Assalamualaikum guys!! Today I want to tell you about
Matswapati, an art and cultural festival that was held by my school, 3 senior high
school Bandung, with a theme ‘Kenali budayamu, cintailah negerimu’ or if you
translate it ‘Recognize your culture, love your country’. Its name was taken
from a ‘wayang’ that is known as the ‘king of wayang’. It was held in the Bali
field near 5 senior high school from 10am until 7pm. But before the event
starts, we joined a parade with some elementary and junior high school students.
Because our class theme was Arjuna, we dressed Davy as Arjuna. After we walked
around for the parade, we watched ‘kuda renggong’, a traditional ritual. But I
didn’t like it very much, because it was a little bit scary.
At 10 o’clock, we entered the Bali field. I and some other
friends were assigned to decorate our stand. If you ask me, I really like to
decorate the stand, because we decorated it together. We painted a big cloth as
background for the photo booth with tribal motive.
Because we aren’t allowed to sell foods, so we got an idea to
sell postcards and make IQ games and photo booth stand. Unexpectedly, many
people tried to solve those puzzles. And at the end of the day we got around Rp
300.000,-. And the most brilliant idea, because Vialita bought a bow, we
allowed people to take a photo with that bow, but with tariff of course.
Back to topic, the rundown of Matswapati was full of cultural
things. The first performance was traditional dancing, wayang, and martial
arts. Then after duhur, the most waited show from some of us, the performances
of us, 3 senior high school, that are KPA3, T’ST, MK3, etc. My favorite is T’ST’s,
because it was really funny and entertaining, even so the wheatear was so hot
and I was so thirsty there. After that there were some games.
Unfortunately, my body was hot and I didn’t feel good at that
time. So I went to my house at afternoon. Because I wanted at least to know like what
the performance was, I interviewed an upperclassman from XI Acceleration. He went
to the festival from the morning with his friends. In his opinion, different than
mornings, Bali field was very crowded at noon. He thought it’s because some
good events were held at night. One of them is the performance of glenn frendly.
The best stand was the Abimanyu stand
that he described as ‘a green colored stand at the corner but quite crowded’. He
self waited at his class’s stand. He said that his stand wasn’t so full because
the position was separated from the other stands.
For me, Matswapati was good, entertaining, and successful. I hope
our next festival can be more successful than this year.
