Aspi Day 2019

On Friday, 29th of April 2019, SMAN 3 Bandung held an event called "Aspiration Day." It's an event where we students can speak up our aspiration to make our school be better in every aspect, like giving some advices.

This event started from 1 p.m. The topic is "How to Deliver Your Aspiration". Actually our governor, Mr. Ridwan Kamil was supposedly come to give a talkshow, but unfortunately he can't due to some other business. So in return a guest speaker, Mrs. Diah, came as Mr. Ridwan Kamil's substitute. She told us that if we are a leader of a community, we must have good communication skills, be a caring person, able to manage all problem, be trusted by our follower, can make the right decisions in hard times, and be an open-minded person. That way we can become a great leader for our follower and ourselves.

Beside Mrs. Diah, Mrs. Keri as the Vice Rector of Padjajaran University also came. She told us about how to make your aspiration noticed. Here are what she said:
1. We must be sure that our aspiration is worth delivered.
2. It has to be logic and supported with factual datas to strengthen our aspiration.
3. Find the "right person" to tell about our aspiration.
4. Always being polite when delivering our aspiration.
5. If we deliver it together with our community, the aspiration will have a higher chance to be noticed.

After all of the program finished, "Aspiration Day 2019" was closed nicely with the performance of Musik Klasik 3 and Amygdala.

Natural Phenomenon

What is a fire tornado?
A fire tornado is a combination of heat, ash, and fire into a spinning mass of air.
Actually, fire tornado are more closely related to whirlwind than they are to full-fledged tornado because the vortex in most cases does not extend from the surface to the cloud base. But because they also involve a mass of rotating air rapidly around a central axis, similar to tornado, we can still call it fire tornado although the most exact name should be fire whirl. They form in certain situations, such as wildfires, large fires spawned by natural disasters, and, in some cases, house fires.

There are 3 types of tornado, that is supercell (can cause significant damage), non-supercell (any other tornadoes beside supercell), and whirlwind (tornado-like storms). Fire tornadoes are in the last cathegory. 

How did a fire tornado form? First a very big heat source near the ground existed, and causing a column of superheated air. When the fast wind high above the ground met the slower one near the ground, it will create a mass of spinning air alongside with the column of superheated air. When it met an updraft and the updraft is strong enough, it will raise the spinning air from horizontal to vertical.

Fire tornadoes are dangerous. That's why we should maximize our effort to prevent it, such as not making a wildfire in the forest, and not letting a very big heat source exist uncontrollably in the open air.

Recommendation Letters

Dear ITB scholarship selection committee,

     I have known Tsana for nearly a year. When she was a tenth grader, she wanted to be a doctor. But because learning medical needs all strength and sacrifice, also after seeing another person who learned medical, made her didn't want to be a doctor anymore.

   Recently, she had stated her new plan. She wanted to learn about pharmacy at Bandung Technology Institute (ITB). There were some reasons of why she chose pharmacy. First, because she loved science. Science was something interesting for her. Her grade in science was above her class' average. She loved to take care of the environment and help other person. Second, because pharmacy didn't require any art skill, and she thought she wasn't artsy at all. She also thought that she wasn't good at language. And third, she chose pharmacy to follow her mother's path of pharmacy.

   She chose ITB because ITB is in Bandung and she's the kind of person who hard to adapt in a new place. She didn't think it's easy to live alone far away from home. For her, ITB is her dream campus. But actually I think she's an independent and hardworking person. She's also a diligent one who didn't mind to do some works if she really had to. She could quickly understand and memorize lessons after her teacher explained it to the class. She's a smart student and I can see a big potention in her. 

I hope you're interested by my recommendation.
Thank you for reading this letter.

Sincerely,
Irbah

Letter about my goals

Wednesday, 30 January 2019

Dear myself in the future, 10 years from now,

   Hi! This is me from 2019 when I was still an eleventh grade student. I was so curious about you. What are you becoming now? What's your job? What faculty did you enroll when you're still in college? Are you happy and healthy? Or have you died then? I hope you haven't. I really wanted to know if I can achieve all my goals in the future. Anyways, my intention to write this letter, beside to fulfill English's task, is to remind you about our goals when we're 16 (almost 17) years old. Check this out.

   Firstly, I want to enter medical faculty of UGM and becoming an obgyn-specialist doctor as my plan A. The reason is because I want to help pregnant woman to keep safe and healthy, and also help them give birth succesfully because right now, the number of death to woman because of giving birth is still high. That's why I want to help to reduce it. I think I have a rather good memory so maybe it'll help me in this faculty. If it's not UGM, I'll take medical faculty in other places, maybe in UNPAD, Unair, or wherever, but not UI because I have my own reason about that.

   Secondly, my plan B is I want to enter Psychology faculty of UNPAD or UGM, because I have some passion about studying other people's feelings and how to resolve their mental problem. I think one of my strength is that I'm a good listener. I'd prefer to hear people speaking than to speak in front of many people. I also like to observate other people, questioning what are they thinking about, what do they feel, etc. But one of my problems is also that it's hard for me to speak what am I thinking so sometimes I can't give people some proper suggestions of how to solve their problems because I can't tell them what's in my mind accurately. So yeah, I  have to fix it.

