How's Australian Family? How's Indonesian Family?

After we've stayed with an Australian family for a couple of days, we found that Australian and Indonesian families are totally different in a few ways. Australian families have a surname but most Indonesian families don't. Also, the number of children in each Australian family, usually, are more than the number of children in each Indonesian family. As well as this, in Indonesia, mostly, only the Fathers go to work while the Mothers stay at home, being housewives. However, in Australia, mostly, both fathers and mothers go to work. And, we can easily meet one or more maids in Indonesian houses but not in Australian houses - they do all of the house-work on their own!

Sedangkan, persamaan antara keluarga Australia dengan keluarga di Indonesia adalah keduanya sangat ramah kepada orang lain. Kedua, mereka mempunyai peraturan rumah mereka sendiri kepada siapapun yang tinggal di rumah mereka.

Even though there are many diffrences, both families are a nuclear family (consist of father, mother, and children). And they both really welcoming.

posted by : Winnie and Natasha

Australian and Indonesian People

People all around the world have their own characteristics. They have their own language and their own behaviour. Even tough they have different to each other, they also have some similarities.

Today, on 4th August we discussed the differences and the similarities between Australian and Indonesian people using a chart.

Chart: The differences and similarities chart about Indonesian and Australian people.

We classified it into 3 things: behaviour, manners and ethnic. The main similarity between Australian and Indonesian people is they are multicultural country. Their people have many ethnic origin and came from over the world. The main difference is language. Indonesian has various native languages that are still used in addition to the national language (Bahasa Indonesia). In contrast Australians mainly use English.

discussed by : shevian, jessica, and robi.

Language Make Connection

Today, on the 5th of August 2009, we, the Surabayan delegation and year eight students from Melville Senior High School went to the Indonesian Consulate by bus. The Surabayan student delegation sat beside the eight year students. We passed many things along the road. We saw the “Canning River” and the “Swan River”. We also saw great buildings such as “The Swan Bell Tower” and the “Concert Hall”. They are very great buildings. They had a unique structure that will get attention from new-comers.

I was sitting with Keegan. He is a year eight student from Melville Senior High School. He has been learning Indonesian for 2 years. He has just moved from Sydney few years ago. When he’s learning Indonesian, he has some difficulties remembering the words. I have tested his abilities in speaking Indonesian and he is pretty good with Indonesian numbers. He and his family, planned to go to Indonesia (Bali Island). He would love to go to Indonesia sometimes. That is the same as me, as I would like to come back to Australia, especially Perth.

He loves to learn Indonesian and even though he finds some difficulties with it, he would love to learn some more of the language. His spirit to learn Indonesian is the same as me, as I love to learn English and improve my English. I found this as a connection between me and Australian people.