The Little Match Girl

 THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL by Hans Christian Andersen (1905)

Most terribly cold it was; it snowed, and was nearly quite dark, and evening-- the last evening of the year. In this cold and darkness there went along the street a poor little girl, bareheaded, and with naked feet. When she left home she had slippers on, it is true; but what was the good of that? They were very large slippers, which her mother had hitherto worn; so large were they; and the poor little thing lost them as she scuffled away across the street, because of two carriages that rolled by dreadfully fast.
One slipper was nowhere to be found; the other had been laid hold of by an urchin, and off he ran with it; he thought it would do capitally for a cradle when he some day or other should have children himself. So the little maiden walked on with her tiny naked feet, that were quite red and blue from cold. She carried a quantity of matches in an old apron, and she held a bundle of them in her hand. Nobody had bought anything of her the whole livelong day; no one had given her a single farthing.
She crept along trembling with cold and hunger--a very picture of sorrow, the poor little thing!
The flakes of snow covered her long fair hair, which fell in beautiful curls around her neck; but of that, of course, she never once now thought. From all the windows the candles were gleaming, and it smelt so deliciously of roast goose, for you know it was New Year's Eve; yes, of that she thought.
In a corner formed by two houses, of which one advanced more than the other, she seated herself down and cowered together. Her little feet she had drawn close up to her, but she grew colder and colder, and to go home she did not venture, for she had not sold any matches and could not bring a farthing of money: from her father she would certainly get blows, and at home it was cold too, for above her she had only the roof, through which the wind whistled, even though the largest cracks were stopped up with straw and rags.
Her little hands were almost numbed with cold. Oh! a match might afford her a world of comfort, if she only dared take a single one out of the bundle, draw it against the wall, and warm her fingers by it. She drew one out. "Rischt!" how it blazed, how it burnt! It was a warm, bright flame, like a candle, as she held her hands over it: it was a wonderful light. It seemed really to the little maiden as though she were sitting before a large iron stove, with burnished brass feet and a brass ornament at top. The fire burned with such blessed influence; it warmed so delightfully. The little girl had already stretched out her feet to warm them too; but--the small flame went out, the stove vanished: she had only the remains of the burnt-out match in her hand.
She rubbed another against the wall: it burned brightly, and where the light fell on the wall, there the wall became transparent like a veil, so that she could see into the room. On the table was spread a snow-white tablecloth; upon it was a splendid porcelain service, and the roast goose was steaming famously with its stuffing of apple and dried plums. And what was still more capital to behold was, the goose hopped down from the dish, reeled about on the floor with knife and fork in its breast, till it came up to the poor little girl; when--the match went out and nothing but the thick, cold, damp wall was left behind. She lighted another match. Now there she was sitting under the most magnificent Christmas tree: it was still larger, and more decorated than the one which she had seen through the glass door in the rich merchant's house.
Thousands of lights were burning on the green branches, and gaily-colored pictures, such as she had seen in the shop-windows, looked down upon her. The little maiden stretched out her hands towards them when--the match went out. The lights of the Christmas tree rose higher and higher, she saw them now as stars in heaven; one fell down and formed a long trail of fire.
"Someone is just dead!" said the little girl; for her old grandmother, the only person who had loved her, and who was now no more, had told her, that when a star falls, a soul ascends to God.
She drew another match against the wall: it was again light, and in the lustre there stood the old grandmother, so bright and radiant, so mild, and with such an expression of love.
"Grandmother!" cried the little one. "Oh, take me with you! You go away when the match burns out; you vanish like the warm stove, like the delicious roast goose, and like the magnificent Christmas tree!" And she rubbed the whole bundle of matches quickly against the wall, for she wanted to be quite sure of keeping her grandmother near her. And the matches gave such a brilliant light that it was brighter than at noon-day: never formerly had the grandmother been so beautiful and so tall. She took the little maiden, on her arm, and both flew in brightness and in joy so high, so very high, and then above was neither cold, nor hunger, nor anxiety--they were with God.
But in the corner, at the cold hour of dawn, sat the poor girl, with rosy cheeks and with a smiling mouth, leaning against the wall--frozen to death on the last evening of the old year. Stiff and stark sat the child there with her matches, of which one bundle had been burnt. "She wanted to warm herself," people said. No one had the slightest suspicion of what beautiful things she had seen; no one even dreamed of the splendor in which, with her grandmother she had entered on the joys of a new year.

questions:

