A report by M. Arkandiptyo XB 23
Labschool Kebayoran Senior High School or more popularly known as "Labsky" is the high school where I am currently studying. In this report which is also a writing assignment for English subject, I interviewed six of my friends in my class, X-B to ask them about their lifestyles and point of view about their current lives in high school. The interviews are done directly (orally) face to face with my friends.
The topics I covered in this report about their lifestyles are about their hobbies, their point of views about music and Indonesian culture, and also their goals in high school. As for the aim of this report is to give a picture about the lifestyles and thoughts of Labsky students.
Hobby
Fifty percent of my friends or three out of six answered that online gaming is their hobby to kill their time and for relaxation whilst two other stated that their hobbies are linked to musical activities such as singing, playing the guitar or the piano mainly because it is fun and that they can also express their feelings through it. The last one said that her hobby is sleeping. Based on this result, I could say that online gaming and music are the hobbies most Labsky students do to fill their time, for relaxation, and for fun.
Music
Much different from my question about hobby, in this point of interviews, all my friends posed different answers when I asked them about the genre of music they most liked, there were six answers which were acoustic, electronic, alternative fusion, K-Pop (Korean pop), funk, and fusion jazz. From these answers, I conclude that nowadays Labsky students have different and diverse tastes of music.
Culture
In this section of my interviews, I asked my friends three questions; which culture do they prefer and admire, Indonesian, Western, Korean, Japanese or else, and why do they prefer the culture. The last question asked them how do they appreciate the culture they most admire. The first question got a uniform answer - all of my friends liked their own culture - Indonesian culture over all other cultures in the world. All of them answered they loved their own culture because it is the one that is most familiar to them and also as a part of the Indonesian nation, they feel they have to love their own culture at most over all other cultures.
Sadly, four of them answered that they appreciate the Indonesian culture only as an enthusiastic audience to the culture, they don't have an urge to study or learn further about the beautiful culture Indonesia have. One of them answered he was only interested in the history and development of the Indonesian arts, and one of them stated that he was truly inspired and interested in learning more about Indonesian culture, particularly about Indonesian music.
Based on the results, I can say that although many Labsky students love Indonesian culture, only a few of them have the urge and interest in learning more about their own culture and preserving it through actions.
Priority in High School
This last part of my interviews, I asked my friends about their highest priority of activities in high school and why do they chose it. This time I got three answers in which all three answers were equally represented by each two persons.
The first third answered that studying to get through to their favorite universities is their priority in high school so that they can enter the universities they wanted as a good base for their future careers. The second third said that getting along with friends and trying new things to have more life experiences and freedom are their highest priority in high school based on the old saying their parents said that a good time in high school are for those who dedicate their time for freedom, friends, love, and trying new things. While the last third stated in which their main priority in high school is to explore their talent and potentials such as music and sports because until the moment they haven't decided clearly yet what will they do for their career and future.
This responds broke that the myth in which was said that most, if not all high school students prioritize their time in high school for freedom and friends. In fact, the answer is various.
From all the aspects in this report, I thought that the most surprising is about their music taste and priority in high school, from what I observe in real life about our music taste, I thought I would end up in my survey saying that Kpop (mostly from girls), Metal (mostly from boys), and Hip-hop are three of the most liked genre of music. But in the end all of my friends answered differently, and only Kpop from my previous prediction goes as an answer. About their priority in high school it is also surprising to find that there were three equally represented point of views about this. At first I thought there would only be two answers, the first one is studying for university entrance which would be the minority answer and the second that would be the majority answer which is to trying new things and getting along with friends. In the end the facts talked much differently.
As a conclusion, I would say that nowadays the lifestyle and trend of Labsky students are really diverse and unique, in which none pose a same answer, even though there were some majority voice in some points of their teenage lives and thoughts it only showed up in few points such as their thoughts about Indonesian culture and their hobbies, the rest are made of really different answers. This proved that teenagers nowadays doesn't have a one strong trending lifestyle to follow. This result in a really heterogeneous, unique, and probably and hopefully more creative generation of high school students.