My favorite time of happiness is when I went on a service trip to Lampung with a medical team. Once a year, there is a medical team that comes from Korea to Indonesia to give free medical services. This team consists of amazing people who sacrifice their leisure for a voluntary work. Moreover, they travel to Indonesia o their own expense .They even bring with them medicines and presents for Indonesians, which are bought with their own money as well. Every year, my family and I join with these amazing people to go on a meaningful service trip.

As usual, the plane from Korea landed at about 10:00 p.m. in Jakarta. I went to the airport with several missionaries to pick the team up. Because it was too late for us to star on our trip, we decided to stay one night at a hotel nearby. We agree to leave to Lampung the next morning.

On the next day, we started on our journey early in the morning. We rode a bus for 3 to 4 hours until we reached the Jakarta harbor. From there, my favorite part of the trip began. We got on a ship that was heading to Bakauheni Lampung. The bus we were riding entered this humongous ship. I was stunned to find trucks, cars and motorcycles all parked on the ship. Because no passengers are allowed to stay in the vehicle, we got out of the bus and looked for a place to rest. We chose to pay for a business room which has the best kinds of chairs and air conditioner. A regular room and an economic room were avoided because we need good rest.

After hours of traveling by the sea, we finally arrived at Bakauheni Lampung, the harbor of Lampung. We got on our bus, which was parked in the ship, and went to a hotel. It took about 2 hours to get to the hotel which is located in the capital city called Bandar Lampung. By the time we were at the hotel, our hungry stomachs signaled our dinner time. Excited to enjoy some good food, I rushed to my room, threw my bags and returned to the lobby. When everyone was back on the bus, we drove off to a restaurant.

After dinner, the whole service trip members had a meeting. We first took time to pray and worship. Then, we spent some time to introduce ourselves so that we would get to know each other. Later, when everyone had gone their turns, we talked about what we would do the next day at the village.

Early morning at 7:00 a.m., we were all headed t our first church to serve. The churches we go in Lampung are ran by one of my father’s disciple’s church. Most of the churches we went to took about more than 3 hours from the hotel, because they are located in very country side of Lampung. We slept in the bus not knowing when we were going to arrive.

Suddenly, when you look out of the window and see some village people all going somewhere in a hurry, that means we are close to the church. When we arrive at the church, there are already more than 100 people, kids, adults and old people who have waited us for hours.

As soon as we arrive, we are off to do our job. Some will be carrying boxes out from the bus, setting up the tables, start handing out orders and more. When we are all set up and ready to start this ministry, we gather up and pray. After praying, we are all headed to do our own jobs.

My job was to guide the patients one by one to the right faculty, such as pediatrics, orthopedics, obstetrics, dentist, internal treatment, and the surgical department. At first, I was worried about messing up and leading the patients to the wrong medical department. But after doing it for more than an hour or so, I was an expert at it. I memorized all the different medical terms in Korean and Indonesian. I felt very accomplished.

Since I hope to become a doctor one day, my father let me look around the whole church, during the service. I saw some doctors that took good care of kids, others who were experts with bones, and surgeons who are my favorite. The surgery doctor was working to cut off a tumor that was located on the back of a patient’s neck. I could not take my eyes off of that surgery. Because it is my dream to become a surgeon one day. After watching two doctors working on it for hours, the head doctor turned over to me and said, “You can assist me with the next patient.” When I heard that I thought I was going to burst with happiness! I had the chance to experience my dream even before college!

When the next patient was lying down on the surgery bed, the head doctor told me to put on my gloves. I was so nervous that my hands were sweaty. The head doctor was patiently waited for me with a generous smile. The first thing the head doctor did was to open up the tumor that was located on the left ear of the patient. When I was ready, he showed me what I was supposed to do. Having watched the previous operations, I understood my task. The head doctor complimented me on my good memory. I was very happy, but at the same time still very nervous. After the surgery, I felt like flying. All the doctors were complimenting me on my good assistance and my parents were very proud of me. Of course, I was very proud of myself, too.

