Student Exchange!
by
Felly.
- 5:32 AM
I dont know what should I give title to this kind of... event. So basically from Wednesday until Friday we got a chance to accompany the guest from United Christian College (Kowloon East) Hong Kong or UCCKE. They're going to join us in the sixth concert of Petra Youth Orchestra. Previously, I was auditioned for some sorta english skill and they picked 12 Highschooler from PYO to accompany them in 3 days. At Wednesday, it was the last rehearsal before the concert. Before that we should've arrived at Petra 1 SHS at 7, but we arrived at about 8 since I dont know. When I arrived there with fellow A2 students, the UCCKE students were already seated down and listening to some presentation from the Student Leaders (Chelsea, Abraham, Christian, Leony, and Ayunia) about Indonesia and Petra and stuffs.
Then, they move around for the school tour, and we gather at the media room, we're playing a game there called 'Do you like your neighbor?' simply to form a circle and one person inside the circle will ask someone, 'do you like your neighbor?' and if s/he answer no, everyone HAS to move around to search new position. If s/he answer yes, then s/he mention an appearance that s/he don't like, for example like 'but I dont like boys' or 'guys who wear glasses'. Then that person who fitted the criteria must move ASAP, the last person who's seated is the one who must stand in the centre. It's a mad game, like we're having a fight =))
Oh! and I forgot to mention that we were paired into buddies with UCCKE students. Here's the pairing (?)
Me- Cherry, Madeline - Brianna, Hegel-Christie, Tim - JeSu/Chika, John Liu - Mikhael, Bernard - Juan, Eugenie - Josephine, Ayunia - Samuel, Christopher - Kevin, Celline - Joseph, John Yan - Hanna, Geve - honestly i dont know his name (...) Our schedule for Wednesday ends there, sort of. Actually we had practice for like... 7 hours? From 9 AM until 4 PM. And then, we broke a record that day! We had 7 students to be fitted in a car for going back to school. We used to think that it is impossible to do that, since we brings our musical instrument that is quite big. But well, we went home safely anyway even it's not the most comfortable ride home that I ever experience. We managed to fit 2 violoncellos, 2 violin, 3 drum kit (cymbal, snare and what, I'm not sure) and 1 bass guitar. Plus 8 people in a car.
And other notable things is I know that UCCKE buddies are really fun! We already take some selfies, even Eugenie brought her selfie stick/TongSis! =))
Day 2. Concert Day
Before the concert day, the buddies still have to come to A1 for doing some activities with the buddies. First we made batik jumputan. It was fun but kind of.. what, I mean, I got splatter of colours everywhere! Especially the blue colour. The steps of making it's like tie-and-dye, basically tie everything and put marbles inside of them, then when you're doing making the pattern you start to dye them with different colours. then Let them dry. While waiting for the batik to be dry, we're practicing kolintang to play Suwe ora Jamu, We've practiced it before until my hand hurts for a few days. So I teach Cherry how to play it. It's fairly simple actually, they didnt need a very long time to master it. Then, they play the kolintang by themselves, and we're watching, videoing too. And there's nothing left we have to do. While some UCCKE buddies are playing with the kolintang, I learn a game from Christopher and John it's called Jali-jali something (...) basically we have to sing that while a person doing some move and the next person must do follow the previous person after they done it, and it went back like that. It's kind of hard but fun =))
Then we have lunch, it's a fancy one compared to the usual lunch that we have, yep. And then we took off our batik, and let them dry again, then going home. I suppose, but, I didn't go home. None of A2 students did, except Hanna because she can go home via the highway. Me? I went to wait at Jessclyn's house, the one who sat beside me at the concert. It was me, Jess, and Thomas waiting at her house until 3 PM, but we hea-ed too long and we kind of late (?) We didnt manage to do anything beside bath (...)
Ah, it's okay, we still managed to rockss the concert. Not sure sih, but I had fun, even the last note of grand march went wrong, or I messed up a bit in bowing, and other parts (...) BUT REALLY I HAD FUNN. oh, and they use their uniform AND IT''S VERY COOL I MEAN SERIOUSLY. Girls' uniform it's like sailory (?) and they have to tie their hair. AND BOYS UNIFORM THEY HAVE TIE, i'm not sure why i am excited, I think boys in tie (and suit) are somehow hotter .3. Ah, it was a fun night, at the end of the night we also have... *drumrolls* SELFIE SESSION! Oh it's way too much. I know, but it's fun!
