Senin, 11 Maret 2013

Exchange Program by AIESEC (LC UNAND AND LC NTPU) ^^

Diposting oleh Unknown di 3/11/2013

EXCHANGE TO TAIWAN

            Hi…. I will tell the story about my adventure and all of my experience in Taiwan. First I will introduce myself, my name is yani, I’m 20 years old right now. I choose go exchange to go to Taiwan, why because when I want to go to China no body except me when I did interview and they gave me many reasons for rejected me. But it’s okay, actually I’m really happy because I accepted in Taiwan. Why? Because when LC from China rejected me I felt depressed and not confident with myself. It’s that because I did something wrong… but when the manager from LC NTPU (the LC’s name from Taiwan) sent me a message and she said congratulation I’m really happy…. And at the same time I felt nervous because this will be my first trip to go to abroad. No body with me and usually I’m really bad at memorize the name of place because I even not remember what’s name for street in Padang =_=
            After prepare everything to go to Taiwan, finally the time for going is coming… I’m really afraid, stressful, but I'm not show it to my parents. But my friends come to support me hehehe I’m really happy, and little bit enjoy it and forget about my stressful. Times to flight, is going smoothly and I relief about that but when I’m in the plan I felt seasick >_< I don’t know why, even it’s my first time to go abroad but it’s not my first time to go with airplane. Finally I arrived in Taiwan, Taiyuan International airport. I really felt relief, happy, worried, afraid, and happy again but it’s really wonderful there, big airport, different people, different look, and different language. And you know what the first time when I arrived at Taiwan it’s my birthday and the officer who checking my passport said happy birthday for me, I think maybe I will not disappointed to choose Taiwan for my first trip. Also this is trip is my birthday gift from my parents hehehehe Thank you Dad and Mom who gave me this chance ^^.
Then I went to the New Taipei University, the LC is LC NTPU. There I met with the others AIESECER and one thing that I learn it even though they are friendly and nice but they still individually. And the special thing is they gave surprise at night (because they are study until night) they gave me surprise birthday party, they gave me a tea cake, and some gift from the others AIESECER and it’s really nice and touching. After that we dance together ^^. For my first day I live with Sally, she is an AIESECER member and she at apartment alone, it’s really cool because if I were her hmmm maybe I will be happy hahahah. Actually I will stay at the school dormitory.
On the next day I visit the school and move from comfort apartment into dormitory. The dorm and the school there is really big, especially for senior high school. The school’s name is Tsz-Shiou Private School and this is a boarding school but not every students live at dorm also this school has junior high school and senior high school. There they provide me food, living place and they gave me a office. The condition in the school is really nice, the students is really welcome and the teachers too. I have many new friends there include the student and the teacher. I have 3 special friends from USA, they are English Teacher in Tsz-Shiou. Most of my time I spent in my office with my 3 special friends, they really nice asked me what will I need, you know how to go somewhere, and they show me many things that I need to know. Sometimes we are travelling together if they are not busy with teaching class.
Then about my project there, I have 5 classes from Senior 2(it’s same with Grade XI in senior high school)  and I will teach them for 3 times meeting and it’s for 3 weeks too. I teach them about Indonesia first, I gave them general information about Indonesia, and I told them about Padang’s culture too. And they really enthusiasts and interest with the topic, they asked many questions about my culture, about Indonesia (because they are thinking I came from India), also they interested with my religion because I used veil ^^. My main project is about big issue project, in this project we try to make the students aware with what is the hot issue that happen around them or around the world. Actually I choose Junk Mail topics and it’s relate with Global Warming because when I did the interview, the manager said most of students not really understand English so because of that I choose general topic also they learn about the topic from their subjects at school. I deliver the topics by using ppt, video, and use chalkboard too. They really enjoy it because they gave many ideas how to solve the problem of junk mail. Also at the same time they learn English too. One think that I learn from them is don’t be shy or afraid to express what you think because even though their English is not really good or even poor but they have high motivation to say something to express what they are thinking, their ideas and I really enjoyed when I’m teaching the class.
My travelling story… I didn’t visit many places in Taiwan because most of my time I spent with the students. I join movie club there, sometimes if I didn’t have class I will join Dale’s class (one of my friends from USA, English Teacher) or I played basket ball with the students. I only visit some place around Sanxia. I visit Y city mall in Taipei main station, in there they sale cheaper stuff also they give sale because it’s end of year. I found some place that sale Indonesia products and the price is really expensive than from Indonesia it self (at that time I think I can sale something here with the high price too heheheheh). I visit Ximen with some students from Tsz-Shiou senior high school. We are having fun together, took some picture, visit book store, mall, and we watched new Hollywood movie (Tom Cruise’s movie is Jack Reacher) also we ate Japanese noodle. They said Ximen is like for youth people for hang out, because I saw many couples and teenagers there. Then I visit Sanxia Old Street with my friends from the same project with me and her come from Indonesia too. I visit Longshan Temple with the others trainees but different project. In Longshan temple there are so many extreme food, like snake, mouse, pig, and many thing and I only can buy a crepes with chocolate hahahah ( I visit night market). Then I visit Bangqio, it’s really for shopping place because many big malls and it’s near each of malls who is really like to shopping this place is the right place. Because they sale from the expensive one to the cheaper one. It’s depend on you to find the right place and negotiate with the seller ( I negotiate with the seller by using calculator heheh).
Unforgettable memory is when New Year comes. I went to 101 building, this building is the icon of Taiwan and in that building will have a fireworks and usually I only watched from TV but now I can watched directly. It’s really awesome and I can’t say with words but amazing. And the unforgettable memory is when the firework is finished. Why? Because after that we need to wait until morning because even we can go with MRT but there is no bus to go to my dorm. Then we wait until morning on the street, it’s look like poor people because we don’t have any place to sleep. We tired because the activities and waiting moment, and we slept at bus station. But around 4.00 Am the officer asked us to move, and we move to MRT station hahahah and you know what on the right side and my left side is Indonesian 0_o. even though that is like poor memory but I enjoyed every single time at that time. Because when you can have such experience like that right?

GO EXCHANGE AND GET UNFORGETTABLE MEMORIES ^_^

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