When the last patient left the church in happiness, everyone was very exhausted. It looked like everyone was going to fall asleep in just a few seconds. But I was still too excited to be exhausted. So, I started to pack, and everyone else helped. We went to pizza hut afterwards and had the most delicious dinner ever. After filling our stomachs, we went back to our hotel.

I think, all these amazing moments will never leave my mind. I wish I could take my memories out of my mind and save it in a video camera, so I can watch it over and over again whenever I want to. Every second of the service trip is so special to me that I do not want to lose it. All these memories are my times of happiness.

All schools should make their students and teachers to wear uniforms. When most of the people think about uniforms, they often dislike the idea. A conclusion on wearing uniforms can’t be determined with the purpose of like or hates them; it is a rather bigger problem than that. Uniforms can help the student find more equality in school, and it gives students more school spirit. Wearing uniforms benefit the students, teachers and parents in different ways.

First of all, when all the students are wearing the same uniform in school, it gives a chance for students to feel equal. There will be no difference between rich and poor students. In addition, wearing uniforms will make the students feel united because everyone is wearing the same thing. It gives a feeling that they are more united even though they are from different cultures or background. For example, at our school, there are all kinds of students from different cultures. Therefore, depending on what they wear, characterize their culture. This gives diversity between students. But if all students are wearing uniforms, it will not show dissimilarity of any culture background.

Secondly, if all students and teachers wear uniform, it gives chance for them to represent the school out of campus. For example, if our school had a uniform, it represents our school whenever we go to other school such as, SMA in Salatiga, Madura, Cilacap, or at IISSAC. This will help the students and teachers to represent our school in multiple ways. Students will learn to be proud of our school, in the same time they represent it.

Moreover, wearing uniforms will mostly benefit the students. By wearing uniforms, they will be able to spend less time choosing what to wear. For example, students that live in the dorm spend a lot of time looking for their clothes, but they actually do not have any time for that. Therefore, if there’s a uniform, it will reduce the time for searching for their clothes, and leave more time for study. Also, wearing uniforms will help students to concentrate in class. When all students are wearing different clothes, they just can’t help but to look at other people’s clothes. Besides, when they see something they like, it only increases jealousy and takes away concentration.

Last of all, teachers and parents also benefit from students wearing uniforms. For parents, it’s beneficial to them, because they do not need to keep on buying different clothes for their children, such as clothes that fit the dress code. It will waste their money on unnecessary things. Also, it benefits the teachers because they do not need to worry about student following the dress code. To be honest, teachers are way too busy to just go around, checking whether the students are wearing proper clothing or not. In addition, some teachers intend to not follow dress code themselves. This does not teach the students to follow their dress code. So, it will be easier for the students and the teachers to wear uniforms.

As a result, I believe that all schools should have their students and teachers to wear uniforms. By wearing the same uniform, it will benefit the students, parents, and teachers. The students will be representatives of their school. Also, it will give comfort, equality and unity to the student body. It will help the students to focus on what the teacher is saying and not lose their concentration. Now, what do you think about students and teachers wearing school uniforms?

Have you ever thought about your health? How to keep your body healthy and strong? Well, now is your chance to learn, how to keep your body healthy with simple ways. To prevent from health diseases, low blood pressure and to have longer life, there are a few steps we should be doing. To keep your body healthy and strong, there are few steps that will guide you. All you really need is to keep in your mind to have balanced diet, to perform simple exercise and to take enough sleep.

First of all, we must have a healthy balanced diet. What we eat affects our body. Even we eat food, our body responds in different ways. For example, if you eat fast foods for all three meals every day, your body will only be able to contain small amounts of nutrients. Fast foods contain oil and you will gain weight that will clog your arteries and give heart problems. But if you eat a balanced diet for three meals every day, your body will be able to absorb all the nutrients that it needs and your body will be healthy. This means, you need to eat right proportion and wide variety of foods that comes from the five main food groups. There are fruits, vegetables, cereals and pulses, dairy, and meat products. These products will help you to obtain the essential vitamins, minerals and dietary fiber.

