My 3rd Coursera Certificate

I earned another certificate from Coursera. The course is about exploring Beethoven's Piano Sonatas. The teacher was Jonathan Biss, from Curtis Institute of Music. The course is quite difficult for me. I don't really understand all of them. I think it will be useful for my music lesson later when I'm taking a deeper lesson about Beethoven's sonatas. But the course itself was wonderful. I thought I will not get the Statement Of Accomplishment because I made many mistakes in the tests, as I remember the score of one of my test is 3.00 out of 5.00. But I got it and I feel very surprised. I earned 76.6%.  Thanks to the course, they said that if we want to achieve a Statement Of Accomplishment we should at least earn 30 points from 50 points (It's exactly like 3.00 out of 5.00). Here's the picture of my Statement Of Accomplishment:

My Newest Trophy

Hello Everyone!                                                         

I joined a piano competition today. The competition is held in Medan, Surabaya, and Jakarta. I'm from Jakarta. The competition started from this morning until this evening. It is in Alam Sutera Menara Top Food. I compete with Jakarta contestants, none of them are from other provinces. But, because I won the 2nd commendation ( In Indonesian language it's harapan dua), I  will join the final round, which will be held on October 2014. We still don't know the date and place of the final competition yet. At first they said that the final will be held on June, but now they change it. Maybe it's too close? I met my classmate Jacqueline in the competition. She joined the competition too. We have some fun there. This is the picture of me and my trophy:

There's a writing on the trophy which says: 

2nd Commendation Award of Indonesia Piano Competition

2014 Jakarta Elementary B. 

I hope everyone have a good time!

   

My second Coursera certificate.

I joined another course from Coursera. It's a writing course and the writing course is called Crafting an Effective Writer: Tools of the trade  by Lawrence (Larry) Barkley, Ted Blake, and Lorrie Ross. It was held by Mt. San Jacinto College. It's a SO FANTASTIC course, just like my first Coursera course, and all of the lessons taught there is very useful for me and my writing. I got a statement of accomplishment, and I earned 87.6 %, well, it's not distinction, the point to earn a distinction is to get 95% maybe around that or 500 points. Below 80% you'll not earn any Statement of Accomplishment . So I'm very proud of it!.

Artphoria ( Art Festival )

Today I went to an art exhibition called Artphoria in Ciputra World 1 building in Jakarta. Artphoria is an art festival. The main paintings were made by Kurt Wenner. Kurt Wenner is an international street artist from US. His paintings are great and make the people who took pictures with the painting would look like they interact in the painting. The photographer should stand on a high stool to make the picture look real. Here is what I mean :

It looks as if I wanted to touch the lion. But actually it's just a painting on the ground and on the wall. My sister looks as if she popped out with a car.

It looks like I and my father were riding on horses in a horse race. My sister looks as if she was floating near the audience place.

I was "lying" on a couch.

I was "feeding" the bird.

Wow, my father and my sister were flying on a magic carpet and I pretended to jump to the carpet.

I "borrowed" Harry Potter's broom! :D 

My mother was staring at the lion.

This is me holding the four tickets in front of a painting that was covered because the air conditioner pipe leaked.

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When we went out from the exhibition room, at the exit door, the officer stamped our hand. The stamp is looked like this.

There are also paintings and arts made by some Indonesian artists.

These are the paintings that were made by Indonesian artist Rotua Magdalena. And I sit on a chair made by her from cardboard.

This is the cardboard chair.

I love this art exhibition. It's fantastic.

Pinocchio

I have finished reading a book titled Pinocchio. Written by Carlo Collodi, 288 pages, published by Puffin Classics. It's a story about a puppet who was made by Geppetto. Geppetto got the wood from his friend. His friend gave him the wood because he didn't want it and was annoyed with it. Geppetto's goal was to made a puppet.

 Pinocchio ran away from Geppetto right after he was made. Geppetto was caught by the police beacuse the polices thought that he couldn't keep a child. Whilst Geppetto was brought by the police, Pinoccio went home and killed a talking cricket who tried to remind him. Pinocchio got so many misfortune from many kinds of bad people, like he was so hungry because there were no food, he became a donkey who worked in a circus.Those all caused by his naughtiness. He met a kind blue- haired child along his journey. He had ran away from her last time, and when he met him she was a woman. She helped Pinocchio became a good boy, and Pinocchio finally became a good boy.

I think this book is a very good book because it helps children to learn how to behave themselves and what will happen if they don't obey their parents. Besides, this is an unabridged book, it's a complete and original one. Much better than the Disney's version.

My "1'st Rank" Trophy

I had a piano practical exam grade two a few weeks ago. And the result is 91.23 with my place as "1"st rank." My music school prepared a concert for "Best of Three" for every grade. Well, I made many many mistakes on that concert.......hihihi. I think I was too nervous that time. At the end of the concert all of the participants were called to the stage one by one and we were given certificates to honor us for our achievement. The one who got an exam score of 90 or above got a trophy. Only one boy and me who got the trophies. Here are the pictures:

Scientist Poem

Scientist, scientist,
You are my artist,
Busy all day,
In such a wonderful way.

You help me a lot,
You give me knowledge,
About history,
Which I love to learn,
And I would like to earn,
A history knowledge.

Mummies, dinosaur bones,
I'm interested in all of them,
I would like to grow,
To be someone like you.


                 By: Donna