tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53086418698946775712024-03-13T08:38:36.926-07:00Doetjha NadyaAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15673546688820760786noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308641869894677571.post-21114649251456949812016-02-14T10:28:00.009-08:002016-02-14T14:28:43.030-08:00Condolence to My Country's Reversing Progress.<div style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sorry for the unpleasing title of this post, but that is how I myself personally interpret the current situation in my country, Indonesia. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Earlier today, I saw a post shared by a friend of mine in Facebook telling about the Indonesian authorities' decision to ban the 'homosexual' emojis in messaging apps like Whatsapp, LINE, Facebook, etc. WOOF! Getting stormed, I believe this growing issue of LGBT community's rejection is worth a post.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Read more <b><u><span style="color: #4c1130;"><a href="http://thenextweb.com/asia/2016/02/12/indonesia-thinks-line-emojis-are-making-kids-gay/#gref" target="_blank">here</a></span></u></b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Read more <span style="color: #4c1130;"><b><u><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-12/indonesia-bans-gay-emojis-on-messaging-apps/7164674" target="_blank">here</a></u></b></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;"><span style="line-height: 19.32px;">This is the umpteenth time I get so overwhelmed by my people's conservative exaggeration. You have far more crucial things to handle and keep your eyes on, my dear government! These two recent weeks, you have exaggerated too much. Last time it was the authorities' uproar and campaign against the celebration of Valentine's Day. And now, a ban on messaging apps' homosexual emojis. Just because we live in a Muslim-majority country, that does not mean we can run everything with b</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; line-height: 19.32px;">asis on Islamic Laws. This is an oppression of human rights, and I see that this country I have taken so much pride in has faced a setback.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Instead of focusing on these things, why don't you halt the prolonged oppression that our fellow Indonesians in West Papua have to live under from time to time and start to treat them humanely as how they are supposedly treated? Or why don't you fight to ban the multinational companies, which have exploited our richness in natural & mineral resources, polluted every aspect of our environment, earned as much profit as they possibly could and taken away the rights of the native community? How about the thousands of corruptors that this country sadly has. Have their cases been justly judged? My fellow students in the rural areas of Borneo, Sumatra, Sulawesi, Maluku and Papua have also faced a struggle of survival to keep their hopes alive by getting good education. Sadly, their spirit of progression has not been fully supported with the sufficient facility and infrastructure. I believe that those are just smattering of epitomes that my government should have focused on and fixed long ago. Then why concerning so much on such trivial things?</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Source: <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/indonesia-bans-gay-emoji-a6872086.html">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/indonesia-bans-gay-emoji-a6872086.html</a></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To my fellow Indonesians, instead of discriminating against the LGBT community, you better praise to God for being created 'normally' as how you consider the majority is. But not everyone is like you. Try to listen and understand. It is just the matter of understanding.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">P.S. I'm muslim and heterosexual, but I don't believe it allows me to be intolerant.</span></div>
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As written above, I'd like to share with you our latest event at UWCAd.<br />
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As a biennial event organized at UWC Adriatic, our majestic and intriguing Middle Eastern and Asian (MEA) Cultural Week took place last month starting from 23 'till 29 March. Woohoo! Everyone who regionally comes from Middle East and Asia or is culturally engaged to MEA was welcome to take part as the organizers of the week while the rest of the students took part as the participants. </div>
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Here is the trailer of our week adopting the theme of epic rap battles!</div>
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Lasting for 7 days, this cultural week was filled by numerous events, shows, workshops and movie projections. Some of these are as follows:</div>
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Henna Workshop:</div>
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Yes, while we saw the Middle Eastern and South Asian girls sharing the importance and origins of henna, we got our hands painted beautifully with it!</div>
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This is the making session of dumpling using glutinous rice flour and red bean that is usually eaten during the Lantern Festival in China. Reputedly, its round shape symbolizes union and in Chinese the name is actually a homophone for union. </div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">It's a talk of an Israeli community that is based largely on agriculture and upholds similar values to UWC's. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">A talk about the journey of coffee from its origin and its spread through the Ottoman Empire as well as its consumption through the ages. In this workshop, a first hand experience to taste Turkish coffee was also offered!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Arabic Magical Night:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">A mystical evening filled with the famous folklore-telling and poetry-reading by the Arabs in UWCAd.