CCC Final Retreat: Washington DC Day 1

Evening World,

mmm now I have a good mood to tell the story our last retreat few days ago.

But I am kindda confused where to start LOL.

Anyway, on the 6th of April. My group (18 of us) went for the final retreat that was arranged by the CCC consortium (our best consortium). We flew to Washington D.C. The flight was really tiring because it was almost 6 hours. But since my group is a fun group (in taking pictures LOL) I didn't feel tired because we always made jokes on our way.

Here are the picts we took when we travel to D.C

Indians, Pakistani and Indonesians

lovely Sanchay

see how crazy we are in taking pictures LOL

Lovely Mommy and Kigaa 

From Arizona we got transit to Chicago and then D.C. We arrived in D.C around 2 PM and when we arrived there, Keren, the Northern Virginia coordinator welcomed us at the airport. The transportation (a really huge bus) had been provided for us LOL. But at that time, we had to wait for another friends (16 students from San Francisco). We waited for them for about 30 or 40 minutes, not bad, right? LOL.

see how huge the bus is LOL

Once our friends from San Francisco arrived we all boarded to the hotel where we stayed for 3 days, the Mason Inn Conference and Hotel. We arrived at the hotel at 5 PM and met all the students of Community College Consortium (CCC) from 4 different colleges (Miami Dade College, City College of San Francisco, Northern Virginia and Scottsdale Community College) that we had met before in our Mid-Year retreat in Arizona. It was really good to see them again after 3 months. For those who haven't read my story of Arizona retreat, it is here.  

After dinner, we all were invited to have our first discussion with the Director of CCC, Dr. Syedur. He is such a wise, intelligent, and wonderful leader for us. In this discussion we shared whatever we wanted to discuss including our feeling about this CCI program, also things that we have achieved or things that we are proud of to share with other friends.

Most of us wanted to share everything but too bad we did not have enough time cause we supposed to go to bed earlier since we needed to wake up early morning for the first tour to Abraham Lincoln Memorial, Ford Theater, Newseum,  and the National Archives (where they keep the original Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights), isn't that cool? Everybody was so excited for the next day.

I was actually supposed to go to bed earlier at the first night because did not have chance to get rest but then I decided to meet some of friends that I had chatted with since last few months on Fb and Skype, unfortunately most of them went to bed earlier, so I ended up with some couple of folks that wanted to stay late because of Insomnia LOL.

I really had a good time that night because I could talk with friends from Pakistan, Turkey, India, and Brazil. Also I had chance to talk to Ken, San Francisco's students' coordinator. Alhamdulillah the time that I spent with those folks meant something for me because from the chit-chat, I learnt about them. I guess Allison is right, we will always learn in every minute that we spend we other people, especially with people from another country.

By the way busway,

I will continue the story InshAllah because now I need to get rest.

Have been so busy with Internship, final report for the internship and assignments.
So sibuk ya? LOL

I will share the story of the second day in D.C :)

As always, Sorry for my bad English because I haven't written any paper or essay for about 2 months 

Hope you guys understand what I am trying to say :D Lebay LOL

Ca cao,
have a good night


From Arizona with Love,
Nur

We Made It Happen

Hello World,

Aaawwww WOW WOW!! 

Finally, I think this is the good time for me to share what my group of CCC from 7 different countries had just done here. I know that you all guys knew if my group and I have done lots of volunteer here in Arizona because one of the part of this CCIP program is giving back to the community or helping them by volunteering. 

I also had posted some stories about my volunteer with the Welcome to America Project. If you guys haven't read or don't have any idea about this organization, may be you can visit my old post here. 

So guess what has my group done today???

 Today we had a FUNDRAISER for the refugees who come from all around the world because their origin countries have problems like war and politic problems. So they come here to the United States and get settle and most of them get help from the Welcome to America Project Organization. 