1. what was the little girl's job?
   a. sell breads
   b. maid
   c. sell matches
   d. a cashier
2. what is the moral value of the story?
   a. go home and don't frost yourself to death
   b. dont sell matches in new year's eve
   c. only through your own eyes can you truly see the meaning behind it all
   d. do your job properly
3. what kind of text is this?
   a. recount
   b. narrative
   c. procedure
   d. descriptive
4. where's the story took place?
   a. in a town, early 20th century
   b. in a town, modern years
   c. in a village, 21st century
   d. in a farm, 20th century
5. why didn't she go back home?
   a. she likes to be in the cold
   b. she was too freezing
   c. afraid of geating beaten of unsuccesful sales
   d. she was too far from home

.. putri radityasari

KOALA

hello, this time i'm going to tell you about koala.

overview:

The koala is an arboreal herbivorous marsupial native to Australia. The koala is found in coastal areas of the mainland's eastern and southern regions, inhabiting Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia. It is easily recognizable by its stout, tailless body and large head with round, fluffy ears and large, spoon-shaped nose. Their colour ranges from silver grey to chocolate brown.

Koalas typically inhabit open eucalypt woodlands, and the leaves of these trees make up most of their diet. Because this eucalypt diet has limited nutritional and caloric content, koalas are largely sedentary and sleep up to 20 hours a day. They are asocial animals, and bonding exists only between mothers and dependent offspring. Koalas have few natural predators and parasites

Koalas are marsupials, related to kangaroos. Most marsupials have pouches where the tiny newborns develop. A koala mother usually gives birth to one joey at a time. A newborn koala is only the size of a jelly bean. Called a joey, the baby is blind, naked, and earless. As soon as it's born, this tiny creature makes its way from the birth canal to its mother's pouch. Using the two well-developed senses it's born with—smell and touch—along with its strong front legs and claws and an instinct that tells it which direction to head, the baby koala reaches the pouch. There it stays, safely tucked away, growing and developing for about seven months.​ ​

After a baby has been in the pouch for about six months, its mother begins to produce a special substance called pap.​ ​The joey feeds on this in addition to the milk it's already getting. Pap comes from the mother's intestines and contains bacteria that the joey needs to have in its own intestines so that it can digest an adult diet of eucalyptus leaves.

At about seven months, the joey leaves the pouch to eat leaves, but returns to it to nurse. By the time the joey is about one year old, it stops nursing and eats just leaves.

Koala facts:
- Koalas are not bears, but MARSUPIALS, which means that their young are born immature & they develop further in the safety of a pouch. It’s incorrect to call them ‘Koala bears' - their correct name is simply 'Koalas'.

 - Habitat loss is the greatest threat to Koalas. The main reasons for this are land clearing, bushfires and diseases of the eucalypts, like ‘dieback' which cause the trees to die.

-The Australian Koala Foundation estimates that there are likely to be less than 80,000 Koalas remaining in Australia today and it could be as low as 43,000. Much of their habitat has already been lost. This makes it vitally important to save what is left.

- Koalas in the southern parts of Australia are considerably larger and have thicker fur than those in the north. This is thought to be an adaptation to keep them warm in the colder southern winters.

- Koalas also communicate with each other by making a range of noises. The most startling and unexpected of these in such a seemingly gentle animal is a sound like a loud snore and then a belch, known as a ‘bellow'

- Baby Koalas are known as ‘Joeys'. 

- When the Joey is born,  it is blind until it’s 22 weeks old,, and it’s only about 2 centimetres long, is blind and furless and its ears are not yet developed. After it was born prematurely, it stays in its mother’s pouch for about 6 or 7 months, drinking only milk. 

the life cycle of the koala

-first, males starts bellowing to attract female koalas

-Then they mark the trees with their scent

-They fight for their territory and their mate

-They mate with female koalas. The breeding season runs from august to february

-then the female carry the babies inside their stomach for 35 days before finally giving birth

-the joey stay in their mother’s pouch for 2 weeks, attached to the nipples

-from about 22 to 30 weeks the babies feed ‘pap’ from their mother, pap is a milk produced by the mothers until a year old

-young koalas stay on their mother’s back until they are much older, or at least until they the mother produced the next season baby koala

so that's it about koalas!! hope you enjoy it and give you more knowledge of animals. thank you..

source: https://www.savethekoala.com/about-koalas/interesting-facts

 animals.nationalgeographic.com/mammals/koala/

xx, 

putri radityasari

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putri radityasari

Machu Picchu

machu picchu is a really interesting place that i really want to visit someday. it's a historical place of inca and located in a mountain in peru. so here, i'm going to tell you some about machu picchu.

Machu Picchuis a 15th-century Inca citadel situated on a mountain ridge 2,430 metres (7,970 ft) above sea level. It is located in the Cusco Region, Urubamba Province, Machupicchu District in Peru, above the Sacred Valley, which is 80 kilometres (50 mi) northwest of Cuzco and through which the Urubamba River flows.