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Arab Springs:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">A talk of and discussion about the revolutionary event that has come to be known as the Arab Spring, from the very beginning to the present time.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">In recent years, especially after the handover of Hong Kong to China, there have been many conflicts between mainland Chinese and Hongkongers. This event serves to give the space for other students to understand the points of view of the students from both sides.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Culinary workshop by the Malaysians about the making of Roti Canai and Teh Tarik that quite exaggeratively needs special physical preparation.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Yes, this Japanese-originated entertainment allows everyone to sing amateurishly with the minus one musical accompaniment. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">While the movies we projected were namely Waltz with Bashir (Israeli movie), Oldeboi (Korean movie), 3 Idiots (Indian movie), A Separation (Iranian movie), Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (Hong Kong movie) and Laskar Pelangi. Yes, the last one is Indonesian movie that I proposed to show. It is an inspiring movie, set in 1970s, based on the true story of how 10 students and their 2 inspirational teachers in one of Indonesia's rural islands strive for education and struggle with the poverty. Their journeys aim second-to-none just to keep the hopes alive for the future of the tin mining island of Belitong, where children like them were considered to have no bright future.</span><br />
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On Saturday, 28 March we had the final show of our week that we had rehearsed for two weeks! In this show, I and my Malaysian fellows organized a collaborated dance of Tari Jaipong (Indonesian dance) and Malaysian Bamboo Dance. Unfortunately, I haven't got the video of it in my hand so i'll upload it later. </div>
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On the last day of week, it was sorta pinnacle of the whole series of events. Yash, we had a Taster Session where the organizers from each country or region cooked their delish local delicacies to be tasted by all members of the college. </div>
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Holi, ancient Hindu religious festival of colors that now has become outspread and celebrated in almost every corner of the world in the spring followed afterwards to bring the joy as well as to close this cultural week. </div>
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Publishing a kinda late post, I'd like to share one of our latest annual events in UWC Adriatic which was organized and held on 20 'till 21 March 2015 by all members of AdMUN which serves as one of the creative activities here. The event itself was named as stated above, Adriatic Model United Nations Conference '15 (AdMUN Conference '15). Sounds cool, huh?</div>
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I was chosen as the delegate of Saudi Arabia in UNEP Council that stands for United Nations Environment Programme. In two days of conference, we discussed the sustainable approaches of regulating the exploration of petrol and its circulation among the exporting and importing countries, the UN's financial investment in promoting the renewable energies and the mandatory educational contribution that nations shall provide to promote and start up the use of renewable energy, such as geothermal, hydroelectric, and solar energy.</div>
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So here are some pictures capturing the moment!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Suguru (Japan), Ariel (Timor Leste), Tahmeed (Bangladesh), Jolene (Singapore), petite me, and Agim (Kosovo)</td></tr>
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Hereby after a little while hadn't updated my blog, I'm coming with bunches of story about my recent activities during the Project Week.<br />
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Let's start by giving you clear idea of the terms '<span style="color: #444444;"><b>Project Week</b></span>'!<br />
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Project Week is an annual event held by all United World Colleges that aims to give students opportunity in carrying out the community service, physical activity, and creative activity in the bigger scope of community outside the campus. By means, we were all spread into small groups consisting of 4-15 students to mainly European countries, namely Croatia, The Netherlands, Czech Republic, Italy, Austria, Romania, Macedonia, Portugal, Spain, Norway, France, Greece, Bosnia Herzegovina, and Morocco. This event takes place during the beginning of spring and this year it lasted from Friday, 27 Feb 'till compulsorily Wednesday, 4 March 2015. Then, it is up to the organizers whether they would like to extend the project until the long-weekend that follows afterwards or to go back to Duino as soon as the project's done.<br />
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I got the project whose theme is "A look behind the scenes of illegal refugees in Amsterdam" and the group consists of 5 students including my Dutch friend as the organizer. Geez, no wonder how lucky I am to get my first choice of project and visit the marvelous city where i've been dreaming to be in since long time ago. Woohoo!<br />
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We started the journey by leaving Duino on Saturday, 28 Feb in the early morning to Venice Marco Polo Airport and took the first flight to Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. The flight was only about an hour and a half long but it was extraordinarily pleasant witnessing the sunrise thru the plane's window.<br />
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We arrived at Schipol Airport at around 8.30 and directly took the train to Duivendrecht station, the nearest stop to our destination.<br />
