Study Tour

Rabu, 1 November 2017

Study Tour is an official event where students can have a free week of fun in some other places than  old boring Bandung. Students spend the time of their lives and enjoy unforgettable fun before having to deal with months of torturous workloads and tests up to the finals. 

Study Tour, as its name suggests, aims to give education as well as entertainment to its participants. Study Tour is a literal tour of various destinations across a certain area where students are dragged along from historical place to historical place that hopefully may give relevant impact on their lives. The school aims to educate students by introducing them, ‘us’, to these places and cultures. This year’s twelfth graders get this opportunity to go to Yogyakarta from 9th to 13th October 2017.

On the first day the udents were flung immediately to a giant genocidal piece of nature, the Merapi Volcano, which reminds us that humans are and will always be inferior towards nature unless the government upgraded the local bunker. The next destination is,  the Prambanan temple: a bunch of rocks that look good, a place where an intriguing and philosophical ‘Ramayana’ play is presented, which may or may not finish depending on the weather.

On the second day students were treated to water-related activities, such as sitting on a rubber tyre and mindlessly floating through a cave where you e not allowed to swear, curse, or pee, the Sepanjang Beach, where students can throw sand at each other or wear a green shirt and challenge the local myth of the Sea Queen, and finally students were shoved into a makeshift church inside a cave known as ‘Gua Maria’, to pray for stuff that you want to pray about. 

On the third day the students went to a museum depicting horrendous murders and war that took place ages ago. Then, after they managed to make Batik, the students were taken to the Breksi Cliff, where they could have class photos which might look good with the cliff background. The final night was, of course, spent in Malioboro, the famous street dedicated to shops and trading littered with pickpockets, con-men, and people dressing up as local ghosts, unless students choose to spend their night at Malioboro Mall, where most lovebirds hang out.

After a week of entertainment and once-in-a-lifetime experience, students can finally go back to reality and continue worrying about test results and mountains of homework. All in all, Study Tour is designed to be a mood booster for facing those challenging moments,

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