Misses Everything on Perth

This is my second week on Surabaya. I don't know what happened with me. I felt something strange with my room at my first day in my room on Surabaya. There's no heater like usual in my room on Karen's house. And I miss chips at Perth. I think Surabaya doesn't have chips as big as chips on Australia. And I miss Smiggle, which place that sell cute stationary (not like in Surabaya).

Beside that, I miss all people on Perth. I miss my friends on Melville Senior High School, thanks for your hospitality,Ms. Bina Kadaba, thanks for your kindness,Mr. Phillip White, thanks for let us to studied at Melville and make connection between Surabaya, Indonesia with Melville, Western Australia,and my host family , thanks for everything(and I'll never to forget this one).

Semoga dengan persahabatan dan persaudaraan kita ini akan selalu terjaga sampai kapanpun.
Amin

THANK YOU FOR DELAYING US FOR 3 HOURS

After waiting about 1 hour at the waiting room Intan text me a message "she bosen, main yuk", then i replyed "ayo, beli kartu trus main ceblek nyamuk yuk :D". after that short text me and Intan looked each other and smiling like we've found something really briliant.

After we both bought two pack of re-mi cards. we decided to play setan-setanan for the first time and anyone who loose must choose between truth or dare, and oh-my-god i am loosing this first game, then i choose dare. everyone thinking a lot of crazy things that i have to done, at last after having short meeting (lebay dikit) they decided me to get one foreign people signature, that's so embarrassing :l, after i got it they all laugh really loud and made those waiting room noisy.

For the second time the announcer said that the plane delayed (again) for about 1 and a half hour, that's worse for bu Oke because i can see at her face that she was really home sick, but not for us, that announcement made us thinking about what to do next, we really wanted to made our last time together gratify, then this crazy things began we called this game "smash the musquitos" its a kind of traditional game that most of Indonesian people will knowing it. After having our hand smashed by the other we got the looser for this second game, it's Sevian our group leader (LOL) we dared him to follow everything that Mr. Joe (our coordinator from Surabaya government) do at that time, and he really do it very well. Then we all made a lots of laugh until i can felt my stomach sick because to much laughing.

Terimakasih teman-teman seperjuangan dari yang paling muda tapi nggak keliatan muda Almer yang sering melakukan hal-hal gila di luar normal, dan Sasha yang has dengan cara bicaranya yang mantap, dan Winnie teman satu kamar saya selama di rumah Noone, terimakasih untuk semangatnya, sharing, dan ngehibur satu sama lain, dan Sevian yang seharusnya memimpin kita tapi terkadang bisa sangat menjengkelkan(jokes), selalu bermain sportif, yang pertama terlihat sangat innocent yang lama-lama akhirnya berhasil kita kontaminasi( :D ), dan Intan yang walaupun badannya kecil tapi pengetahuannya di bidang tari sangat luas, yang menyelamatkan penampilan cewek-cewek dalam tari Punjari, yang sarat akan ide-ide segar dan terkadang "gila", dan Musa yang pertama terlihat begitu pendiam, dan lagi-lagi akhirnya kita berhasil mengkontaminasi dia untuk berbuat gila seperti kita, dan Roby cowok paling jangkung antara yang lain, yang juga sarat akan ide-ide membangun, dan Jessica wanita yang sangat berbakat dalam bermain flute, yang kaya akan jokes-jokes.

Thanks guys for all those (crazy) things that we had done together. I am going to miss you all :)

Why.....????

Rasanya baru kemarin kami tiba di sini
Mengapa kami sudah harus mengucapkan
selamat tinggal kepada keluarga kami di sini
Keluarga yang selama ini merawat kami
Keluarga yang selama ini menghibur kami
sewaktu kami rindu tanah air
Keluarga yang selalu berusaha membuat kami senang
Keluarga tempat kami berbagi cerita selama di sini
Keluarga yang selalu membimbing kami

It felt like we have just arrived here yesterday
Why we already have to say goodbye to our friends here
Our friends who gave us hospitality here
Our friends who have become our place to share stories
Our friends who showed us many new things
Our friends who made us felt like being home

Why do we have to say goodbye
Why do we have to leave them
Why do we leave when we have just felt like being home
Why do we have to leave our families and our friends
We don't want this moment to be our last meeting with our friends and families here

Kami akan selalu merindukanmu
Kami akan selalu mengingat mu
Mengingat masa-masa selama kita bersama
Kami tidak akan melupakan kamu....

Friendship and our love will never die...

Surabaya Deltgation 2009

masih kangen?

