X English - Wawancara Dengan Orang Asing

Windmills country is the country that has a lot of windmills to make the energy wind power. We know windmills country as Holland or Netherland.  Windmills country is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with parts in the Caribbean. The capital city in Netherland is Amsterdam.

The Netherlands is a geographically low-lying country, with about 25% of its area and 21% of its population located below sea level, and 50% of its land lying less than one meter above sea level. Significant land area has been gained through land reclamation and preserved through an elaborate system of polders and dikes. Much of the Netherlands is formed by the estuary of three important European rivers, which together with their distributaries form the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt delta. Most of the country is very flat. The BES islands, or Caribbean Netherlands, became part of the Netherlands proper after the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles on 10 October 2010. (www.wikipedia.com)

In Netherland, the school starts from 4 years old till 16 years old, and they have to go to school at those ages. “They must go to school at 4 years till 16 years, they have to go, it must, after that you can choose to go to school or not,” said Julia (Julia is a Dutchman, the writer met her and her husband Hans at Bogor Botanical Garden, Monday, April 18 2011). “…at Saturday and Sunday, normally…” said Julia. All students have a free day at Saturday and Sunday, but not the person in the hospital, mostly they don’t have free day at Saturday and Sunday.

In Netherland and Indonesia mostly have the same lessons. They have Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry, Language, Philosophy, and so on. The students go to school at 9 o’clock in the morning till 3 o’clock in the afternoon. And also, they have break time for lunch during 1 hour at noon. “…they go from 9 o’clock till three in the afternoon, and they have 1 hour free for lunch…” said Julia.  The special cultures they have in Netherland are Mills, Water, and Wood shoes. “… we have mills, water and they always said wood shoes but they don’t wear it, but special people wear it…” said Julia.

The tourism objects in that country also the mills, water works, and small building village. “…also the mills, water works, small village which you can see the houses that built in Holland and then they are small…” said Hans, Julia’s husband. They shaking hands and kiss once another three times, but just for the people we know, not a stranger. They also have natural resources, gas, mills, and agricultural products, vegetables, and fruits.

(Paramita Nirmalawati X – 1)

Figure 2 (Elok Nastiti, Janan Shofiyah A., Julia, Hans, and Azizah F.N.Ilmi) from the left to right

Sumber : Orang Belanda @Bogor Botanical Garden

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