Well actually we had planned this fundraiser since the 3rd or 4th month we got here in the United States. This idea came when we did volunteer with the welcome to America Project by helping the refugees family feel comfort in their new house. Allison, our  wonderful coordinator, helped and encouraged us to do this fundraiser. We had been working on it since October.

Today, everything that we had been working on finally is done and people said it was one of the fantastic events that they have ever attended.

 I know all of you guys might ask me, what did my group and I did in the event and how was it?? Well, too bad that you could not come to the event because in our event which we called "Make It Happen" we had 9 performances from 9 different countries? Isn't that cool? 9 different countries!!! 

We had Costa Rica dance, Samba Dance, Indonesian Harvest Dance and Indonesian Poco-Poco Dance, Thailand Dance, Turkish Dance, India and Pakistani Wedding Ceremony (3 days before the exact wedding day, forgot the name LOL), and some of friends sang Arabic songs and Indian songs. 

Also we had booths of each countries and Tahira and her friends did Henna for the attendees. 

By the way, talking about attendees there were almost 200 attendees came to our event. Can you believe that? and from those 200 attendees plus donation from people who care about the refugees, we got $2.100,00 dollars for the refugees, do you understand my English in here? or want me to make it clear? We got $2,100.00 from this event!!! 

I am so glad and blessed that we finally Made It Happen!!! 

Because we had been working on this event like crazy. Getting food donation, getting all 18 of us to be in the meeting, practicing the dances, and selling the tickets, all the money that we got today is worth for our work for the refugees. 

And everyday I feel  so blessed to have this group as my family because they care about the community here. I never regret that I left everything in my country for this program because everyday, I always learn something, no matter where my feet bring me. 

Thank you to the U.S Department of State who has given my group and I this opportunity to be here in the US. 

And for my group, we MADE IT HAPPEN, Guys!!! 

We pulled our socks up, Guys!!! Yeay!!

I am so proud of you and glad to have you as my team!!!!

Love you all!!! 

Huhuy, since I have talked about what we did today, Now it is time for me to get rest because since last  week, I have been working to get the donation and the sponsorship like burning the candles at both ends just to get their support for our event and for the refugees. 

See ya on my next post and I hope you guys understand my English LOL. 

PS. Here are some of the picts I took from the event:

3 Indonesians (Too bad Agung was busy with the gate LOL)

Gamze (Turkish), Sany (Indonesian) and Jessica (Thailand)

My lovely marketing teacher, Janelle, and Gary Ward (Intro to tourism teacher) 

Tahira was doing Henna for Tiegan (Our teacher's daughter)

People start coming

Indian and Pakistani girls ( I love their dresses) Wish they could give that to me LOL

Ca cao

From Arizona with Love, 

Nur 

Being Green

Evening World, 

How are you doing? 

Haven't written anything since last couple of weeks. I have been very busy with assignments, test, internship, volunteer and of course FACEBOOK!!! LOL!! 

I wanna share what I have learnt this couple of weeks. 

This evening, I wanna talk about what I have learnt in my Hotel Facilities Management Class. Before taking this class, I had no idea how the class would be. One time, I was thinking to cancel the class because I saw the textbook was very complicated AKA it is written in scientific English (I don't really like to read scientific writing) LOL. But I am glad that I did not cancel the class because I learnt a lot from this class. From Sustainability, Greening, Recycling, Reuse, Safety and Security in the Hotel, and lot of terms or knowledge which I did not know before. Honestly, the first class, it seemed too complicated for my friend and I because we both don't have background in the hotel industry (well I just started my Internship in the hotel one week before the class started). So whenever the teacher talked, we just kept quite, listened and took notes, we did not talk until she asked us about our opinion in the class LOL. But since last few weeks, we have been improved (I guess). We tried to participate like normal students LOL and Anw, it is a 2 hours and 44 minutes class and it is on Friday. Gubraks!! Hahaha . . .  