Balancing food is not the only way to take good care of our body but we must also not forget to exercise. Exercising helps our body to gain muscle, lose fat and increase good health. These are some steps to exercise in fun way. First of all start exercising slowly by doing any exercise you enjoy doing, such as walking and jogging. When you are warming up, set a goal and a time to end the exercise. While doing the exercise of your choice be patient and end it by reaching your goal and time. After finishing your exercise reward yourself, such as going to movie that you wanting to watch, or go shopping. For example, basketball is a fun way to exercise and keep up your health. When you play basketball, you get to run which build up your leg and thigh muscles. By dribbling the ball or shooting, it helps your arm muscles to develop. As a result, this helps by cardiovascular to work and muscle to shape you.

Last but not least, you should take enough sleep. The right amount of sleep will remain the good health. If you take less sleep than your normal amount of sleep, it will give bad affects to your body because if you do not sleep for the right amount, it will give stress to your body. Also, from less sleep it will make your whole day moody and negative. In addition, our body needs rest such as our brain, organ systems and all the muscles need rest. For example, after using your computer you turn it off. Why do you do that? It is because if you have your computer on for 24 hours the computer will get hot and will give damage to the system. Human body works the same. Just like computers need rest, our body needs rest from all you’ve done for the day. But it doesn’t mean you need to take more sleep than you need because this will also give not so good affects to your body.

As a result, to continue your good health, you should be doing all the steps that have been mentioned above. Therefore, the three ways to keep good care of your body are by having balanced diet, so that you will not gain fat or loss nutrients. Moreover, exercising will keep your body to work all the muscles. The last step is to take enough sleep that your body needs. We must be doing all the steps to keep our body healthy, just like what it says in the Bible; “Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body. “1Corinthians 6:19-20

Approximately one week ago, February 11, 2025, at a school named Sunview International School, there was a student found dead. Caroline was in 10^th grade. She was found dead in the middle of the school court yard, which is located in front of the office. She had some bruises on her left elbow and both her knees, and her ankle was broken badly, but the cause of death was from her cracked skull. Besides her dead body there were two objects: her school bag and her biology text book.

Everyone in that countryside was afraid to go out because they heard a rumor that the murderer is  one of the student from Sunview School. That’s what everyone said, but no one knew the truth to the most important question: “Who had caused Caroline’s death?”

After analyzing Caroline’s body, the FBI found three different person’s finger prints. The first fingerprint was found on Caroline’s shoulder, and her biology text book, which matched Caroline’s boyfriend, John Wood. The second and third fingerprint was on Caroline’s jacket, Susan Kim’s fingerprint and on her phone, Olivia March’s fingerprint was found; they were Caroline’s best friends.

The first thing that the FBI did was, to send one of their most intelligent detectives to study the case. His name was Detective Matt Morrison. The first thing he wanted to do after hearing the case story was to interview the three suspects. The first suspect was John Wood. Detective Matt led him into a gray room that had a simple brown table and two chairs facing each other. A single bulb above the table barely lit the windowless room.

“How long have you known Caroline?’’ Detective Matt asked.

‘’Since sixth grade.’’

‘’How long have you dated her?’’

‘’About six months.’’ He started to tear up.

‘’How was your relationship with Caroline lately?’’

‘’It… It was great!!” Before John could finish his words, he broke down into tears, so Detective Matt decided to end the interview.

The second interview was with Susan Kim. As she entered the room, Detective Matt saw the circles under her scarlet eyes symbolizing the teary nights. Morrison wasn’t a fan of the tears that came with a murder cases; he wasn’t the emotional type.

‘’How long have you known Caroline?’’

‘’Since first grade.”

‘’Is it true that you were Caroline’s best friend?’’

‘’Of course! We had so many memories and we went through so many things together!’’ Susan said, quickly tearing up.

‘’Ok, that means you must be very close… like sisters. How was Caroline feeling lately?’’

‘’Well, she was very stressed out from school work, but other than that she was… COMPLETELY FINE!!’’ shouted Susan with tears pouring out from her red eyes. The Detective took off his glasses and buried his head in his hands. Never had he experienced seeing so many tears in any of his cases, which made him a bit uneasy. It seemed like Caroline was a beloved person among friends. He ended the interview early.