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After we continued walking for about 5 minutes, we eventually arrived at my friend's apartment where her family live together with the community consisting of more or less 20 people. The community itself is named Jeannette Noelhuis (<a href="http://www.noelhuis.nl/">www.noelhuis.nl</a>) and it belongs to the Catholic Worker's movements. They came across the different countries all over the world, either as the immigrants who intend to make better living in Amsterdam or even as the refugees who seek for the better place to live in, but don't have enough proofs to be legally considered as the immigrants. This then results in difficulties to find the job and even to go back to their home country. However, it's my friend's dad who has been super kind by accommodating them, helping them in affording the daily necessities thru the fundraising, as well as actively initiating and participating in any act of solidarity towards the arrested and considered-illegal immigrants and refugees.</div>
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This project is apparently inspired by the blooming issues of how the Dutch government treats the illegal immigrants and refugees. Mr. Frits, my friend's dad, said that they usually get arrested right after they land on Schiphol Airport and thus detained in various periods of time, from two weeks even until six years in a huge jail near the Schiphol Airport. Besides, the worst thing is that they might then be sent to another country which has even worse living conditions.<br />
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It was very nice to be warmly welcome by the community inside the house. After having a nice talk with them accompanied by the cups of tea, we decided to unpack and take a rest for a while. The activity was followed by having lunch and then starting to make the banner for our main activity on the following day. Yes, making the banner to show our solidarity towards the arrested immigrants.<br />
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In the evening after having dinner together, we decided to go to the Nieuwmarkt (one of the city centers where you can find almost every single piece of amusement in Amsterdam) by taking the subway. We bought the subway tickets which can be used unlimitedly for the whole 4 days. It only costs <span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">€ </span>21 per person; far cheaper compared to buying a ticket for each trip.<br />
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Oh my Goddess, the further I walked around this city, it somehow strengthens the feeling as if I was in the whole different world. Amsterdam is just superbly fabulous! Highly advanced technologies, eco-friendly society's lifestyle, classic buildings, glamorous night-life, beautiful canal side views, busy yet well-ordered highways.. Everything is just so damn extraordinary!<br />
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We walked around the city centre and thousands of bars, cafes, restaurants, souvenir shops, department store line up along the road. We then split into two groups, Me and Jia Jia while the other three were together. We passed through Jia Jia's school, hung around the Museumplein (Museum Square), took some photos in I Am Amsterdam sign, and ended up having cups of hot chocolate in a cafe around Leidseplein. It was very cold (colder than Duino) and sadly the strong wind made it so damn colder, as well as messed up my hair. Nevertheless, the atmosphere's so lively as it was Saturday night.<br />
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At about 11 PM, we took the tram to get back to our meeting point with the other group's members and soon afterwards we went back to Jia Jia's apartment as we were kind of exhausted by today's intense agenda.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15673546688820760786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5308641869894677571.post-91924822117743263412015-03-07T09:09:00.000-08:002015-03-09T13:07:52.785-07:00Project Week '15 in Amsterdam #day2<b><span style="color: #444444;">Day 2 - Sunday, 1 March </span></b><br />
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On the second day, we had our main activity that is the solidarity act towards the illegalised immigrants and refugees. After we arrived at the prison yard, Jia Jia's father and some other participants from Catholic Workers gave some short speeches. Then, we began marching along the prison while showing our banners and blowing the whistles so that they could hear we're giving them spirit and support from the outside. The most exhilarating moment was when we could see them waving and beaming to us as we're prohibited to enter the prison.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Indonesia, Morocco, The Netherlands, England, Spain</td></tr>
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In the afternoon, 5 of us decided to have typical Dutch cuisines in our lunch time. We went to a restaurant whose name is De Carousel hence ordered Poffertjes and Pannenkoeken.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Poffertjes are baby pancakes sprinkled with the icing sugar. Super gurih, lembut, creamy, bikin nagih!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Roshni's pancake with mushroom, mozzarella, and ham as its topping.<br />
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The trip's continued by our visit to Anne Frank's house, Prinsengracht. It used to be Anne's and her family's hiding place during the World War II from the German Nazi military. Anne was young Jewish girl who's very well-known of her wartime diary during her hiding in the Secret Annexe. That place is now opened to public as a museum from 09.00 AM - 07.00 PM. The entrance ticket is quite reasonable, <span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">€</span>4.5 for <18 years old visitor and <span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">€</span>9.0 for over 18 y.o. However, in order to prevent any damage of the conserved items inside, visitors are not allowed to take any photograph inside the museum.</div>
