Peace and all good!

Another year has just finished in the life of the Seminary Menengah Christus Sacerdos, and it was also the second year of my teaching experience with the young Seminarians.

Reading the articles of Bro.Gerard who I met personally here during his stay with us and of Petrus Sitohang, I have more vivid idea of how the English language in the Seminary should be given a first place concern that it may become part of the real life situation of every seminarian.

The semester recently was quite tough for me since I had to teach the new comers, that was the 3 Probatorium classes. Majority of them couldn’t speak the language and even to grasp it. I had tried the most possible means I have in hand like internet, LCD, presenting my lessons in Powerpoint, games, songs and more written dialogues prepared by them so that they could express themselves using English. I think they were effective enough. It is consoling to hear them once in a while speaking English.

I believe somehow that my presence would help them, the seminarians as well as the teachers, to practice English everyday. It is also true that this is what is lacking, the opportunity to use it not only in a classroom situation but also in every day life situation. I am also glad that many of our teachers are given the chance to study the language and I’m happy that they started to have the courage to use it not only with me but also among themselves.

I have a lot of stories, even anecdotes to always remenber during these two years that somehow become the teasers in animating my community.

One day in one of my lessons, Tupa with his broken english asked me,”Sister, couldn’t you speak our language?” I answered, “I couldn’t.” He continued, “Don’t you know it?” With my white lies I responded,”I don’t know.” And he questioned,”Then why have you stayed in our country?” I replied,”Because, I have to teach English in the seminary.” He insisted, “And then, you have to know our language.” I said. “That doesn’t matter because with you there is only English language.” In between the lesson, this seminarian’s naughtiness continued and interrupted me by asking something in Indonesian language which distractedly I answered, and with his forefinger’s ponting up and a smile on his face, he exclaimed,” So Sister, you know our indonesian language!”. And I smiled.

Funny story? Perhaps, but more, it was a beautiful experience. The spontaneity of these young seminarians, inspite of the difficulties in the teaching and learning process of the English language, gives me that enthusiasm to share more what is in my dispositiona. In the Seminary, I am the only foreigner but I never felt I am a stranger. Every one has done the part to let me feel at home.

What we are hoping for the next school year is that we may offer more good education to our Seminarians, rich with spirituality and brotherhood so that these young boys whose future will be also ours, will give the best of their lives and so that our Church may be enriched with men of good faith.

To all the Staff and Seminarians: A fruitful Holiday! See you all again the next school year! (Sr. Imelda Espital Dela Cruz FIS)

Olimpiade Sains

Banyak pendapat  umum mengenai seminaris bahwa seminaris hanya mahir di bidang olahraga. Bahkan pernah ada komentar yang mempertanyakan partisipasi seminaris dalam bidang olimpiade sains. Pendapat ini dipatahkan dengan pembuktian bahwa seminaris juga mampu bersaing di bidang olah intelektual. Senin, 2 Juni 2008, seminari mengutus salah seorang putranya untuk mengikuti kompetisi OSN tingkat provinsi di Medan. Sebuah kebanggaan tentunya, melihat kenyataan bahwa saudara Jollifi Ginting, siswa syntaxis IPA 2007/2008,  mampu mengalahkan pesaing-pesaingnya di tingkat kota Pematangsiantar. Sebagai juara I OSN Kimia tingkat kota Pematangsiantar , saudara kita ini berhak mengikuti gelaran Kompetisi yang lebih tinggi di Medan. Nah semoga dalam kompetisi ini saudara kita mampu membawa pulang piala Thomas..., ups..., maksudnya, mengibarkan panji seminari di kancah pertempuran intelektual yang semakin sengit ini...yeah..., mari kita doakan...

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CROSS CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING

Basically, every place has their own values of culture. When we are in one place, we must obey its cultural values.

 

            East and west, the different sides of earth have many differences of cultural values.

 

1. Equality and Egalitariannism

West value       : all people are created equal thus they have no rank or status in         their society. Notice that it’s only an idea, not a fact at at all.

East value         : they have hierarchy, rank or status in their society. It’s made for knowing their status or position in society. And they always look their status when they have a relationship to other people.

Our ethnic group , Batak Simalungun, is in the East value. It looks clearly when we have a traditional celebration ,especially a marriage celebration.

