Ini adalah
cerita Bahasa Inggris pertama yang aku buat, jadi mohon dimaklum
kalau banyak banget kesalahan, orang bahasa inggris aku pas – pasan
dan masih harus banyak belajar. Sedikit sejarah tentang pembuatan
cerita ini, jadi Jum'at lalu 13 Sept 2013 Mr. Brett yang merupakan
guru English Course dari IEDUC yang sedang mengajar di AbadiNusa
memberikan homework aliar Pekerjaan Rumah. Homeworknya itu bikin
cerita yang original buatan sendiri, ngga tau kenapa akhirnya aku
kepikiran untuk bikin cerita tentang legenda kampung cibacang yang
merupakan kampung halaman ayahku. Dulu ayah pernah bilang di Cibacang
banyak banget pohon bacang, jadi aja tempat itu disebut cibacang. Nah
biar ceritanya ngga garing, aku ngarang – ngarang deh sampai
akhirnya jadi cerita ini. Jadi kapanpun suatu saat nanti kamu baca
atau denger cerita ini, ini cerita udah pasti buatan aku yaa.. hehehe
... Bahkan tokoh ceritanya juga diambil dari nama keluarga. Euis Nia
itu diambil dari nama Bibi dari ayah, Sukrawinata dan Nanih Sukaenah
adalah Kakek dan Nenek dari ayah.
Ini cerita
tadi siang udah dikirim by email ke Mr Brett tinggal kita tunggu aja
ada berapa banyak kesalahan yang aku buat di cerita ini. Hihihihi ,,,
Tapi teteplah seneng juga bisa dapet inspirasi dan nulis cerita ini
:)
So, check it
out !!!
Cibacang
Once upon a
time, at somewhere in west jave lived a young beautiful girl named
Euis Nia. She is a nice and friendly girl, she likes to help everyone
but the most thing she like is planting a delicious Bacang Fruit. She
had more than 20 tree of Bacang Fruit in her back yard and every
morning she always pour water on her Bacang Fruit with Joyful
Feeling.
Her Parents
Sukrawinata and Nanih Sukaenah were so happy because what they taught
to planting tree when Nia just a kids still she do until know and
they so proud of her. And the fun moment for Nia and Her Parents are
when they reap a nice Bacang Fruits and divide them to all neighbor.
But one day,
they all got the sad moment when they place stricked by drought, to
get clean water is so difficult, they have to climb to get wellspring
on high hills. But when Nia sat alone at her back yard in the morning
she look there a line of ants toward to small holes bottom of Bacang
Tree. And in the longer there more line of ants toward to the holes.
It makes her curious about what happend inside the holes. Then she
peek in to the holes but it's too dark and she can't saw anything,
but she had an idea she took a branch of Bacang Fruit and enter the
branch in to the hole. Guess what she found? The branch wet because
water inside the hole.
Nia so exiting
and tell her parents those good news. Her parents so exited as well
as Nia, then her Father took his hoe and start digging at center of
back yard. Day goes by and changed be afternoon, Sukrawinata had dug
for 5meter, the ground is wet but the wellspring not appears yet.
At the
evening, Nia and her parents go back to their house for a rest.
Sukrawinata will start digging again at tomorrow morning. In the next
morning, Nia was shock about what she saw from her window. There many
people digging at back yard with her Father. And when the sun right
above them, appear spurt of the water from the hole that made by her
father and neighbor. The water so fresh and clean, Nia so happy and
she suddenly hug her mother then they both cry together for this
happiness.
Since that
day, their place never lacks of clean water and their land more
fertile than before because the people save clean water by planting
trees like what Nia and Family's do. Everyone happy and always give
their farm produce to Nia because they love Nia so much for Nia's
kindness and good personality.
Unfortunenatly,
2 years later Nia had attacked by unknown desease, her body so thin
and her face become sunken, her parents do their best to healing
their lovely daughter but God have another wills. Nia pass away 3
months later, everyone felt sad and lost. Then for remember her
kindness their named the place "Cibacang". Cibacang made by
two word, they are Ci and Bacang, Ci is water in Sundanese and Bacang
taken from tree of Bacang Fruit. So, cibacang is water of Bacang
Tree.
The
End ....
Fyi
:
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Cibacang is village at Padalarang West Java
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Bacang fuit is a kind of Mango, in sundanese called 'limus'