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We started the day by waking up a bit earlier, having breakfast together, and preparing for our next activity that is painting the wall of the corridor of the house where the community lives in. Before painting the wall, we needed to cleanse the wall from any smudge by using the diluted ammonia. Then, we taped some parts that should not be painted, such as the door frames and the switches.</div>
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Then, we had to rush to Rijksmuseum to see the Late Rembrandt exhibition there. The entrance fee is free at the moment, but we had the schedule of entering the museum from 09.00 'till 11.00. It was 10.04 when we completely finished cleansing the wall. We took the subway to Amstel Station and continued the journey by taking the trams to Museumplein. It was 10.55 when we got off the tram, hence we had to run to the Rijksmuseum. Wooh! Fortunately, we could still enter the museum and use our online tickets. </div>
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The next agenda's to meet our UWCAd alumna, Hester, who comes from and lives in Amsterdam. I really have to admit that Project Week was such a truly nice chance to get to know people we'd never met as well as people we'd never talked to before. Together with Hester, we spend the afternoon after the light drizzle to walk around the Albert Cuypstraat Market, which is only about 2 km from Hester's house. There we can find loads of stalls which sell almost everything we might look for, such as clothes, cheese, vegetables, fruits, bags, Dutch snacks, and many more. Jia Jia and Hester suggested us to taste the Stroopwafel (two thin layers of waffle filled with the caramel syrup) which can be bought at one of the street vendors there. I bought the big-sized one with chocolate topping as addition. Its price range varies from <span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">€</span>1.5-2.0. This typical Dutch snack is really worth a try!<br />
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As we had known a bit of how to get to somewhere in Amsterdam, we decided to split again. Four of us decided to go to the commercial centre and stroll around the city while Jia Jia decided to visit her former school and meet some friends. Leidseplein and Niewmarkt are the two main districts which full of shopping centre and sort of being the centers of the crowd. </div>
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After that, we met up again during the dinner time in Bazaar Amsterdam, Albert Cuypstraat. It's a middle-eastern restaurant which sells multitude of fancy and tasty foods. Woohoo, I just realized how much I've longed for eating tasty foods. So, you could guess that it was kinda feast for us!</div>
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I couldn't believe it'd been our last day staying in Amsterdam. I gotta admit that time really runs when we're so happy.<br />
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So, on the fourth day we painted the corridor's walls of the house where community lives in. Even though it was pretty tiring, especially when painting the ceiling, we're all so delighted to be able helping others and giving a bit of hands to them.<br />
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While I, Camelia, and Melania started to paint the wall, Roshni and Jia Jia had to cycle and do shopping for our dinner that night. The procedure of living in the Noelhuis is that each member of community must cook for dinner once in every certain period. If I'm not mistaken more or less every 2 weeks. The ones in turn are supposed to cook for the whole community and that day was our turn.<br />
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We're all quite tired after doing all the activity for the last 4 days, but we really didn't want to waste any chance to explore the city of Amsterdam. Therefore, at night, I, Melania, Camelia, and Roshni decided to go out and enjoy the beauty of Amsterdam before leaving on the following day. We took the subway to Central Station, walked through the centre of crowds, and bought some souvenirs as the mementos. Next, we entered a small cafe to buy some drinks and I also ordered the Waffle with nutella topping. Hmm.. I wish I could stay longer in this fabulous city.<br />
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Duino, we're coming. Similar to our flight to Amsterdam, we also needed only an hour and a half to reach Venice Marco Polo Airport. However, this time only I and Jia Jia were going back to Duino as the others were going home and or visiting another country.<br />
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After taking the 3 PM flight, accidentally taking the wrong bus from VCE Airport to Venice St. Lucia train station, taking the train to Monfalcone and bus to Duino.. We two eventually arrived safely at our residences.<br />
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Fuh. Alhamdulillah. Yet hereby I need to say that I can't wait for next year Project Week!<br />
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Unbelievably, my three-weeks-long winter-break is soon coming to an end within 3 days. At the beginning, I thought this break is going to last forever-like and will be as boring as it used to be back then. Moreover, I didn't come home like most of the students from my college and I decided to stay in Italy as you might already know what the reason is. Yes, the airfares cost a lot. Therefore, I asked for the college's hands in seeking the host family to stay with.</span><br />
