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Sanggee

Posted by sanggee gultom on February 10, 2011

My name is Jumaida Novita Gultom, my parents gave me the name. Jumaida took from the Islamic month Jumadilakhir, and Novita took from November because I was born on November. And the last Gultom is my family name. But my grandmother would not call me with that name. Since I was born my grandmother called me with Sanggee, I don’t know what the meaning is but she always calls me with this name. When anybody asked, “who’s this child name?” She will answer,”Her name is Sanggee”. All my relatives call me Sanggee even my parents and my siblings called me so.

When I was in the first grade, I was misunderstanding about my own name. I don’t even know that my name is Jumaida Novita Gultom not Sanggee. When my home teachers call the roll the students I was crying out loud because she did not call my name but all the other students. My home room teacher didn’t why I was crying so out lout. She got confused when I tell her that my name is Sanggee, because she couldn’t find the name on the name list.

As time goes on I finally understand that Sanggee is just a nick name, my real name is Jumaida Novita Gultom. When I am in the formal situation I will introduce myself as Jumaida Novita Gultom and when I am with my friends they will call me with Sanggee. And even some of my friends do not know that my real name is Jumaida Novita Gultom.

I always thought that this is how my grandmother expresses her love to me by giving me the name Sanggee. You can call me with Sanggee or Jumaida Novita Gultom. I love both of my names.

My Boarding House Sarmin 23

Posted by sanggee gultom on February 4, 2011

My boarding house is an ordinary boarding house with many rooms and many people inside. When the first time I arrived in my boarding house with my sister I was really surprise because some of my home stay friends were sitting around the corridor and all of them scream: “oleh - oleh, oleh - oleh …” to me and my sister. At that time, the thing that cross in my mind was, how come that so many people who have different background, personality and culture could stay together in one same home? I never thought that I will live in this kind of home before. This the first time for me live saparated with my family. I was thought in my mind, could I live in this home like what they have done? I don’t know.

Just like the other boarding house, when morning come all the people will be stand in line for the restroom. Here, in my boarding house we have our own stand in line style, when somebody inside the restroom you can yell at her like: “hey, who’s inside?” and then somebody inside will answer: “me” then you say: “call me after you, ok." This is how we make our stand in line every single morning.

At the time goes by, I slowly could adapted with all the personnel. When the night come we always gathering at one room, eat to gather and sharing all the things that what we have done or what happening at the day and all the people will give their own opinion about that thing by turns. For whatever what you sharing all the people will give good respond on it even sometimes they will make some joke on it too. At our boarding house we have same interest. We are very interesting in Korean and Japanese drama. We even learn the languages by ourself. Everytime we go to the book store we always buy Japanese language book. When one of us has a new DVD Korean or Japanese drama, we could stay awake all night long just to watch the drama until the end and sometimes some of us choose to be absent for the college on the next day.

I never thought that I will live with somebody outside my family but here in my boarding house I feel really comfortable, we are just like a big family even we come from a different background. I meet many great people here in my boarding house. I feel that I really lucky have such a great boarding house's friend like them. Even, if you come to my boarding house you will see it’s not as great as what you could imagine. Who would have thought that here in my boarding house has such great person inside like Marissa noriti, she is a girl who has many activities in GNO, Moyang kasih dewi merdeka, a redactor for a college journalist, Wahyuni, a girl that has many social activities, she has at least once a month social service, Lilis Handayani was the best student on her ledger even she really freak out about Japanese, Halimah is one of the best doctor I ever met and all my great boarding house's friends. Our boarding house just like a ramshackle house but we love it so much.

Now some of my friends already moved. Sometimes I feel that I really miss all of them. But where ever we go we will always connected each other because we are one big family Sarmin 23 always.

Loving your family

Posted by sanggee gultom on February 1, 2011

How deep is your love to your family? What will you do if you are incredibly poor and you have opportunity to get away from it? Will you take the opportunity without think twice or….?

The storyline of the drama Yamada tarou monogatari walks on this notion. The leading character, Yamada Tarou is the eldest son of an incredibly poor family living in Tokyo. He has 6 siblings. His Father always journey around the world and his mother is a housewife with weak body. He is very intelligent. He studies at one of the best high school in Japan with scholarship. He is well mannered young man. In addition to that he’s also good looking. No wonder everyone likes him. It makes no one realize the actual condition of his family background. Yamada works part-time job to help his family.

Yamada’s younger brother, Jirou loves baseball very much. Jirou is offered to join the school team. The problem is he has to provide 27.000 yen for enrollment fee. How their family is on earth can afford such amount of money? But all Yamada tarou wants is to help his sibling’s dreams come true. Indeed to collect the money needed, Yamada works several part-time jobs. Everyday after school he works as a waiter in a restaurant for several hours. In the night he works on the road construction until morning. It makes Yamada tarou looks tired and fall asleep during classes.

As the eldest son in the family, Yamada encourages his younger siblings not to be afraid to dreams. In every new semester, he asks his family to write down their plan for the particular semester. Yamada teach the other family member live in honor. One of the commandments of living with honor is to never have debt, simply because there is no way to pay it back.

Remember I told you that Yamada tarou is very intelligent? Yamada Tarou is very interested in bio-technology and his dream since he was much younger is to become a scientist in bio-technology. At the end of his study in high school, a US University offers him a full scholarship to study about bio-technology. He refuses the offer instantly. He is thinking if he goes to US to study, then who will take care of his family? He wants to study bio-technology so bad. But it’s also not negotiable for him if it is not in Japan where he can take care of his family. Actually, he can finance his family while he studies in America. But he feels he doesn’t want to get far from his family because the most important thing for him is get closer and sharing everything with his family. If you were Yamada, will you take the same decision? Will you put your future at stake just to be close to your family?

Eventhough Yamada tarou refuses the scholarship that offered by a US University but deep in Yamada tarou’s heart he still have a dream to be a scientist in bio-technology. With the help of his homeroom teacher, Yamada secures a scholarship to study in the bio-technology department. Finally his dreams come true. Yamada tarou is accepted in Jounin University with scholarship. It’s one of university with the best bio-technology department in Japan.

Seeing what Yamada tarou have done to his family I feel that I have done nothing to my family. Yamada inspire me to do my best to my family. Now what you have done to your family?