Most archaeologists believe that Machu Picchu was built as an estate for the Inca emperor Pachacuti (1438–1472). Often mistakenly referred to as the "Lost City of the Incas" (a title more accurately applied to Vilcabamba), it is the most familiar icon of Inca civilization. The Incas built the estate around 1450 but abandoned it a century later at the time of the Spanish Conquest. Although known locally, it was remained unknown to the outside world until American historian Hiram Bingham brought it to international attention in 1911.

Machu Picchu was built in the classical Inca style, with polished dry-stone walls. Its three primary structures are the Inti Watana, the Temple of the Sun, and the Room of the Three Windows. Most of the outlying buildings have been reconstructed in order to give tourists a better idea of how they originally appeared. By 1976, thirty percent of Machu Picchu had been restored and restoration continues.

Machu Picchu was declared a Peruvian Historical Sanctuary in 1981 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983. In 2007, Machu Picchu was voted one of the New Seven Wonders of the World in a worldwide Internet poll.

so that's a little about machu picchu, for me, machu picchu is really interesting and i really want to go there. i hope i will, someday.
thank you,

xx,
Putri Radityasari

source: wikipedia.com

MEGANTARA 2016

hi everyone! do you know about the culture festival that SMAN 3 Bandung held on September 10, last saturday? this time i'm going to tell you what is Megantara.

Megantara is a culture festival that SMAN 3 Bandung held as one of the student's organisation's work. it was attended by all people from bandung because it's open for everyone. it was very fun and exciting.

the event started at 8.00 am with a fashion parade. This fashion parade showed traditional clothes from many provinces in Indonesia

This event actually started 11.30am. The open gate got delayed for 1 hour and a half. People has started to enter the venue. The venue is at bali field in jalan bali. As the time went by the venue started to get crowded.

there's so many entertainers, like the changcuters and RAN. people get so into the performance they made, it was so much fun. but i had to went home earlier because i felt so ill at the time. so i miss a part of RAN's performance. 

I think the event was very fun, even tho i got so tired but i had such a blast. i met so many people and friends from the middle school. i like it very much and nothing is compared to this event. 

so that's it about megantara. there's a lot more about this event, so i'll keep you updated. and don't forget to come to the next culture festival by SMAN 3 Bandung.

thank you.

xx,

putri radityasari

World Tournament And Techno Fest

World Tournament and Techno Fest

hii.. this time i'm gonna tell you about wttf aka world tournament and techno fest.
actually, what is World Tournament and Techno Fest? World Tournament and Techno Fest is an event in SMAN 3 bandung. It was held on Saturday, august 20, 2016. the participants are students from grade 10 and 11. there are a lot of games at the event.

we started to gather around at 6.30 in the bali field near SMA 5 bandung. we got a lot of instructions, so basically, the game provide us to walk and run from one station to another or should we call, planets because the stations are on different planets and we're running around the galaxy. we also should take down every aliens there. the game is a race between grade 10 and grade 11.

we ran around from the SMAN 3 building to the parking lot, to the bali field, music park and we need to go to the tongkeng park, it's pretty far from the school and we should get there by our own feet. by the time we got there, it's already dzuhur time so people take a break for a moment. there, i ate lotek with pink, aliesha and diva. after we ate, we continue the game. oh, i forgot to tell you, my class was guided by teh amadhea. after tongkeng park, we went to photo park that even a lot more far but we should go there so we went there anyway. thank god, it's the last game we had to play. after we finished, we went back to bali field by public transportation.

we were gathered again in the bali field to complete the last task. the last mission is to get all the puzzles we got from every mini game together. we miss a lot puzzle pieces but 32019 aka grade 10 won the game. yeay!

so that's it about wttf aka World Tournament and Techno Fest.
thank you

xx,
putri radityasari

All About Me

18 August 2016

Hi! My name is Rd. Roro Putri Radityasari. You can just call me Cici. I know it's pretty far from my real name. lol. i was born in Bandung, on 9th April 2001 so i'm 15 years old now. I live in Antapani, Bandung, Indonesia since i was born. I'm a student in SMAN 3 Bandung. My mother is Cherry and my father is Arso. I'm the oldest in my family. i have 2 younger sisters, their names are Tika and Dini. i really like to listen to music and enjoy holidays, i love to watch movies at the theatre too and just hang out with some friends.

I love doing what i like. i like to draw and anything about art. i want to be a designer when i'm old. one of my idol is Anna Wintour. I like Troye Sivan too. He's not afraid and so proud of himself. He's a youtuber and a singer. You should probably check his songs out. i love poems too, the first poem i read is a poem by Walt Whitman, since that, i really into poems. 

That's a brief story of me haha, i hope you'll enjoy what i'll write on my blog.

xx,

Putri Radityasari