YOU ARE A WOMAN WARRIOR

WOMAN WARRIOR

Nowadays, a woman warrior does not fight physically but she has weapons. Her weapons are her strength, her spirit, her love, her tenderness, her patience, and her faith to God.

You are a woman warrior if you are a single mother and fight to raise up your children.

You are a woman warrior if you are a widow and fight for your living.

You are a woman warrior if you fight against the disease.

You are a woman warrior if in uncertain condition , you still put your hope to God.

Last week, I got an email from a friend of mine. He says that his friend had a breast cancer. He lead me to a blog which is written by his friend. When I read that blog, I many times brushed my tears away. There’s a sentence which caught my eyes, it is written “it’s ruin my career and life”, I think I can understand her feeling but one thing that I can see from her blog that the cancer does not ruin her spirit/passion to recover. She is an optimistic woman and I know she can through it all. She is one of woman warrior!

My grandmother fought to raise up her five children after her husband passed away and she made it well. She was a good cook and when I asked her to cook, she did it for me. She taught me about faith to God when my parents didn’t do. Every night, I slept with her. I ever asked her ”why do you always sing praise song every evening?” She answer,” I always miss being in church.” She is with our Father now. I will always remember her love, her passion and her hope to God. She is a woman warrior!

A woman warrior is the woman who fight for something by her strength, passion, love, tenderness, patience) and put her hope to God.

Nova

THE SPIRIT OF RED WHITE FLAG

Notes for Readers

August 17^th is the date that will always be memorized by all Indonesians. You can feel the spirit of Red White Flag on this date in Indonesia. INDEPENDENCE DAY!

Besides ceremony that you can see in most of the place here, you can also see many contests and competitions are held here. Some of the competitions are held before August 17^th. This contests and competitions are aimed to grow and show the spirit of Red White Flag. Red means brave and white means holy.

Some contests and competitions which are held in every year are : tug of war, sack race, mounting nut, marble race, cracker eating contest, balloon breaking contest, singing contest, kebaya and batik contest, traditional dance competition, cooking competitions, etc. You can choose some competitions that you are interested in and join it.

Mounting Nut

I was born in the country which has diverse culture and religion. Indonesia has more than thirty tribes and five religions where every culture/tribes has its own language. We live side by side peacefully. I still remember what my primary teacher advised us; she said “THE PERSON WHO OBEY HIS GOD IS THE PERSON WHO RESPECT OTHER RELIGIONS.” Although, there are some arguments and terrorism but so far, we still can hold each other.

I live in Sumatera island, that is in North Sumatera. We still have Kalimantan island, Java island, Sulawesi island, Irian Jaya island and Bali is one of our small island. One thing that I miss to see in my country is the good progress.

Map of Indonesia

If you ask me, “Nova, what have you done for your nation/country?” I only can do a little for my country, I write information about my country so that if there are people who don’t know Indonesia, at least they know it from my writing above. INSPIRING INDONESIA!!

Nova.