So since the class has been interesting for the couple of weeks, I have started a new habit, I always buy Starbucks Coffee before going to the class because it keeps me awake. My friend, Yermi always likes to pull my legs that I am addicted to coffee these few weeks because he knew that I did not like coffee.

My new addiction every Friday morning

Anyway, that's not the point why I am writing this. Singkat kata, in my Hotel Facilities Management Class, I learn how to become GREEN. I just realized that being GREEN is very important for us and our society. I remembered when I was 10 or 12 years old, I used to see travelers or tourist from Europe traveling in Indonesia and whenever I saw them eating banana or any food, they never threw the peel or the packages of the food on the street or the ocean. For me it was weird because in Indonesia, we don't care with the environment, most of us just throw whatever and wherever we want. Lot of times I asked those travelers or tourists. I asked them the reason why they keep the peel of the banana on their bags instead of throwing it on the ocean or on the street. They told me that it was not good to throw everything in the street or the ocean. But that time, I was so young, I could not understand what they mean. I started to understand about it about 3 or 4 years ago and since the second week I take the Hotel Facilities Management class, I understand more about it. I have promised myself that from now on, InshAllah I will try to be GREEN just like most of the Americans here and I wish I could share about this to my friends and my community in my home country.  Untuk teman-teman di Indonesia, Let's start to do Recycling, Reuse and reduce :) I know we can do it. Being Green is not that difficult as long as we want to safe our environment, community and our future :)

Oh ya, the other thing that I learn from this class was about saving energy. Hahaha too much information to share. But I don't care, I just wanna share whatever I think is gonna be helpful for my friends and my community. 

Do you guys know the electronics or lamps which has icon or which written "ENERGY STAR" on it?

Energy Star Logo for those of you
 who have no idea what I am talking about

I am sure some of us use it, but I am also pretty sure that most of us do not know the meaning of that Energy Star icon . .  . Ssssttttt  . . .  Don't worry  because we are on the same boat LOL, I also did not know about the meaning of the ENERGY STAR until last 2 weeks, until my professor explained about it Hahaha, I know, people might think that it's kind of "Dumb'' not to know about "ENERGY STAR" in this Era.

I will cut to the chase, Energy Star is a Program of US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S Department of Energy. They have this program so people can save and protect our environment, and save our money for the energy usage in our homes, hotels or even offices. This program has started since 90s and now it has been applied not only in the U.S but also all over the world. I used to see the logo of ENERGY STAR in some of the Electronics, Kitchen  appliances and the lamps when I was in Indonesia but when I saw the icon of Energy Star I just ignored it because I had no idea what it was (Plus I never wanted to find out, Ignorance LOL). Lanjut, If people will use the all devices or electronics or lamps which have "Energy Star Icon" it will save energy about 25% to 35%. Doncha guys think it really saves money and energy? You can save your money for the electricity just by using the product which has "Energy Star Logo".  Just imagine if you save 25% to 30% for each month.  .  .

BTW, there are 3 main tips of saving energy which I got from the class. Here they are :

Never ever let your lights on if you don't use it (in bathroom, living room, kitchen or even patio) 

Always turn off the stove when you are done with cooking even you will cook again in 15 or 20 mins. (It's better to turn the stove again after 15 minutes instead of letting the stove on) 

Always turn off your electronic devices (Computer, TV, etc when you don't use it) 

Those three are the main tips. You might think they are common tips, but most of us ignore them or even it never crossed your mind that by doing all these, you save lots of energy at home and your apartment. May be for some people (Especially for us, International Students which get funded by the U.S Dept of State, we just don't care about it because we think that we don't pay the electricity, the agency does, so it is not our problem and it will not effect our monthly stipends LOL . . . Seriously guys, this is the only and the perfect time when we can start to learn from small things because once we get old, it will be SUPER DUPER DIFFICULT for us to start saving energy or being GREEN, so let's start to be more aware about our environment and our society . . . . :)

Well, that's all what I wanted to share for today :) I hope this simple post will be useful for all of us :) 

So I will see you guys when I have time to write or have something to share because now I am super tired, I haven't got rest since this morning. Was too busy with the test, volunteer and walked 2 miles with Christy and now I am ready to see Matthew Gray Gubler. He has been waiting for me. 

