Big Bad World

                                                                                                courtesy of KodalineVEVO

We go out on our own

It's a big bad world outside
Carrying' our dreams and all that they mean
Trying to make it all worthwhile 
                                                                                - Kodaline

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Starting blog today with Kodaline’s song called Big Bad World, because from now on I’ll be telling you about my journey at Sulawesi, Makassar, Indonesia for a month from the 20^th of January – the 18^th of February. To be honest, when I was leaving Thailand I had no feeling for craving or missing anything but this song could describe my feeling well. Since the name of this song called Big Bad World but the meaning of song is so beautiful. It’s about life with the adventure that you have to be in, and it’s also about trying, and starting to make something new for your life.

On the midst of January, there are 10 university students who are studying faculty of Education at Valaya Alongkorn Rajbhat University from Thailand went to Indonesia for exchanging culture, education and knowledge under the program of The Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO). Thankfully, my friends and I got that opportunity to be an exchange student teacher at Makassar, Indonesia.  There are 8 students from English Education, 1 student from Mathematics Education and the other 1 from Science Education. My name is Eve and I’m studying Faculty of Education at Valaya Alongkorn Rajbhat University under the Royal Patronage. The day I left Thailand was the hardest day ever, because I hadn’t eaten anything all day and all of us had to run all day long for transit the plane. And this was our flight Don Maung > Kula lumpur > Jakarta > Makassar. 

At 9.00 p.m. of local time, we arrived at Sultan Hasanuddin International Airport. As soon as I arrived there I started to smell the cigarette, now my thought loomed into cloudy mood, thinking “oh mine! How come I forgot that they smoke cigarette here? And how can I deal with it? It will be 30 days, I’m definitely going to die here”. But then my though faded away because I saw 2 girls and 1 boy holding the sign said VALAYA ALANKORN RAJABATH. Then all of depressed, exhausted, tired slipped away. We all ran into that group, greeting and introducing to each other. They are the volunteer students from Universitas Negeri Makassar (UNM), Nia, Abe and Amin. Then, they took us to the Hotel where is across the UNM, La Macca Hotel. We met Mr.Yassir for the first time there. He and ma’am Widya were in charge to taking care of us. There were five rooms for us. So, it will be 2 people in one room. I lived with my classmate, Aomsin. So, now she turned to be my roommate. And we finally had something to eat, Instant noodle from the Hotel Mini Mart.

20th January 2016