Sekarang saya duduk di kursi di ruang makan saya, bukan lagi di kursi rumah makan keluarga Noone lagi. Kalau mengingat seminggu yang lalu, rasnya ingin kembali ke tanggal 17-08-2009. tanggal itu termasuk tanggal sepesial bagi kami delegasi Surabaya, karena hari itu kami merayakan hari kemerdekaan Indonesia di kedutaan besar Indonesia di Perth, WA.
Kami telah melalui hari-hari yang sangat menyenangkan di sekolah Melville, di rumah host parents masing-masing, di waktu-waktu yang kita habiskan bersama.

Rasanya aneh di kamar sendiri, biasanya tidur sama Winnie, biasanya kita di kasih hot water bottle sebelum tidur, biasanya kita selalu sharing hari-hari di sekolah di kelas tadi pagi nya (saya kangen Winnie dan Noone family :( ), biasanya kalau tidur selalu kedinginan, tapi sekarang harus mendhidupkan AC untuk terjaga dari kepanasan.
Sudah tidak ada yang akan berkata "how's your school today?" atau "which do you want for lunch Sheny?" atau gurauan anak-anak dan cara tertawa masing-masing. benar-benar membuat warna tersendiri di trip ini.

Bagaimanapun tugas kita telah selesai, tapi hubungan kita tidak akan pernah selesai.
Sekarang harus berpikir ke depan, masih banyak yang harus di laksanakan di Surabaya. Presentasi, dan tanggung jawab di depan wali kota. dan lain-lain.

Terimakasih untuk pemerintah Surabaya, koordinator Melville SHS bu Bina Kadaba yang telah memberikan kita waktu untuk merasakan pengalaman sangat, sangat berkesan di Melville, Perth, WA.

A Walk to Remember

A Walk to Remember-Looking for the Future

The only thing that I know well is we will miss Perth and all of memories on it. Especially I like to thank the Surabaya Government that gave us the chance to go here (and so Bu Yohana and Pak Jo-the persons from Educational Department of Surabaya Government), the principal of Melville Senior High School, Mr Phillip White for your kindness to let us came and learnt to study in Melville, Mrs Bina Kadaba for all of your contribution from the beginning to the end, our home stay family, the Rodgers family.. Oh I'm really grateful to be part of your family (so does Intan even I still don't ask her but I have a feeling that my guess is true), Mrs Leonie Southwell and Mrs Penny Coutas... thanks a lot for all your teaching about making blog and the ESL(we really enjoyed it.. thanks), and all my friends in Melville (thanks for everything)

From the first week, started to make our blog, looked for the name of the blog, learnt English.. with the help from Ibu Penny (for blog) and Ibu Leonie (for ESL). My first weekend was watching netball, going to Armadale Reptile Park, watching basketball, and taking a picture of wild kangaroo and the tame kangaroo with it kids. It was a wonderful experience. The second week was our first performance at Attedale Primary School and Melville Primary School. It was little scary for the first time because I was getting nervous at that time but all went well at that time. For the weekend, I spent it by watching the band and orchestra festival, visiting the King's Park, Taking tram around the city and going to Marapana Wildlife Park to watch, feed, and play with the animals. The last week was my unforgettable memories. Last performance at Palmayra
Primary and farewell dinner at Indonesian Restaurant. A really touching moment that we WILL always remember.

From all the moments that all of you can see above, those are the reasons why I won't forget Perth and actually those are the reasons why I don't want to come back to Indonesia but we must back to finish our real duty, to help making Surabaya be a better city just what we have experienced in Perth. So, I don't want to say goodbye right now because someday, I believe that we will meet each again and I will try my best to go Perth again by looking for scholarship. I hope the bond of friendship between us won't be break. I miss you all.

I'm not feeel good tonight

Tonight, Friday night, 21 August 2009, we had farewell dinner. It was so nice dinner because all families were came together. We ate some fried rice, beef rendang, fried noodles, etc. My hostparent, Jill Rodgers like beef rendang, that is why she was very happy when she looked some beef rendang on the table. I like to saw her ate that rendang. After that we were taking photoes of all families. It was nice too because I can know the other hostparent that my friends have.

And then Mrs. Mey Chong ask us to sing a song. But we sang two songs. The first song is Rujak Uleg and the second song is Laskar Pelangi. They were very excited with our singing. Me and sheny cried when we sang "Perpisahan" song because we've felt that tomorrow we'll leave our new family. And then one by one family was leave the restaurant, but before that we had warm hug each another. We cried again. Why it was been too fast? THREE WEEKS.

Goodbye everyone. Good bye Western Australia. Good bye Melville. Good bye Rodgers family.

What's Going on Band Festival

Saturday, 15Th of August 2009. I got a chance to see how is the band festival look like. The Melville Concert Band were playing 3 songs. There were Fire Dance, Misty Rain, Crime busters. They were playing very good and it was amazing. Keep it up, Melville! But the other school bands were doing great job too. The festival was also well organized. From where's the school band/orchestra should store the musical instrument cases and practice before gave their best shot and the committee done a very good job guiding the visitors. And I'm really like that, it can improve musicality each school by competing each others.

