Ms. Cynthea enjoys her journey in Perth

This was the first time we(me and Intan) have visited the Indonesia consulate in Perth, Western Australia. We did a lot of interesting things there: firstly we ate a kind of Indonesian food like bread and Indonesian crackers, then we watched the Indonesian video about dancing and gamelan.



After that we went to the gamelan and angklung room, which is located opposite from the main bulding. This was the most interesting time. We played a song called "Manyar sewu" which means 'thousand birds'. We were grateful to have the opportunity to play this song with grade 8 Melville Senior High School students who are studying Indonesian.



At the end of this session we interviewed Ms. Cynthea. She is the staff member at the consulate responsible for Culture and Art. We asked several questions about her work at the consulate. She had many difficulties when first working at this consulate. Firstly, she found that people in Australia like to do their activities individually (she was a little bit shocked about that) and she found that Australian people spend their evening at their own house. In contrast, Indonesian people love to spend their afternoon with their friends. She mostly loves her work.. :)