MY PLEDGE

Today I begin a new life by replacing my bad habbits with the good ones, for I now know I can do all things through Jesus Christ who strengthens me. I have begun my new life by greeting each day with love in my heart, because I am now transforomed by the renewing of my mind. I will persist until I succeed at my new life’s growth, for I know that if I ask often enough it will be given me, if I seek diligently, I will find, if I knock with the persistence, all doors will be opened unto me. I will reach my goals in life because I am God’s greatest miracle and greater is Jesus Christ that is in me than the evil that is in the world. Therefore boldly I will live this day as if it were the last with the confidence that all things will work together for my God because I love God and I’m called according to his purpose. I will stay mindful that the success requires that I must be the master of my emotions and this will be accomplished through my remembering that I am more tah a conqueror through Jesus Christ who loves me. Armed with my new life in Christ, the eapon of love, the force of persistence, the confidence of being God’s miracle, the freedom of living each day as if it were my last, and the discipline of being the master of my emotion. I will laugh at the world for I now know that if I submit myself unto God and resist the devil he will flee fromo me. No longer will I be a slave to fear, pride and doubt, but I will multiply my value one hundredfold and be a leader of men. I will stay mindful to acknowledge God and He will direct my path. Acknowledging Gods put my faith into action and I will act now for I know that faith without works is dead. To be a true success is a gift from God, therefore I will remember to seek His guidance and I will trust in the lord with all my heart and learn not unto my own understsanding.

The Cold Irish

Neil was a bright student. Once he graduated, he got a job in Russian Embassy as he had been an apprentice there a year before he finished his study and he spoke Russian well. Yet, even though he was a smart man and he had many friends, he surprisingly had never been had a girlfriend. In fact, not many girls liked him too. So, he preferred to focus on his career and future plan to study abroad. During his first 2 years, everything was smooth and steady as he dreamt of. He even got promoted as the diplomat. It made him able to work in Russia. However, things went sideway while he was there. After working in Moscow for 6 months, he fell in love with a lovely Russian girl named Natalya, the sister of his friend, Nikolai. They met each other when Neil visited his house on weekend. He never felt so attracted to any woman in his life like that before. So, as both shared the same feeling and he believed that she was the one for him, he decided to introduce her to his parent in Ireland before marrying her. Unfortunately, Neil’s parent was an old-fashioned religious Catholic. They didn’t like Russian because of their belief in Orthodox Catholic, the opponent of Roman Catholic. They threatened Neil that if he still married her, then he wouldn’t be apart of the family anymore. However, Neil took that risk. He was certain their love wasn’t a sin. So, they settled down in Russia after their marriage. After a year of living in peace, something terrible happened to them. Some terrorists attacked Pushkin Elementary School, where Natalya worked, to show their protest against the Russian Federation. They took some staffs, including Neil’s wife, and students as their hostage. They warned the government if they didn’t fulfill their wish to have an independent nation, they would kill the hostage one by one. In the end, Russian soldier could conquer them; yet, some hostages were badly injured and then died. Sadly, one of them was Natalya.

Summer Ends

In summer, Betty was doing her research for her thesis in Barcelona, Spain. She went there with her best friend, Clarice. Unlike Betty, Clarice didn’t go there for her study. It was more of a vacation. She wanted to have some fun after a long and tiring semester in university. Both went to University of Boston, but they had different major, Betty was in History of Art, while Clarice was majoring English Literature. After a long flight, they finally arrived in the capital of Catalan region. They stayed in Betty’s aunt’s house for 2 weeks. At first, everything was going fine. Betty was busy going to several museums and exhibitions, while Clarice just accompanied her. But things changed when they met a good-looking Spanish painter, Juan Pedro. Betty wasn’t fond of his bohemian life style with his never-ending smoking, wine and woman, yet, Clarice was attracted to him. In fact, she agreed to come to his house in San Sebastian. This, of course, made Betty furious since Clarice was notorious for her bad choice of man. And that would disturb Betty’s focus in study because she would ask for her help if she were in trouble. So, Betty decided to go with her to San Sebastian. However, it wasn’t an easy trip because they had to go by plane and took a long time to get there. So, they didn’t have any choice but stayed at Juan Pedro’s house. Clarice was having a good time with him, she even slept with him, yet Betty felt uncomfortable and disgusted. She told her friend to be careful with him, but her friend didn’t even listen to her advice. Clarice was even offended by her friend’s act of interfering her privacy. Thus, on the next day, they had a row and Betty chose to go back to Barcelona than to stay in between the lover, while Clarice enjoyed it there. Finally, after 2 weeks, Betty finished her research and flew home alone without even saying good bye to her friend. That was the end of their long friendship.

