Aiesec Journey: From Malang, Indonesia to Hanoi Vietnam

This one is also one of my EPs, Check out the super awesome experience of my dear friend andi who just finish his Global Youth Ambassador Program in Hanoi, Vietnam last Summer!!! Enjoy :)


From : Indonesia with love
To : me & WE Project

Almost everything is done, Now I’m waiting my next flight to Indonesia. But, I don’t know what should I do. I have to waiting more than 12 hours. I just chill from one place to another place that I’m feeling comfort. It’s so hard without someone else beside you when you in another country, That I feel right now. I choose one chair in the middle and stand by with earphone. Looking for sadness songs. Ohhhhhhhhh So .. !

That the feeling that I feel in the beggining in Hanoi. Almost alone and sad. I don’t know why, maybe because you far from home and you can do anything, because you very shy. There is no friend listen for you. Totally alone. When I looking for everyone in my project, they so enjoy, because they have close friend and almost they are together everyday and there is no space for me. I’m fall down because of my mind, I cry because of I think like that and I feel alone because of I don’t want to speak to much with them.

Day by day I just doing the same things. Sometimes I’m bored, but there no place to said and shared something. Everyplace almost closed. First week is the time that I wanna back home, because I’m tired to stand alone. I’m so childish in that time. because I just want everyone understand to me, but I’m not. I’m to busy with my self and all the pain that I think about everyone. I hate this moment. Just one things that I want in that time “Let me go home! Now!”.

But, I think again. If I’m back home, not only project and my LC dispointed because of me, but also my family. They will be sad than everyone. Because in that time they only know, they little son going abroad and always said happy to them everyday. That’s why in that time I will doing project, because I don’t want my family sad because of me. “Okay, this intership for Mama, for make mama smile and proud of her little son”.

I still think about my self in the second week, but now I try to speak with them, because sometimes I don’t understand about their point so well. From that I already speech to much with them, even about not important question and topic. Day by day I tried to speak up and have small conversation with them, Ya it’s not that nice, but it’s okay than nothing. I was luck, because I have good host brother, they always cooking and prepare everything for me. Caring of me like I’m a little baby in their house. Always asking to OC’s when I late back home. It’s so nice.

The third weeks, everything changed so fast. I told so much with interns, even I just silent in meeting. Because I just let them to make a content and I have commitment to do session more better, to make the content more interesting. So dificult ? Of course, I stand alone to fasting, sometimes so tired because I have to do session and fasting, but it’s the real challenges for me. I promises to my slef, I will do with my best for my team, because they are so tired prepare everything.

Fourth weeks coming so fast. I’m feeling sad again, because in that time I love my intership so much. I speak a lot with OC’s and Interns. I give a lot of impact for attendees. In that time I saw my attandees more better than first week, for me it’s more than alot of money, this feeling can’t to paid with money or gold. I’m really happy, I want to always continue to give them impact and more better than before, but time is limit, I just have one camp again.

Everything has been changed a lot during fourth to fivth weeks. Interns decide to go to sapa together. It was amazing, we shared everything, feeling, happiness and also sadness. I will never forget this moment. I love so much. In that time I choose not join with us, because I don’t have money for paid. I told to my family they let me go with them. That’s why, I go with all the things that I have. I really wanna go there, not only about sapa, but also about the people who go there.

After sapa, we flies to last camp. It was amazing, but I’m so sad. Because everything almost done in that time. We just have one week closer before we are coming to our own home. After that I decide to go to Danang and Hoi an with two interns. We go there without planning before. It was amazing and memorable. Thank you for take care and always giving happiness for me during our trip. I love that so much.

After Danang and Hoi An, I feel almost home, because just several days left. We doing closing day. It was sad day ever that I have. I hate this day so much. But then again, time is limit. Now, everything done. Like what I want in the beggining that is back home, I can do it right now. But, the feeling was changes, I with the others interns cried so hard because we don’t want the time over right now.

Afte all the pain and moment that I have in my intership journey. I wanna said thank you for draw any colours in my life guys, for 6 weeks amazing in my summer holiday. I love you so much. I will never forget anything that we already made. I’m so sorry for anything that I made, the bad case and everything. Thank you for understanding me so much. I love you me & WE.