   My plan C is that I want to enter business management school of UGM (it is my dream campus). Why? Because I've always dreaming about having and managing my own tourism place or hotel. I'd like to have a business in hospitality.  I love to visit tourism places in other cities so I was dreaming about working or having my own tourism place in Indonesia or in somewhere else where people can have fun together there and make it as a favorite destination place. Right now I was dreaming about having a sea-amusement-park along with an underwater hotel. Everyone can dream about anything, right? Even if it seems impossible for now.

   Well, I think that's all from me for now. Have you achieve those goals? Which plan do you take? Or do you ended up in none of these plans? Whatever it is, I hope I can achieve those goals and become a successful person in the future.

Goodbye. I wish you all the best!


Irbah A., January 2019 

Edu Passion 2019

Edu Passion 

    Last Thursday, my school SMAN 3 Bandung held an event called Edu Passion. It is an event where you can get many informations about many university and faculty. There were a lot of university's stan, like UNPAD, UGM, ITB, Tel-U, and many more. Not only university stan, there were also a non-university stan, such as english course stan, bank stan, study course stan, food stan, etc.

    My friend, Fira, and I visited almost every stand, and we even got some of the university's merchandise from some stan. One of the stan that we visit was Tokyo University's stan. Here are the result of our interview in that stan.

Us: Hello, what stan is this?

Her: This is Tokyo University's

Us: Does Tokyo University give any scholarship for foreign students?

Her: Yes, we provided scholarship, but only for the Business Economics' students and International Relationship's students.

Us: So you don't have scholarship for those who are not in Business Economics or International Relationship?

Her: Yes. We have other faculty, such as engineering, medicine school, etc but there are no scholarship for them. But we are opened for foreign students.

Us: If we enroll to Tokyo University, should we mastering Japanese or should have minimum score of Japanese language test?

Her: No, there are no minimum score as a condition, because if you take the scholarship, you will be in an international class, so you'll use English instead of Japanese. Unless if you're not taking the scholarship, you will be in regular classes so it's better for you to learn Japanese. Don't worry, we also provide Japanese language courses.

Us: What is the benefit if we take the scholarship?

Her: You'll be free from all the school's fee, and also we'll provide for you a homestay there. So you only need to provide your own transportation here and your daily needed, for example if you want to go shopping you'll have to pay by your own.

Us: Oh... okay. Well then, thank you for the information. 

Her: You're welcome.

So that's our interview. Here's the picture of us together in Tokyo University's stan.

Mindmap about SDG 13: Climate Action

Irbah A         - XI Mipa 7
Tasya B C F  - XI Mipa 7

 Rainbow

A rainbow is a multicolored arc made by light striking water droplets. 

The most familiar type rainbow is produced when sunlight strikes raindrops in front of a viewer at a precise angle (42 degrees). Rainbows can also be viewed around fog, sea spray, or waterfalls. 

Rainbows are the result of the refraction and reflection of light. Both refraction and reflection are phenomenathat involve a change in a wave's direction. A refracted wave may appear "bent", while a reflected wave might seem to "bounce back" from a surface or other wavefront.

Light entering a water droplet is refracted. It is then reflected by the back of the droplet. As this reflected light leaves the droplet, it is refracted again, at multiple angles.

The radius of a rainbow is determined by the water droplets' refractive index. A refractive index is the measure of how much a ray of light refracts (bends) as it passes from one medium to another—from air to water, for example. 

There are some variations of rainbows, such as double rainbow, reflection rainbow, reflected rainbow, etc.

Double Rainbow

Sometimes, a viewer may see a "double rainbow." In this phenomenon, a faint, secondary rainbow appears above the primary one. 

Double rainbows are caused by light being reflected twice inside the raindrop. As a result of this second reflection, the spectrum of the secondary rainbow is reversed: red is on the inner section of the arch, while violet is on the outside.

Reflection Rainbow

A reflection rainbow appears above a body of water. A primary rainbow is reflected by the water, and the reflected light produces a reflection rainbow. Reflection rainbows do not mirror the primary rainbow—they often appear to stretch above it.

Reflected Rainbow

A reflected rainbow appears directly on the surface of a body of water. A reflected rainbow is created by rays of light reflected by the water surface, after the rays have have passed through water droplets. Reflected rainbows to not appear to form a circle with a primary rainbow, although their endpoints seem to meet in an almond-shaped formation.

Fogbow

A fogbow is formed in much the same way as a primary rainbow. Light in a fogbow is refracted and reflected by fog (water droplets suspended in air). A fogbow seen in the clouds is called a cloudbow.

Moonbow

A moonbow, also called a lunar rainbow, is a rainbow produced by light reflected by the Moon. The Moon itself does not emit light, of course. Moonlight is reflected sunlight, as well as some starlight and "Earthlight." Because moonlight is so much fainter than sunlight, moonbows are dimmer than rainbows.

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