This is not something new. I just felt the need to jot the story down. So on October 27 and 28 last year, all twelfth graders had this outing event called City Tour. We went by this ELF van, since my class (language department) only consisted of seven students plus one homeroom teacher.
We went to quite many places, basically moving from one place to another. Taking off from school after the other buses left in the morning, we got to our very first destination, which was a small tent food stall recommended by our homeroom teacher located just near SMA 70. There, we took a sip of cold bottled teas for our energy booster ^^.
Since the stall was located right in front of an international preschool, we happened to spot some children dropping off of their cars and being greeted by their teachers at the gate in English. So cute.
Then we moved on to a small road at Panglima Polim, which Provoke Magazine should be located.
Too bad the office hadn't opened just yet, and it took like an hour to wait for it to open (we arrived there at 8 while the office hour started at 9).
Anyway you can see from the pictures below that we were discussing which place to go after that.
Um after a while, we decided to drop by at Textile Museum at Tanah Abang. The museum was typical as what other museums in Indonesia looked like, dusty and worn out. But since the admission was again...FREE, and the guard said that it was holding some sort of a fashion exhibition, we couldn't hesitate to enter it.
Look at the gowns. They weren't normal gowns I presumed. They looked just extraordinaire!
From the main building of the museum where we practically saw textiles displayed on the wall and some unusual yet beautiful looking gowns, we went to another building. It was smaller, like a traditional Betawi house. Apparently it was the spot where visitors could make their own batik. We quickly applied to make ours.
It wasn't so bad, was it? It took approximately an hour to get the artwork done, excluding waiting for the wet batik work to dry up. We were given a color selection for our batik. I chose brown for mine since it was more into batik classic color. My friends were more into exotic more bright looking ones.
Oh and we happened to stumble upon a foreigner and her daughter. My friends asked me to ask this lady with her daughter a few questions. But I ended up asking about where she came from, and she said she was from Australia :D
Anyway, we moved on. After we got our batik works done, it was mid day already, and at that moment we were thinking the best spot for us to have lunch. Other classes might have reserved a restaurant considering their amount of students. But we ended up to go to ITC Kuningan and had lunch in its food court.
I found this really exciting. I mean, where else can you find a class on its outing having lunch in a mall's food court? LOL
Even what's more unique though, we happened to eat the same cuisine, which was Manado cuisine. Not bad though.
After that, we went to Ruang Rupa at Tebet. It was a gallery which displayed contemporary and urban artworks. So you wouldn't see any abstract or paintings of snowcapped mountains or rolling hills, something like that, but things like below.
Since we already had an appointment with the owner, he kindly took us on a tour around the small yet fascinating gallery. Then he took us to a small TV room where he played a DVD for us to watch, showing the projects the gallery had been involved in or had worked on.
Last but not least, we went to the most acknowledged newspaper editorial office, KOMPAS, located in Palmerah. It didn't take long from Tebet. Once we got there, we were also greeted by this nice lady who took us to the staff's meeting room, where we shared our thoughts and she and the office's head of editorial staff, explained a bit about the newspaper.
Knowing that we were from language department, the lady and the head of editorial staff gave us all books of short stories compilations that had been published in the paper!! You wouldn't imagine how ecstatic we were at that moment :D :D
Well, after that, we were given a quick tour around the wide office. We got to meet the photojournalists that just arrived from photo hunting that day, and we also got to meet the layout designer!!
So with us exiting the building and returning to school, it concluded our first day of City Tour. Tomorrow would be more relaxing since we were going to Dufan!!!
Pictures are credit to:
(c) Testa
Additional pictures belong to these websites:
Textile Museum: ngetengaja.blogspot.com
Ruang Rupa: deathrockstar.info
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