The Big Bang Theory

The big bang theory is the theory that the universe started from a single point, and has been expanding ever since.

This has been well-established by observations, such as the apparent movement of galaxies away from us, and the cosmic microwave background radiation believed to be the leftover light from the big bang.

The evidence for a big bang having taken place about 15 to 20 billion years ago is overwhelming, so I naturally believe that it is the case.

However, if your real question is "why did the big bang happen in the first place?" then that ceases to be an astronomical question, but a religious one.

Some astronomers, who are religious, argue that the big bang theory confirms the existence of God and the basic elements of the creation story as told in the Bible. First came light, then the heavens, then the Earth ...

However, many other scientists do not. Scientists, like people in most any profession, have a vast diversity of religious beliefs. Some of us attend houses of worship, others do not. Some of us consider ourselves very religious, others consider ourselves staunch atheists. Just because we study astronomy does not mean we have any more agreement as to the ``why'' questions than anyone else.

On the other hand, it is safe to say that as scientists we can agree on an approach to learning about nature and the universe. This approach is one of using observations to test theories. And when a theory has been tested as much as the big bang theory, with each test reconfirming its validity, then we believe that it likely true -- at least more true than those theories which have failed the observational tests.

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ITALY

Last holiday I went to Europe. I went there for 14 days. Europe is nice. They have so many scenery there. I have so many new friends there. I have captured so many pictures there.
First, my flight strated from Surabaya-Jakarta. After that we continued our journey to Singapore. We were at Singapore for 3 hours. Next we continued our journey from Singapore to Rome. We were at the plane for 12 hours.
Finally I arrived at the Roman airport at 7 o’clock on the morning. It was a very long journey. In Rome I went to the “BASILICA ST. PETER” in Vatican City. After the crucifixion of Jesus in the second quarter of the 1st century AD, it is recorded in the Biblical book of the Acts of the Apostles that one of his twelve disciples, Simon known as Peter, a fisherman from Galilee, took a leadership position among Jesus' followers and was of great importance in the founding of the Christian Church. The name Peter is "Petrus" in Latin and "Petros" in Greek, deriving from "petra" which means "stone" or "rock" in Greek. It is believed by a long tradition that Peter, after a ministry of about thirty years, traveled to Rome and met his martyrdom there in the year 64 AD during the reign of the Roman Emperor Nero. His execution was one of the many martyrdoms of Christians following the Great Fire of Rome. He was said to have been crucified head downwards, by his own request, near the obelisk in the Circus of Nero. This obelisk now stands in Saint Peter's Square and is revered as a "witness" to Peter's death. It is one of several ancient Obelisks of Rome.
According to tradition, Peter's remains were buried just outside the Circus, on the Mons Vaticanus across the Via Cornelia from the Circus, less than 150 metres (490 ft) from his place of death. The Via Cornelia (which may have been known by another name to the ancient Romans) was a road which ran east-to-west along the north wall of the Circus on land now covered by the southern portions of the Basilica and Saint Peter's Square. Peter's grave was initially marked simply by a red rock, symbolic of his name, but meaningless to non-Christians. A shrine was built on this site some years later. Almost three hundred years later, Old Saint Peter's Basilica was constructed over this site.
On December 23, 1950, in his pre-Christmas radio broadcast to the world, Pope Pius XII announced the discovery of Saint Peter's tomb.[10] This was the culmination of 10 years of archaeological research under the crypt of the basilica, an area inaccessible since the 9th century. The burial place appears to have been an underground vault, with a structure above it believed to have been built by Pope Anacletus in the 1st century. Human remains were discovered, but it could not be determined if they were, in fact, the bones of the Apostle Peter. Indeed, the area now covered by the Vatican City had been a cemetery for some years before the Circus of Nero was built. It was a burial ground for the numerous executions in the Circus and for many years after the burial of Saint Peter many Christians chose to be buried near him.
