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Fatiha : Many Lessons from Travel

“If there is a will, there's a way" Fatiha Najma, a twenty-year-old student of Sebelas Maret University believes that even the hardest things if there is a will, there is a way. She started to live her dreams a few years ago. Fatiha used to join any contests while she was in Senior High School, but dreams got bigger since she is in College. One of her dreams is to travel around the world to become a better person. Everything started. In April 2018, she joined Model United Nations in Kuala Lumpur. It helped her how to negotiate, always attempted to negotiate in everything she wants to, compared from one thing to another. Think critically, it teaches her how to make sense of the world based on personal experience and problem solving,  how to consider possible options to solve the problem.  Since that day, Fatiha wants more and more to go out to other countries even it is not that easy. Then, in January 2019, she applied the Speech Contest in Thailand. Besides explori...

Turning Trivial Things to Extraordinary Ones

“Whatever your hobby is, make it as your golden field as early as possible, don’t delay until your old age", said Aristi. Aristi Aminna is a student of Universitas Sebelas Maret , faculty of teacher training and education and majoring in history of education. She likes reading English novels or comics, writing articles, and watching movies. However, her hobby takes her a bit far from her major but this makes her interested more in English, in addition to her study in history. She used to be a tutor for students. She admitted that her English was very bad. She realized that while reading a few words on the shampoo package that used English and She did not know what was meant. Finally, she decided to learn English seriously with things related to her hobbies such as reading her favorite comics or writing articles, poems and news that uses English until she loves English itself. "I fell in love with English, I always write all the new vocabulary hundreds of times ...

Doing a Hobby to Earn Money. Why Not?

Immanuela Zakia Simanulingga, or commonly called Zakia, is a 20-year-old college student who likes knitting. From her hobby, Zakia is now making money. Zakia first learned from her grandmother how to make net bags. Since then, she has made many bags for her own collection.  Zakia said that she made net bags when she felt stressed. “My grandma taught me how to make net bags. Since I learned it, I loved it. When I just feel tired, then I make one net bag. Then it becomes so many. My mom suggested me to sell my handmade net bags.” Zakia then started advertising her bags in 2017.  Working by the pre-order system, Zakia can make five until seven bags per week. She does not have any employees to run her business . Sometimes, the buyers come from other regions in Indonesia. Her net bags cost about 90,000 to 150,000 rupiahs each.  Zakia manages her time so well that she can still go on with her study. She is now happy that she can help her parents earn a living....