The next interview was with Olivia. She seemed a bit tense, but maybe it was the room.

‘’How long have you known Caroline?’’

‘’Since, fourth grade.’’

“How was Caroline’s feeling before in death?’’

’’She was fine before-‘’ she broke off, trying to hold back her tears. ‘’Before… before the fight…’’ she managed to choke out. Drops of tears slowly rolled down her cheeks.

‘’What fight?’’ Morrison said. He deliberated if this teenager would have the nerve to murder a friend. He doubted it, but with murder cases, one can never assume anything.

She sobbed for about 10 minutes before she calmed herself enough to be understood. ‘’I… had a crush… on John.. Therefore, I told   Susan about it… I regretted saying it the minute it came out of my mouth, because… I knew she would tell Caroline… I just had to talk to someone… and other than Susan, I only have Caroline and John, and do you really think I could have talked to them about THIS?!’’ Her volume gradually increased as her frustration became clearer and clearer. It was not looking good for Olivia. ‘’I tried to tell… Caroline… that I didn’t want this to get in the way of our friendship and that I could get over John… I really tried… but it was no use. She couldn’t even look at me anymore. She thought I had betrayed her. I only had a little crush on him, it wasn’t anything serious. He would have never even taken a second to look at me… I tried to-‘’ but she couldn’t finish. Olivia was overwhelmed by  her tears. Detective Matt wasn’t sure if he could stand the tears any longer either. ‘’I went to the courtyard with Susan that night and met Caroline. I tried to apologize and Susan tried to help me. Caroline said nothing about apologizing… I left with Susan, right after that. I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH HER DEATH!!’’ Even though she seemed too weak to commit a murder, her tears could have been all just an act. Or maybe they were because of her guiltiness and not because of her lost friend. He ended the interview and went straight to his hotel to relax for the rest of the night.

The next morning, Detective Matt Morrison was fresh and ready to continue working on the case again. But he still couldn’t imagine the case in his mind. He then left to Sunview where he could learn more about the place where she died. Two hours have passed but he still couldn’t come up with anything. Matt decided to act out as if he was Caroline, while he was running towards the gutter he stopped. He looked around the school building that was surrounding him, after few minutes of looking, he stopped in anger. He was looking for security cameras that were facing him but he could find nothing! When he was about to give up on this case, he heard two voices that were coming from upstairs. Their laughter annoyed him so much, he looked up and when he was about to shout at them, he realized that there was a tiny security camera. It was located at second floor left side of school building in the corner. Straight away he ran to the security office in the school, and asked if he could watch the videos that the security camera recorded on that night. After 2 hours of concentrating on watching the video, he finally saw something that would help him further in the case. Better yet, it completely solved. The video showed not only how Olivia and Susan were at the courtyard before Caroline died, but how Caroline actually died.

Morrison set up a conference with the school board, Caroline’s parents, John, Olivia, and Susan. ‘’I have watched the security videos and learned that, no one is responsible for Caroline’s death. Olivia and Susan really did leave a few minutes before she died. But Caroline ran after them when they did, and slipped on the mossy rocks. Her ankle got caught in the cracked gutter, which would explain the broken ankle. To stop herself from falling, she landed on her knees then she fell to her left elbow, which would also explain the bruises. Her head landed right on a rock that split her skull. This explains everything. It was an accident. Case closed.’’

What kind of object is needed to keep track of time? A clock is an item that shows what time it is; whether it is night or day. Generally most people have at least one clock in their house.

A clock shows the second, minute and hour. This circular object has big numbers from one to twelve written around its circumference. Between those big numbers, there are five equally spaced lines which represent each minute. In the middle of the clock, there is a small knob that holds three different sizes of thin metal bars; the second hand, the minute hand and the hour hand. These “hands” are named according to their jobs, which are to keep perfect track of what second, minute and hour it is. On the front side of the clock, there is a glass cover. On the back side of the clock, there is a place for the batteries, which keep the clock running. There is a small knob that is used to adjust and set the “hands” to the right time.