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However, once I met and got to know my host family members who live in Gradisca d'Isonzo, I at sudden realized that not flying home during break is not always unexciting. They are really nice, like really, really nice and kind. I fully feel home and feel the sense of family whenever I am around them. Hereby, my Italian family!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And here I've stayed since December 16th, 2014.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And this warm welcoming made me completely feel home</span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">As well as the mesmerizing views all around Gradisca which make my holiday even more impeccable. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Furthermore, my host parents brought me to multitude of interesting places both in and out of Italy, such as to Aquileia, Grado, Cormons, Gorizia, Udine, Venzone, Cividale del Friuli, Capriva, Castello di Miramare as well as to Slovenia and Austria. These trips made my holiday even more enjoyable on top of everything. Here are the photographs of my whole journeys and activities during the break!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And a cup of cioccolata calda con panna kept me warm that whole night</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">La bandiera Italiana, Castello di Gorizia</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">View inside the Castle of Gorizia</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And here you can see almost the whole Gorizia</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">- view from top of the castle -</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Perfect combination of fascinating twilight, street lamps, and leafless trees.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Border between Italy and Slovenia</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I stepped my feet both on Italian and Slovenian lands!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Papa, Francesca, and I</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Again, vroča čokolada a.k.a. hot chocolate has become my favorite!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Quando abbiamo fatto colazione a un caffè in Venzone</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Venzone - I heard there are some mummies kept somewhere in this magical city</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And there are numerous shops in Venzone which sell many kinds of things made up of Lavender. Wangi!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And here we go, Austria!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But let's first take a selfie inside Papa's Mini!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But one selfie ain't enough..</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As well as two so here we go!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Seeing snow for real and for the first time drives a tropical student, like me, insane!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The way snowflakes got stuck on my hair somehow made feel showered by the true love of God. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We got on this 'kereta-gantung' to reach the higher spot in Nassfeld, Austria</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Salju itu kayak es serut, gaes.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And we went to my host family's superb apartment in Austria</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">They own a marvelous telescope</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And here we go, Austrian cuisine (can't remember what its name is)!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And we visited the city centre of Udine</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Udine Udine Udine</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Another snowy view. The first day of snow in Italy.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Cividale del Friuli</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Devil's Bridge, Cividale del Friuli</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Reputedly, the establishment of this bridge was succeeded by the hands of devil</span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Woohoo! #indonesianpride </span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Moreover, I also had Christmas lunch with the big family of my host family.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">However, this winter break doesn't last forever. After all, I absolutely have to go back to Duino and today's my last day staying with them. Three-weeks-long holiday doesn't even feel long for me. Time really runs and I just can't believe holiday's almost over. Ugh. I would never ever be able to pay off their kindness and hospitality to willingly share their space, their family, their everything. </span></div>
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Within this post i'd like to share my whole remembrance of how I got selected as UWC Student intake 2014 from the beginning of selection process 'till the final announcement. You know I'll just write them all briefly and as concise as possible. So, if you have any inquiries, simply hit me any comment or preferably through my other social sites!</span><br />
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Alright, I'll begin with the most thrilling part.. which is <strong style="font-weight: bold !important;">selection process</strong>.</span><br />
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Somewhen at the nearly end of 2013, I still perfectly remember that I was attending a MPK (a student organization) meeting which was held on one evening at school building (anyway, my former school was SMAN 10 Malang Leadership Academy *fireworks*). In the middle of it, all of the 11th graders were called to gather as there was one of UWC Indonesia National Committees who'd like to publicize the opening of UWC 2014 Admission Process. I was very lucky on that moment because actually not all of the non-dormitory students were still around. So I listened to the presentation and I suddenly felt the urge to enroll after I heard about the offer of scholarship programs for this year placements in Germany, Italy, and The Netherlands. Woohoo!!! This educational program must be highly superb as there will also be representative students from up to 90 countries all around the world.</span><br />
