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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Pidato Kartini (Speech About Kartini) 2

eh lho percaya gak gue berhasil masuk 5 besar lho. yang kemarin itu speech competition 21 april 2009. dan saya mendapat topik baru yaitu indonesia culture limit the emancipation progress. walah apa itu. sama aku jga gak terlalu ngerti. tapi setelah mengeluarkan jutaan liter keringat (wuih) aku berhasil buatnya lho. bagi yang mau copy paste silkan aja gratis ninih pidatonya:


Well ladies and gentleman
Today is twenty first of april and as we know today we celebrate our kartini’s day. Because same with kartini’s birthday that was 21 april 1879. Why must kartini? Yes of course because kartini was a woman who has change woman status. Because in past woman status was lower than man status. Today my topic of my speech is about indonesia culture limit the emancipation progress. Do you know what does it mean. From one by one its sentences. We know that, first culture, means that our population beliefs usually because of past. And second limit the emasipation progress means point that make emansipation couldn’t move forward.

So we got indonesia population beliefs can make the emancipation don’t move forward. In this case i will tell you about the parents who forbid their daughter to make she become go forward.
Ok ladies and gentleman
As we know many of parents who want their children become a success and rich people. But there are also the parents who still believe the beliefs that can hamper their children development and progress. And i will take one of example. There is a man and he has two children. They are twins, one boy and one girl. And when they grow up and become a collegean, they all two have receive with scolarship in singapura for instance. They are all two agree want to take this but must take a permission with their parents. And as fast as they can both of them talk with her parents. And finally the brother can get permission from their parents but, the daughter didn’t get permission. And this girl ask to her parents. Why? And her parents directly answer, “because you are a woman”. Finally this daughter couldn’t go and just continue her education in the university near her house. That just one example of indonesia culture limit the emancipation progress. Because the meaning of emancipation itself is the equalities rights between a woman and a man. But if we see this problem, there is a dicrimination between man and woman. I know this example not happen in all of family. But because just little indigo drop broke all of milk in cooking pot. You know that in indonesia we know, karena nila setitik rusak susu sebelanga.
Ok ladies and gentleman
That just one example but still many again the case that make limit the emansipaton progress. And the last i will tell you what is my opinion about this case. I think the parents who do like that example can do like that. Because maybe he don’t want his daughter get a worried, dangerous event. But if all of parents think like that our young generation cannot move forward. Because the future of our country is there in our hand’s children. In addition that woman and man got scolarship, so we can know that maybe that woman can change our country to be better. so ithink if your father like that just convinced him that life is full risk, if dont want get risk it better don’t life. And dont be afraid what will happen tomorrow just struggle and the most important is pray. Because we could struggle as we can but. Certainly that choose and give our destiny is God. so just study hard and sruggle to be a good people and dont think about future. And also dont forget kartini because of her the women can be an equalities rights with men until this day.

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Pidato Kartini (Speech About Kartini) 1

eh waktu hari kartini selasa kemarin 21 april 2009. aku join speech competition lho atau lomba pidato. dan hari seninnya ada penyisihan. lalu aku segera membuat pidato kartini. bagi yang pingin niru copy paste aja gratis (emangnya jualan :)ini nih pidatonya



The honorable edjudicators, teachers, staffs who have helped this program and competition and of course all of my beloved friends who sit or stand in here to listen my speech today.
Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh
First of all i’d like to say thanks to Allah because of Allah’s blessing i can stand here to deliver my speech in front of all of you. I don’t forget to say shalawat and greetimgs for our great prophet Muhammad SAW, because he bring us from darkness into lightness until know.
Ok ladies and gentleman.
As we know today is twentieth of april. Although we haven’t celebrated the Kartini’s day yet, but i think we have felt the spirit of Kartini who has made woman and man are the same class know. And the first of my speech i will tell you a short history about Kartini.

