The Raising Little Bamboo

Once upon a time, there lived a young lady named Nana. She is very poor. The one and only precious thing she had is angklung. Her father gave it to her before he passed away. She still had a mother that offer her to study in Indonesia.

One day Nana brought her precious angklung in school.”What is that?”, said her friend. “Is it a food?”.“No it’s not, it’s a music instrument. Listen...” Nana answered and played the angklung. After that someone came. ”Hey, you!”, said someone who had a bad habit face. “Yes? what is it?”, Nana answered. “Why do you play angklung on this modern era? That’s very lame, you know. Play modern things like bass, guitar, drum or others cool things then just simply stop playing the wierd instrument! ”,said that boy. After school, Nana run to her house and cried on her bed. She decided not to go to school again because she is too ashamed. In that bad situation, at least, Nana still had a friends to cheer her up.

After the bad day, on the way while Nana wanted to go to a grocery, “Aaaaah!” she fell into a pit because she didn’t focus on the road. “Need a help, young lady?“, a stranger asked and lend her a hand to be grabbed. “Y-Yes, thankyou”, answered Nana and grabbed the stranger’s hand. The stranger was a man who crossed the same road with Nana. “Woah… I know you, girl. You have an angklung, right?”, the man asked Nana. Before Nana answered the questions, the man continued to say. ”Ooh I’m glad someone had an interest in that music instrument! I’m actually a chief of puppet group. You can call me Yudi nice to meet you!”. “Wow, that’s so cool”, said Nana. “Oh, have you ever tried playing this? Or you just collect angklung?”, the man asked. “Yes sir, I love playing it so much ! im not that kind of people who just collect something.”, Nana answered. “Oh! Why don’t you join my puppet group? You can come to my house. Here... it’s my address” the man gave Nana a name card and leave.

 On the next day, Nana and her mother came to Yudi’s house and knock the door. After that someone opened the door. “Oh, you. Welcome. The others are waiting for you!” The man who opened the door was Yudi. There Nana practiced a lot using his angklung with others. After that, she was confident enough and decided to try to go to school again.

“Oh, Nana. Where have you been?”, asked the teacher. Nana said, “I’m sorry ma’am. I.... “ She stoped because she was too ashamed. Gladly, the teacher noticed and instantly changed the topic.“Oh hey! did you know that there will be a contest in this school?”, ask the teacher again. ”No, I don’t. What contest?”, Nana asked. “Its a music contest. I think you should really give a shot to that contest. There will be a piano performance, bass, guitar... Oh, It’ll be awesome!”, said the teacher. After the end of school, Nana asked her friends, to help her to perform on the stage. They rushed into Nana’s house and prepared everything.

“It’s time to show”, said Nana to her friends before the contest began. When Nana and her friends went on the stage, all of sudden there was a sound called. ”Ahahaha! Why are you bringing that thing to school? I can’t believe you bring that weird thing to school again”. The girl started to mock Nana again for bringing such instrument on stage. “It’s okay, everything is gonna be alright. Dont worry”, said Nana to her friend. Not even a single mocking words got into her minds. She was thinking, “If I go down, It’ll ruin my plan to make people respect our culture and make me regret my life.” There was nothing to make Nana gave up. Nana and her friend started to perform. When they played it, everyone got silent. The sounds was so beautifull and it was enough to make people relized that angklung was not like what they think all this time. Finally, everybody gives standing ovation.

            The contest ended. Nana was approached by a woman. “Hello, young lady. You did very nice there. Your name is Nana, right?”, a woman asked. Then Nana answered, “Thank you very much. And, yes, my name is Nana. Is there anything I can help?”. “I’m a show agent from Europe, You can call me Angelina. Actually, I need something interesting to be shown at my show. Your performance was really good. It’ll be a honor to have you on my show. It’ll be interesting to have something different on Europe, won’t it?”, asked Angelina. “Ah, it’s an honor for me to bring my culture overseas. With my peasure, I’ll do it”, Nana answered. It was her best day ever.

            10 years later, she became the famous angklung player in the world. What can we learn from this story is everyone , everything , have a different values. So do not feel that something is completely useless.Is the thing that you have been underestimate in this whole time will not be like what you think? No one knows

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