How I Judge Myself

I am an Indonesian girl whose weight is around 60-63kg, I said around because my weight always changes depending on my eating habits. If I am stressed out then I probably weigh more because I like to eat lots of sweets and junk food, but most of the time I try to eat more greens and fruit. I am 160 cm tall, not too tall, not too short for an Indonesian. I have a round face with a slightly pointed chin, and I am quite chubby. My skin is tanned, like most Indonesian people have. I have an acne problem on my forehead that I am trying to solve since high school. I am a black eyed girl, but I am wearing grey contact lenses every day since twelve grades. One of the reasons why I like to wear contact lenses more than glasses is because I have a flat nose. The glasses always slide down when I look down and it goes up when I smile. I used to have black hair but I got it highlighted into brown now. My hair is thick and curly but people often ask me if I curl my hair everyday because they thought that it was not my real hair. I mean, nobody got time to curl their hair everyday when they have to go to college at 7 in the morning.

I was a very shy girl when I was a kid, but it is kind of change now, I am still shy but not as much as I used to. I have always forgetting about something so quickly, therefore I always like to write down any important things like announcement, homework or something that I have to do. Recently, I try to challenge myself to do new things because I think that you should try to do some activities that you have never done before so that one day when your child ask you about your experience, you can explain it to them and tell them all of the activities that you have done in the past. And what is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?

Journal 1

I have learned several things in my writing class. Things that I never experience before and things that I understand at first, but I understand it even more now. The first thing that the lecturers do is to explains about the topic that we are going to learn in the second semester and they tell us to make a blog. I had never known how to make a blog nor to write a blog. But now, by the help of the lecturers, we all can make a blog. I think that it is more fun to do that because not only we can use the technology for educations but we also love the earth and reduce the use of paper. I have also learned how to make a correct sentence, and how much words that a sentence should consist. I have also learned basic parts of speech: preposition, adverb, and adjective. There are several words that I don't know, and I underlined them or highlight them so I can look them up in the dictionary and find out what their meanings.

Everything is going smoothly so far. Thankfully, I understand every lesson that the lecturers had gave me, and it is not as hard as I thought it would be, and hopefully it will stays that way. Even though I already understand the lesson, sometimes I make a summary or write a note about the important points of each topic so that I don’t forget about it. The writing class really helps me improving my writing, but I’m still struggling about when I should use each tense, and my grammar still all over the place. Hopefully, I could be more careful about each word that I write. I’m grateful to have the lecturer as my guidance, they tell us which one is wrong and shows us the right one.

My Childhood

Me felling unhappy because of the dress and bandana

This is a story about my childhood. When I was a kid, I liked to play with all my friends in the neighborhood. I was a tomboy girl and I ran around looking like a crazy kid who just wanted to have fun and played with her friends.

One day, I don't know what's going on with my friends but all of them had dissapeared. Maybe they're afraid of me or something, I don't know. That time I remembered that there was a person who had a scooter rental. I ran to my house and asked my mom for some money to rent the scooter. I went scooter ridding around the neighborhood, that was the first time I tried to ride a scooter . Suddenly something bad happened, I lost my balance and I found myself lying in the gutter covered with lots of nasty things that smells so horrible. I picked up the scooter and I helped myself up and ran home in tears. My mom was surprised when she saw me and helped me clean up myself. I got lots of scars, but I was crying not because it hurts or anything, but it's because I was ashamed that I have let myself fell into the gutter accidentally.

It was a really embarrassing experience, but when I think about it I considered myself as a lucky kid that had awesome childhood memories. And there's no better way than living your childhood full of joy, innocence, and embarrassment.

About Me

Welcome to "The Quest for Knowledge"

For those of you who don't know me, HELLO my name is Nina Alifia Adira but people called me Nina. I was born in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia. My birthday is on August 17th and I'm turning 19 this year (2016). I'm an English Department student at Widya Mandala Catholic University Surabaya.

This blog was made for writting class assigments. I think writing our assignments in our blog is a really innovative way. I'm new on this kind of things, but I'm willing to learn about it. I'm going to post lots of amazing stuffs that you don't want to miss, so just stay tuned and hope you enjoy it.