It's sad for me because ce Chika and Ce Lid wont be in PYO anymore :( I can still meet them in school, but only for one year through :(
Day 3. (one of) THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE~
We start the day with discussing about schools. I learn that they have PREFECTS in their school. SO COOL, Okay the first thing comes to my mind is Harry Potter prefects, I see that as a very cool, LIKE REALLY COOL. #staph Apparently, John Yan was the head prefects, Christopher is the next head prefect. And Tim Yan and John Liu is a student council member. I learn alot as well about their school, I always see other school is cooler than my own (...)
After that, some practice for the farewell meeting.We sang Count on Me, they play the Kolintang. The Farewell Performance was watched by 1000+ students of Petra 1 SHS! It was held in the auditorium and it's almost full! We also saw performances from A1 band (I heard it's called crossover, Chelsea's and Pricil's band) i quite like it. And also from A1's cheers team. And Mr Kwan also sang Bengawan Solo and it's quite good! How he pronounce it, it's mostly correct! At the end, we had selfie (again!) and took pictures. Then we did lunch, and we depart from A1 to Ciputra Waterpark!
IT WAS FUN! That's all I know. First we went to the little pool with slides and big bucket, then we moved to the towers slide! For about... some time. Lap Sap thing about the Ciputra Waterpark now is we have to pay for the floaters! When I was a kid I dont have to do that :( I rode the green dark tunnel about 5 times? Alone, alone in backward, with Madeline-backwards, with Joseph-Backward, with Juan-Backwards. Okay with juan it's like the worse, I feel like my hairband it's going to release itself from my hair (....) I also rode the yellow open slide about twice, once normal and once backwards. There's also another slide that is short but annoyingly scary (?) just annoying actually because when I reach the water my whole body is in the water making some of the water runs into my nose. Oh and we also did some awesome things in the wave pool, we walk into the very end and hold our hands together to prevent we went to far to the 'beach' side. It waaas funnnn!
And the funnest part is when we did dinner and start our lesson of Cantonese, I learn so much Cantonese interesting words :> and we had a match of Indonesian/Surabayans vs Cantonese 'interesting' words. Even we invent the word hegel, because it's close to heijo? or ci sin, meaning crazy. I feel bad using hegel's name, I feel really sad when they leave :((( Because we just started the whole hegel thing :( But then I'm so glad that the fun didnt end there! We still keep in touch via line, even in a group named 'Are You Hegel?' I literally laugh out loud everyday because of this group =))
we did take more than a hundred selfies. but it's in my phone im soo mager ehehehe.
Then, they move around for the school tour, and we gather at the media room, we're playing a game there called 'Do you like your neighbor?' simply to form a circle and one person inside the circle will ask someone, 'do you like your neighbor?' and if s/he answer no, everyone HAS to move around to search new position. If s/he answer yes, then s/he mention an appearance that s/he don't like, for example like 'but I dont like boys' or 'guys who wear glasses'. Then that person who fitted the criteria must move ASAP, the last person who's seated is the one who must stand in the centre. It's a mad game, like we're having a fight =))
Oh! and I forgot to mention that we were paired into buddies with UCCKE students. Here's the pairing (?)
Me- Cherry, Madeline - Brianna, Hegel-Christie, Tim - JeSu/Chika, John Liu - Mikhael, Bernard - Juan, Eugenie - Josephine, Ayunia - Samuel, Christopher - Kevin, Celline - Joseph, John Yan - Hanna, Geve - honestly i dont know his name (...) Our schedule for Wednesday ends there, sort of. Actually we had practice for like... 7 hours? From 9 AM until 4 PM. And then, we broke a record that day! We had 7 students to be fitted in a car for going back to school. We used to think that it is impossible to do that, since we brings our musical instrument that is quite big. But well, we went home safely anyway even it's not the most comfortable ride home that I ever experience. We managed to fit 2 violoncellos, 2 violin, 3 drum kit (cymbal, snare and what, I'm not sure) and 1 bass guitar. Plus 8 people in a car.
