Nikmah+Hariati

July 1 Holiday

on Friday we will have a holiday. because on that day america will celebrate their independence day. i am really happy, becase we we will go to Cleveland in this holiday. as indonesian students who hasn't been here before, it is just so exciting. we will go there with students from some country in africa. i don't really know what we will do there. i just know that it must be so much fun. veronica tells us to come tomorrow night to have a kind of meeting where we will talk about our activities there. it is fun right? we will stay there a night may be. you know i feel very cold right know, and i don't know this is the summer in Ohio. we have no plan on sunday....i will count it as my holiday here, may be i and my indonesian friends will go somewhere in this town just to explore everything here. i heard that tonight there will be a band festival to celebrate the independence day also, we will come there. after this class, i will go to the dining hall to have dinner. it is so sad that we will not eat at Nelson from friday till sunday because it is a holiday. that is why i will go there today. i have a plan to take as many as pictures i casn while we are in Cleveland. that must be pretty good. and you know, i just cannot wait to know about the activities we will do there. Bang Ipay told me that we will use the same kind of clothes in Cleveland, because before we go to Ohio

July 2 Travel

actually, this is about my travel to come here in USA. i have never had this kind of long travel.it takes a whole day and night in the plane and an entire day and night for waiting the flight, i'm not sure, maybe more than that. on 25 june i went from my hometown Banjarmasin, which is in South Kalimantan, and had a travel to Jakarta the capital city of Indonesia. on 26 june we went from Jakarta to Narita, Tokyo. it takes about 7 hour flight. after getting of the Japan Airlines we had to wait for the next flight to San Francisco. because it is long, we still have time to take a rest. after waiting for about 7 hours we caught our flight and stayed in the plane for about 13 hours, but i am not really sure about the time because Jakarta, Narita, and San Francisco have a very different time. after we arrived in San Francisco, we had to face a kind of inspection. it also took a long time for the boys to finish this inspection. we wait for some hours again to get out flight to Denver. some of us were sleeping while they were writing, some others just went back and forth just want to make sure that they had already taken the pictures in everyplaces they met. we continued our trip, the flight to Denver was much more easier that having a flight to Japan or Japan to SF.we

July 9 While air is one thing that a human really needed, we face the fact that it is now have been polluted by many factors. The industrialization of society, the introduction of motorized vehicles, and the explosion of the population, are factors contributing toward the growing of air pollution problem. This problem is also affecting human's health, long term and short term period. People with health problems such as asthma, heart and lung disease may also suffer more when the air is polluted. The extent to which an individual is harmed by air pollution usually depends on the total exposure to the damaging chemicals in the air itself.Examples of short-term effects include irritation to the eyes, nose and throat, and upper respiratory infections. Long-term health effects can include chronic respiratory disease, lung cancer, heart disease, even damage to the brain, nerves,etc. the solution to confine this serious problem is also by taking some serious steps together so that we can save our earth from being damaged. for example, be careful in choosing vehicles, together observe the activity of industries around us, and be aware of our responsibility to keep our earth health.

July 9

Many students feel anxious before a test. this is mostly happened when they get final examination or exam for their graduation. however, They can still solve it by doing several things before the test. firstly, they need to prepare themselves for the test. For example, read all the material for the test because mastering the material is the most important one a student need to consider. If they do not know what will be tested so how can they pass it. Secondly, make a group for discussing the material. It can help students a lot, because they can share their knowledge together and ask for every kind of thing that they may be not know but the others know it. Thirdly, they can ask their teacher to make a review. Fourthly, students can make a summary or taking notes for every part that may be important and be asked in the test. Finally, if they have already done these things, they do not need to be anxious anymore. They will get their self confidence while facing the test. the last thing that they should do is only pray to God and accept the final result of their test.