Next we went to the “CATACOMBE SAN CALLISTO” . Sited along the Appian way, these catacombs were built around the end of the 2nd century, with some private Christian hypogea and a funeral area directly dependent on the Roman church. It takes its name from the deacon Saint Callixtus, proposed by Pope Zephyrinus in the administration of the same cemetery - on his ascession as pope, he enlarged the complex, that quite soon became the official one for the Roman Church. The arcades, where more than fifty martyrs and sixteen pontiffs are buried, form part of a complex graveyard that occupies fifteen hectares and is almost twenty km long. This catacomb's most ancient parts are the crypt of Lucina, the region of the Popes and the region of Saint Cecilia, where some of the most sacred memories of the place are preserved (including the crypt of the Popes, the crypt of Saint Cecilia, and the crypt of the Sacraments); the other regions are named the region of Saint Gaius and the region of Saint Eusebius (end of the 3rd century), West region (built in the first half of the 4th century) and the Liberian region (second half of the 4th century), all showing grandiose underground architecture. A modern staircase, on the site of an ancient one, was built by Pope Damasus I, giving access to the region of the Popes, in which is to be found the crypt of the popes, where nine pontiffs and, perhaps, eight representatives of the ecclesiastical hierarchy had been buried - along its walls are the original Greek inscriptions for the pontiffs Pontian, Anterus, Fabian, Lucius I and Eutychian. In the far wall Pope Sixtus II was also buried, after he was killed during the persecution of Valerian; in front of his tomb Pope Damasus had carved an inscription in poetic metre in characters thought up by the calligrapher Furius Dionisius Filocalus. In the adjoining crypt is the grave of Saint Cecilia, whose relics were removed by Pope Paschal I in 821: the early 9th century frescoes on the walls represent Saint Cecilia praying, the bust of the Redeemer and Pope Urban I. A short distance away, an arcade dating to the end of the 2nd century gives access to the cubicula of the sacraments, with their frescoes from the first half of the III century hinting at baptism, the Eucharist and the resurrection of the flesh; in the region of Saint Militiades next door, a child's sarcophagus has a front sculpted with biblical episodes. In the region of Saints Gaius and Eusebius are some crypts set apart, opposite each other, with the tombs of Pope Gaius (with an inscription) and Pope Eusebius, who died in Sicily where he had been exiled by Maxentius and whose body was translated to Rome during the pontificate of Militiades; on a marble copy of the end of the 4th century (of which fragments may be seen on the opposite wall) may be read of an inscription by Damasus on the schism provoked by Heraclius over the matter of the lapsi.
After that I went to the Colossem. Coliseum The Colosseum or Roman Coliseum, originally the Flavian Amphitheatre (Latin: Amphitheatrum Flavium, Italian Anfiteatro Flavio or Colosseo), is an elliptical amphitheatre in the center of the city of Rome, Italy, the largest ever built in the Roman Empire. It is one of the greatest works of Roman architecture and Roman engineering. Occupying a site just east of the Roman Forum, its construction started between 70 and 72 AD under the emperor Vespasian and was completed in 80 AD under Titus, with further modifications being made during Domitian's reign (81–96). The name "Amphitheatrum Flavium" derives from both Vespasian's and Titus's family name (Flavius, from the gens Flavia). Capable of seating 50,000 spectators, the Colosseum was used for gladiatorial contests and public spectacles. As well as the gladiatorial games, other public spectacles were held there, such as mock sea battles, animal hunts, executions, re-enactments of famous battles, and dramas based on Classical mythology. The building ceased to be used for entertainment in the early medieval era. It was later reused for such purposes as housing, workshops, quarters for a religious order, a fortress, a quarry, and a Christian shrine. It has been estimated that about 500,000 people and over a million wild animals died in the Colosseum games. Although in the 21st century it stays partially ruined due to damage caused by devastating earthquakes and stone-robbers, the Colosseum is an iconic symbol of Imperial Rome and its breakthrough achievements in earthquake engineering. It is one of Rome's most popular tourist attractions and still has close connections with the Roman Catholic Church, as each Good Friday the Pope leads a torchlit "Way of the Cross" procession around the various levels of the amphitheatre. When I went there the waiter is very bad. It was rain, but when I got back to the bus the rain stopped. It was a very bad experience. Then I went to the “ARCH OF CONSTANTINE”, “ROMAN FORUM”, “CIRCUS MAXIMUS”, “MONUMENT VICTORIO EMMANUELE II”. At Italy there are many historical places. But because the time was to short so we just saw it from the bus. The crime at Italy is the highest. Italy is very big, so that’s why there are so many crime there. Italy is to big. Police can’t stop them. We have to take care of our things. Italy has got many town squarae. The cost of living at Italy is high. Toilet are really expensive. So that’s why in Italy I liked to go to the restroom at the hotel, because it’s free.
That all about Italy. See you at the next holiday. Hope you so to go to Italy.