Ca Cao, 

From Arizona with Love, 

Nur 

My 24 Birthday Surprised Party!

OMG!!!! 

I don't know how to describe my feeling right now. I feel so surprised, happy, and want to cry .  . . 

My Friends and also my family here gave me a BIG SUPRISE for My BIRTHDAY!!! 

OMG . . . 

First Day of Internship at the Embassy Suites Hotel

WOW!!!! 

Today I had a great experience. As what I have said on my previous post that I got an internship at the Embassy Suites Hotel, one of the Hilton branches. The Internship will be for minimal 80 hours. Every week,  my internship activities will be different because I will do the internship to all departments in the Hotel, from Housekeeping to Front Desk. So I will get lot of experience in Hotel industry itself, not only in one department.

In the morning, at 9, I went for my first internship. The hotel is not that far from my apartment. It just took about 25 mins to get there by bus. I was so excited to start my day especially when I met my supervisor, Joy Grant. She is a really friendly person. She works at the hotel for about 15 years. Now she works as an assistant manager of the Hotel. I spent about few minutes with her and decided that for today my internship will be in Housekeeping department. Joy introduced me to the Housekeeping Supervisor, Cierra. She is from Mexico. 

Since today is my first day, I decided that I want to see, observe and help the people from Housekeeping Department, Room Service. II spent my time from 10 to 2 by helping Alejandro, Cecile, and Lucia, the housekeepers. in Housekeeping there are two divisions. First division is for Over Night Stay and the second one is Check Out. So from 10:00 to 11.15, I helped Cecile  by making the bed, clean the room and do vacuum. Just like my daily activity at my apartments. The only differences was, there were lot of rooms that we had to clean LOL :D. But I had a good time there. Then at 11.15 we had break time from until 12.15 for lunch. 

CCC Mid-Year Retreat: Day 3 and Day 4 Grand Canyon

Evening World,

YAY!!! I got my internship at the Embassy Suites Hotel which is one of Hilton Hotel branches!!! Soooo EXCITED!! LOL

CCC Mid-Year Retreat: Day 1 and 2 Lake Powell

Evening World, 

How are you doing guys? 

Hopefully you all are doing well. 

I cannot wait to tell you my story what I have been doing this week. 

Guess what??? I had a retreat with all the students from Community College Consortium in 3 different sites!!! YAY!!!! 

Vacation in San Francisco: Day 1

Morning world,

how are you doing?

Hufffttt  I haven't posted anything since thanks giving dinner although I promised that I would post the story of my Thanksgiving experience but I was really busy with the tests and all the preparation for the refugee's fundraiser in January which really menyita waktu LOL.

But now I have some time to write what I have been up to since last month. 

Well let's start with my vacation last week.

My best buddy, Juan and I went to San Francisco, California. 

We left on the 17th of December and we came back on the 24th, we actually spent 7 days in San Francisco.

In San Francisco I stayed at Mbak Dede's apartment at the Parkmerced Apartment and Juan, stayed in Mbak Dede's friend's apartment right in front of Mbak Dede's apartment.

We were so lucky because Mbak Dede, Mbak Nining and Mbak Dina helped us a lot by being our guides for few days before we decided to go out alone (just in case if we get lost ROFL).

The first day, we met 4 of Indonesian friends (CCIP participants) who were also traveling to SF. So, 9 of us went to visit Fisherman's Wharf which is one of the most visited tourist attraction in San Francisco. We took lot of pictures there. We also saw one big sea lion. Then after taking lot of pictures there, we decided to go to Downtown and to the Martin Luther King's Memorial garden where we could see the frame of Martin Luther King's popular words behind the 50 feet high and 20 feet wide waterfall. It was really a wonderful place. We spent about 1 hour there just for the pictures. Then we had to say Good-Bye to our friends (Haeril, Syabith, Sosi, and Indah) because they had to leave the next 3 hours.

