Love and To be Loved in Sampoerna - My Social Class

Have you ever felt to be the best in the class in terms of academic achievements? Have you ever felt to win over your classmates in terms of academic score? Have you ever felt scared of helping them out so they can go beyond your score? 

Let us be honest to our feelings. I am sure that there are some people who have that kind of thought. Ambition is human nature as in realist theory, it tells us that states have principle called ‘statism’ if it is applied to human in my opinion it will be defined as human thinks themselves as the main actor of this life so they need to do everything in order to achieve their personal interests. Even though this kind of theory will not be completely appeared so in nowadays human but it still exists.

For the first and second questions, I think it is really fine to answer ‘yes’ but it is a big ‘no’ for the third question. I am the kind of person who used to think ‘yes’ for all the above questions until high school.

when I was 10th grader in X SOC-RG. the man in the middle is my economy teacher for 3 years

In senior high school I was luckily accepted in school which I often mention in my blog. Yes, it is Sampoerna Academy Boarding School. I actually did not realize that I slowly change into someone who really love to share everything. I was in social class which contained of 11 other crazy people for 3 years from Monday to Friday all together. Maybe some of you will have the prejudice that it is so boring. Then I admitted that I thought about the same thing when the very first time entering the class. I even ever had the kind of discourse to move to science class. Time passed by. I never even think about that again. I enjoyed being there with those people. I am glad that we get really close with the teacher. So we never find ourselves lonely during high school. We played that much during the class but we definitely did our tasks as well. it felt great to see how we grew during these 3 years. Discovering what we like and what we don't like, discovering what our talents are and so on.

 

when we were on the eleventh grade with Ms Yuna as Sociology teacher and Ms Endang as Math teacher

“the presence of other people enhancement is not the absence of your own enhancement” 

This quote which just came to my mind few minutes ago pushes me to immediately write this. (hehe). This quote really explained my feeling when I shared something to my friends. There were kind of satisfactory feeling and ‘a proud friend’ feeling when they got succeed afterwards. It is really true old people always say “the more you give the more you get”. Maybe it sounds so cliché. But it is real.

In SABS, everyone has their own talents, I do not know and still question about how they recruited all of us with these diverse backgrounds, characteristics, talents  at the very first time, even before we discovered our owns. I think I need to dig and undergo a thorough research to find out about this hehe. They might not be good in academic but they have another ability that might people who are smart academically cannot do it. Just like one of my friends called Momo. I always admire him for his amazing ability that I cannot do.  He also played important role during my high school. he is also one of the people who make me realize 'helping others never disadvantages yourself'. From outside, you might not see him as a person I see him right now so let us not to judge people by its cover. And there are still a lot of talents that I cannot state it one by one. This kind of diverse talents and backgrounds we have turned into something that worked wonderfully in activities that require teamwork just because we fulfilled each other. so the differences have never be an obstacle to achieve collective goals.

the innocent faces with the maroon uniform

My social class was unique and complete. We had everything we needed. In theater show and movie making tasks, we already had people who specialized in each parts. The writer and director, the editor, the camera men, the actress and actor, the logistic men, and so on. We often feed each other with our homeland foods in the class. (cause apparently, students in my class especially rarely bring money to the class so no 'jajan' buying foods during the school break time) It was no burden to share cause it will be always enough for only 12 people. There is a girl named Lutfi but she was best known as 'Mae' (mother). she sometimes act like a mother and sometimes she act really childish. 

this is mae. maybe you can have your description about her through this picture

i was asking her to smile and she said "no, if I smile too much people will get bored". well I believe that smiling is bringing more good than harm. it is healthy, but she thinks the opposite.

There are Nisa and Dina with me always whenever I go. people most likely to say that when there is Nisa then there is Dina and Jihan. it is quite a long story about our friendship and they started it because I was sometimes clumsy and calm type of person and Dina started our conversations awkwardly. She asked wether Bukittinggi (my homeland) boys are handsome or not. Then about Nisa, I do not remember how exactly, but there was this unforgettable moment when we did not know each other yet. She stayed next to my room and once she approached me at the dorm and said "maybe you can lower your voice volume because my roommate is sleeping right now" I did not notice that my voice was that loud till it reached her room. I was so embarrassed. hehe. as the time goes by, we appeared to like the same subject which is Economy. Then we had ever joined an economy competition and grabbed the second award. In college, Dina and Nisa got accepted into study that is in line with economy thing as well.

after the economy competition

outdoor class

this was when we were having photoshoot for leaving book as I am not mistaken

The proudest part is by knowing bad and good characteristic of your friend does not make us tear apart. They accept it. There, I learn to accept both sides of each people. Maybe It seems easy thing to deal with but believe me it is not. It needs a process that you might not notice it. Because you live with it. We were having conflicts like normal kids but we dealt with it.

my business partner

I had a company called UYE in high school which contained these two people above Momo and Annisa. Nisa was the financial director and Momo was the IT director. we went through many things from the warning letter for UYE because we ordered that much till we did not have space to save it, the second warning letter for sticking our company sticker on the table, but yeah beyond that we had a wonderful experience that we intended to keep this company and reborn it someday. 

This school has taught me to share, care and never leave anyone behind. And this school made me feel togetherness in every aspect. This school is a miracle to each one of us. It never stops giving us surprises, values, life lessons, a roller-coaster experience which really worth to be spread to all over the world. the most important thing is it taught us "how to love and to beloved" ~ anything comes from the heart it will arrive in the heart as well ~