At first, I thought the middle school level is gonna be quite challenging for me, and especially because of the new subjects and also because I had to try to set a good example for my friends, as I received the scholarship, and I should show them that I deserved to get it, and also maybe because the policies that are more strict than the ones in grade school.
I tried to do the best during this school year, not only because I wanted to get good scores, but I also set some goals that I really wanted to achieve this school year, like not breaking a single school rule, and also to get great scores. To achieve this goals, I tried to follow every school and also do every homeworks there are and submit it on time. I also studied for the test really well so that I could get good scores. I am proud with my semester reports, because I don’t see any bad scores on my report, and I even improved in some of the subjects, which made me felt that I had achieved my goals for the semester, and I also felt that I should be able to do better. All of my scores are above 80 points and I felt proud of it. The subject that I felt most proud of is Reacter. Last year, I don’t really get the whole subject, and because of that I always got quite bad scores. But this year, I tried even harder than before, and my hard work had given me benefits. For the first time in my life, I got above 90 points for Reacter.
I also tried to set a good example for my friends in class. I always do all my tasks and submit them on time, I never missed any of them. I also tried to do my best in every subject in school, even though the ones that I considered quite boring, which I sometimes felt very difficult. Even though I don’t really like them, I still tried hard to achieve the best. I always thought that if I actually believed in myself, I could actually do it. So I studied hard, and even harder when the tests came, so that I could actually get a good score. After the PTC, I felt that I’ve achieved my goal for this year.
The last two years, I’ve achieved one of the biggest goals that I ever had in my life. That time, I wanted to be the youngest completer of the Kumon English method in Indonesia. I tried really hard that time, and I actually did it. Then, I made one more goal, which is to finish Kumon Math in three years. At first, I thought that three years was not enough. But I tried my best to finish it in three years. But in fact, I finished it in two years. I was quite surprised because I could actually finish it earlier than I expected. Many of my friends asked me how am I able to do that, and I just answered it honestly. Since I was young, I always set some goals that I wanted to achieve in the beginning of the year. Then I would always try my best to achieve those, and in the end I actually could do it.
During the last two year, I’ve won my first writing competition, which was held in school during the “Bulan Bahasa”. I’ve enjoyed writing since I started to write short stories when I was in the first grade. But, at first I just do this for fun, and it is nothing serious. But after I won that competition, I started to realize that I should make a goal to finish my best story this year. Whenever I had a spare time, I also write it. Sometimes I felt too lazy to do it. But then I always remembered that I had to achieve my goal because I really want it so badly, and then do it. I had no intention of publishing it, but who knows someday I would, because sometimes I really wish I could have my own book.
For this year, I really wanted to be able to still receive the scholarship so that I could actually make my school fees cheaper for my parents to pay. Besides that, I actually wanted it so that I could be more determined to achieve more when I actually did it. I also wanted to continue on my last goals for the next school year, which is to be able to get even better scores and to follow all the school rules. Moreover, for this year I wanted to finish my other stories, so that I could actually accomplish my dream someday, which is to have my own book. I also wished that I could join some more competitions, so that I would have more experience and so that I’m able to learn new things, and also learn from all my failures. Hopefully I could achieve them.
