bahasa inggris 2

   -       short story

Elephant and Friends

One day an elephant wandered into a forest in search of friends. He saw a monkey on a tree. “Will you be my friend?” asked the elephant. Replied the monkey, “You are too big. You can not swing from trees like me.” Next, the elephant met a rabbit. He asked him to be his friends. But the rabbit said, “You are too big to play in my burrow!” Then the elephant met a frog.

“Will you be my friend? He asked.

“How can I?” asked the frog.

“You are too big to leap about like me.”

The elephant was upset. He met a fox next.

“Will you be my friend?” he asked the fox.

The fox said, “Sorry, sir, you are too big.”

The next day, the elephant saw all the animals in the forest running for their lives. The elephant asked them what the matter was. The bear replied, “There is a tiger in the forest. He’s trying to gobble us all up!” The animals all ran away to hide. The elephant wondered what he could do to solve everyone in the forest. Meanwhile, the tiger kept eating up whoever he could find. The elephant walked up to the tiger and said, “Please, Mr. Tiger, do not eat up these poor animals.”

“Mind your own business!” growled the tiger.

The elephant has a no choice but to give the tiger a hefty kick. The frightened tiger ran for his life. The elephant ambled back into the forest to announce the good news to everyone. All the animals thanked the elephant. They said, “You are just the right size to be our friend.”

TRUE FRIENDSHIP

My name is Carla. I am seventeen years old. My hobby is singing and I don’t have any special interest at something. I am not good at singing but I love to do it. I always do it when I am taking a bath. I don’t like studying and reading books. I know that’s important to support my score at school but I have another point of view. For me, studying is not always about reading and doing exercise. Studying is listening to my bestfriend’s story about the subject that she has already read about. She loves reading a lot. She provides me knowledge by listening to her story. She packs the lessons into some interesting stories. I think she has a talent to be a great teacher.

She doesn’t like to be exposed that she has great talent in packing a lesson into story. I keep that secret from the others. I am afraid if tell it to someone else, she will get angry and doesn’t want to help me anymore. However, I ever did that. I tell it to my teacher and my teacher said it in front of my classmates. You know what happened? She couldn’t get angry with me. Hmm, she was angry but a little. She didn’t want to talk to me for 5 minutes. She is very kind. That’s why she never let me down even though I often make her angry.

My friend that I have told above has a name. Her name is Tiara Sabarani. Like her name, she is always patient in facing me who is very bad. I can’t imagine it if she leaves me and goes somewhere to study. She has a dream to study abroad and she wants to enlighthen teachers in Indonesia to be better than before. She told me that our country needs many professional and qualified teachers to make an advance step to compete with great countries in the world. How far she goes, I will always support her. I believe that she won’t forget me.

Even though I am not as smart as her, I am the one who feels responsible to protect her at school from naughty students. One day, she was in the bathroom to change her clothes because we’re going to have sport. She hung her uniform on the door and someone took it without her knowing. The female student’s bathroom was not totally covered by wall. So that someone could do that through above the door. She was panic. She called me and immediately looked for the doers. Fortunalety, I caught them who were trying to bury Tiara’s uniform in the backyard of the school. They were the famous naughty students at school and had already got punishment for many times. I can’t count it. I called my teacher silently and when my teacher found them, they got the punishment.

For me, true friendship is a friendship which doesn’t tie people in it by certain rules. It make us free to be ourselves and doesn’t force us to somebody else who they like. True friend accept who we are in real and support us to be the best version of us be good person. People in true friendship will protect each other without blind action. True friendship is Tiara and me.

-       Songs

Grenade

oleh: Bruno Mars

Easy come, easy goThat's just how you live, ohTake, take, take it allBut you never giveShould've known you was troubleFrom the first kissHad your eyes wide openWhy were they open?
[Bridge]Gave you all I hadAnd you tossed it in the trashYou tossed it in the trash, you didTo give me all your loveIs all I ever askedCause what you don't understandIs
[Chorus]I'd catch a grenade for ya (yeah, yeah, yeah)Throw my hand on the blade for ya (yeah, yeah, yeah)I'd jump in front of a train for ya (yeah, yeah, yeah)You know I'd do anything for ya (yeah, yeah, yeah)Oh ho,I would go through all this painTake a bullet straight through my brainYes, I would die for you, babyBut you won't do the same
No, no, no, no
Black, black, black and blueBeat me 'til I'm numbTell the devil I said "Hey" when you get back to where you're fromBad woman, bad womanThat's just what you areYeah, you smile in my face then rip the brakes out my car
[Bridge]Gave you all I hadAnd you tossed it in the trashYou tossed it in the trash, yes you didTo give me all your loveIs all I ever askedCause what you don't understandIs
[Chorus]I'd catch a grenade for ya (yeah, yeah, yeah)Throw my hand on the blade for ya (yeah, yeah, yeah)I'd jump in front of a train for ya (yeah, yeah, yeah)You know I'd do anything for ya (yeah, yeah, yeah)Oh ho,I would go through all this painTake a bullet straight through my brainYes, I would die for you, babyBut you won't do the same
If my body was on fireYou'd watch me burn down in flamesYou said you loved me, you're a liarCause you never ever ever did, baby
But darling, I'd still catch a grenade for yaThrow my hand on the blade for yaI'd jump in front of a train for yaYou know I'd do anything for ya
I would go through all this painTake a bullet straight through my brainYes I would die for ya babyBut you won't do the same no,you won't do the sameOh, you never do the same
No, you won't do the sameYou wouldn't do the same Ooh, you'd never do the sameOhh, no no no

BRUNO MARS

"Treasure"

Baby squirrel, you’s a sexy motherfucker

Give me your, give me your, give me your attention, baby
I gotta tell you a little something about yourself
You're wonderful, flawless, ooh, you're a sexy lady
But you walk around here like you wanna be someone else

(Oh whoa-oh-oh)
I know that you don't know it, but you're fine, so fine (fine, so fine)
(Oh whoa-oh-oh)
Oh girl, I'm gonna show you when you're mine, oh mine (mine, oh mine)

Treasure, that is what you are
Honey, you're my golden star
You know you can make my wish come true
If you let me treasure you
If you let me treasure you

(Whoa-oh-oh-h-h-h)

Pretty girl, pretty girl, pretty girl, you should be smiling
A girl like you should never look so blue
You're everything I see in my dreams
I wouldn't say that to you if it wasn't true

(Oh whoa-oh-oh)
I know that you don't know it, but you're fine, so fine (fine, so fine)
(Oh whoa-oh-oh)
Oh girl, I'm gonna show you when you're mine, oh mine (mine, oh mine)

Treasure, that is what you are
Honey, you're my golden star
You know you can make my wish come true
If you let me treasure you
If you let me treasure you

(Whoa-oh-oh-h-h-h)

You are my treasure, you are my treasure
You are my treasure, yeah, you, you, you, you are
You are my treasure, you are my treasure
You are my treasure, yeah, you, you, you, you are

Treasure, that is what you are
Honey, you're my golden star
You know you could make my wish come true
If you let me treasure you
If you let me treasure you

(whoa-oh-oh-h-h-h)

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           -   poetry

Thanks to You

Thank you, my teachers
For your time used to educate me
You are the second parents to me
Which always I meet every day except Sundays

Thank you, my teachers
You have become my motivator
Thank you, my teachers
You have become my motivation to wake up in the morning

Thank you, my teachers
Homework that you gave to me
Taught me to appreciate the time
In order to not forget my responsibilities

Thank you, my teachers
I will never forget your services
I will never ignore your advices
So that I could reach my big dreams