Simalungun hierarchy ,which is called ‘Tolu Sahundulan’,  consists of:

1)      Tondong

2)      Sanina

3)      Boru

We will discuss them, one by one:

1)      Tondong

Parents of a bride are called ‘Tondong’. ‘Tondong’ is the highest status in family relationship. In marriage celebration, only ‘Tondong’ gets ‘Jambar’(a piece of meal). It shows us that Tondong is the highest status in Simalungun ethnic group.

2)      Sanina

The brothers of bridegroom are called ‘Sanina’. ‘Sanina’ is lower than ‘Tondong’ but higher than ‘Boru’. It looks clearly in marriage celebration, ‘Sanina’ always be the second in giving foreword (Siparhata).

3)      Boru

The sisters of bridegroom are called ‘Boru’. ‘Boru’ is the lowest status in Simalungun ethnic group. They get no jambar and always be the last who give foreword.

 

1. Directness, Openness and Honesty

West value       : honesty is the best policy. People should express themselves openly. It is not considered good to “ bear around the bush”.

East value         : indirectness and “saving tace”. People should consider one another’s feelings when deciding what to say. Honesty is not always the best policy.

Batak Simalungun, is in the East value. Our people always notice the other feelings. They can’t say something directly, moreover when they disagree with someone. They always consider the other feelings.

It looks clearly in traditional dance of Batak Simalungun, 'Tari Somba'.

This traditional dance is usually danced in opening a formal celebration. It’s aim is giving honour to the guests.

And if we pay attention to the detail, we will see that the dancers always look at the ground. They never look at the guests directly. It shows us that they always consider one and others feelings

1. Informally

West value ®    First name usage( Just called "Bob”). It’s not so important for other                            people to know our title or last name.

East value  ®      usage of titles are common. People are retrained and polite with each other.

 

                          

Our people always need to know our titles. For them it is so important to know that because they will know how far their relationship is, by their title. If they have a same title, conversation will be relaxed and deeper than they have different titles. They usually want to know our hometown or the hometown of our father. And it can be more than knowing our identity but also our family’s identity.

 

In Batak Simalungun it looks clearly in their traditional song, Pos ni Uhur.

In one lyrics

      “… Putus ma boru Girsang

                        sambung boru Saragih, Otene boto…”

 

It shows that they usually use the titles, it doesn’t matter what their first name is.

It can be better if we know our ordinary culture, then also try to progress our culture, because culture is a dynamic thing. All of culture have positive and negative things,

 

And we must recovered our culture because it’s not bad at all. And it will be better if we can mix them, so that it can be the best for our future.

 

                                                                                         

                             

                                                                    Risky Yakob Purba

                                                                  Poesis IPA 2007-2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DISCIPLINE

 

We are what we always do repeteadly, therefore, specialty is not a behaviour, but a habit. (Aristotle)

 

   What is the discipline? Discipline is taken from latin language, disciplina, which means orders. So discipline is doing things in orders. It is difficult to do everything in order for some people because they’re not usual to do that. But before we’re talking further how to do everything in order, let’s see why do we have to be discipline.

            Stephen R. Covey in his book “The seven habits of highly effective people” put discipline in one of the seven habits he mentioned. The seven habits, help men to be success. Of course everyone want to be success, and there are a lot of books and speeches which tell us the way to be success. But I just want to emphasize two points this time, they are: 

 

1)      Making a private management principles

2)      Doing the principles as a habit

 

Making a private management principles means managing yourself by principles you’ve decide. But what principles do you want to apply to be discipline? I think, all of the principles are just about arranging time.

The most usual  problem which people face in discipline is the lack of time. People -usually said: “I don’t have enough time”, but everyone has been given a same time, a same day, a same week, no one in this earth who has been given 25 hours a day, but why do many people have enough time to do their activity but the others don’t.

Maybe we can say that everyone have different activities, but let’s make a closer example. We are seminarians, who have the same activities everyday. Especially in a same class, we have same homeworks and jobs to do. But it’s usual for some of us to do our activity on time while the others don’t. In this case the problem must be in arranging time. Not all of the students can arrange their time well, although most of our time had been arranged. We  have not much spare time in a day, it’s only about 3 hours a day, but why do we can’t use it efficiently? 

I think, the most usual problem is that most of us do not do our activities on time, we're not discipline. There are some of us, seminarians,  who sleep when we should study, read novels when we should sleep and do others indisciplined actions. These indisciplined actions will result bad effects on us. These bad effects such as: we will get bad school grades, our health will be decreased, many people will hate us because we do not follow the rules.