Kartini is a woman who changes woman status. Because in past the woman class is lower than the man class. Woman couldn’t go out from home bacause almost all of men thinked all women are poor people. So in past, woman can only in the home to do all of home work, for instance cook, washing clothes, tidy the home and etc. And also woman might not go to school. So the only one could work out of home and got the good education was man. But Kartini thinked diferrent with the others. He thinked why woman couldn’t go out and do many activity like a man? Because she thinked both man and woman were a human which made by god. So she wanted to make the woman could go out to work and school same degrees with a man. And finally because of Kartini’s struggle and of course her smart brain, he successed make man and woman as equality rights until today. And Kartini also made a book and very famous book until know, that is a book with tittle “habis gelap terbitlah terang” which contains the Kartini’s letter that have sent to her friend in Netherlands. And all of those letters were letters that make woman is higher status.
Those are the shorts history of Kartini, and today the main topic of my speech is about how emansipation of woman can successful in these reformation era. You know what is emansipation ? The word emancipation from a basic word is emancipate. And from oxford dictionary emancipate is set somebody free. And emansipation of woman has a meaning set women free from the status as a slave or lower than men. Because in our century there are no more woman as a slave. So i will tell you how emancipation of woman in this reformation era. And i will explain you just about about two things. First is about the woman who ifluential and important in Indonesia. And second is the vilagger’s woman.
Ok ladies and gentleman.
I will begin with my first topic. That is the woman who ifluential and important in Indonesia. Until today there are many woman ifluential especially in poilitical and government of Indonesian. With this fact, Kartini’s ambition is successful. Because many woman be a legislative, minister, moreover president. Some of them are Sri Mulyani as a finance and economic coordinator minister, Siti Fadilah Supari as health minister and the most famous one is Megawati. She success be a president of Indonesian in year 2001 until 2004. And moreover she can replace the smart man Abdurrahman Wahid and more famous with name Gusdur. And besides of three those women there still more the women who are influential although not in center government but in regional government. And there are also many women who success be a good job, like teacher, secretary of big company, doctor, pragmacy, suster and etc. But the thing that i press and convinced in here is the most important task and the character of woman that woman belongs to and especially woman who has had children. That is take care their children and rule in the home environment. Because, Although a woman i mean a mother be the most influential in Indonesian moreover in the world but if she pay no regard to her children it same that woman is not good in her home environment. And we can talk it with bad mother. Because the most important task of a mother is her children. Whoever women but if her status is a mother she must take care their children. She must gives a full love to her children. She must give a good education to her children. She must take care and cure her children if they got ill. She must pay and fullfil all of her children every need. And many things in order her children become a person that influential in our country and grownment our country in eye’s world. And not lost with take care the children, rule the home environment is important too by a mother. because although that woman be moreover president, but if in home the real captain is father or her husband. So mother must be cook food, minimal can struggle to cook, tidy the home although there is a housewife, and don’t too often not stay in home. So i will talk that purpose to all of woman especially are going to be a mother in the future that dont forget with your children because the future of our country is there in hand’s children. And emansipation of woman can be successful for this present day. And after darkness will appear lightness.
Ok ladies and gentleman
The second topic of my speech is about the villager’s woman. In order emansipation of woman can be walk clear until future is we must pay attention to vilagger’s women. Government not just think about the women who are enough life, but the women who very difficult to live must be paid attention. For instance government give better facilities in the village, and the most important is education. Because in past i ever joined homestay in tanjung pering village and i stayed for three days in that village. And i saw almost all people especially women was very little that went to school in the morning. I see many child woman has begun to make krupuk. Because the familiar job in there was make kerupuk. So i think government must take attentiom with this case. Especially women. All of women must fullfill the nine years education in order our country can be better and maybe in some time be the best country that have the best man and woman in the same class. And also don’t forget to Kartini because wthout her all of women can’t get good education like today.
And ladies and gentleman
That is all of my speech. I hope will very useful for all of you and for the final i want to say for all of men, don’t want to be loss with women and also the women don’t want to be loss too with men. Ok thanks for your great attention and i am sorry if i made mistake and please forgive me and with Allah i have an out. And final words
Assalamualaikum warrahmatullahi wabarakatuh

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