Once Upon A December 31st

As told to Pilot, the dog, in Indonesian.



Once upon a time there was a white boy and a brown girl. The boy had been travelling around the world. The girl whose hair was black, long, and beautiful (the boy's blond hair was long and pretty, too) had never been away from her village.


They came from places a half globe away, 12-hour apart. Apparently it was destined that they met each other in a small town called Athens, Ohio. They went to the same school and took the same classes. For some magical reasons, the boy fell in love with the girl. And the girl felt the same. Both were so stupid that after eight months of dating they decided to get married on the cold afternoon of December 31st.


Thirteen years later they were still together. They found out that they were not that stupid after all. In all those years they learned about themselves and each other, and also about the world. On the not-so-sacred night of their anniversary after having sushi for dinner, they promised to help each other to become a better person in the many many years to come.

THE END

On Being an Editor

When I was in middle school, I belonged to my class wall magazine team. Once a month on an afternoon, six or seven of us got together in our school selecting various articles, from mass media or written by my classmates, that were submitted during the month. We then tried to put them together on a large piece of paper. We decorated it with colorful paper linings, pictures, added some artictic touches here and there. After all was done, we displayed it up on the frame on the wall outside our classroom. We were always excited about how the other students would think about it. Sometimes our wall magazine was quite a talk, but sometimes it was not that outstanding. Oh well .... we tried our best.

Last week I put together my students articles into a newsletter. I used a newsletter template I found online. It was Microsoft Office Publisher. At first it was frustrating as the paragraphs and lines kept moving and disappearing. But, after I got the hang out of it, I found it much easier and found myself enjoying the process.

After about 8 hours of work, here is my debut in newsletter editing. http://www.embassyofindonesia.org/education/docpdf/KoranElektronik_ACI_Des2011.pdf