“Real English debate championship”

A few days ago, my English teacher, Mrs. Sumar told me and my friends about a real English debate championship in Senior High School 1 Banjarbaru. Because Mrs. Sumar was one of the jury for this debate. We were invited to go there on Tuesday, February 17^th 2009. We were very happy because that was the first experience for us to watch the real English debate championship directly. The purpose was to learn something from the debate. We must know how the real debater did their job. Before that, we had a practice of small debate interstudents of grade Eighth A of Junior High School 1 of Banjarbaru. The first turn were mine and my partners, they were Mitha and Karin. And our opponents were my best friend, Hafiz and his partners, they were Bayu and Kornelius. I thought, It was not real debate because we didn’t know what our jobs and how to do that, so we did it unsuccessfully.

Then, on Tuesday, February 17^th 2009, we went to Senior High School 1 of Banjarbaru after we had a math test. Because of that, we got the second turn to watch the debate after grade Eighth B of my school. Actually, we got the first turn, but we got math test. We went to Senior High School 1 of Banjarbaru on foot, because the school was near our school. I went there with Dewi and Yesa, because the other students of my class were already there. When Dewi, Yesa, and I came there, some student of the Senior High School 1 of Banjarbaru commitee asked us to fill our name and our signature in book of attendance there. Then, we went to the second floor of school. Then, we met again with the other students of my school. After that, a few students of grade Eighth A and B of my class joined in one class room. They talked about something busily. And there were some students of the other Senior High School preparing a match of debate.

We waited and waited, but the debate was not started. Then, we moved to the other room near the stairway, after someone of the commitee told us to do so. Because of being tired and thirsty, Dewi, Fina, Tyas, Maya, Vina, Aisyah and I went out of the room to a small cafe opposite of school. We bought some snack and some beverage there. And we came back to the room. We still had to waited and waited our turn to watch the debate competition. Then, around 02.30 p.m, our turn was finnaly came. The students of grade Eighth A of my school whose absen number one until ten entered to watch the fourth match of the debate. But, some students were absent. A few minutes later, some students went out from the debate room. And so, in the room there were just Andri and me as students from Junior High School 1 of Banjarbaru who still watched the English debate championship until finished. I wrote my opinion of the speakers of affirmative team and negative team. I think, the debate was so interesting.

The affirmative team was the students fromSenior High School 3 of Banjarmasin team A, they were Laksonaria as the first speaker, Anggraini Triastuti as the second speaker, and Nour Zatullah as the third speaker. And the negative team was students from Senior High School 1 Martapura team B, they were Sauqina as the first speaker, H. Rahmatullah as the second speaker, and Novianti A as the third speaker. The motion for the debate was “this house believe that the strong leadership is the key to nation development”.

I think, the first speaker of affirmative team just gave a little of definition of the motion, and she often read the paper, and she also spoke with the low volume, and her emotion was in a stabil condition. The second speaker of affirmative team spoke with loud volume and emotionnally, she spoke clearly and quickly, she was very ambitious. The speaker of affirmative team was getting stuck with the frequently words when he delivered his arguments, his emotion was stabil, He said his argument for a long time.

The first speaker of negative team had a good arguments, she often read the paper, and she spoke with the low volume, and her emotion was in stabil condition. The second speaker of negative team could speak well without getting stuck and read the paper, he did it suddenly, he could response the argument of the affirmative team quickly. The third speaker of negative team spoke quickly and often read the paper.

These are all of about the real English debate championship in Senior High School 1 of Banjarbaru. Thank you for reading my article and I hope we can participate in a real debate, too.

“The Funny Sunday”

Hi, my name is Eka Rizkiyah. I am a student of grade eighth A in BANjARBARU 1 Junior High School now. Every Sunday, my parents always went to our garden. The garden was far away from my house. And I stayed at home with my sister. Usually, I was watching TV alone when my sister played with her friends outer the house. November 15^th 2008, my parents and I had guests. They were my uncle, aunt, and cousins from Tanjung. They visited to my house. And November 16^th 2008, my parents, uncle and aunt went to the garden. My cousins and I stayed at home together.

But, my body was not health. I was not feeling well. I had headache, stomachache, flu, and cough. Before my parents went, my mother said, “Didn’t eat late and didn’t forget to take medicines!” My cousins and I just watched TV in the family room. My cousins and I just spent time with watched favorite cartoons a long day. In the afternoon, I took a nap until 14.30 pm. Then, I woke up. My cousin’s friend, Indra was taken by his family. He came back to his house in Tanjung.

A few hours later, my stomach was painful. Ouchhh!!! My stomach was hungry. I went to my kitchen, and I took plate, spoon, some rice, and a fish. Then, I ate soon. After ate, I took the medicine with a glass of water. I came back to the family room. There, I looked one of my cousins, Adiyah. She was two years old. She was not school yet. She pretended to call her mother with a phone that can’t work. Actually, she never knew her mother’s cellular phone number. It was so cute. All of people who looked her to be laugh. She made the situation to be noisy. I forgot my painful.

Around 17.00 pm, my parents came back but her parents didn’t come back yet. A few minutes later, her parents came back, she was so happy. And she screamed loudly. It made I was surprised. The house was noisy with voices until evening. Then, I was sharing with Erma, my friend. She came here with my uncle. Erma and I shared the events that happened with us. That spent long time in the evening. Then, my mother got me to have dinner. I had dinner. After that, the situation was silent. All of people slept already. Then, I went to bed. Next day, Monday, November 17^th 2008, when my family came back to their house in Tanjung, I was studying in my class room.

Although my body was not health last Sunday, November 16^th 2008, I stole feeling happy. Because I stayed at home with my cousins. And I didn’t feel alone again. My house was noisier than every Sunday which I stayed at home alone. I had many friends to share and watched film cartoons.

Banjarbaru, Indonesia, November 19^th 2008

By Eka Rizkiyah

Hello world!

IDENTITY OF ME

Name : Eka Rizkiyah

Born : Banjarbaru, November 5^th 1995

Favorite foods : Noodles, Fried rice, Fried chicken, Meat ball, and soon.

Favorite drink : Soft drink, water, juice, milk, tea, coffee, and soon.

Favorite sport : Swimming, Playing badminton, Playing basket, and soon.

Address : I live on Karamunting 1 Street No. 7E, Banjarbaru, Kalimantan Selatan, Indonesia

Hobby : Reading the funny book, Playing Badminton, Watching film cartoons.

Hi!!! Eka here!! Don’t forget to put some comments after read my article!!!!

And, Thanks for you who look and read my article. OK!!!! ^_^