Parental Statement in AFS Program

Parental Statement For Muhammad Afif Izzatullah Indonesia

We are Afif’s parent and live together with him. We are just happy family that contains of father, mother and 3 children. Afif as a first child has two young sisters Sania and Bela. Nowadays Afif sits in second grade of High School number 17 Palembang, one of famous school in Sumatera Selatan. Even though he busy with his studying but Afif looks enjoy and easy going to face his entire bustle. Many assignments have given by school can he does and finishes it very well.

If in our home, he occasionally clashes with both of his young sisters but it precisely looks like a happy relationship in our eyes. Afif had ever been in dormitory along one year so we are sure that he is independent enough to take care himself. After lived in dormitory, he usually goes to school with his sister, Sania by motorcycle. Afif is a guider of his two sisters let in lesson, computer, or other activities that his sisters very hard to solve it.

As we know Afif has so many friends in school and other place since so many friends that often to visit our house. His relationship with his friends is very well and chummy like usual teenagers. If not his friend that come to our house, he usually visits his friends’ house once in a while. Internet or hand phone usually Afif uses to contact or makes an appointment with his friends. Thus attitude is same if Afif communicates with our big families too. Afif often comes and visits his cousins’ house to meet and make closer relations with them. With our neighbors Afif acts very kind too especially when there is a big event like Independent day, birthday party, sport competition and etc. He also actives in ACMY (Al-Qobah Creative Moslem Youth) nears our house.

In this modernization era, many obstacles must be faced by every teenager now. Kind of problem in school about lesson and social intercourse must be fought carefully. We as a parent always give an advice and guidance about any success and failure experiences. Occasionally Afif asks for discussion or consultation with us if he gets some difficult trouble that he cannot solve it alone. He also always motivates himself if he has some purpose and manages it by himself as he can do it. And we everlastingly help him despite of he can do it by himself. He is very serious and hard working to reach what he dreaming in.

Once thing more that we very know this is Afif very wanted to study in other countries. This ambition looks from his struggling starts to take an English Course, joins a Debate Club, searches every information about scholarship to abroad and attends in many seminar or presentation held by foreign university. The AFS program is one of beginning chances to go abroad for him to reach what he’s dreaming before.

If he passes the AFS program, we really known we will very miss each other. But because we realized he has been more mature and independent enough to take care himself so we will let him to reach his ambition through his way. Because we know that he often being away from home like camping, Boy Scout activities, traveled alone to go out of our town, ever lived one year in dormitory and stay along around two week in Bogor (a city that far from Palembang) Represent Sumatera Selatan in AGIN (Brilliant Indonesian Children Contest).

We also know he often get many problems and challenging in his life. But for aught we know he can handle its and be a persistent one to solve any difficult situations. He always faces the problem with study hard, praying, and decreases his feebleness to solve it and get what he has aimed. And we believe too he can gets used to and adapt with a new environment as still in our religion way. Like cannot eat forbidden food by our religion (pork or beer) because we are Moslem. In addition Afif is a cheerful, kind and happy person who likes playing guitar and drawing and we are sure that you will enjoy stay together with him and being part of your family in a long times.

Regard
Afif’s Parent

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Letter to Host Family in AFS Profram

Muhammad Afif Izzatullah Indonesia

My name is Muhammad Afif Izzatullah. I’m a second grade of high school number 17 in my town, Palembang. I’m just ordinary people who have an extraordinary ambition. That’s “GO ABROAD”. My parents are not too rich or poor. We are just standard family who pursuit happiness in this world. My family has five members. Those are my father and mother, me and two of my young sisters. I’m the first child so I have responsibility at least to lead my two young sisters to walk in the true line. Although I occasionally clash with them but it is never mind as we still love each other and soon get well relationship again. We usually also take some journey to other someplace to refresh our mind and get a happy event in our life.

I’m clever enough person who always want to smile every day. I grew up and be Junior High School and Senior High School student. I very thank to God because the environment in my home and school changes me become a good person. Now I’m more mature and can think more rationally. I am an independent person who like motivate myself to establish my path way to be a good person. I mostly manage my own business by myself as I can do it, because I don’t want burden my parent and be a good son. Since I ever lived in dormitory and traveled alone I’ve learned to socialize and being independent enough to take care of myself.

If with my friends, I also have both bad and good personality. My friends describe me that I’m disturbing people, critic and etc. But they also think that I’m a funny person, could be ask for cooperate (in discussion), kind, creative, clever enough, and so on. But I’ll struggle certainly to close bad attitude door and open as wide as the good attitude door in my life. Because I’m conscious that I’m just a usual human that couldn’t be a perfect one.