Clocks work when the batteries are installed into the clock. The hands of the clock start to move from top, pointing at the number 12 to right around the circle. The second hand is the stick that moves every second, and if it has moved once around the circle, the minute hand moves up one number. For example, if the minute hand starts at 10 minutes, after the second hand moves once around the clock, the minute hand moves from 10 to 11. When the minute hand moves around the circle once, the hour hand moves to a higher number. For example, after the minute hand moved around the circle once, from the big number 3 it moves to big number 4. If the hour hand moves twenty-four times around the clock, it means that one day has passed. This same cycle goes on and on until the batteries runs out.

A clock is a really important object in life. It helps people know what time it is. Furthermore, it shows that human life revolves around time. Thus, a clock is one of the most useful objects around the world. Now, there are no excuses for not knowing what time it is.

There have been two opinions on women in the U.S. Army being involved in direct ground combat. Both sides have good arguments to support their reason. One of the arguments is women are totally fit for ground combat. On the other hand, some people would say direct ground combat is not for women. Women don’t have enough strength to be involved.

Should women be allowed to be a part of direct ground combat? Some say that the military should not be sexist or separate women from men in only some conditions. Many believe that women are perfectly fit. For example, if women were not allowed to be in direct ground combat, what will they do as the number of men soldiers decrease? As the war goes on more men will die, which means they will lack the numbers of soldiers to fight in ground combat. Consequently, there might be an urgent need that requires more soldiers. Therefore, women in the army should be prepared to go and fight in the ground combat. In addition, there are men who would be proud to serve with women in direct ground combat.

“Women are eligible to serve in all army positions except those that involve direct ground combat.” Some people believe that, “women cannot take the pressure of combat and are not physically strong enough.” For example, if women were allowed to fight in ground combat, it would benefit the enemy because men are faster and stronger than majority of women. This will not benefit the U.S. army in the fight. Moreover, most of the men are created to be stronger than women. Therefore, the army will need women soldiers to serve in a various important roles, rather than joining direct ground combat.

In the U.S. Army today still has not come up with a conclusion on women being involved in the direct ground combat. Women in the U.S. Army today are very confused about whether they should join or should not join in combat. It has not only confused the soldiers, but the government is more puzzled. The ultimate question is who will give an answer to direct ground combat for the women in the U.S. Army today.

My family wanted to have a family trip while in America, before coming back to Indonesia. My parents decided to go to the Grand Canyon. The only information I knew about the Grand Canyon was that it was composed of rocks and fossils. In the beginning, I had no interest at all but I ended up becoming one of the greatest fans of the Grand Canyon.

In the early morning, my family and I started on our trip. My dad was driving with my mom sitting next to him; David and I played in the back. David and I weren’t bored at all because we brought enough movies to watch during our long car ride. I was very excited to go on a trip, but not about the fact that we were going to Grand Canyon.

When it was time for us to eat lunch or dinner, we stopped by a gas station to get some food. I enjoyed eating plenty of fast food such as Subway, McDonald and Burger King. I’m sure my parents spent a lot of money just on this trip. We also stopped our ride when my dad was too tired from driving.

At night, we rested at camping places. We were well prepared for out rip; supplies from Big 5 and other big markets came in handy. With the supplies we brought we slept in our new tent, made fires with our new logs and cooked food to fill our stomachs. If we wanted to take a shower, there was one place provided nearby, a public bathroom that had a place to shower and toilets. To use that, we had to take turns with everyone else in the camping ground. This might sound like I had some difficulties, but not at all. Camping life was one of the best parts of this trip.

At last, after hours of car driving and camping, we finally arrived at the Grand Canyon. When I first saw it, I couldn’t close my mouth because it opened wide in amazement. I was astonished on the greatness of the Creator. Once again, I was reminded of the wonderful and beautiful things that God had made. My trip to Grand Canyon ended with happiness and satisfaction, which I did not expect in the beginning.