GOOD OLD DAYS

taniacallista
Nov 30, 2015
3 min read

I spent grade 1-6 in Saint Peter Primary School. I thought the school was kinda awesome because we own a swimming pool where students could swim there anytime they want. Besides, Saint Peter has a large canteen with 10 to 12 food stands. Sushi(s), Indomie(s) (which I used to eat almost everyday back then), bakso Den and even pizzas can be found in our canteen. The school also has two elevators which I love the most because we don’t have to use the stairs.

We also had several events that reduces our ‘effective study’ days.

1. KARTINI day

When looking through pictures of my childhood, I did not expect to find a picture of me being the representative of my class to wear an indonesian traditional outfit, paired with the boy who love(d) to pick his nose, adriel. The fact that at that time we had to walk on a fashion show makes me even more surprised than i already have.

from left to right: vincent - tabita - tania - adriel - sela - elisa

on this picture: adriel trying to eat 5 eggs in a row as fast as he could

2. CREATIVITY day

is an event filled with talent shows where every class performed. I had wushu lessons for several months so me and my wushu friends performed wushu. it was kinda strange to be chosen to perform wushu back then because me and my little brother used to pretend to sleep so our parents didn't woke us up to attend wushu lesson. We both thought the wushu lesson was useless. It was, really. but now when i've grown up, i started to be grateful i learned wushu when i was younger because it was kinda useful for PE.

3. saint peter's day

on this day, there was all kinds of competitions that any students could join. To my surprise, my father registered me for an estafet swimming competition. That time i have only had 4 swimming lessons with my swimming teacher which makes me unconfident for the race. But i still came to school for the race with graciela and (i forgot who) as my teammates. And before the race started, my crush wished me goodluck that cheers me up. I was the first person to jump in the water. I swam as fast as i could, and waited for graciela and my other teammate to swim to the other side. And boom! we won the third place, what a surprise. my father would be a proud fatherrrr

throughout my primary life, i loved grade 3 the most. it was when we used to play football on every second recess (20') which was very tyring. and we would rush upstairs when we heard the bell, breathing heavily once we arrived in class before the teacher came in. the boys were very sweaty that some of them even brought 4 drinking bottles to school! they obviously drank a lot like a camel.

on grade 3, too, i had my first love and also my first cellphone which was nokia. some of my friends had theirs, too. we would brought them to school and ran after one another to take pictures of each other (especially our crush) that we could save on our new phones

i also loved grade 6, with Mr Robert, who had recently moved from netherlands to indonesia as our home teacher. He is the best teacher who taught us english. sometimes on english lessons, he let us to play dodge ball. And every single breaktime, we played dodgeball in class.

Back then, me, biagi, jason, adriel and jessy teamed up to tease our friend Audie. We had many ways to make him cry. we threw his pencil case around when the teacher's didnt see. Sometimes we hid his stuffs. And he would end up crying. The most unforgettable moment would be when one day we smelled something terrible, like someone just poop in the class. and the smell came from Audie but he said he didnt poop on his pants. But we still assumed he poop on his pants because if it was not Audie, who else would?