I have two suggestion for us to build a discipline attitude:

 

1. Do you activities on time and as you’ve been ordered

Maybe this suggestion seems too simple but this is the most important action to be discipline. Shortly, it means you have to speech when it’s time to speech, and you have to sleep when it’s time to sleep, and you have to hear when it’s time to hear. Imagine if the doctors plow the fields, the policeman injecting the patients, it won’t be funny, will it? So do you activities on time and as you’ve been ordered.

1. Make a priority.

            We have to do the most important thing first, the secondary next, and so on. Of course we have our own priority. But especially as a student, our most priority is to study well.

I have not much advise for us . But I’m sure if we do these two suggestions well, we will get good effects.

Habit is a strong factor in our life, for our consistency and what we do, habit always express our character .

 

Thank you,

 

 

                                                                             Richardo Marpaung

                                                                             Syntaxis IPA 2007

                                                                             

PENGUMUMAN HASIL TEST MASUK SEMINARI GEL. SUSULAN

NOMOR		NAMA	PAROKI	KET
URT	TEST
1	A-141	ENDY OLIVER PURBA	PALIPI	LULUS
2	A-142	FRANSISKUS AGUNG SINAGA	PALIPI	LULUS
3	A-143	FRANS OKTAVIANUS SIAGIAN	TARUTUNG	LULUS
4	A-144	GIABUL SIREGAR	TARUTUNG	LULUS
5	A-145	JULIANDI V NAIBAHO	TARUTUNG	LULUS
6	A-146	RONALDO F NAINGGOLAN	SIDIKALANG	LULUS
7	A-147	SATRIA S SIMAMORA	SIANTAR I	LULUS
8	A-148	FRANSIS JAMUDA SIALLAGAN	PADANG	LULUS
9	A-149	ALBERT EINSTEIN PURBA	SARIBUDOLOK	LULUS
10	A-150	JOHN E HANSEN MANALU	PADANG BULAN	LULUS
11	A-151	SATRIA FERNANDO SULANGI	PADANG	LULUS
12	B-152	CHRISYE F SAMOSIR	PADANG	LULUS
13	B-154	RADOT SITUMORANG	PALIPI	LULUS
14	B-155	FENANSIUS SIDABUTAR	SIANTAR III	LULUS

Pematangsiantar, 14 April 2008

Rektor Seminari Menengah

 

P. Daniel Erwin Manullang, OFM. Cap.

 

