Speech Fest 2015

On April 30th 2015, Sekolah Mentari Grand Surya had an English Speech Fest. The theme was about the "Youth of Today". The Grade 8, they made their own speech to be shared. Meanwhile, the Grade 7 acted their declamation that was printed.

The speech was divided into two batches; the first and the second. The first batch was held in the morning at 9:30 am, while the second batch was on the afternoon at 12:30 pm. Both of the batches were from the EFL and ESL and was held in the auditorium.There were 53 performers. In the first batch, there were 26 performers, and 27 performers in the second batch. The order of the performance was like zebra, which were by turns; grade 8, then grade 7, until the show ended. The grade 8 dressed formally, while the grade 7 dressed according to their declamation. 

The teachers invited the grade 6 and grade 5 to score each of the performance.The host was Mr. Josh. But before the show starts, we sang our national anthem; Indonesia Raya, that was lead by Calista from grade 8. 

The speech that we made were mostly based on our life experiences, that we were able to feel it while performing. The grade 7 acted according to their declamation and we could enjoy it, even though a few of them didn't memorize well. 

We practiced a month before the show. During the show, some of the performer forgot their line, but it ended well and the teachers were satisfied. The speech and declamation were interesting and fun. 

By: Shania, Tamara, Thea and Bastian

Junior High Talkshow

On Friday, February 27, 2015, we had a small talk show in our school. The name of the talk show is Mentari Book Review 2015. It’s not just a talk show, we also had a little performance or “Intermission” for each segment. Each class has their own hosts.

The Grade 8 had their talk show earlier in the morning and the Grade 7 had theirs later in the afternoon. It began with the ESL Class (English Second Language). They reviewed the novel “The Holes”. The host was Reynaldi and Grecia.

Then, continued by EFL Class (English First Language). This time, they were talking about “The Kite Runner” novel. And the hosts were different too. Their were: Bastian and Vianca.

Both class talked about the characters, plot and the whole analysis of the novel, and each segment had its own intermission number as mentioned. Right after that, it’s done and we resumed our normal classes.

            Around 1:15 PM, grade 7 started the talkshow. It began with the intermission or the performance by Kishella and Mr Josh where she sang the song “ Let it Be” and was accompanied by the guitar played by Mr. Josh. It ended well, because the audience also sang along.

            Then, as usual, it started b the ESL Class. The hosts are Alan and Tanezia. The grade 7 was discussing about the novel “ Journey to Jo’ Burg” by Beverly Naidoo. It seems that the audience were really interested with the plot of the story.

            After the last intermission, the EFL Class proceeded with. The book they were conversing about “ The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas by John Boyne”. The hosts for the EFL Class were Pheobe and Adzra. After the talk, the show finally ended at 14:20 PM.

By: Bastian,Tamara, Shania, Thea

Chinese New Year

This year, the activities are the same like few years ago. The activities are; watching barongsai, and performing the show. The shows were like singing chinese songs, dancing with the chinese songs, story telling with mandarin stories, and even fashion show with the mandarin songs, sometimes, playing angklung or instruments with mandarin songs. The outfit, as usual, girls use cheongsam, and the boys uses red shirt. But, this year, the theme was about jasmine flower, so we used green shirts.

            The barongsai performance was supposed to be on 8 AM, but because it was raining, the performance had to be postponed to 11 AM, in the auditorium and corridor. After that, as usual we conduct our performance from grade 1 to grade 8 and was ended with a chinese greeting by the grade 7 and 8.

That’s about what we do each and every year. After the performance we had lunch and went home.

by:  Bastian, Tamara, Shania, Thea

My Bucket List

I still do not know what I want to do for life right now, but I have some things I want to do, like:

1. traveling the world,
2. witnessing an eclipse,
3. owning different kinds of gaming console,
4. able to play different kinds of musical instruments,
5. having a job that I enjoy,
6. able to play different kinds of sports,
7. experience living in another country,
8. able to talk fluently in different languages,
9. owning a telescope,
10. and invent something cool.

It is not really necessary, so if i don't get to do it, it's fine. It is only for fun.

- Tamara -

Shania's List

My Bucket List

        There’s still a lot of things that I never experienced or never been. I’m 14 and I like to experience things that I’ve never do, I also like challenging things. Since I’m still 14, I think I still can achieve what I want. I like travelling, adventure, luxury and fashion. This are some of my bucket list:

1. Meeting Justin

2.Go scuba diving

3.Be a millionare

4.Meet magcon boys

5.Help to fix Indonesia’s environment

         6.Travel to lots of country.

      7.Meet youtubers

      8.Help the poors

      9.Get a Scholarship

      10.Live in a dorm that’s gonna be fun.

I really hope that I can do those things and be able to say “I’ve completed my bucket list”.

 by: Shania

My Bucket Lists

My Bucket Lists

When I was a kid around  7 or 8 years old, I got a bunch of bucket list, but suddenly, when I reach 13 years old, I don’t have any idea what are my bucket list. So, I decided to have;

1. Meet One Direction
2. Selfie with the members of One Direction
3. Watch NBA live
4. Selfie with Lebron James, Stephen Curry, Kobe Bryant, and othyer NBA playes
5.  Go to America- Hollywood, USA, New York
6. Meet many Hollywood actors and singers like Taylor Swift, Beyonce, VS angels, Ariana Grande and take selfie with them.
7. Go to London and Dubay
8. Get scholarships,
9. Become a billionare
10. Being happy for the rest of my life, no pressure at all and no conflicts

So after all, i just realize that i have a lot of bucket lists, and i hope that those would come true. 


 Thea 

My bucket list

My bucket list 

Life occurs only once. I wanna do something fun. And i mean real fun. Here are some things I wanna do.

-Get real close to a black hole.

-Invent an all terrain car.

-See XY cannis major

-Travel across space at least 50 light years.

-Experience time travel.

-Meet Danil "Dendi" Ishutin, or the whole team.

-Make an online game

-Try surviving in an island, with no help.

-Get a gun

-Cook a 5 hat dish

So yeah basically that's it. If i don't get to do it, well at least 1 of them.

-Bastian-