Mahatma Gandhi Statue (The movie of My Name is Khan was taken in this place)

Perempuan Indonesia :D

at The Martin Luther King Memorial Garden and Waterfall

6 Indonesians and 1 Tico :D

Hard Rock Cafe in Fisherman;s Wharf

Since Juan and I still want to continue our tour, because we thought it was too early to go home at 5, I asked mbak Dede to take us to Indonesian Restaurant. The name of the restaurant is Borobudur Restaurant. OMG!!! I was sooo happy when I saw their menu list. God! They have everything there. From Tempe, Gado-Gado, Fried Rice, and Nasi Padang. I almost jumped because of the menu list. Finally after 6 months live in Arizona without Indonesian restaurant, I finally ate Gado-Gado, Tempe, and Nasi Goreng Seafood. As the first time to visit Indonesian Restaurant, Juan looked confuse with the menu that they have there. I suggested him to eat Gado-Gado but he said it has shrimp (He doesn't like seafood, especially shrimp LOL). But finally he chose Nasi Goreng. The price was not really that expensive for me since I have missed Indonesian food like crazy.

Juan's choice (Nasi Goreng)

My choice (I forgot what's the name LOL)

Tahu and Tempe. Yummy!

After dinner, we went to visit Union Square. Sumpah, Union Square was really wonderful with the Christmas tree. Here is one of the pictures that was taken at the Union Square:

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Juan and the Christmas Tree 

Aren't they wonderful? 

Juan and I actually took lot of pictures there and we wanted to stay longer but Mbak Dede looked so tired, so we decided to go back home (Well, Juan and I came back to the Union Square the next two days lol). We took Muni (the transportation in San Francisco) for about 55 minutes to Mbak Dede's apartment.

That is the story of our first day in SF. I will continue with the next story InshAllah :)

So, see you with another story of our adventure in San Francisco :)

Da , , , Da , ,  

from Buffalo with Love, 

Nur

Get Ready for Thanks Giving

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

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.

Juan and Jorge

YAY I am almost there, I creamed these guys  LOL)

no cheating Juan :D

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

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.

Here are some pictures when we had the panel

"Kotak, Pelan-Pelan Saja"

30 minutes before the attendees came

Therese and Mr. Hansen

Attendees "Future Teachers"

Look how serious they are :D LOL

Agung, Kiga, me, Juan, Nayla and Liza

Wif Therese and Juan

Besides that, the next day, my friends (Ryan, Nayla, Juan, Rosalia, and Moh) had a talent show. They had a wonderful and creative dance ever. For you guys who want to see how wonderful it is,  here is the link. They are awesome.

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

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).

Spanish Course

Hello World,

Guess what?

Today Yermi and I talk about taking Indonesian and Spanish course, YAY!!!!

I am super EXCITED for this course. I actually have tried to learn Spanish from Internet since I was in Indonesia but it did not work because to learn a language, we need to practice and when I learnt on internet, I did not practice at all.

Never Put off till Tomorrow What You Can Do Today

YAY!!!

