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Welcome to my another blog! (yay)
This time, I'm gonna tell you about my experiences attending my school's event,
GATHAPRAYA: Literaty and Cultural Art Festival
If you live in Bandung, you've probably ever heard about this festival, because this event is really big and kind of popular *ahem. This is a culture festival, organized fully by my school, SMAN 3 Bandung. So I, as one of the students of SMAN 3 Bandung, should attend the festival. It's totally a must to pay for the ticket lol. Well, even if I weren't a student of SMAN 3, I'd probably still go.
To be honest, this was the first cultural festival I had ever attended. It was kind of an exhausting yet so worth it day. Oh, have you ever gone to a cultural festival before? If you haven't, well you should! Why? Read my blog entirely and you'll know why :p
The festival took place on Lapangan Bali, and it was held on Sunday, 30 September 2017. There are some events before the open gate of Gathapraya, such as a parade and fashion show. The parade, we have to walk together from Saparua Park until Lapangan Bali with some Gathapraya banners to attract people to attend Gathapraya. For the fashion show, it's only for grade X. Every class of grade X were ordered to choose two representations of their class, a boy and a girl, to do a fashion show competition. My class, X MIPA 2 chose Karin and Nicolas as the participants of the fashion show. They actually didn't want to do it, but the whole class chose them so what can they do? lol.
Because they actually didn't want to do it, they were kind of ignorant toward the fashion show. They didn't want to care about the clothes or anything at all related to the fashion show. Especially Nicolas. He was being really ignorant istg, I personally thought, it was annoying.
In the Sunday night, or the night on Saturday, H-1 Gathapraya, we still had no clothes for Nico and Karin. Because I did a shameless mistake that I can't mention here, I felt guilty and I thought that I had to do anything in order to make them do the fashion show. At first, we tried to search a place we could rent an Indonesian traditional clothes from which I finally found it, its name was Jawijawi, and made an appointment with the owner at 5.30 a.m.
So I told the two of them and they agreed. Karin wanted me to accompany her since it'd be awkward if it was just the two of them alone. I agreed, she'd come to my house first and we'd go to Jawijawi by car.
4.00 a.m. I woke up and did some activities. I finished right at 5.00 then waited for Karin about 15 minutes, then we went to Jawijawi. To my surprise, Nico had already at the place before us, to think that he was really lazy with the fashion show, it was a miracle that he arrived earlier. Anyway, they put on the clothes and the accessories there. We finished at around 7.30, and went to Saparua Park afterwards. We were a bit late, around 10 minutes late because it was a bit far and, not to mention, the traffic jam.
We did the parade lazily. Karin and Nico were riding horses during the parade. Karin's face was calm although her horse was weird, it looked like it was a drunk horse lol.
So we finally arrived on Lapangan Bali and we literally sat anywhere. We also met our classmates, they stayed up in the night for the sake of Gathapraya, they were the committees.
Karin and Nico did a good job in the fashion show, but our class didn't win though.
Anyway after that we ate some food and snacks until around 19.00, oh right. There were many interesting food stalls and some food trucks, some interesting spots about Indonesian culture, like gerabah and gamelan spots.
The 'main' attraction probably started around 8 p.m. That time was the time for the well-known artists and bands to perform. They are Elephant Kind, HiVi!, and NIDJI. HiVi! was the artist I looked forward so much, and yes. They performed perfectly!
The last performance was from NIDJI and I'm not gonna lie, the lighting was really breathtaking. Seriously, I was so amazed only by the lighting. The committees really did a great job!
The festival finally ended at around 11.30 p.m. It was really an exhausting day, yet a worth it and an unforgettable day.
So..., do you finally understand how memorable a culture festival can be? Well actually it depends on yourself too. If you don't like crowds, then you might not like this, but I think it's not really good to just stay at home doing nothing? Buuut, again it depends on your character and personality.
Soo guyss, I think that's all from me, see you in my other blogs.
Adios!
