Daru Subaryono:  

II arrived in the town of Waterloo, Ontario in January 1994 and went to school at Northdale Public School starting at the second grade. I moved in from Yogykarta, Indonesia. My Dad is a lecturer in Universitas Gadjah Mada who is taking on his Ph.D. in University of Waterloo at that time. I remembered my second grade teacher that time was Mr. Nelson. A few of my friends that I still remember from that class are Rohit Narayan, Pedro Montelli, Jia Jiang, Mark McCenzie (the name spelling are probably wrong). My English wasn't so good yet so I had to be in a special class with Mrs. Wagner. Because of her, I could learn English very quickly. In the third grade, my teacher was Mrs. Clement. My English have gotten really good and I speak almost like a native Canadian. I got good in ice skating. One day I got invited to a birthday party of one of my classmate, Tommy Halbrook. As a part of his birthday party, we went to a skating rink. Because I didn't know how to skate, Tommy's Dad taught me, and in less than an hour, I was like a natural. It was like magic. I could skate like those kids in a pee wee hockey team. That was one of the most memorable moments in my third grade. In the fourth grade, my teacher was an exchange teacher from Ireland, Ms. Rosa Matthews. I was quite a smarty pants because I was one of the best in class....Expand for more