Budaya itu apa sih ?

            The sun at that time was very brightly, pierce to the windows in my bedroom. The whistling sound of  birds in the morning, added the beautifulness in this village.

“Oh, actually it was morning.” I muttered.

Then, I prepared everything which I needed for teaching in my workplace, exactly at SMPN 5 Proklamasi.

            I used my beloved bike to that place. I should accross the wilderness. In this school, I have been doing KKN as the duty of my study. I was never be complained with my struggling in this village. I did effort to fight maximum. I want to dedicate all of knowledge and science I got since I was in the college to them, the golden generation of Indonesia.

            It took more than an hours to get there. Finally, I arrived at that school.  As usual, I could see the happiness of my students who were playing in front of class. It made me smile. I didn’t know why, I always feel comfort if I saw them like that. Sometimes, I remembered when I was child. I parked my bike in the usual place. Then, I greet them cheerfully.

“good morning my students.”  I said.

“good morning, sir.” Answered them.

I invited them into the class to start study today. In here, I had class on VII grade. Before I was going to start the study, I tried to make a game. And the game was ; everyone should be able to mention one of the cultures or traditions which there is in Indonesia and so famous. I gave them the questions. From twenty five students, just twenty students who able to answer the questions correctly based on my thinking. Four students said that they didn’t know about it, and one student braved to answer my questions like this.

“As I know, according the reality nowdays, I bet that the culture of  our country which still there till now and so famous are ; like to come lately, less respect of the times, and well-known about “ngaret”.

I was extremely shocked. I was never think before that He would say like that.

“whereas, He was on VII grade, but his thinking was so brilliant. He could speak about the reality nowdays.” I said inside my heart.

            Because I was impressed with that student’s answer, I thought and take an iniciative to give the knowledge more about culture detaily. At first, I tried to explain them how rich our country is.

“We had various cultures and traditions each regions. Those made Indonesia was very unique each areas. But, some of us didn’t awware about the threaten that attacked our cultures and traditions. Sometimes, We were spoiled by the modernization era. Most of us easy to accepted the new things which We didn’t know before. We should be selective at first with everythings were new for us. Because, they weren’t  always give positive effects. In addition, our obligation as a student and a civilization of Indonesia should be awware about it. Don’t till We were blind, forget, and even didn’t know about our own cultures and traditions. Really, it was ironic if We were just awware when there was another nation who claimed and stole our own cultures and traditions.” I told them greatly.

            The situation in the class was so peacefull. I aproud to my students here. They were very enthutiacally about the topic I explained. Although they stayed in the village, but their spirit to study  and their knowledge were greater than the students who stayed in the city. Three hours left, I closed the class today.

            When I put my books on the table. I was remembered by the answer of that student. He made me so proud of him. Really, He has succed make me able to open my mind. Actually, he was right. The definition of the culture was not only focus to one section. For example, just focus to arts and traditions. But, it was also include of another sections. And it made me  reminded about the materials of Cultural studies. Now, I awware. How many definitions about what culture is? And how important to know more about it.

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