AMT

So, i know i haven't posted in like, forever, but i'm posting now!

The reason i haven't posted is because i've been really busy with school and i've been dressing like poo (I would've said a curse word, but my teacher is going to grade this post, so) so it's not worth to post.

Anyways, last weekend my school had this program where all the ninth grade students received motivational training for the future, it's called Achievement Motivation Training. Achievement Motivation Training (AMT) lasted for 3 days, starting Thursday to Saturday.

On the first day (Thursday) the event was held in the school, all the students got to meet successful Labschool alumnies. If you're wondering, Labschool is the name of my school. haha. So there were four alumnies, there was a banker, a tv reporter, a doctor, and a business man. they talked to us about the road to success and the struggle that wold ultimitely lead to it. One of my classmates asked if the four of them had experienced failure to the point where they thought they couldn't handle it anymore and just wanted to quit, or as they say it, hitting rock bottom. They all said yes-naturally-, they said that they felt hopeless and wanted to get away more than anything. But they motivated themselves and picked theirselves back up and continued their journey. Which is very inspirational actually. I guess that's the only memorable part of the first day for me. Though after that talk with the alumnies, i still feel that i lacked motivation and that they didn't give me enough. So i was doubtful that the rest of the program would give me enough motivation for the future.

On the second day (Friday) the event was held outside of school and we had to spend a night in a hotel outside of Jakarta, it's called Grand Pesona. The first thing we did after the two hour journey (by bus, psssssh) to get there was eat. and then we were assigned to our rooms. You must know that my room feels so haunted! All the other rooms had flat tvs, while my room had this big, old tv which wouldn't turn on! the worse part is, the view from the window isn't beautful at all. the view were laundry hangers and it's very creepy. Oh, and i also got the bed which was nearest the window because my friends all tagged their beds and i was the last one so i got that bed.

I can't say i remembered all of the events, but, i remember that it was very motivational. and my classmates, who are usually very loud, abnoxious, and childish, all shut up to hear the speaker speak. There was a speaker who tought us how to memorize everything quickly, and we were told to make a mindmapping of whatever. Then there was this speaker which i thought didn't make sense like, at all. But by the end of his session he managed to make everyone-well, i think it was everyone-cry because he made some sort of teary speech about our mothers. then there was this motivational speaker, to whom i didn't really pay attention to because i was tired. then at about 6 pm, they let us take a break, and so i showered because i felt sticky and dirty (ew). after that, the boring motivational speaker returned for his second session, which lasted until 10 o'clock. i didn't pay attention to this one either because i fell asleep. hehe.

When it was *finally* time to sleep, we all went to our rooms. My friends and I all refused to sleep because our room felt haunted. So we stayed at someone else's room for a while and we watched narnia (helloooooooo skandar) but when i asked the teacher if we could move rooms he said no (boo!) so my friends and i went back to our room to *try* to sleep.

Good thing is, another friend of mine slept in my room and took my bed so i didn't have to sleep near that window! So we all slept with the tv on, after an hour of sleep i woke up because the tv was playing this horrible, horrible soap opera where the characters screamed every five bleeping seconds. argh

Because i couldn't sleep and it was 1 o'clock and it was creepy, i decided to loose myself in a book. It's The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton BUT sadly i couldn't finish it because i thought i kept seeing something behind my book. creeeeeepy.

So i didn't sleep until five in the morning, then i got ready for a run. I was going to run alone but my friends asked me to wait for them. So i waited. for an hour. I was majorly upset because it does not take an hour to get ready for a jog. And plus, at 6 am, the hotel is really crowded with my classmates playing around and taking pictures. So we went for a 5 minute run, well, i jogged and they sprinted. five minutes, can you imagine? not a even a full lap. After they gave up on running and instead took pictures, i decided to ran 3 more laps with a friend who actually wants to exercise before getting breakfast.

At 9, we had our final event. It was writing a life proposal-you know, writing what you want in life, what you want to be, where you're heading etc. etc. I wrote that i wanted to be a fashion director of magazine, and attend FIT in NY and blabla. So afterwards the teachers told us to stand on our chairs (I felt a little like Blaine Anderson here. haha) and read aloud our wishes. I ended up shouting mine, and choking on tears. Seriously, it felt like i could hear each and everyone of my classmates' wishes because all of them yelled out what they wanted very loudly and passionately. it gave me actual shivers.

After that we packed and head back to Jakarta. on the bus i slept, woke up and ate a bag of lays, and then slept again until we arrived back in Labschool. After getting my luggage, i went straight back home and didn't get a chance to see my friends because i had a math course waiting for me *sob*

Well, i guess that was my weekend. It was actually very cool to get to spend time with my classmates and get some motivation boost.

:)