Hey-hey-hoo~
So this is what I’ve prepared for this last five months.
I was selected to go to Singaporeeeee!
Well, I was chosen by my school, Politeknik Negeri Malang to be one of our representatives to join TF Scale 2 Program in Republic Polytechnic Singapore. Such an honor to me, selected among others great scholars here. My last five months was basically preparing my departure from Malang to learn a lot of things here in Singapore.
On October 5th, 20 students including me were departed from Politeknik Negeri Malang at 9 o’clock by bus to Surabaya, as our flight to Singapore will be from Juanda, straight to Changi Airport. It was a long drive, though. Along with the traffic jam we encountered, it took us two hours to get to Juanda Airport. And it took us another two hours flight to Changi Airport.
Here’s a picture of us when we departed from our school, and one from when we arrived at Changi Airport.
Oh, and not forget to say, we were given a very warm welcome from our new friends from RP. One of the point we come here is to make a lot of new friends. Although we came from different country, different races, and different culture, it’s still fun to learn from each other and thus, we have to learn how to respect others.
These new friends of ours are very nice and friendly. After we greeted each other, they took us to walk around Changi Airport. It’s so vast, and a lot of thing to see. After the walk, we went to RP by bus. It took us about an hours to get to RP. As this is my first time to go overseas, especially to Singapore, my first impression is, wow, there are a LOT of BIG buildings here. Yeah, we also have some big buildings in Indonesia but still, it amazes me that those big buildings surrounded by beautiful road. A road that is not only clean, but also jam-free, it seems. Because everybody seems to take public transportation instead of private vehicles. Besides, most of them are very discipline. I didn’t see any rule breaking on the road till now. In Indonesia, we have lots of motorcycle user who are reckless and dangerous to other road users. So, yeah, we have quite a serious problem back home.
I’m so excited imagining any kind of things we can get here in this awesome country!
October 6th is literally our second day in Singapore, but it’s the first day of our activities here as the day before were used to rest.
I awoke in an unfamiliar room, but where could it be? And then ah, I remember that I’m in Singapore now. In a very nice and neat hostel which is located inside the RP.
One thing that I learn on my first day is. Oh my God, we’re (me and another nineteens student from Malang) late! >.<. It’s a very bad thing to do. So I’ll try not to do that anymore. Anyway, my first agenda is welcome briefing. They arranged our schedules nicely, and it makes me more excited of what will I learn here.
And then, we were guided by some RP students to take a look around RP. My reaction is whaa? It’s very vast. I think I’ll lost if I go around by myself. I think it’s just because I’m not used to it. But seriously, RP’s very big.
After they took us around, we went class to have our first lesson. The thing that we got from first lesson is, we can’t let our very day passed by just like that. We have to learn something new every day. What could it be? It could be anything that improve our self-quality. Oh, and this time we were separated into five teams with mixed members. Some are from RP, some are from Malang, and some are our friends from Politeknik Caltex Riau.
After that, I prayed in the afternoon. This is also one thing I feel thankful, they also give us more than enough time to do our daily prayer. After we did that, we have lunch. We went back to class afterwards to do team presentation of what is our motivation to join this TF Scale Program.
As for myself, I want to join this program to gain more friends, experiences, and have a lot of fun!
I mean, that’s what we do here, right?