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Next, my school held some internal selection thingy for students who wanted to participate. I decided to join, wrote some essays, and asked for recommendation from teacher. <em>Who knows luck would be mine?</em> I was fully excited to know I was one of ten students who passed this internal selection. Initially, my school planned to have another stage to select the shortlisted candidates who would get the chance to send our application documents to the NC a.k.a. National Committee. Yet, then, they decided to give ten of us this marvelous chance. Praise the Lord!</span><br />
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We then began to fulfill all those application forms which included our profiles, placement preferences, short descriptions of our interests, participation in any organization, hobbies, achievements, 2 500-words essays (mainly about our reason of interest in attending UWC, our commitment, what we want to contribute, our career goals, as well as our family background), parents approval, teacher and school principal forms. Moreover, we also had to enclose some documents such as certificates of any participation and achievement, our transcript of each term report, and a lot more documents. These whole writing processes took me more than a month to be finished, even I wrote and rewrote the essay drafts for four times after each proofreading. Fiuh, such a glory to then decide to send my fourth piece of writing.</span><br />
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And thereafter restlessly waited for 3-4 weeks... Tadaaaa! There were 10 students from all corners of Indonesia passed this stage and 7 of us are students from my high school. I never thought I would be in! Within the end of that week we had to come to Jakarta for attending the next selection stage. We all suddenly got fully stormy hearing this whole announcement. We had 4-5 days to get prepared in showing the best of ourselves and these days were incredibly hectic for me.</span><br />
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So, 7 of us took the train to get there by our-own-selves, without parents and teachers. Hah! It was somehow a pride for us or probably only for me, we'd proven we could rely on ourselves! We stayed there for 2 nights with the other three candidates (two are from Padang and one from Bandung) and we had lots of fun in those thrilling days. Moreover on the next day, we also met with the other 14 candidates who applied for the fee-paying program. Here's our photo:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Going back to the topic, this stage consisted of several parts which are psychological test, interview, and FGD (Focus Discussion Group). On the second day, we had such a social activity in an orphanage and we're supposed to write our reflective statement afterwards. Those days were so awesome because we basically escaped from the hectic days of school even only for 3 days in Jakarta. Whoops. However, I always felt the nervousness of being around with all those talented, outstanding, and competent candidates. I couldn't resist myself to feel inferior on that moment. Ha-ha.</span><br />
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So, what's next? We had to come back to Malang and continue our hectic high school life while waiting for the next announcement. Day by day for around a month we kept on praying and asking others whether they already got any information or not. Restlessness could never be out of our way back then.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Then on March 23rd 2014, what we had been waiting for was finally announced. Yes, the final announcement of the winners. National Committees visited our school and parents of three of us were also invited to come. At first, I was thinking there might be any interview of our parents/teachers or possibly home visit, as well I thought all parents of us were invited. Yet no, it was the time for the final announcement. AAAAA. I wasn't ready at all, like, at all. NC said there would only one of us get the scholarship in Germany and OMG at sudden I was about to give up because Germany was my third preference. I wasn't ready to disappoint my parents who came with me.</span><br />
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However, after all, it was NC's attempt to give us surprises. I, Dayin Wijaya, and Dea Santi each were given an envelope that we had to open at the same time in front of all students of my school and some teachers. I got my name written on that envelope but I never figured out before that I got selected. Afterwards, I found a vertical green-white-red flag inside my envelope and I still didn't get what it meant although I know it's Italian flag. Dayin got Dutch flag and Dea got the German one. We then understood that three of us won these three scholarship after the NC announced that they were joking about the only placement in Germany. Huaaaaah, I was instantly getting speechless and paralyzed like I didn't know whether I was dreaming or not. United World College of Adriatic? Italy? I am going to Italy? I am going to stay in that historical country with bunch of magnificent cultural sites and romantic cities? In the land of pasta, pizza, and piazza? In Europe? Miles far away from my hometown?</span><br />
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I don't know, guys. I even 'till now sometimes couldn't believe this is happening. Destiny truly brought me here! From now on, I must really believe that when something is destined for you, in any way it will truly happen to you.</span><br />
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<li>Bing Ibrahim - UWC Atlantic, UK</li>
<li>Fio Swantono - Armand Hammer UWC, USA</li>
<li>Mandy Santoso - Li Po Chun UWC, Hongkong</li>
<li>Deidra Alyanadine - Armand Hammer UWC, USA</li>
<li>Qomaruliati Setiawati - Pearson College UWC, Canada</li>
<li>Raudya Amalia - Armand Hammer UWC, USA</li>
<li>Dayin Wijaya (second from right) - UWC Maastricht, Netherlands </li>
<li>Dea Santi Alqurwani (rightmost) - Robert Bosch College, Germany</li>
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