DEWA ATHENA

Dewa Athena is an annual tradition in SMA Negeri 3 Bandung. It is an event where each class has to compete in different types of sports such as basketball, dodgeball, badminton, futsal, tug of war, and gobak sodor. In some of these branches the competition is divided into two, one for the boys and the other one for the girls. This year, Dewa Athena was held on Thursday, March 23^rd until Friday, March 24^th for the 11^th grades. For the 10^th grades it was held on Saturday, March 25^th and Saturday, April 1^st.

The first day of Dewa Athena was a hot and sunny day. It took some significant effort to even watch the matches in the field, but my class prevailed against the hot weather and competed in the competitions. That day, my class (X science 2) participated in several matches, such as basketball, futsal, badminton, dodgeball, and some others. From these matches, we won some of it but of course we also lost plenty. The matches that we won were basketball, badminton, and dodgeball. But the event was still on. We only compete until the semifinals that day.

The next week, the event continued, thankfully the weather was much more in our favor than the first day. It was cloudy but rain didn’t come until a bit late in the afternoon. By then most of the matches were done, so it didn’t interfere that much in the whole events. On this day, my class proceeds in the matches that we won. Those include basketball, dodgeball, and badminton. The competitions were fierce, but in the end we won again in those matches. This means that we are going to the finals.

The final of Dewa Athena was held on the next week, April 8^th. Before the final begin, all of the students and teacher participate on another event. This event is called Paman Gober. Paman Gober is also an annual tradition where we cycle around Bandung and plant trees. The journey first begins at Bali field. From there we rode our bicycle to Pussenif where we plant the trees. Next the journey continues through all sorts of road that I honestly don’t remember the name. After spending hours on our bike we finally arrived back at Bali field. The competitions then started to begin. In the final the winner of each year will compete with the other winner. This means that there is only one winner for every branch of sport.