Anyways, What's up people? I know for the students of UTM, you all must have been busy studying for exam. Well, for those who wanna take of your mind to the outside world. YOU are welcome here. :)
So, the title explain it all. I wanna tell about my experience when I was in Semarang , Indonesia. I was there for 1 month. It was AWESOME! I get to teach the students of SMA Negeri 1 Semarang, meet the exchange students of IKIP PGRI and let me tell you it was the best 1 month that I could ask for my practical teaching.
1) The Place
Semarang is located at the central of Java. That's all. haha.. Kidding..
Let me just give you my opinion of the place. For that 1 month, the sight seeing place that I gone to was Simpang Lima, Matahari Mall, Lawang Sewu, Pasar Johar and Masjid Agung. We went to the beach as well, but I forgot the name.. haish... >.<
Anyroundup, since Semarang is just 3 hours away from Solo and Yogyakarta, we actually went to Solo and Yogyakarta as well. Solo we went there for shopping, pasar Klewer. As for Yogyakarta, we went to Burobudur, Prambanan, and of course, shopping at Malioboro.
2) The people
Let me tell you, my first thought when people mention about Indonesia was....."PEOPLE ARE GOING TO SHOUT AT ME!" Let me tell you why? We are so caught up by the telemovie/drama/whatever TV3 is putting on the afternoon. We always see people are being rude and shouting at people and stuffs. Never once that I thought that the people is going to be....well...here it goes..... " N.I.C.E. ". The people there were extremely NICE! Can you believe it? Seriously!
For example, that one time when we went to Lawang Sewu, we actually couldn't get a taxi/angkut(I tell you later about angkut). So there's this one IKIP student, Oscar, who actually wait under the pouring rain to get us a taxi. He went barefoot for us because his shoes were already soaking wet. That went on for 2 hours! He waited there for 2 hours. Can you imagine? TT
Even the teachers, they always ask us stuffs. Like, do you had your breakfast? Once, the teacher actually treat us outside of the school. SUPER NICE! Always being polite. Seriously. When we were in borobudur, the lecturers met a few German tourist. So,since they were heading to Malioboro, the lecturers actually invited them along in the bus to Malioboro. YES, that is how nice the people there.
3) The experience
So, of course, there were tonnes of experience when we were there. If I were to tell you all, it would be more than just a story. It would definitely be a book! Hah! oh...well.. hahaha~ To continue, the most memorable thing when I was there was definitely going to school and teach. Surprisingly, the students in that school was really good in English. I was quite surprised. In fact, when I wanted to play games, they were excited and can listen to the instructions very well. One of the things that I cannot forget was the lesson where I played the guitar and they sing. That was seriously fun. To add up the fun part, we were actually filmed by the faculty and some media for that day. That was one of the moment that I could not compare with other things. :)
Other than that, we get to go around the city. I especially liked the one day that we went to the Bali festival. We went to the Bali festival then to Paragon Mall, the parade, and lastly to the beach. The festival was interesting, we get to see a model who wears a traditional clothes and the parade. The parade actually was fun. They were wearing the traditional clothes and stuffs. They were also carrying the 'Ogoh-ogoh'. Tio, the IKIP student, told me that along the parade when they were carrying the ogoh-ogoh, they were spirit who controls the ogoh-ogoh. So, when the ogoh-ogoh will get heavy and the people who carries them need to follow the weight. All the people in the street were running away from it. All of us were laughing because it was actually fun and interesting.
So, you must be wondering, how the hell did we go around? We were not using taxi, instead, we used 'angkut'. Angkut is kinda like a taxi. But, it is a modified Toyota Unser. So 10 people can actually fit inside the angkut. This in fact was one of the things you should try when you are in Indonesia.
There was also the performance, never in my life I would think that I am going to dance in front of 200-300 people. hahaha. We need to make a performance and we did. We danced the compilation of chinese, malay and indian dance. The crowd actually go wild and in 'aww'.. haha. Can you imagine we were dancing infront of our supervisor teacher and students... hahahha. Then, we did a short story of 'Achik-Achik buka pintu'. We made them laugh because we transform one of the guy into a girl. Can you imagine? hahaha... >.<
The Balinese Festival. The huge statue at the back is the 'Ogoh-ogoh'.
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To sum up, I actually made a video for an event at the end of the exchange program. It was broadcast during the event as a montage. So please watch as it explain some of the things that I told you previously. :)
Overall, I can say that when I was there. I seriously felt that I was in the Indonesian drama or something. haha. The people, the crowd, the motorcyclist everywhere. I enjoyed my time there very much. It was a really interesting trip and I believe that it had made me learn more as a person. So, to the people that I met there, Thank You Very Much! You have made Indonesia a country that I would visit again in the future!
cik khaiiiii???????????
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ye la... haha.. waktu tuh je. skrgb ko mesti la Encik Khairil. adoiyai. jgn marah.. ;p
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