About Me

Hello friends... My name is Calvyn. I live in Surabaya. I was born on 20 september 1995. I like fishing, traveling, playing games, listening to the music, playing the music instrument. I have so many friends.

Know I want to tell you about my latest recount. I want to tell you about my triped to YWI as my latest recount. I went there with my friends name Billy, Clinton, Hanzel, Amy, and Novita. There me and my friends weren't in a holiday. We went there to have a big job. Do you know what is it? Yes you're right. The big job is we were chosen by the teachers as a builder for the 7th grader students. We were there for 3 days.

At 12 pm we arrived at YWI. Next we were having lunch. After that we were divided into rooms. Then at half past 4 pm we were having snack. Next at 4.30 pm we were having the 1st session. After that at 6 pm we have dinner. After we have dinner we have the 2nd session. We finished the session at 9. Next we went to the 7th grader rooms to have a daily devotion. Next at 10 pm we had a meeting to have the reflection for today. We finished at 1 am. Next we were sleeping. Before we are sleeping Clinton, Hanzel, Billy, and me were talking to each other. That was the unforgetable moment because we opened our secret.

The 2nd day... 1st we have the daily devotion at 5.30 am. Next at 6 am we went to the tennis field to shake our body, that was my unforgetable moment because they are practising the poco-poco's dance. Next we took a bath and then we were having our breakfast. The 1st session started at 10.30 am. Next we were having our lunch at 12 pm. While the 7 th grader students were having their free time Billy, Calvyn, Clinton, Hanzel, Amy, Novita, and also the teacher were preparing for the indoor and out door games. For the indoor games we have "HANOI TOWER, STRAW TOWER, FIND YOUR HERDS, DEFENSE YOUR ISLAND". And for the outdoors games we have "KEEP YOUR LIGHT BURNED". For the outdoors game I was chosen to accompany Ms. Ika to watch over the math station. That was my 3rd unforgetable moment. Ms. Ika was very afraid. Our station was located near the "pohon bringin". How their, Ms. Ika was very very afraid. She always took my hand where ever I goes. As usually we were guide the 7th grader to the rooms to have a daily devotion. As usual also we as the builder, we were having a meeting to have the reflection for today.

The 3rd day is the moost unforgetable moment. We have so many games. The 1st activity is having the daily devotion at 5.30 am. Next we were having snack at 06.00. And this is it. Yes, the OUT DOOR GAMES.... There are so many games there. I choose the "getek kid" as my favourite games. "Getek kid" is a games using tire with a bamboo. The mission is acrossing the swimming pool side by side. That was the special games. Many of the 7th grader students were fallen to the pool because they are afraid. Next after we played the indoor games we took a bath at 10.30. We were having lunch at 11.30 am. Next we were going home at 12.30. And this is it. Surabaya oo Surabaya..................... It's time for my realy HOOOOOOOOME SWEET HOME............ That' all about my recounts..... You want's to know more about my newest recount.... Wait for my next post.... Byeeee......