Good Morning World,
HAPPY THANKS GIVING everybody!!!
YAY!! It is a blessing day for everybody here in the U.S. The day where they spend their time with their families. Today I will also go out for Thanks Giving dinner wif Juan's support team member. I think we will have international thanks giving there because Juan told me that there will be people from Germany, Mexico and other countries (hope so), so excited.
For thanks giving dinner, I have prepared Nasi Kuning and Daging sapi, also the Kolak Milu LOL.
We will have all those food there together and will eat together with them. I cook the food about 3 hours ago, that's why I am free now and spend my time writing about this Haha :D
Anyway, that's the update for now because I have to get ready. They will pick us up at 5PM for the thanks giving dinner.
So, I will see you later then with the update of my first American Thanks Giving (also with picts) LOL . .
Da da . .
Nur
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Volunteer with KEEN
Good Morning World,
How are you today?
Finally I get 30 minutes free now before my Human Resources class is started. Here I still want to talk about my activities last 2 weeks that I have not shared. As I told you before, CCIP students who are in Arizona have to do volunteer for at least 100 hours for a year. Until now I have done about almost 50 hours, not so much, but that;s not too bad hehe. So last two weeks, Juan and I, went for volunteer with KEEN (Kids Enjoy Exercise Now). We did the volunteer by playing with special kids. Before we started the activities (Playing activities I mean LOL), We had an orientation from Todd Byer. The goal of the orientation is to introduce how special the kids are, so when we play with game, we would have any idea what we will do with them. The orientation was about 20 to 30 minutes. There were actually about 10 of volunteers who came, including two families with 2 or 3 family members. After the orientation, Todd gave us a paper about the kids that we will play with. So, he decided to let Jorge to play with me and Juan, but before that, we had to read all the information about Jorge. He is really special. First time I read the paper information, I was worried, Will he be happy to play with us? because in the paper it said that he really loves to play or communicate with somebody who can communicate with sign language, in fact, Juan and I could not even understand about sign language, both of us were looking each othere and smiling, "We can do it" Juan says. After 30 minutes, Jorge came. They introduced us to Jorge. After that, Jorge started to run to the gymnasium. There he started to play alone, I was confused what to do at the first because it looked like he enjoys to play by himself (LOL). Then we started to throw a basketball together. just 4 minutes after that, He started to run again. Juan and I had no idea where he wanted to go. We just ran and tried to follow him. He leaded us out of the KEEN building, he wanted to have outside activities. He wants to play swinging (Haha). So I just sit beside of him and he started swinging. I was so worried to see him because he swing really high and fast, I tried to tell him to be slow, but he might did not understand me because I just use my hands to tell him (which I found was not a correct way in sign language to ask somebody to be slow down LOL). After that, we played another game, but he got bored so easily. He ran again to the room. He wanted to play a card game which I did not have any idea bout it (LOL). Juan and I just played and tried to understand what he said. Finally we found a good game where we spent about 30 or 40 minutes to play with. I forgot the name of the game.
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After that we go back to the gymnasium and played basketball again for few minutes and going back again outside for swinging. Too bad, while we were playing, Jorge's mom came to pick him up because he had a course or something. We really enjoyed to be with him although it was really difficult for him and for us to understand each other. Since my volunteer with Jorge, I have decided that I MUST LEARN the sign language. Thanks God, now I have learnt some basic words that will be useful later because I plan to do the volunteer again with KEEN. I really enjoyed my time with Jorge there, running and playing hehe. He made me realize that he is really special and we have to give extra care to the special kids like him. It was such a wonderful experience for me and I cannot wait for next three weeks to do the same volunteers.
Anyway, My class is gonna started in 10 minutes,
so I will see you guys on my next stories of life here in the U.S
Da da
Love,
Nur
How are you today?
Finally I get 30 minutes free now before my Human Resources class is started. Here I still want to talk about my activities last 2 weeks that I have not shared. As I told you before, CCIP students who are in Arizona have to do volunteer for at least 100 hours for a year. Until now I have done about almost 50 hours, not so much, but that;s not too bad hehe. So last two weeks, Juan and I, went for volunteer with KEEN (Kids Enjoy Exercise Now). We did the volunteer by playing with special kids. Before we started the activities (Playing activities I mean LOL), We had an orientation from Todd Byer. The goal of the orientation is to introduce how special the kids are, so when we play with game, we would have any idea what we will do with them. The orientation was about 20 to 30 minutes. There were actually about 10 of volunteers who came, including two families with 2 or 3 family members. After the orientation, Todd gave us a paper about the kids that we will play with. So, he decided to let Jorge to play with me and Juan, but before that, we had to read all the information about Jorge. He is really special. First time I read the paper information, I was worried, Will he be happy to play with us? because in the paper it said that he really loves to play or communicate with somebody who can communicate with sign language, in fact, Juan and I could not even understand about sign language, both of us were looking each othere and smiling, "We can do it" Juan says. After 30 minutes, Jorge came. They introduced us to Jorge. After that, Jorge started to run to the gymnasium. There he started to play alone, I was confused what to do at the first because it looked like he enjoys to play by himself (LOL). Then we started to throw a basketball together. just 4 minutes after that, He started to run again. Juan and I had no idea where he wanted to go. We just ran and tried to follow him. He leaded us out of the KEEN building, he wanted to have outside activities. He wants to play swinging (Haha). So I just sit beside of him and he started swinging. I was so worried to see him because he swing really high and fast, I tried to tell him to be slow, but he might did not understand me because I just use my hands to tell him (which I found was not a correct way in sign language to ask somebody to be slow down LOL). After that, we played another game, but he got bored so easily. He ran again to the room. He wanted to play a card game which I did not have any idea bout it (LOL). Juan and I just played and tried to understand what he said. Finally we found a good game where we spent about 30 or 40 minutes to play with. I forgot the name of the game.
