Inspiring person

Michael Phelps. A swimmer born on June 30, 1985, in Baltimore, Maryland. He went on to win medals at the Olympic Summer Games in Athens, Beijing and London, accumulating a total of 22 medals—18 gold, two silver and two bronze—and setting the record for the most medal wins by any Olympic athlete. He announced his retirement in 2012, however, in April 2014. But at the age of 28, he will continue his career

I found him inspiring when I’d figured out his family background. He came from a broken home family, and he had ADHD. The inspiring thing is that he can manage himself well. He can find a way to get through this by swimming, not by having drugs, smoking, or any other bad things. And by swimming, he can cure his ADHD, release his stress and become success. Which also inspire me to swim as a stress releaser.

Becoming a great swimmer is not an easy thing to do. I’ve watched his training videos , I can see that he has to be really discipline, and he has to get through hard work out. And it taught me to be discipline, hard work, and to respect every achievement i’ve made because of the will behind it. One of his video about him trying to get SpeedoFit also inspire me. On that video he complained a couple of time but he kept tryiing as hard as he could and he rgot SpeedoFit that day. Which shows that we are stronger that we know and we can, it reminds me every time I gave up on things.

Bakti desa

Bakti desa is an annual activity of SMAN 3 Bandung designed for the second graders. This activity includes a visit to a certain village, there the students will have a host family and they have to help their host parents doing their everyday duties. It’s held on 23-25 of October 2014.

Bakti Desa Day 1.

It’s 23rd of November. We gathered at our school on 6 a.m. with hands full of packages. We left from school by angkot on 6.30 a.m. the traffic wasn’t really good nor bad. It was just normal and skipped at some point.

It took about 4 hours to get to the village. When we arrived we were welcomed by the villagers at the village hall. After a long talk with the village head and headmaster, we were pleased by the villagers. They provided delicious foods for us.

After a really great lunch, we were accompanied to our neighborhood . So every class is located in different neighborhoods in the same village. My class is located in an area called kiara janggot. The road wasn’t really good, fortunately the school driver drove the car well.

When we got at Kiara Janggot, we waited for a couple minutes until our host parents took us. My group was the first to be picked up. My group stayed at Nyai Jaja’s house. She was a nice woman. When we arrived at her house, she provided us some snacks which were hard to find in Bandung but delicious.

snacks from Nyai Jaja

That day, we didn’t have much work to do. We were told to have some rest at the house. On 5 p.m. we were told to gather at one of the house to collect some of the foods that we had brought. After that we went back to our house and had dinner.

our evening walk with Nyai Jaja's grand daughter

view of the village

That night, my host family asked me and my friends  to watch the TV with them. And we had some snacks too. My host family’s relative also came to visit and join us. It was a cold night but the snacks and everything made it better. After that we slept. It was really simple, we slept on a carpet with two blankets and it was extremely warm.

Bakti Desa Day 2

We woke up at 6 a.m. instead of 5 a.m. we were late. Our host mom gave us breakfast. It was coffee and fried potatoes with freshly picked vegetables. After that we changed our clothes and went to our host fam’s garden.

some men we met on our way

a small slippery bamboo bridge

 The route was quite far, slippery, and we were so tired. But it was paid by the great view we could see. We helped our host mom with some gardening works. It was fun even though dirty. We were so excited because we knew how it feels to be in a view that we usually only can see from far distance. The climate was good too. The wind and the nature sounds relaxed us.

We stop working at 11 a.m.  we had dinner at the garden. The menu was simple as usual J rice, vegetable, fish, potatoes. It was the first time I had lunch outdoor and it felt awesome. After eating, we went back to our host fam house.

our outdoor lunch menu

I found my host mom's hut

me as the one-day-farmer

a selfie at the hut. idk why but i love this one

a selfie with my friends the the host mom

When we arrived at the host fam house, we were couldn’t open the door. It was unusual because our host parents usually left the door without locking it. So we decided to wait outside. Then our host mom arrived (she went to her neighbor for a while) and helped us with the door.

After a couple minutes of waiting, we decided to go to river. The route to the river was a bit dangerous. It was slippery and full of rocks. Such a challenge right? I enjoyed climbing down from rock to rock. When we arrived at the river, we simply put our feet into the river and I kept on climbing from rock to rock with one of my friend.

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the rocky route to the river

an awesome feeling after climbing the rocks :))

After that we went back and rested at the house. In the evening we were told to gather. Some of my muslim friends were told to join a community at one of the mosque there. I some girls and the boys had to wait. It was  boring because there was nothing to do. Finally we decided to visit a garden around there, played kites and took photos.

pretty lady bugs I found at the garden.

