Day 2

Day 2 of the trip ~

It the day 2 of our trip to Surabaya and we woke up early in the morning for breakfast

It was our first breakfast at the villa and the food there was good. It a buffet style breakfast and the food choice there was similar to Singapore Nasi Lemak.

 

After breakfast, we went to University Ciputra to start off our program. Here we are at the registration. After the registration, we were all settled down in tables based on our grouping. While seated, I was very anxious to meet the Indonesian students, it was the first time for me going oversea to work with people with other countries.



This is our classroom for the next 3 days and the lady in the picture is the head of ciputra giving us a welcome speech.



After a while, the Indonesian student came in, things was quiet when they came in and slowly, they sit down in their group with our grouping. We will very quiet at first as we did not know each other and we just kept quiet and look around at each other.

After all the Indonesian student has settled in, we played an ice breaking game where we had to introduce other member  of our team to the whole group. After the ice breaking game, we got to know each other better, that's where we started have small conversion.

The Indonesian student speaks limited English and they convers mainly in Indonesian Bahasa. Although they speak limited English, they can understand English perfectly well, its just that when they tries to speak English, they have a hard time forming sentence. Some of them even understand Chinese.

This is my group working on the first thing together, creating the group name and logo. We called ourselves INFINTIY, and our logo consist of a infinity sign, with both countries flags in it and then drawing other feature and the end result looks like a Naruto face.

 



 After the first group work, we went for lunch which is a simple Indonesian meal consists of lamb  meat and some fried seafood.

 

After lunch, the Indonesian student take us on a tour around campus and there we learnt about some of the work they done and how their classroom looks like. The guy seating on the chair is Alfin and the hair he is sitting on is the chair he himself design , one of our group mate he is a funny guy and he always tries to keep the chat going in the group. One funny thing about him is that whenever he talks to us, he will be stuck at a word in English and he will use never mind to cover it up. They also bought us to their library where they have tons of books and also places for student to relax and study.
                    

 

After the tour, we went back to the classroom and each group had a presentation on their logo and name. The first picture shows my group logo and design and the next 2 picture shows the other group design.

                             

                            

  

 

After the name and logo, we went and talked about problem we faced in our everyday life. In the team, we each had to discuss about a few problem that we feel is important and then share it with the other team member. From there we will then vote for the best problem and then we will think of solution to try to solve the problem. Team member from each group will then have to go up on stage and share the problem we have chosen to the whole class. 

 



  

After discussing about problem, we break for dinner. The dinner consist of potato and chicken with their special sauces. After dinner we each talk about what we have learn for the day and how we felt about the people. And the program for the first day had ended .

 

However that's not the end of the day. The Indonesian students wanted to bring us out to play for the night and to bring us for food around the city. The first stop they take us to was a Raman place the place has nice setting and the Raman was good.

 



 Next, they take us to a place where they sell ice cream at the first floor and a bar on the second floor . The ice cream there was awesome even better then gelato in Singapore. We were chatting around in the bar getting to know each other better and we played a game of truth and dare which was very fun.



The last place we went to for the night was a place that allows us to play pool. we booked a few table and someone of us who didn't know how to play pool was learning while some of us played against each other. It was a fun night with lots of laughter.

 

 

There few people who didn't want to play pool was sitting around playing card game which are similar to a game called Dai Dee(Big 2) which we play in Singapore. I joined in with them and we had lots of fun.



 



 After that, we went back to our Villa tired from the day event but happy as we had made new friends in Indonesia