Darla!

Category: college

  • Student Teaching Programme

    At first, after getting through the haze and craze of seventh semester and abandoning this blog, I thought I could go back to regular blogging during this student teaching programme. Alas, I kid you not, I’ve become even busier with lesson plans and such. It only took two days for me to realize that teaching is much, much harder than I thought it was. I’ve handled one class full of fifth graders before, but teaching eleventh graders is way more complicated. Teenagers are tricky. It’s quite easy to make children like you, but teenagers hate everybody. I still have a lot to learn.

  • Antigone (yet again)

    Most of my classmates still cannot move on from Antigone. I am no exception. Here are six more pictures I have promised:

  • Antigone (again)

    You guys: Antigone was a huge success.

    I don’t know if my acting was good or bad, but the whole play itself was a good success. Our drama teacher gave us a standing ovation and she actually cried whilst giving us comments at the end of our performance. I rarely have this I’m-going-to-tell-my-grandkids-someday event in my life, so I’m kinda proud of being the titular character of this drama performance.

    OH MAN!

    Here are two pictures of (some parts of) my face as Antigone:

    My eyes were ugly as hell from the lack of sleep, but it was worth it!

    More pictures are to come. I didn’t get the chance to take a lot of pictures of myself as I was too nervous to think. Those fake eyelashes I was wearing were heavy too, so I was actually in a lot of pain during the D-day. But again, it was worth it.

    And with this drama performance, seventh semester officially ended. I’m now in my eighth semester, hopefully my very last semester as a bachelor degree student. I’m student teaching in SMA Negeri 3 Bandung starting yesterday. It’s getting real, yo. Real life is waiting for me and I’m quite excited to kick its butt. Optimism!

  • Antigone

    I completely forget if I had told you that I got a part in my class’ drama production of Sophocle’s Antigone. I auditioned for the part of Ismene, but ended up getting the titular character. Yes, I get to play as Antigone, Oedipus’ daughter. I’ve spent so many afternoons practicing for the part. The play itself is going to be held next week, 22 January 2012, in my faculty building.

    This is my very first experience in acting. Boy am I so nervous.

    My make up as Antigone

  • Friends

    These people are the ones I’ve spent my latest 3,5 years with. And it breaks my heart to say that this might be the last time we took pictures like this.