Intership journey make me realize any case in my life. Even just 6 weeks, but it was amazing. I realize that I’m so bad to take desicion and childish to face the problem. Now, I’m grow up to understand people, to make a friend easyly and to working with people from another country with different perspective and point of view. It was really amazing, changes any bad case in my own life. For those people who want to feel out from your comfort zone, this your time to challenges your self and born again to be the new of yours. Damn! I love internship so much !!!

A Journey to Adana, Turkey with AIESEC

This is one of my EP's Story who went on Global Youth Ambassador Program to Adana, Turkey last summer trough Aiesec LC UNIBRAW, Malang. Enjoy :)



SOCIAL PROJECT IN ADANA, TURKEY
“AGESK”




Merhaba…hello, My name is Mohamad Dirga Pratiangga. I am a student at Brawijaya University majoring International Relations. I was join aiesec when I was in the second term of my study and I choose aiesec because I want to know about global citizens and improve the leadership. It is really interesting that I can meet another people from all over the world not only that you can go abroad too to have a social project in you selected country. I really want to go abroad and have a social project in another country so I choose turkey, why I choose turkey? Because there is a good project that I really interested. They provided a full accommodation for me and it’s related to the children’s there.

Saya berangkat ke turkey pada musim panas yakni bulan juli. Perjalanan ke turkey memerlukan waktu sekitar 19 jam dengan dua kali transit di singapura dan di Istanbul. Saya sangat tertarik dengan projek disana, dan tidak sabar untuk segera sampai di adana, turkey. Projek yang akan saya lakukan ialah membantu aiesec adana nya itu sendiri untuk mengajar bahasa inggris untuk anak-anak disabilitas yang memiliki kemampuan di bidang olahraga dan mereka merupakan atlit-atlit professional di bidang nya masing-masing. Tidak hanya membantu mengajarkan bahasa inggris, saya juga membantu anak-anak disabilitas untuk melakukan pemanasan dan olahraga rutin mereka. Pada awal nya saya bingung karena saya tidak memiliki pandangan sebelum nya mengajar anak-anak yang memiliki kekurangan fisik. Namun pada akhirnya saya memberanikan diri untuk mengambil projek itu…hehe..turkey is a big country with a different religious life, they was known as sekuler country from their founding father it self Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. he is the first president of turkey and also the founding of seculer theory.

When I arrived in adana, I was shock because of the weather was very hot. I am not alone for doing the project, I was with tamara. She’s a student like me and we were in the same university also same faculty but different major. So I am very thankful that I can speak with her while there is no one can speak English in adana even the employee of the airport. I arrived on 1st august and it was very early for starting the project, the project was about 10 of august. My friends and I was very surprise that we met our senior that having an internship in aiesec adana. She’s one of the VP of aiesec adana, and she’s the one that took me and tamara to go to adana.
Pertama kali sampai di sana saya dan tamara di jemput oleh fatih, kak hasan, gorkem dan kak dira. Fatih adalah salah seorang Vice President beserta dira dan kak hasan teman kak dira yang mendapat beasiswa di adana untuk gelar master serta gorkem yang akan menjadi host family dari tamara. Saya sangat canggung bertemu dengan orang asing, tetapi kak dira membantu saya untuk memperkenalkan dengan anggota aiesec disana. Minggu-minggu pertama saya habiskan untuk berkeliling dan menikmati kota Adana bersama tamara dan satu orang intern dari kyrgyztan.


Minggu-minggu pertama sangatlah menyenangkan dengan orang-orang yang sangat ramah dan mempunyai pemikiran terbuka terhadap budaya Negara lain. Mereka sangatlah menghargai sikap dan budaya Negara lain, disaat saya sampai di adana disana masih ada beberapa intern dari projek sebelum nya. Saya juga berkenalan dengan pada intern dari projek sebelum nya untuk menambah teman dan keluarga baru. Sebelum pekan pertama projek dimulai saya sudah bertanya-tanya kepada fatih bagaimana mekanisme berjalan nya projek yang akan saya lakukan. Projek agesk ini perlukan kekuatan team yang baik untuk mencapai kesuksesan dalam menyelesaikan nya.
Memasuki minggu kedua yakni minggu dimana projek akan segera berlangsung. Saya ingin tahu seperti apa anak-anak yang akan saya ajari bahasa inggris. Di minggu kedua ini sudah mulai datang temen-teman team saya dari Negara lain yakni jerman dan rusia, cina dan Pakistan. Mereka datang pada minggu kedua karena memiliki kesulitan di visa dan masih ada yang memiliki urusan di Negara nya masing-masing. And for the first day of my internship was very surprised that I taught a very cute, active and cheerful kids that very good conditions means they are ordinary kids not disable.

