First day to school

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Yesterday, Monday 16 July 2007 was first day to school for student in Indonesia after long vacation of class graduation. The funny thing of first day to school is maybe the orientation days. In Indonesia there's a culture that every fresh year student in SLTP (junior high school), and SMU (high school) have to get pass the orientation day.

Orientation days aims to make the fresh year student knows their school better, but in the reality it is often use as a tools for the senior to play tricks on their junior. Although the orientation days that given by the senior from junior high or even in the high school aren't dangerous (sometimes it is even funny) but it still make the parent feels like it is a heavy obligation.

Because after the parents have to pay a large amount of money to make their children get in school (the government of Indonesia already gave free school fee, but several school still ask for money) they also have to buy things for their children orientation day. For examples in some school they have to buy a basket made from rammy or they have to buy lots of ribbon, and a bag of flour sack.

Orientation days could make happy and funny memories after we graduated from the school. But it will be much better if orientation days didn't gave the parents another heavy duty to fulfill for their children.