Eheem,
OK, this time I would like to share my best unforgettable experience I ever had :D
1st Chapter - The Gate's Opened
Let me start from the background. On March 2010, Ma'am Falin (my English teacher) said to me that there was a form of Student's Exchange Program from Bina Antarbudaya. At first, I totally surprised that time to hearing that kind of program. I forgot how many sheets that form consist of, but I guarantee it's quite complicating. I took that form, but I just got started to fill it 3 days before the dead line! haha. Then I collected my form within Rp 150.000,- (as postage and register fee).
O ya, this is the Download-able Form of Bina Antarbudaya, you can both check and download it.
:) Especially for the First Grader.
On 9th May 2010, 49 students (including me) of my school , SMA Negeri 8 Pekanbaru and another schools in Pekanbaru took the 1st test. At 8 in the morning, all the candidates entered the hall to hear the speech of our principal. We got the "Tanda Peserta Ujian" (sign of candidates) paper, I had gotten number 213.
There were 3 kinds of test we took.
- General Knowledge Test (but I bet that was not "general" anymore!); In Bahasa
- English Multiple Choices (A lot easier); In English
- Personality Essay (The topics were really strange for me); In Bahasa
And the result was there were 18 students of my school and some candidates from another schools passed it. Alhamdulillah I am included as one of those 18.
2nd Chapter - AFS Gank ; The Second Family
I was feeling so proud when school's committee announced my name and another 17 candidates in front of all the school members at ceremony. But look, the second test was coming soon! From that time, Kak RP, Rizky Putra,(my senior, who is Bina Antarbudaya-Jenesys Program) and another kakak, often do the briefings for us.
But it's not at all, I honestly didn't know well all the others 17 candidates in spite of they are my school mates. From the first meeting, we decided to choose me as the leader (Gosh!). But what made it's unique is my initials is also RP! (same like Kak Rizky Putra who was become a leader in his year), ya I know it's just a coincidence.
The students and the parents started to make the budget funds, rent a bus, was booking a hotel, decided the communication fee & consumptions even made the attendance list -.-". O ya, one more thing was the license to principal since we would take the second test during the semester examinations, it means we had to undergo the supplementary exams.
At 9 o'clock in the evening of 11th June (when the opening ceremony of FIFA world cup 2010, holly crap, I didn't watch it!), we were ready to go to Padang (our chapter, since Pekanbaru is not yet be a chapter).
This is the link for the Information of Padang Chapter ;)
(I remembered that I am the second after Anjani who was coming, while Adli was coming late -.-")
The journey from Pekanbaru to Padang took about 6 to 7 hours (I forgot how much it's exactly). O ya, besides us, the 17-candidate from SMAN 8 Pekanbaru, there was also our friend named Hafiz Oktri Putra from MAN 1 Pekanbaru, he was also one of us; the candidate who passed the first test.
Not many happened on that night besides Anjani and Widya who were capturing the photos of us who are down-on-our-luck, yup our horrible-sleeping face. These are what they had done, good job guys, keep it up !
