Tuesday 27 September 2016

Torres del Paine National Park


Torres del Paine National Park is located in southern Chilean Patagonia. It consists of mountains, glaciers, lakes, and rivers. It measured approximately 242,242 hectares and is one of the largest and most visited parks in Chile.


In the park the transportation is mostly by foot. Because there is busses but they are quite expensive and infrequent. This is also because the park is famous for its hiking trail which of course must be done on foot. Some of the worth mentioning trails are the los cuernos, the French valley, and last but not least the mirador las torres.



WTTF

Saturday, August 20th, 2016, was the day when the World Tournament and
Techno Fest (WTTF) take place. This event is a program of the school
organization of SMA Negeri 3 with the aim to strengthen the cooperation and
teamwork between students mainly within their class but also in their year.
This event is also mandatory for all 32018 and 32019.

It all started in the morning, precisely at 6.30 when we are all gathered
in the bali field and hear the speeches and opening of the event. Then, we
were divided into groups according to our class, X IPA 1 with XI IPA 1 and
so on. Each group are entrusted under two guide and evaluator.

After that, they explained what is it that we are going to do or quite
simply, our mission. The mission was that we must went to some posts they
called planets and in each of the post we will be presented with a
challenge and the Xth XIth grade will have to compete against each other.
In the conclusion of each planet, the winner will get a piece of puzzle. To
find these planets we were given a map and a set of clues. There were also
aliens in the mission. If we hit an alien with a water balloon we will get
a piece of puzzle but on the contrary, if the alien hit us we will lose a
piece. But there was a twist in this mission, for we are only permitted to
speak in English.

Then the mission began. The first planet of my class (X IPA 2) was located
in the front parking space. Here we are presented with a challenge to eat
spicy noodle. Each class (X IPA 2 and XI IPA 2) was told to pick two
people to represent their class. Whoever finishes first will win.
Unfortunately my class lost in this planet. Then we continued our journey
to the next planet. This one was located in the class of XI IPA 3. The
challenge in this planet was actually quite unexpected. The challenge is to
play a fighting game called tekken and the winner will get a piece of
puzzle. Sadly my class lost yet again.

The next planet was located at the music park. The challenge in this planet was a rank 2 quiz. It was similar to rank 1 quiz but the winner is not the first but the second. In this challenge my class at last won our first challenge. After that we moved on to the next three planets which was located in lapangan bali. In these planets we were presented with three different challenges. The first one was another game, it was a computer soccer game. The second was playing flappy bird. And the last was a quiz about technology. My class lost the first challenge but fortunately won the other two.

The next planet was actually quite far from the last one. It was in taman tongkeng. The challenge there was to make a robot out of used materials. My class won and got another piece of puzzle. Before we went to the next planet we rested for a while during which we ate and prayed. After that we continued our journey to the next planet in taman foto. The challenge was a twister game. And in this challenge we won. Then we went back to lapangan bali for the final of the mission.

In lapangan bali all the groups were assembled and we were then attacked by the aliens. We of course retaliate and in doing so seized more of the puzzle pieces. Then each year (2018 and 2019) were told to finish the puzzle from the pieces. Of course not everyone can join in finishing the puzzle, it will be too crowded. So some, including me opt to just watch from some distance and not disturbing the ones that were doing the real job. When the time was up, my year’s puzzle was more complete than the other, so my year win.