Matswapati

I will tell you about Matswapati and my experiences when I was in Matswapati. Matswapati was my school’s culture festival.  Matswapati is one of 7^th section of OSIS’ work programs. Matswapati was held on Saturday, August 27^th 2014. You could join us in matswapati but you had to buy the ticket first, it’s only 25k and remember you should buy it before the close gate at 4 p.m. Named Matswapati is taken from one of traditional puppets or we always call it wayang. Only first grade and second grade who participate Matswapati, because the third grade have to focus on their examination. We started this event with parade using traditional clothes (Kebaya for female and Pangsi and Iket for male) to promote our event to people, after parade we prepared to open our stand.  In Matswapati, every class on first grade and every class on second grade are paired to decorate our own stand, the stand was prepared by school, we just had to decorate it and sold any thing or service we wanted in our stand. So one day before the matswapati was held, we had to decorate our stand, we decorated our stand till 8 p.m. Matswapati was formally opened by Mr. ridwan kamil our mayor, and then we started opening our stand. My class’ stand called YUDHISTIRA, we didn’t sell things, but we sold services, we sold photo instax service and the famous service was mind read service, it’s unique, isn’t it? My friend, Miracle was the reader mind, so we made her up like a real oracle, and we made our stand like a classic room. My stand was one of the busiest stand in matswapati because so many people curious with our mind read service. Because so many people came to our stand, we had to make waiting list and bought so many mineral waters for Miracle. For mind read service we didin’t set the price, so if you didn’t have money, it didn’t matter. And for photo instax services, you only had to paid 10k for every shot, and you can posed everywhere you wanted. We earned quite a lot of money from sold the services, the mind read was the biggest income. We could open the stand only till 5 p.m. There were so many performance in Matswapati, of course the performance was about sundanese culture, just like Sundanese music dangdut, pencak silat etc. and of course some extracurriculars of my school gave the performance too. In the afternoon, only a few people came maybe because the hot weather, but in the evening, so many visitors came because the weather was not as hot as in the afternoon and the gate would close. After 5 p.m, i and my friends came closer to the stage to watch the main star in Matswapati, he is a famous singer. And at 7 p.m the main star finally came to the stage, and we shouted very loud, you know who is he? He is Glenn Fredly! He sang 10 songs, and it was really really spectaculer, we shouted “This is life before the examination, let’s crazy together!!!” it was because next week we will have examination. After that, there was a magic performance. And I went to home at 8 p.m, and it was really really cool event, I really enjoyed it.