They were very good and humble to us, they really want to know who were we? But not all the children are friendly hehe. Because it was the first day, we didn’t prepare anything for teaching them, so we just talking and have a conversation with the kids. They were very cute and for the beginning they were interested with us to study English. In our mind they want to study English until the time for study was finish but suddenly they push me to play Turkish game with them…

Saya menghabiskan minggu kedua ini dengan mengajar dan bermain bersama mereka dari senin hingga jumat. Di hari sabtu dan minggu saya memiliki jadwal libur jadi saya meminta kepada host saya untuk mengajak saya jalan-jalan keliling kota adana. Minggu kedua pun telah di lewati dengan rasa senang, selanjutnya datang minggu ketiga dimana tantangan lebih banyak. Di minggu ketiga ini, saya beserta team sudah menyiapkan beberapa agenda untuk mengajar anak-anak bahasa inggris serta menyiapkan beberapa permainan dari berbagai Negara kami.

Akan tetapi minggu-demi minggu kami mengalami kegelisahan dikarenakan mulai menurun nya antusiasme anak-anak untuk belajar inggris dengan kami. Kami mulai kebingungan dan harus mencari cara bagaimana mereka ingin belajar bahasa inggris lebih giat lagi. Akhirnya di minggu keempat ini kami memiliki ide untuk mengajak mereka kembali belajar inggris dengan cara mengurangi jam belajar bahasa inggris itu sendiri dengan lebih banyak menambah permainan yang menggunakan teori-teori bahasa inggris yang lebih menyenangkan untuk ukuran anak-anak. Di minggu keempat ini kami juga bertanya kepada fatih mengenai dimana anak-anak disabilitas yang pada awalnya akan kami bantu untuk bahasa inggris nya dan membantu dalam olahraganya. Ia segera menanyakan nya kepada ketua atau pemimpin dari NGO dimana kami mengajar bahasa inggris anak-anak itu. Beliau sendiri adalah penyandang cacat yang memiliki segudang prestasi dibidang olahraga, dan beliau telah meraih berbagai penghargaan terutama dari PBB. Beliau memberi tahu kami di minggu keempat ini kami akan mengajar dan membantu dia di summer camp lain khusus anak-anak disabilitas.

In the 5th week, one of the member of our team had an idea. The idea was make a flashmob together in front of the groseri near from our place for teaching the children. Jenny was a zumba instructor and she’s good in choreography. We all practice zumba everyday until the day of flashmob begin. And we were getting closed to each others I made really really good friends in this project. The children were very happy for doing zumba dance, they really interested and always come to the park where we study and play together. In this week, my friends and I went to mersin to saw the castle which from the ottoman empire and also we wanted to see a beautiful beach.

Now the last week has come so we were really excited to do zumba. In this week was the saddest part of my intership because I just realizing that I may not see each other in the future due to the distance, we live too far away from each other. But I really thankful to allah that give me a chance to go and have an amazing opportunity to meet amazing people from all over the world. In the last week of my internship we do zumba together that there is a meaning from this dance “All Unique All Equal” we all same and have same chances in this world there is no differences between us . Before tamara and I go back to Indonesia, we decided to go to istabul with some of interns from Russia and China. I was very sad that I wouldn’t see my close intern’s friend from Kyrgyz anymore because she didn’t go with us to Istanbul also jenny from Germany didn’t go to Istanbul . So we spent for a week in Istanbul to take a short holiday for us after we had a hardworking job .

That’s all of my story when I was in adana for having a social project. Thank you AIESEC for bring me to be a global citizens. It was very memorable moment I ever had.



THANK YOU
AIESEC LC UNIBRAW