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| Juan and Jorge |
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| YAY I am almost there, I creamed these guys LOL) |
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| no cheating Juan :D |
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| Cheers LOL |
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After that we go back to the gymnasium and played basketball again for few minutes and going back again outside for swinging. Too bad, while we were playing, Jorge's mom came to pick him up because he had a course or something. We really enjoyed to be with him although it was really difficult for him and for us to understand each other. Since my volunteer with Jorge, I have decided that I MUST LEARN the sign language. Thanks God, now I have learnt some basic words that will be useful later because I plan to do the volunteer again with KEEN. I really enjoyed my time with Jorge there, running and playing hehe. He made me realize that he is really special and we have to give extra care to the special kids like him. It was such a wonderful experience for me and I cannot wait for next three weeks to do the same volunteers.
Anyway, My class is gonna started in 10 minutes,
so I will see you guys on my next stories of life here in the U.S
Da da
Love,
Nur
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
International Education Week
Hi Guys,
How are you doing?
Hope you are always in a good shape.
Anyway, Last week, I had a very tight schedule because last week was International Education Week. From Monday till Thursday all the international students who get the CCIP scholarship participated in International Education Week. My two Indonesian friends (Ryan and Sanny) perfomed Indonesian dance, too bad Agung and I could not join them, because we both do not know how to dance LOL. Although we did not dance, we had discussion panel "International Student Panel" with the American future teachers in our college. Agung (Indonesian), Nayla (Brazilian), Juan (Costa Rica, Kiga (Kenya), Liz (Mexico) and I were the panelists. We were invited by Mr. Hansen to discuss about global issue that affect our country. Mostly we discussed about the education in our country which is totally different with the United States education system. Oh ya, I forgot, when we had the discussion, there were 2 people that asked Agung and I about the Tsunami in Aceh. They asked why there is no more news about it? what happened? as a good and innocent citizen, I explained how our government works in those kind of cases. LOL. I did not mean to make Indonesian name to be bad in American's mind, But I tried to tell the truth about it. How fast the reaction of our government is in responding those cases. Anyway, The future teachers who came to the International Student Panel were really enthusiastic to hear about our countries. They had no idea how the education system in our countries until we had the discussion. It was really interesting discussion. I felt happy to get the chance to share about Indonesian's government and Indonesian education system.
Anyway, Last week, I had a very tight schedule because last week was International Education Week. From Monday till Thursday all the international students who get the CCIP scholarship participated in International Education Week. My two Indonesian friends (Ryan and Sanny) perfomed Indonesian dance, too bad Agung and I could not join them, because we both do not know how to dance LOL. Although we did not dance, we had discussion panel "International Student Panel" with the American future teachers in our college. Agung (Indonesian), Nayla (Brazilian), Juan (Costa Rica, Kiga (Kenya), Liz (Mexico) and I were the panelists. We were invited by Mr. Hansen to discuss about global issue that affect our country. Mostly we discussed about the education in our country which is totally different with the United States education system. Oh ya, I forgot, when we had the discussion, there were 2 people that asked Agung and I about the Tsunami in Aceh. They asked why there is no more news about it? what happened? as a good and innocent citizen, I explained how our government works in those kind of cases. LOL. I did not mean to make Indonesian name to be bad in American's mind, But I tried to tell the truth about it. How fast the reaction of our government is in responding those cases. Anyway, The future teachers who came to the International Student Panel were really enthusiastic to hear about our countries. They had no idea how the education system in our countries until we had the discussion. It was really interesting discussion. I felt happy to get the chance to share about Indonesian's government and Indonesian education system.
Here are some pictures when we had the panel
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| "Kotak, Pelan-Pelan Saja" |
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| 30 minutes before the attendees came |
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| Therese and Mr. Hansen |
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| Attendees "Future Teachers" |
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| Look how serious they are :D LOL |
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| Agung, Kiga, me, Juan, Nayla and Liza |
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| Wif Therese and Juan |
The next day, we had International Fashion Show. All 18 of us, from 7 different countries (Brazil, Costa Rica, India, Pakistan, Turkey, Indonesia and Kenya) had short traditional dances with traditional dresses. All the students who came by to the cafeteria gave applause to us. Well, I felt nervous that time haha because I am a grogi person LOL. But that was fun.
So, that's my week activities last week.
Anyway, I have to end my posting here because I have to focus on my assignment LOL
So, I will see you on my next posting inshAllah.
Da Da,
Nur
Friday, November 11, 2011
It's All About Retreats: Girls Retreat
OMG!!! It has been 17 days since I posted something here. I really missed to write every single experience that I passed here but I could not since I had lot of assignments that takes time to finish especially ESL assignment. Let me share what I have done since last two weeks. On 15 of October, I went to the Girls Retreat with all the girls in my group (CCIP group) who are in Arizona. We went there with our best Project Coordinator, Allison and also Janelle Hoffman, one of our lecturers at Scottsdale Community College. We left on Friday, and it took about 2 hours driving. But before we went to Janelle's cabin, we did hiking near Payson. It was really fun because Tahira (Pakistani), Gamze (Turkish), Nayla (Brazilian) and I tried to catch crayfish on the small river. At the first Tahira and Gamze tried but they did not get any crayfish because they were scared of the fish. Then I cam and tried to catch it, and guess how much I got? I cought about ten crayfish :D LOL!! It reminded me about my childhood that I spent in Pasokan when I used to catch small fish near the ocean, I really miss it (Wish I can go back to my childhood and play on the river and ocean LOL).
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