PENGUMUMAN TEST MASUK SEMINARI

PENGUMUMAN TEST MASUK SEMINARI
TAHUN 2008
TINGKAT SMP
Nomor
				N a m a	Paroki	Ket.
Urut	Testing
1	A	-	001	FRIENLY F SIBORO	HAYAMWURUK	LULUS
2	A	-	002	ALEXANDER A SARAGI	PADANG BULAN	LULUS
3	A	-	003	KWIRINUS F HABEAHAN	MEDAN TIMUR	LULUS
4	A	-	005	WILSON F HUTAGALUNG	HELVETIA	LULUS
5	A	-	006	BASTIAN C K HUTABARAT	PADANG BULAN	LULUS
6	A	-	007	MAXIMILIANUS SIPAYUNG	PADANG BULAN	LULUS
7	A	-	009	SAUT GOMGOM FSILALAHI	SIANTAR I	LULUS
8	A	-	010	ARJUNA JUDEO SIPAYUNG	SIANTAR I	LULUS
9	A	-	012	JANRI SIANIPAR	AEK KANOPAN	LULUS
10	A	-	013	INDRA V NAINGGOLAN	DURI	LULUS
11	A	-	017	MARSEL CLINTON SIHOTANG	SIANTAR I	LULUS
12	A	-	019	WILSON ANTONIO SAGALA	AEKNABARA	LULUS
13	A	-	023	GOPAR HOSTANNA GULTOM	PERDAGANGAN	LULUS
14	A	-	025	JANUARD H MANULLANG	PERDAGANGAN	LULUS
15	A	-	026	BASTIAN J A LUMBANGAOL	DOLOKSANGGUL	LULUS
16	A	-	028	KAROLUS S KATAREN	PADANG BULAN	LULUS
17	A	-	030	JOHANES R SIALLAGAN	SIANTAR III	LULUS
18	A	-	033	IGNATIUS MAYOLA SALELEI	MENTAWAI	LULUS
19	A	-	041	ROY OCTEN F GINTING	SARIBUDOLOK	LULUS
20	A	-	044	ALDO CHRISTONA BANGUN	KABANJAHE	LULUS
21	A	-	045	JEDIDIA MUNTHE	SARIBUDOLOK	LULUS
22	A	-	047	LIBRA S JENO SEMBIRING	BERASTAGI	LULUS
23	A	-	048	VALENTINUS PANDIA	KABANJAHE	LULUS
24	A	-	050	SURYAMANIA T BUKIT	KABANJAHE	LULUS
25	A	-	058	FERNANDO PURBA	KABANJAHE	LULUS
26	A	-	059	DENI SAPUTRA KABAN	KABANJAHE	LULUS
27	A	-	060	BAPTISTA OKTA S TARIGAN	KABANJAHE	LULUS
28	A	-	061	JEFRY PRANATA BARUS	KABANJAHE	LULUS
29	A	-	062	WARDAN ALDANI	KABANJAHE	LULUS
30	A	-	063	BEDEUS BANUAREA	KABANJAHE	LULUS
31	A	-	064	EDIKA KORNELIUS GINTING	BERASTAGI	LULUS
32	A	-	065	VAN BASTEN MELIALA	BERASTAGI	LULUS
33	A	-	066	TONGGI M P PANDIANGAN	PASAR MERAH	LULUS
34	A	-	067	ALEXANDER GULTOM	TEBING TINGGI	LULUS
35	A	-	068	BENEDIKTUS SINAGA	TEBING TINGGI	LULUS
36	A	-	071	WANDY SAPUTRA PURBA	SARIBUDOLOK	LULUS
37	A	-	072	FINSENSIUS PURBA	SARIBUDOLOK	LULUS
38	A	-	076	JHON CHARLES F PURBA	SARIBUDOLOK	LULUS
39	A	-	077	JORNELIN ANDREAS PURBA	SARIBUDOLOK	LULUS
40	A	-	078	BONIFASIUS GINTING	KABANJAHE	LULUS
41	A	-	084	LAMHOT SINAGA	SIANTAR I	LULUS
42	A	-	085	POWELINUS SINAGA	MEDAN TIMUR	LULUS
43	A	-	086	EFREM LIMSAN SIREGAR	MEDAN TIMUR	LULUS
44	A	-	087	PUTRA SITANGGANG	LINTONGNIHUTA	LULUS
45	A	-	091	SANDRO A SIMANUNGKALIT	PEKANBARU	LULUS
46	A	-	093	PAULUS U. GULTOM	DURI	LULUS
47	A	-	096	JOEI BOSTEN TARIGAN	PANGURURAN	LULUS
48	A	-	097	RAFINDO TONDANG	KABANJAHE	LULUS
49	A	-	099	ROY RIFAI MANULLANG	KATEDRAL MEDAN	LULUS
50	A	-	102	SUPRIADY FADLY	PANGURURAN	LULUS
51	A	-	110	EKO AVENTUS SITOHANG	PALIPI	LULUS
52	A	-	114	CIPTO BONIFASIO SIAHAAN	TARUTUNG	LULUS
53	A	-	117	ROY AGUSTINUS MANIK	AIR MOLEK	LULUS
54	A	-	118	YUDENO Y SINAGA	PARAPAT	LULUS
55	A	-	119	OJI SATRIA HALOHO	SARIBUDOLOK	LULUS
56	A	-	120	ARNOL FREDO PURBA	SARIBUDOLOK	LULUS
57	A	-	121	WILSON PETRUS MANALU	PEKANBARU	LULUS
58	A	-	123	GODELIFO SITANGGANG	PANGARIBUAN	LULUS
59	A	-	126	CHRISTIANUS SIBURIAN	TANAH JAWA	LULUS
60	A	-	127	AKADIUS MANURUNG	SIANTAR I	LULUS
61	A	-	128	NICHOLAS MANALU	JAMBI	LULUS
62	A	-	130	CAROLUS H SILABAN	BALIGE	LULUS
63	A	-	131	HERISON D SIGIRO	PADANGSIDEMPUAN	LULUS
64	A	-	132	ANDREAS ARITONANG	TEBINGTINGGI	LULUS
65	A	-	134	ANJU M SITUMORANG	PAKKAT	LULUS
66	A	-	136	HADI H SIMARMATA	SIDIKALANG	LULUS
TINGKAT SMA/SMK
Nomor
				N a m a	Paroki	Ket.
Urut	Testing
1	B	-	035	SAN HENDRIN SARAGIH	SARIBUDOLOK	LULUS
2	B	-	079	AKNESIUS SIHOTANG	PARLILITAN	LULUS
3	B	-	080	SERGINUS SIGALINGGING	PAKKAT	LULUS
4	B	-	081	TREI PRAM BOI SIMBOLON	DOLOKSANGGUL	LULUS
5	B	-	103	PETER EVERIS P SIHOMBING	PANGURURAN	LULUS
6	B	-	104	NOVERLAS SIMARMATA	PANGURURAN	LULUS
7	B	-	105	RICO TAMSIL SIMBOLON	PANGURURAN	LULUS
8	B	-	106	SUPARNO SIMBOLON	PANGURURAN	LULUS
9	B	-	107	KENNEDY L SIHALOHO	PADANG BULAN	LULUS
10	B	-	109	BONAR SINABARIBA	SAWAHLUNTO	LULUS
11	B	-	135	LODEWIK SITOHANG	TARUTUNG	LULUS
					Pematangsiantar, 25 Maret 2008
					Rektor Seminari Menengah
					Daniel Erwin Manullang, M.A.

