_CULTURE of JAKARTA_

     Jakarta has a diverse culture. There are dance, music, ondel-ondel, etc. However, the most popular thing among the people of Jakarta is ondel-ondel.

     Ondel-ondel is a huge doll that the tall is around 2,5 meters with a diameter 80 centimeters. Beside that, ondel-ondel use masks which the head is covered by hair and made of broom. Then, the face of ondel-ondel male is red and female is white.

     Ondel-ondel represents a Betawi folk performances, they are often played in many kinds of party. And then, it seems like ancestors who always keep their people.

     Vocabularies :

• Diverse : of different kinds.
• Folk : people in general.
• Ancestor : person in u.re family who lived a long time ago.

" Sleep Esential for Creative Thinking "

        In this time, I am going to retell about newspaper which I was read. The newspaper is "KOMPAS".

        A recent study found that sleep helped people to be more creative. The study involved 106 men and women divided into two groups. The first group slept for 8 hours, the second group stayed awake. When they were given a simple maths problem, the sleep group was able to solve it significantly faster than the awake group.

        When they were given a task to formulate rules, the sleep group was three times more likely to complete the task than the awake group. The results simply explain that memory problems are related to aging. Older people usually have memory problems because they have trouble getting enough sleep.

Vocabularies :

• Involve : make something a necessary condition or result.
• Simply : absolutely, in a way that is natural and plain.

_My Favorite Food_

Everybody has a favorite food. They like it with many reason. Likewise with me, I have one favorite food. It is kentang balado.

Kentang balado is a food made from potatoes which are sliced like dice. They are mixed with chili sauce. It is suitable for people who like spicy.

I really like kentang balado because its taste that spicy and savory. Especially kentang balado which is made by my mother. Beside that, kentang balado makes me want to eat it again and again.

Vocabulary:

• Dice : a small cube.
• Suitable : acceptable or right for someone or something.
• Spicy : containing strong flavours from spices.
• Savory : Savoury food is salty or spicy and not sweet in taste.

_Sport_

       Track and field, or athletics as it is called in many countries are sport contests that involve running, jumping, and throwing. The competitions in these sport are usually called in which the running events take place on a 400 meter oval field and jumping and throwing events take place nearby

       The sprints consist of distances of 100 meter, 200 meter, 400 meter. The sprinter uses a crouch start. On the first command, "on your marks", the sprinter kneel with one knee on the ground and both hands behind the starting line.

Vocabulary :
Involve: to include someone or something in something, or to make them take part in or feel part of it.
Sprint: a short and very fast race, such as the 100-metre race, or the last part of longer running race which is run as fast as possible.
Crouch: to bend your knees and lower yourself so that you are close to the ground and leaning forward slightly.

" Uuuuuupzzz I'm Sorry "

     This is a fiction story which I write for all people who read my blog. I want to retell a funny story which ever been told by my friend. This is the story.

     Recently, there are a lot of boys and girls are wearing the same kinds of clothes at anywhere and many of them have a long hair. So, it is often make us confuse whether they are boys or girls. One day, there is an old man was walking in a park. When he was tired, he sat down on a bench where somebody with a long hair had sat down. And then, about some distance, there is a young person was standing on the side of pond. By pointing at the young person there, the old man said to the person who was sitting next to him.

     He said, "oh my god! Do you see that person with the loose pants and long hair? It is a boy or a girl?"

     The person who sit next to him said, "a girl, she is my daughter."

     The old man said quickly, " Uuupss, I'm sorry. I didn't know that you were her mother."

     The other person said, "No, I'm not. I'm her father."

     Vocabularies :

• Fiction : writing that describe invented people and events, not real one.
• Recently : not long ago.
• Bench : long wooden or metal seat for two or more people.
• Pond : small area of water or pool.
• Loose : (of clothes) not tight, no exact.