Most people said I look like my mother let in physic and behavior. I am so close with my mother and father because our family is a democracy family that everybody could say any problem and sharing with each other. In my home, I sometimes help to do daily assignment, but just in small part. For example: tidying and cleaning my room, washing my motorcycle, cleaning the bathroom, ironing my cloths, and washing my dish after eating. But all of those things rarely I do if I have some busy assignment from my school.

I’m so grateful have a kind parent who always takes after me and cares about me. Without them I’m zero, but because them too I can be a hero. When I have some troubles in my school they always beside me. With their precious words I always get many advices that very help me to do something about my future. So what I have to do now is requite all of their merits that have been given to me with be an independent person and be a success person who make happy my parent without burden them anymore.

Along my entire life, I interested with many things actually. It could be divided into 3 parts: sports, education and entertainment. In sports; playing badminton, basketball, soccer and swimming are the top one that I most interested in. If education; I very like with math, drawing, science and researching. Therefore I join extracurricular with named KIR, that’s a researcher club. I also like music, playing guitar, reading, writing, and internet in my entertainment part.

As I have too many interests, so I more spend my times in my school and my other club. In my school I join KIR extracurricular (a Researcher Club) like I said before because I very like with writing. We are all people who like researching gather in this club and we usually join competition from city till national grade. Beside that KIR also trains our skill to make scientific writing for college later. Until now I’ve written around 8 scientific writing. These all are result of my struggling and sweats in my beloved KIR club.

For sport I join basketball club since I’m tall enough than my others friends. I also ever had joined PUSRI swimming and badminton club when I was Junior High School. I join so many sport clubs like this because I want to keep my body fit and healthy when I stuck with my routines.

For art, I join 2D (Two Dimension) club which has activities drawing, painting and coloring. We do this activity every Saturday in my school. Beside that I’m also one of member school’s choirs in my Junior High School and Senior High School. I also have a band with 5 members named ‘Galaxy’ and I’m as a guitarist together with my four other friends. We ever twice had joined band competition but because we were still beginner so we were lost at that time. However, I’m sure that these all activities are very useful for me to develop my right brain of art.

I also active enough in other organization like ‘Boy Scout’ in my elementary school, School’s Student Organization in junior high school, GEDS (Global English Debate Society) in my English course, ACMY (Al-Qobah creative Moslem Youth) near with my home, and other little organizations. Because, being involved in community activities like this, make me learn and find big valuable things for myself and my future. About the time, honestly I pursue all of them in my times, because I very want to get many experiences as long as I still young and have many chances to do it. Because pursue this very useful things make me move forward when I construct my future foundation.

In my community activities I have some different roles. First in my class I ever have been a class leader because our class leader always changes every week. Despite of just one week but I could learn leadership even though in a small part. I also ever had been a vise-captain in school’s student organization when I was Junior High School. It was so difficult to share my time but I could handle it with my effort and got many experiences about lead many people at that time. In soccer I usually play as a ‘midfielder’, ‘shooting guard’ for basketball and ‘single player’ in badminton. But my skill is just usual if it compares with my other great friends. If in GEDS (Debate Club) I usually be a first or second speaker, it’s so help me to talk before public. And I also ever had been a researching captain. So I have full responsibility about my researching result. All of these experiences are very important for me to step and move forward in my future pathway.

Because I want get best future so I have some objective and motivation to apply AFS. First, I want to study about everything in other countries. Like I said before my extraordinary ambition is go abroad and get many information also education from there. Second, I very want to school in other country especially countries which have developed technology. Because stay long time and get educations at there, can give me an inspiration about how my future is established. The third, I very want to meet many friends from other countries, study about their culture, history, learn about the situation in their city and get a big experience that I very dream before. And I will use all of those experiences to build my best future both for myself and my country. And make Indonesia can have good relation with other countries. All of those are my personal goals to join AFS program. But I emphasize the main goal of me is to find and look for fabulous experience that I haven’t done it before and make proud my parent.

The biggest problem for me along my entire life is quarrel with my friends. I agree with proverb: 1000 friends are too less but 1 enemy is too much. If I have even though just 1 enemy, my heart can’t be comfort. Cause I always think how to recover my friendship. But I’ll force myself and throw away the prestige feeling one in my heart to apologized with my quarrel’s friend and throw the enmity one to make comfort my heart again. And the second situation that I feel difficult to solve it is when I got bad score in school’s lesson. But if I just regret and do nothing it can’t change anything. The things I have to do are just study hard again, find my minuses, praying and fix my bad score.