Finally now I can sit down peacefully because I am done with my English as a Second Language assignment. I had tried to do that homework since two days ago and I just finished it today. I really feel that I can breath at least now because it is just an outline for the comparison and contrast essay. Will be working on the essay next couple of days, but it is okay thou at least I can sleep earlier tonight while some of my friends are working on the assignment now LOL :D

Thanks God, I did not pend to do the assignment like most of my friends do. Last few days, some of them really had fun to do some activities, but I did not have that chance because the assignment was always on my mind whenever I wanted to do fun things :D

I am also so thankful to Juan and Yermi who mostly spent their time with me to do the assignment. Guess what we did when we were working on our assignment? we made lot of jokes at 2AM  and we laughed until tummy got hurt althoug our eyes became red because of sleepless LOL
Thank you Juan and Yermi, you both are amazing friends :)

look at Juan, he seems stressed to read all the information for the assignment LOL

So, today I learnt that I should have never put off things till tomorrow what I can do today. Never wait until the last minutes, it is gonna be late :)


Glad now I have time to see Matthew before sleeping LOL

Hope my assignment will get a good grade tomorrow, fingers crossed x

See ya later, cause Matthew is waiting for me :D

Da . . . Da . .  .

Love,
Nur

Judging People

Hello World!!

I haven’t written anything since last ten days because of lot of work to do from assignment, volunteer, cooking, talking to my bestie etc.

This week I have learnt about judging people. Well, me and my friends in our group who are from Brazil, Costa Rica, India, Pakistan and Turkey had a meeting today with our best project coordinator, Allison. We had discussion about Judging people, and stereotype.

I Hate my Day!!!!

Aaaaaaaaaaaa

I hate my day!!!! I am supposed to be at the meeting of Hospitality Club in campus and for the sake of my stupid slippers I missed the bus.I had to run to get another slippers because it was impossible for me to walk without it. When I got back from my apartment to get the slippers, the bus just left about 5 mins before I reached the bus stop. So, I had to wait for another bus which was supposed to arrive at 2.44, and I waited for one hour and ten minutes but it had never came. After waiting for that long, I decided to go back to my apartment because it was already 3.30 when the bus came. I did not go to attend the meeting since it would be too late to attend the meeting. But I will attend it next month. 

God . . .today is a worst day for me because since last night I have had bad times. Last night, this morning and this afternoon I have cried more than four times. I cried because I miss Welly . .  my bestfriend. . . misss you miss you . .  I wish you were here with me so we could spend time togetherr like before . .  wish we could cook our fave food, play guitar like we used to do and sing unfinished songs  . . . I miss all the time we have been through . . . last night I could not sleep well because I was thinking of you, this morning I cried on the bus because I read your post on my wall on Facebook, and in the class I cried again (but thanks God, no body noticed that. In the bed at 12.10 I cried a looootttt . . .you would never know how bad I cried today . .  and even now I am crying when I am writing this post . .  I do MISSS you so much my bestie  . . . 

I wanted to call you but it is too early in Indonesia, it is 3 AM. . . although I know that you would not mind if I call you, still I do not want to do that . .  I will wait til you are awake . . . 

I love you so much . . . 

I feel so lonely here Ly . . . 

I MISSSSSS YOUUUUUUUUU   :'( 

I promise once I get back, I will visit you . .  because it has been long time since we met . . and may be I will move to Gorontalo instead of staying in Ampana . .  

LOVE YOU Welly . . .  I do . . .  

I am so sorry for all my Mistakes  . . .

Volunteer with Welcome to America Project

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guys,

This morning, I went to do volunteer for refugees. The volunteer is actually arranged byWelcome to America Project. It is a non-profit organization to help refugees to settle in their new home, in the US. here is the story how the WTAP organization started.

Volunteer at Paz de Cristo

Hola me amigos, 

How are you? 

Well here I am perfectly fine, just exhausted because had a loooong day hehe . . . 

But I love my day. Everyday I always have a great experience in here. Today I went to the Paz de Cristo. I had a volunteer there. It is actually a volunteer with my friends (as the group). One of the requirements of the scholarship that I have now is to volunteer maximum 100 hours. I actually have done about 20 hours. 

What Did I Learn Today???

hmmmm lemme think what I have learnt today . .  . 

Hello World!

Akhirnya blog ini jadi juga setelah menghabiskan beberapa menit didepan laptop (haha).

Before writing anything in here, Lemme introduce myself first.