The desire, courage and commitment
This story is taken from the book Chicken Soups for the souls:
Hani name. Hani Irmawati. He is a shy girl, aged 17 years. Berkamar live at home with two parents and two brothers. His father is a janitor and his mother's maid household. Their annual income, is not equivalent to the cost of a university in the United States.
One day, with shabby clothes, he stood alone in the parking lot an international school. School is expensive, and does not accept students of Indonesia. It was about a teacher who taught English there. An action that requires great courage for the size of Indonesian girls.
"I want to study in the United States," he said, there is almost no reasoned. Make the teacher surprised, to hear a crying young girl's dream pungguk I miss the days.
For the next few months, Hani wake every morning at five o'clock and ride the city bus to SMU-nya. During the one hour trip, he was to learn lessons and to prepare additional normal subjects of English didapatnya from the international school teachers that the previous day. Then, four hours on the afternoon, he arrived in class the teacher. Tired, but ready to learn.
"He learned more zealous than most students ekspatriatku the rich-rich," said the teacher. "The spirit of Hani increase with language ability, but I am more jaded."
Hani may not be eligible to get scholarships from major universities in the United States. He has never led the club or organization, because the school did not have things like that. He has no value and the standard test that impressive, because such tests do not exist.
However, Hani has a stronger determination than students anywhere.
"Will you submit your name?" Pintanya to be registered as
scholarship recipient.
"I do not deny tega. I fill out the registration, fill each dots
with the painful truth about academic life, but also
with pujianku about courage and kegigihannya, "said the teacher.
"Kurekatkan envelope and told Hani that peluangnya for
received the light, may naught. "
On sunday, next sunday, Hani increase in the lesson
English. All computerized tests to be big challenge for someone
who had never touched a computer. During the two weeks he learned
parts of the computer and how it works.
Then, right before Hani to Jakarta to take the TOEFL, he received a letter
scholarship from the association.
"This is a cruel time. Rejection, "thought the teacher.
Mempersiapkannya as an effort to try to face disappointment, the
ago teachers began to open the mail and membacakannya: he received! Hani received
....
"Finally I realized that I am a new understanding of something already
Hani known since the beginning: not only the ingenuity to bring success, but
also desire to succeed, commitment to work hard, and the courage to
believe will be yourself, "said the teacher kisahnya close.
This story Hani expressed by the teachers of English, Jamie Winship,
and was published in the book "Chicken Soup for the College Soul", the edition
Indonesian has been published.
Of course this story is not seen as a normal story by Jack Canfield, Mark
Victor Hansen, Kimberly Kirberger, and Dan Clark. He was selected among more
of eight thousand other stories. However, this is not the making of special.
Special, Hani sosoknya show different. He has determination. Determination
to forward. But, as Tommy Lasorda said, "The difference between
the impossible and the impossible is not a determination on someone. "
You have one?
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