Gamarvani

Saturday, September 19^th 2015, my school held an event that called “Gamarvani”. It was a festival that presented arts and cultures of West Java.

In the morning, I would go to Bali Field, where the event took place, by myself. But my friend texted me and he wanted to go there together. So I met my friends at school and then went to Bali Field together.

There, we had to stand in line because we participated in a parade. We must wear traditional clothes, the boys wear “Pangsi” and the girls wear “Kebaya”. The route were from Bali street-Belitung street-Sumatra street-Aceh street-Merdeka street-Jawa street then went back to Bali street. After that there were performances by SD BPI and SD Kartika. We felt tired already so we decided to go to my friend’s house near school. It was so cold that I relaxed for a while.

At around 12 p.m, we decided to go back to Bali Field. Before that we prayed first. At Bali Field we got our body and things checked before entered there. Unfortunately, my scissors and my plastic ruler were confiscated. I understand why my scissors was taken but what about my plastic ruler? Is it dangerous? Whatever I just dissapointed.

As we entered Bali Field, we felt hungry already. There were so many foods that I confused to decide which food should I buy. My friend wanted to buy a food called “Bitebox”. Just like the name, the food was laided on a box. It looked delicious. So I bought it too. It was really good. But the price wasn’t really good. It was really expensive to me.

After that we played traditional game called “Boy-boyan”. At first, I didn’t really interested but the mc said the winner will get rewards. I just aimed for the prize. We played 4 versus 4, 3 boys and 1 girls. In the end my team lost. So we didn’t get the prize. After that we just sat on the corner watching performances on the stage.

At around 3 p.m, we decided to pray Ashar as soon as possible to avoid crowd. Luckily, there were just a few people in musholla so we could pray peacefully. Finally, the group that I had waited for ages, Tiloes’ Theatre, finally performed. And they didn’t dissapoint me! It was great and really funny. The jokes were really good. I really appreciated their effort to prepared that performance. I’m kind of struck with amazement and admiration to them. The performance ended at around 5.40 p.m, so we decided to go to musholla for prayed maghrib. But the musholla was already crowded so we couldn’t pray peacefully.

After maghrib, the most-waited-performances would perform. There were Adera and Hivi! Before Adera performed, we ate something first so when we watched the performances our stomach was already full. Unfortunately, Adera was late. I was a little bit dissapointed and my foots a little bit hurted too. Although Adera was late, it was worth to wait because his performance was great, as expected from a national singer. After he sang for about 5-6 songs, I felt tired, sleepy, and now my legs hurted more after standing for a long time. So I just decided to go home.

Although I didn’t watch Hivi!’s performance, I’m satisfied with the event. And because of Gamarvani, I can meet my old friends from elementary school and junior high school. I’m sure next year I’ll be there again.