LIA Fun Race

“Everyone please sit down in the back of your group number” shouted Mrs. Irnawati, one of teacher in LIA English Course. We would have fun in LIA Fun Race 1^st December 2012.

I sat in the front of my group number. It’s twelve. Behind me, there were six girls from my class CV3. They’re Putu, Dimmy, Mei, Rindy, Lince, and Yuyun. I was the one man in my group. But, It was okay with me.

Mrs. Irnawati asked every group to make yell-yell. There’re 15 minutes to make it finished. My group discussed it together and finished the jingle. I remembered it.

Twelve group! Twelve group! Rock you!

Twelve group! Twelve group! Fight you!

One, two, three, go!

(voice 2 with Iwak Peyek song tone) Oooo oooo oooo ooo ooo ooo

(voice 1) Twelve group is the best

(voice 2 with Iwak Peyek song tone) Oooo oooo oooo ooo ooo ooo

(voice 1) Twelve group is number one

Twelve group! Smart! Innovative! The best! Go go go yeah! Go go go yeah!

The fun race began with yelling the jingle in front of all groups. Then we raced post to post. There were five posts. First post is ‘Time Machine’. We got many photos of place in Surabaya. The instruction was to make it in wall magazine with photos, name of place, year of build, and the function of the building. Fortunately, two of girls in my team is originally from Surabaya. So this post was so easy to us. We’ve got one!

The second post was ‘Sparkling Surabaya’. In this post, we must answer all the question of Surabaya in race of ‘bakiak’. We’re in fortune. Four of our team had thin body. So, it’s easy to rely in bakiak race. We got 10 answers.

Answer 1. Pucang and Keputran

Answer 2. Kalimas and Jagir

Answer 3. Wolfs, tigers, and lions

Answer 4. Gramedia, Togamas, and Uranus

Answer 5. Tugu Pahlawan and HOS

Answer 6. Sura and Baya, in front of Surabaya Zoo

Answer 7. RKZ, RS. Dharmo, RS. Haji, HCOS, and RS. Darmahusada.

Answer 8. Kenjeran

Answer 9. Shangrilla and Sheraton

Answer 10. Al Falah, Al Akbar, and Agung

However, the teacher asked us to arrange the short crazy story which contained those all answers. Idea flew in my head. You could read our crazy story

“I had a dream. I went to Surabaya to see the symbol of this town, ‘Sura and Baya’ in the front of Surabaya Zoo. I decided to buy Surabaya map in Gramedia, Togamas, and Uranus. But I didn’t get it. So, I went to Keputran and Pucang to get map. But I got lost direction. I stuck at Kenjeran. I was too tired so I decided to stay in Shangrilla instead of Sheraton. The next day, I was ready to explore the city. I went to Tugu Pahlawan and HOS. Unfortunately, I fallen down in Kalimas and I swam until Jagir. I washed my body in Al Akbar. I washed my clothes in Agung Mosque and I dried it in Al Falah. I continued my trip. But wolfs, tigers, and lions from zoo catch me. When I awake, I have my body in RS. Dharmo. My mother told me that I had visited many hospitals before such as RKZ, HCOS, RS. Darmahusada, and RS. Haji.”

The third post was ‘Foodcourt’. One of us, I picked Yuyun. Her eyes would be closed. And I was a navigator for her. The others guys stood in their position. Well, the navigator should guide the blind one to reach the others person and took paper from them. After all paper collected, we arranged it into paragraph. It was about ‘lontong balap’. We had 5 minutes to memorize it then we must present it with our own word. We did it well.

The fourth post was ‘From Zero to Hero’. Dimmy and me took a role to ride the tricycle from the post to the end of road. The others did a puzzle. It’s the picture of one amazing person. Since they got the name of that picture, they text Dimmy. Dimmy read the text ‘Hermawan Kertajaya’. I took the description of that person and memorize it when we ride the tricycle back to the post. I pass that post well.

Last but not least is ‘Sing in Sync’ post. In this post, we got a Surabaya song with the tittle ‘Jembatan Merah’. The lyrics must translate in English. And we must sing it with English. What the pity my team. When we began to sing it, Rindy and Yuyun who know the tone is blanked. So the song was so bad. But we were in confidence and continued our song. We pass that post.

We’ve done all the post. This is our lunch time. We got hoka hoka bento. Yummy!

The result of LIA fun race is unpredictable. My team got second runner up place. We got a prize and won IDR 300.000. IMHO, my team could be the runner up or winner if Sing in Sync didn’t kill our points. All posts got above 90 points, but in our last post, we just got 76. All of all, we’re happy with this. We got a lot of fun, meals, and prize. Go go go Yeah! We’re also spent IDR 20.000 to treat our classmate next Saturday. So you guys must attend next week class! Seeya.