The Story of IPA 3

First chapter: The Early Days

        It was dark in the tunnel. The long murky tunnel on the 6’th floor of the SMUK 1 building. There was a person. He was walking through it. A student. He was a third grade student in SMUK 1, and he was one of the new members of the new science class. Science 3, it was the class’ name.

        Wrong! It wasn’t the first day of Science 3. The first day was...yeah! On the first day, the weather wasn’t cloudy and the tunnel wasn’t murky at all, in fact it was a bright day. And the class wasn’t on the 6’th floor, it was on the 2’nd floor. 4 floors under! The day when Science 3 class was on the 6’th floor was the day.....forget it. Anyway, on the first day there was one black man standing in front of the class. The other man that was written in the paragraph above was there also. Then the black man accompanied him into his new class, Science 3, the class that would be the new history in his life, and in his other classmates’ lives also.

     Well, let’s call it in the usual name for this class. In Indonesia we don’t call it Science Class, but we usually call it kelas IPA (Ilmu Pengetahuan Alam/Nature Science), so let us now say IPA 3, ok! Come on, repeat after me, IPA 3, good. Now you say. Oh yes, please remember to read it in Indonesia. Very good! For now on we call this class IPA 3, the history for its students.

     And now, the history begin.....

     IPA 3 wasn’t known as a noisy class like the other 2 science classes, well at least, that was the opinion from other students. But for some reasons, the opinion can be accepted. If you had tried to enter the class, you would have been found a lot of unique creatures with a nice combed hair, a 3 cm thick of glasses, and of course if you could see it, a hard working brain that produced a thick smoke inside the head. The last, only the super human could see it. Let’s say in the usual call for this kind of human being. Let’s call them.......nerds. Yes, it was the perfect term for them. Maybe for me too (the writer). Ok, now you know that I am (the writer) one of IPA 3 students, so from now on I will change the word them to us, deal? Deal! Ok, let’s continue. Ehm. That was true. If you unlucky enough to find the 3 cm thick glasses, or the nice combed hair, and met the most handsome / beautiful boy / girl you ever saw in this world (the boy / girl of your dream), actually inside his / her head, the brain was hardly worked. And if you had a good attention, you would see the smoke came out from his / her ears. We had a few collections of this kind of species.

     This class was also leaded by a nerd, but this wasn’t an ordinary nerd. This was the Super Nerd! This creature was the king of all nerds in this class. Imagine, his hair was so shine and wet, he wore a 22 cm thick of glasses (it’s just a joke), he dressed so so so well (actually it just an ordinary teacher uniform) but the best of all was oh......oh his face, that almost innocent baby face, no one could rid off from mind the picture of his face once someone see it, oh. And one more, and this was the perfect reason why we called him as the Super Nerd, the king of all nerds.....he taught Physics! Perfect! Can you believe, the first time we met him, after a very very short message, he started to teach us a few physics formulas!!!! They weren’t much, but they were still formulas! Those life thrillers!! Arrgghhh!@#%^&...

        His name was Mr. Aris Ferdyanto, our lovely class teacher. We loved him so much. Sir, if you read this writing, please always remember that although we sometimes showed some miserable action, we loved you that time, and always...... ..............hiks...

         Ok, let’s go again. Above was our class teacher, you know him now. Don’t forget, if you see the described creature above suddenly passes in front of you, say “Hello, Sir,” or “Good day, Sir,” or any other polite words you like to say, but please not the “Arrgghhh!@#%^&” ok.

        Times moved again, and the real personality of each student was starting to appear, as we started to know each other better. And you know what, we were nerds, nothing changed...

        IPA 3 also filled with more students as 2 students were moved from another class, and one student was substituted. The student who was substituted was Raymond. He was substituted with Christianto from IPA 2 (this was the person that magically made IPA 3 sport teams one of the best sport teams in our school, especially in football, which he had an international skill on this sport). The first student who was moved was Jimmy. This chubby student was moved from IPA 1. This boy was really a huge boy. The worst were if you got the seat next behind him. You would need a periscope to see the whiteboard. Jimmy was known not only for his huge body (although it was the most popular characteristic), but he was known also as the master of Biology in our class. He was our ambassador in IBO (International Biology Olympic). Although he wasn’t succeeded to pass the second isolation in Bandung, we still very proud on him for he was the only one from our class that succeeded to pass the first isolation. There were three other Olympics: IMO (Math), ICO (Chemistry), and IPhO (Physics). Our school only be represented by one person in Biology Olympic, and that person was Jimmy!

        Another boy that was moved from another class was Christopher. This crazy bald boy was moved from social class (Sos 1). He protested his school report and ‘simsalabim’, he did it. He made the principal moved him to our class. What a bribe (it’s a joke). Anyway, finally our class was fulfilled, and this class was known, again, as IPA 3, our lovely class.