When I step in my path life, I got so many hindrances and obstacles definitely. The obstacle that I often feel it is when I try to stand up again from one failure. For example when I failed in one research competition, I felt despondently at that time. Because I had done full effort and spent much times to do it, but the result was so disappoint me. I thought that I wouldn’t do again any research because it was just wasting my energy and times. But I realized that one failure was a key to be successful. So many scientist in past had many failure but they were success because of it. Thomas Alpha Edison needed much failure to discover many useful things like a lamp. So I thought that I have to follow their path and studied more about researching. I began to learn about scientific writing again in internet, books, and ask with everybody who has many experienced about this. And finally I got that result. Despite of I just placed the third rank but I felt so happy because I was success be a winner in a city grade and it was a great achievement for me.

Because of those reason above I would be a good boy to host, since I’m an independent enough boy, so easy to adapt and getting used to with a new environment because I am often enough to be away from home. And after I reach my big ambition (go abroad) with AFS, I wish to attend college and university in other country. I will try to look for everything about scholarship that can bring me to get college in other country especially developed countries. So I hope that AFS experience will give me many connection and information about how to attend college in other country. And find my best path way to make my better future for my own-self.

Know more about me:
Blog : http://www.cakarafif.blogspot.com
Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/afif.izzatullah
or type in search box AFIF IZZATULLAH.


Regard
M Afif Izzatullah

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It's Beyond My Expectations (Part II)

We continuing....

What a ..... surprise me that announcement?

if i look from rank of the cumulative from three test before, i got 21th rank.. and i think i don't have any chances anymore to join this program....
But God gives me different way.. i don't know what is the criteria of committee chose our five, but what i have to do know just very very very thank to GOD and do a hard work and struggling to get a real chance to abroad....

We are five from acceleration class and add with two from regular and also four student from outside compete to get chance to pass AFS and can go abroad with was full fill many sheets from committee about ourselves, health explanation, letter to host fam, photo page and many more that must we fill in....

Although it's definitely difficult to full fill six fold from those six sheets respectively, but i will do it with full spirit and energy, although the competence aura among us is really drastic and full of hot spirit to reach what we really aim to do...

And now i have already done full fill those six sheets and just wait the result of this program. I think i will really hard to pass it because my friend's letter and their photo page is really made me jealous because of so wonderful...

But the maximum power to do something is come from Almighty so i have to much pray with God in order me and full of my friends could go together and reach what we were dreaming before.... yeaaah but once again

it's really really beyond from my expectations....

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It's Beyond My Expectations

The AFS result has been announced, but still the big eleven.... and that announcement so surprised me... this is the story... :

Test of Exchanging student (AFS. YES. JENESYS) conducted in SMA 17 Palembang (for chapter Palembang of course). There were 3 tests in order to pass and get more chance for go abroad. And those tree tests were conducted in three different days.

The first day and of course the first test was about general knowledge. So many students interested to join this program, it's no wonder so many of participants came in the first day. The general knowledge test was not too hard or too easy. It'll be easy if we occasionally often read the newspaper or watching television or update the global information or such kind like that. But unfortunately, I so seldom did those damn things. So i just could answer what I've ever read and the rest i just took my hand up and pray to God asked for helping from Him. But luckily i still passed the first test. I was so happy that day.

But the second day (The second test i must through it) broke my heart into pieces. The second test place in SMA 17's dorm kitchen. And it tested our personality and english fluency. Despite of i pass the test but i just got the bottom rank and the differences with the top one was so far..... ...Hufff... and Alhamdulillah... i just could gracious since many of my friends couldn't pass the second test....

The third day and The last test for part one was grouping dynamic. It tested our responsibility to cooperate with each other. One class contained four people to make something from tools that had been prepared before. My spirit was not burn perfectly cause i have thought : the probability i passed was so small because my 1st and 2nd test were not too good enough respectively. So i did it with half of spiritful.....

After we did all those damn tests we just waited the result and prayed, hope we could pass the cumulative score.... 1st + 2nd + 3rd test were adding all and took a mean from them with some rules from commitee....

The "H" day was coming.. we were all taking look at the result... aaaannndddd


It was surprising me too. I could pass the cumulative score successfully. But the rank was not too high... it's just 21th rank. I still feel gratefully at that time despite of it's 21th rank from 28 but at least i still had a chance to pass and go abroad..... (Aamiin)




Finally after weeks to month month to year (lah) (kidding). Not too long after the cumulative score a letter from jakarta came in SMA 17 about exchanging program result. That day was saturday. Me and my friends just finished our sport activities. When we began to study chemistry (after exercised) Pak Arpani called 5 people to go out from class and face Pak arpani. I never expect why i have to be called.

So we were running fast and face pak Arpani................................ ^^ (IT'S BEGIN THE CLIMAX)

PAK ARPANI SAID THAT WE WERE 5 PASSED THE AFS/YES PROGRAM......

HAAAAAAAH :O......

tO Be cONtInUEd............................................................... ^^V

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