And other notable things is I know that UCCKE buddies are really fun! We already take some selfies, even Eugenie brought her selfie stick/TongSis! =))
Day 2. Concert Day
Before the concert day, the buddies still have to come to A1 for doing some activities with the buddies. First we made batik jumputan. It was fun but kind of.. what, I mean, I got splatter of colours everywhere! Especially the blue colour. The steps of making it's like tie-and-dye, basically tie everything and put marbles inside of them, then when you're doing making the pattern you start to dye them with different colours. then Let them dry. While waiting for the batik to be dry, we're practicing kolintang to play Suwe ora Jamu, We've practiced it before until my hand hurts for a few days. So I teach Cherry how to play it. It's fairly simple actually, they didnt need a very long time to master it. Then, they play the kolintang by themselves, and we're watching, videoing too. And there's nothing left we have to do. While some UCCKE buddies are playing with the kolintang, I learn a game from Christopher and John it's called Jali-jali something (...) basically we have to sing that while a person doing some move and the next person must do follow the previous person after they done it, and it went back like that. It's kind of hard but fun =))
Then we have lunch, it's a fancy one compared to the usual lunch that we have, yep. And then we took off our batik, and let them dry again, then going home. I suppose, but, I didn't go home. None of A2 students did, except Hanna because she can go home via the highway. Me? I went to wait at Jessclyn's house, the one who sat beside me at the concert. It was me, Jess, and Thomas waiting at her house until 3 PM, but we hea-ed too long and we kind of late (?) We didnt manage to do anything beside bath (...)
Ah, it's okay, we still managed to rockss the concert. Not sure sih, but I had fun, even the last note of grand march went wrong, or I messed up a bit in bowing, and other parts (...) BUT REALLY I HAD FUNN. oh, and they use their uniform AND IT''S VERY COOL I MEAN SERIOUSLY. Girls' uniform it's like sailory (?) and they have to tie their hair. AND BOYS UNIFORM THEY HAVE TIE, i'm not sure why i am excited, I think boys in tie (and suit) are somehow hotter .3. Ah, it was a fun night, at the end of the night we also have... *drumrolls* SELFIE SESSION! Oh it's way too much. I know, but it's fun!
It's sad for me because ce Chika and Ce Lid wont be in PYO anymore :( I can still meet them in school, but only for one year through :(
Day 3. (one of) THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE~
We start the day with discussing about schools. I learn that they have PREFECTS in their school. SO COOL, Okay the first thing comes to my mind is Harry Potter prefects, I see that as a very cool, LIKE REALLY COOL. #staph Apparently, John Yan was the head prefects, Christopher is the next head prefect. And Tim Yan and John Liu is a student council member. I learn alot as well about their school, I always see other school is cooler than my own (...)
After that, some practice for the farewell meeting.We sang Count on Me, they play the Kolintang. The Farewell Performance was watched by 1000+ students of Petra 1 SHS! It was held in the auditorium and it's almost full! We also saw performances from A1 band (I heard it's called crossover, Chelsea's and Pricil's band) i quite like it. And also from A1's cheers team. And Mr Kwan also sang Bengawan Solo and it's quite good! How he pronounce it, it's mostly correct! At the end, we had selfie (again!) and took pictures. Then we did lunch, and we depart from A1 to Ciputra Waterpark!
IT WAS FUN! That's all I know. First we went to the little pool with slides and big bucket, then we moved to the towers slide! For about... some time. Lap Sap thing about the Ciputra Waterpark now is we have to pay for the floaters! When I was a kid I dont have to do that :( I rode the green dark tunnel about 5 times? Alone, alone in backward, with Madeline-backwards, with Joseph-Backward, with Juan-Backwards. Okay with juan it's like the worse, I feel like my hairband it's going to release itself from my hair (....) I also rode the yellow open slide about twice, once normal and once backwards. There's also another slide that is short but annoyingly scary (?) just annoying actually because when I reach the water my whole body is in the water making some of the water runs into my nose. Oh and we also did some awesome things in the wave pool, we walk into the very end and hold our hands together to prevent we went to far to the 'beach' side. It waaas funnnn!
And the funnest part is when we did dinner and start our lesson of Cantonese, I learn so much Cantonese interesting words :> and we had a match of Indonesian/Surabayans vs Cantonese 'interesting' words. Even we invent the word hegel, because it's close to heijo? or ci sin, meaning crazy. I feel bad using hegel's name, I feel really sad when they leave :((( Because we just started the whole hegel thing :( But then I'm so glad that the fun didnt end there! We still keep in touch via line, even in a group named 'Are You Hegel?' I literally laugh out loud everyday because of this group =))
we did take more than a hundred selfies. but it's in my phone im soo mager ehehehe.