Hal seperti ini perlu diterapkan di Indonesia khususnya Surabaya. Acara seperti ini selain dapat membantu mengasah bakat dan minat tiap siswa juga bisa menjadi hiburan tersendiri bagi wisatawan ataupun penikmat musik. Karena band tidak harus selalu beraliran rock, metal, dll. dan hanya terdiri oleh sedikit orang (guitarist, keyboardist, singer, drummer). Karena yang terjadi di Perth ini adalah band dapat berbentuk seperti mini-orchestra/ensamble. Pemain tidak hanya memainkan alat musik yang lazim dipakai oleh band di Indonesia tetapi juga banyak menggunakan alat musik tiup, alat musik gesek, dll. Ini akan menambah kekayaan suara dalam sebuah komposisi.

So, why I said that we should hold a festival like this in routine because it is a good program that has a lot of benefits. They can improve their skill so they can be better than before. I'm just suggesting that Surabaya has one festival like this. It would be great!

Independence Day in Perth

Monday, August 17 2009, we went to the Indonesian Consulate for the Indepence Day of Indonesia. We joined the Flag Raising Ceremony in the consulate. Many of Indonesian people that live in Perth joined the ceremony too. We can see a lot of students from many school in Perth that studied Indonesia. The teacher told us to talk with the students to practice their Indonesian language. In the consulate we saw a lot of culture performance from Indonesia and we sing "Laskar Pelangi" too there. Actually there are no different between ceremony in consulate in Perth with ceremony in Indonesia but, I want to give short comment about the ceremony.

First, I thought that in the ceremony there are no flagforce team so, just like a party. In fact there was a flagforce team in the consulate but, Sevian and Robi commented them because, Sevian and Robi usually can do the better movement than the flagforce team in the consulate. Secondly, I taught that the consulate will give us lunch meal but, they just gave us snack we must bring our own lunch meal. That was weird for Indonesian people because usually the host prepare the lunch but, in western culture usually each guest bring their own food. We must adapted with the environment here but, I like the ceremony at all.

Hopefully, through program or activity like this we can make a good connection between Indonesia and Australia , like our program objective that we must promote Surabaya and make a good connection between Surabaya and Perth.

I Don't Wanna Go Home :(

I has been more than 2 weeks since my arriving in this lovely city, Perth. And now, there are only 3 days left before my flight to Surabaya. I had this horrible dream last night, about what will happen to me when i go back to Indonesia. I'll leave my beloved family here - Brian , Maria, Conor, Aoise, Lady and Finn. All my friends in Melville Senior High School, and Perth with all its lovely places. I hope that it isn't real, but it is.

Isn't that horrible ? I don't wanna go home :'(

Benar-benar tidak disangka waktu berlalu begitu cepat, sekarang kami sudah memasuki hari-hari terakhir kami di Perth. Hanya tinggal hitungan hari kami akan berkemas dan meninggalkan Perth, kembali ke Surabaya. Kami sudah melewati hari-hari bersama di Melville, menuntut ilmu, dan mencari pengalaman disini. Sungguh menyedihkan harus meninggalkan keluarga saya. Tapi saya benar-benar bersyukur bisa mendapat kesempatan menuntut ilmu disini, Pemerintah Kota Surabaya memang luar biasa. Saya harap suatu hari nanti saya bisa kembali kesini, mengunjungi keluarga dan kawan-kawan saya disini.

Winnie :(

Perfomance at Melville Primary School

On 13th of august we had our second perfomance at Melville Primary School. The first one was in Attadel Primary School. As usuall, we performed 3 dances and 2 songs.

The first dance was "Lenggang Dance" which was performed by Intan Puspa Kirana. The other performance was played in a group. Boys group (Almer, Shevian, Musa, and Robi) performed "Reog Ganongan Dance" from Ponorogo. Girls group (Intan, Sheny, Winnie, Sasha, except Jessica) performed "Punjari Dance". And then, we had to songs to be performed. They were "Rujak Uleg". It is a traditional song from Surabaya. The second song is "Laskar Pelangi". The performance in this concert is not only from us but also from the children. Such as song "Satu Dua", dances, and music performance.

At the end of the concert, we sang Indonesian National Anthem "Indonesia Raya". At all of our performance we always sing "Indonesia Raya", and the audience or the children sing Australian Anthem. We felt so proud when we sang Indonesia Raya. Just to remember and think that the main goal of being here is to make Indonesia, my country become known and better at the future. Jaya Terus Indonesia, Maju Arek-arek Suroboyo!