1st week outgoing. Well, these are my schedule for my first week in Singapore:
- Arrival in Singapore
- First day of college
- Visit Evergreen and Bollywood Vegie
- Problem identification from the observation in Evergreen
- Workshop by CED and CEC
- Excursion to Marina Barrage
- Going to USS
From the schedule I had, of course I got something new to learn such as how Singaporean live, how the culture and rules which is exist in Singapore, such as:
- Singaporean like to walk. And from the fact I red in the internet that Singaporean is the fastest for walking.
- Singapore have best airport. As expected, the airport is very beautiful, clean, neat and very large.
- Singapore is one of the cleanest country I’ve ever seen. And had an obedient people. Because people in Singapore always obey the government rules.
- Actually, I found something unusual in Singapore, the right side escalator is used for those who want to stay walking. But in Indonesia, there is no different between the left and the right side escalator.
- One that I really amazed about this country is very neat, clean, and full with technology to fulfill their daily needs, like I can found water which can be drink everywhere and it’s free. But in Indonesia, we can’t find water free for drink.
- But one the saddest thing when I’m in Singapore is (as a muslim) very hard to find mosque to pray here. I never heard “adzan” (calling muslim for pray) too.
How did my friends lighted up my day ?
Now, I had so many Singaporean friends. Some of them can speak Malay (almost same with my language “bahasa”). In the first week, after completed the schedule, RP students invited us to go around Singapore, like went to Jurong, we were shopping in there. Also had a dinner together in campus height. Shopping to Bugis, Causeway Point, Woodlands Civic Center. Went to USS also. And we had barbeque party. Those kind of things actually made my day. It was very fun and became unforgettable moments. When we had barbeque party, we share our experiences and unforgettable moments we got, it was very touched when we knew that RP student can’t join us anymore to accompany us in the last week of TF Scale. Then finally we were crying and holding each other before saying “good bye”.