That night we gathered again to distribute some gifts for the villagers. As we wait for our turn, we watched a traditional show named Singa Depo. 

traditional show

Bakti Desa Day 3

It’s our last day here. We woke up on 6.30 a.m. after bathing and having our last breakfast there, we gave our host mom some gifts. After that we put our packages into the car. Before we left, our host mom had made us some snacks so we had to take it. As we got back, the cars were about to go that we had to run.

a before-leavinglselfie

class photos (female's edition)

The car took us to the village hall. There was a show from the villagers. It was so hot there. As we went back home the traffic was good enough but the drivers stopped at some points which made it longer to arrive.

Last Holiday

My last holiday was quite simple. To be honest it was not such a crazy one, it was a studying-type-of-hoiday. I spent my first week of holiday by preparing my graduation test for my Kumon English program. It was tiring but I was happy because I finally graduate :)). Here is the picture of me and my teacher after the test.

you can see my freaking-tired-face hahaha

After the test I spent my holiday by visiting my relatives in Jakarta.Before I left I had to take my dog to a pet hotel. It's located in lembang. the place was nice and had many dogs so I trusted that lace to keep my dog for couple of days.

I went to Jakarta by travel car. It took 2 hours to get there. When I arrived, I rested at my aunt's house for a while before I went out for dinner. at 6 p.m. I went out to pick my sister at her office. After that we went to Jakarta Fair. It was cool, there was some traditional hand craft expo which sells bunch of cute goods. We also had a good dinner and a really tasty Betawi food named kerak telor.

here is our selfie with the stand.

 

 

The next day, I went to visit my uncle and watching movie. I met my super cute little sister. It's been a long time that I don't meet her so it was such a surprise to see her a bit grown up. Later we went to a mall. Watch a movie, had dinner and some ice cream there.

The last day. It was the best one though. I went to visit my Dad's office. You have to know that awesome feeling when you are able to get into the doctor's room without waiting. Hahaha :)) . AFter that we went to Sea World and Dufan. It may sound childish but I really love to see sea animals and play-all-day-long. Here are some picts.

a selfie of me and my dad. looking like twins? lol

our selfie with the paper man :))

pardon our eat-a-lot hobby

she begged me to accompany her taking picture with the clown

The next day I went to Bandung and picked my dog from the hotel. I had lot of fun there. fortunately the traffic was good too. I played with dogs there. My dog also had his first swimming class. It was so cute. Here are the picts and video

here are some new friends I me there

Here is my beloved dog after his swimming class and bathing time :))

 

so here is my holiday. simple yet fun. how about yours? :))

Posted: 07/31/13 EDT  |  Updated: 08/02/13 EDT

Rainbow Mountains In China's Danxia Landform Geological Park 

Yes, we had a hard time believing that this insane mountain formation was actually real, because we haven't fallen down the rabbit hole. But, believe it or not, this technicolor range actually exists.
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The mountains are part of the Zhangye Danxia Landform Geological Park in China. Layers of different colored sandstone and minerals were pressed together over 24 million years and then buckled up by tectonic plates, according to the Telegraph.
Here's a photo showing some detail of the rich "layer cake" action going on.

There's a similar formation in British Columbia called the Rainbow Range formed from a mixture of volcanic rock and various minerals.
While the photos are certainly incredible, there could be some slight photo manipulation going on to make the colors pop a bit more than they would naturally. This Flickr photo could be a more accurate representation, but still, the mountains are amazing.

The formations were shaped into the flowing valleys after thousands of years of rain and wind, and the region has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2010.


Take a look at some more incredible photos of the range below, and tweet us @HuffPostGreen if you have any of your own!

The Danxia landform (Chinese: 丹霞地貌; pinyin: dānxiá dìmào) refers to various landscapes found in southeast and southwest China that "consist of a red bed characterized by steep cliffs".^[1] It is a unique type of petrographic geomorphology found in China. Danxia landform is formed from red-coloured sandstones and conglomerates of largely Cretaceous age. The landforms look very much like karst topography that forms in areas underlain by limestones, but since the rocks that form danxia are sandstones and conglomerates, they have been called "pseudo-karst" landforms.



source : http://www.boredpanda.com/amazing-places/
             http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danxia_landform
             http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/31/rainbow-mountains-china-danxia-landform_n_3683840.html