#1 Week

#1 Day (Monday, January 22, 2018)

The Governor Of Pangasinan Office

       Hello, world !! I woke up in the Philippines now actually at Pangasinan State University Bayambang. This is my first day to start my program and I woke up early cause I need to prepare anything for welcoming ceremony and met with the governor of Pangasinan. For meeting with the governor we use our culture costume. And before it, I and my friends took our breakfast time and the dish is Bangus in Indonesia we usually call it Bandeng. After it, we went to the Capitol cause the governor of Pangasinan office is there. The Capitol was very beautiful the location nearby the beach, place at Lingayen which is famous with fish production, therefore our dish from ma'am Aida it's not far from fish because it's too difficult for looking for a halal food. Just want to tell you, now we are placed at the hotel because the dormitory is occupied by the teacher who has an agenda for a week and we will transfer to the dorm at 29 January my roommate Hanik Siti Marzuqoh from Yogyakarta State University.

SEA TEACHER SQUAD

Inside The Governor Of Pangasinan Office

Welcoming Ceremony

Oh, I forget lets we continue the story, haha, after visiting the Capitol we went to Lingayen Campus and gathered at main building to Opening Ceremony with the President of Pengasingan State University, something shocked me that the president is still young, I think his age is 30 or 32. But the important thing is we got a free lunch, yuhuuu I save my money hahaha J . Then I and my friends sing our song that “Indonesia Raya” and I felt I wanna cry huhu, its too sad sing Indonesia Raya in the other country. So, We saw the performance from PSU students, Pinasu’an is the dance by the candle in the heads dancer, and also owe seen other traditional dance while we ate. We heard a speeches from the president, the coordinator of the program, and also the expectation from the participants, Indonesian speech given by Hanif, a participant from Jambi University. Oh I forgot something, SEAMEO has two programs, first is SEA-TEACHER that I joined that, and second is SEA-TVET and this programs like an international internship for ASEAN. After Opening Ceremony we went to Bayambang Campus to our homestay.

       About the food, especially for us as a Moslem, we need to be careful when we want to buy some food we need to ensure that food is halal. Alhamdulillah, we have maam Aida as a chef for us. She knew that we can’t eat pork, bacon, and everything that’s forbidden for us. And also about the prayer, Philipines, especially in Bayambang, is dominated by Catholic so we can’t hear adzan as a reminder for pray. So we need to know the time for prayer, and Alhamdulillah the people here are tolerance with the other religion especially for us. So when the time is come we just ask them the place that we can pray there. Oke guys that's my first day at the Philippines. Do you still curious about my journey?

See youuuu J