Having a guest

By Indri

Wednesday, 10th February 2010, we had a guest coming over, Ms. Angguni. She arrived around 12 PM at Cakung with Ms. Debby. I met her once. She wanted to see the daily activities of the residents in Cakung area who work as city farmers. She wanted to stay two nights here.

When she arrived, Ms. Debby brought Ms. Angguni to meet all the residents and went to see Intan’s Grandfather’s farm. There were a corn farm, a basil farm and a spinach farm that were just harvested, a velvetleaf farm, and an empty farm that the ground soil has been rested before they’ll throw watercress seeds in the next few days.

Ms. Debby brought Ms. Angguni to Mama Ester’s house to stay over there. She got acquainted with Mama Ester and then Ms. Angguni told her that she wished to stay in Mama Ester’s place until Friday 12th February 2010.

After she met with the residents, Ms. Angguni took a rest for a while. And then she met and played with the children until about 3 PM and then she started helping Intan’s Grandfather and Father to do farming.

On the Thursday 11th February 2010, Ms. Angguni went to help Intan’s Grandfather to pull some weeds in the farm and tending the corn farm. After that, Ms. Angguni went to play with the children again and helped Intan doing her English homework.

Friday 12th of February 2010 was the last day of Ms. Angguni in Cakung. She also went to help the children studying in the study house. It turns out that Ms. Angguni likes to do story telling. When we’re starting the study session, we washed our hands and our foot, and then we made a big circle, then one by one, we introduced our selves to Ms. Angguni.

Most of the children had known Ms. Angguni. After the introduction, Ms.Angguni started her story telling. We’re all sitting across the board, where Ms.Angguni stands. Ms.Angguni started telling story about a shepherd who likes to tell lies, so when he encounters problems, no one believed in him.

The wisdom of the story is, don’t ever tell lies. Because when you lie, then no one believes in you when you tell the truth.
After the story telling, we were studying accompanied by some people who helped there, based on the age category of the children. Ms Angguni was accompanying the small children, the category One. The small children got another story telling from Ms. Angguni,that was really fun.

In the afternoon, after we finished studying, we cleaned the study house. Ms. Angguni went to say goodbye to Intan’s big family and also to Ester’s family. When it was time to say goodbye to Ester, the two of them went for a walk to Tanah Merah. Ester was sad, she’s going to miss Ms. Angguni.

After that, all the people who help with the children and Ms. Angguni said goodbye to the children. And they went home together.