HOW TO BE A GOOD LEADER

 Good leaders are created, not born. If you have the desire and will power, you can become a good leader. Good leaders are created by a never ending process of study, education, and experience.

At this time, I’ll try to explain what leadership is, ‘leadership’ is the ability to get extraordinary achievment from ordinary people. And the matter is people usually think the ordinary. That’s the reason why the world really needs leaders. We need someone to tell us the precious of life.

             Nuthobe and friends are workers. Now they are building a big onament at the center of this town. Salestinus, a scholar, asked Nuthobe, ‘What are you doing, Nuthobe?’  And then his responses were to complain that he is virtually a slave, an underpaid bricklayer who spends his days wasting time, placing bricks on top of one another. Salestinus asked him again, ‘What are you building?’ Nuthobe responed, ‘I’m not sure, no one leads us, he just acted like our boss, and he never showed that he is the leader, do you know his name, James?’ 

            Although your position as a leader gives you the authority to accomplish certain tasks, this power does not make you a leader… it simply makes you the boss. Leadership differs in that it makes the followers want to achieve high goals, rather than simply bossing people around. Leadership is the ability to get followers. Do people follow you willingly?

To help you be, and do as a leader, I would like to tell you some principles of leadership:

• Know yourself and seek self-improvement

Seeking self-improvement means continually strengthening your attributes. This can be accomplished through self-study, reflecting, and interacting with others.

• Make decisions on time

Find the key to overcome the problem. Fast tempo is essential for success, do it, try it, fix it. There are too many people who spend too much time to try making something perfectly before they really do it. Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you’ve got and fix it as you go.

• Set the example

Be a good role model for someone else. They must not only hear what they are expected to do, but also see. Mahatma Gandhi said, “We must become the change we want to see.”

Keep asking yourself, ‘What kind of company would my company be if everyone in it is just like me?’

I would like to give you some major factors in leadership, they are: follower, communication, situation and also leader. Every factor is important to each other. When one of them infected, others will be infected too.

Ø      Follower

You must know your people! The fundamental point is to have a good understanding of human emotions, needs, and spirits. Different people need different method of leadership.

Ø      Communication

There are two kinds of communication, which can be used to communicate: nonverbal and verbal. Better is nonverbal. When you ‘set the example’, you communicate to others that you would not ask them to perform anything you would be willing to do. What and how you communicate, it would build the relationship between others and you.

Ø      Situation

What you do in one situation does not always work in another one. You must consider your judgement to decide the best action for each situation. React quickly to change in the situation. When you get new information, make new decisions.

Ø      Leader

You should have an honest understanding of who you are, what you know, and what you can do. When a person considers you a leader, she/he does not think about your attributes, instead, she/he observes what you do so that she/he can know who you really are. How could it be:

ü      Challenge the process

ü      Inspire  a share vision

ü      Enable others to act

ü      Model the way

“A boss tells others what to do… a leader shows that it can be done.

A boss says ‘GO!’ and a leader says ‘LET’S GO!’ ”

   Heri Girsang de Poesis-IPA

2008