Oh my God I've been abandoning this blog for like a year. I'm so
sorry hahaha there have been too many things happening lately, too many
opportunities appeared and dissapeared. But luckily, I managed to grab
one :p after passing the selections, I have been accepted as a participant of The 2013 STISS Program in Seoul,
Korea! I am going to depart soon in June. But that's another story. For
now I will continue my postponed story about my journey in Thailand last
year. So... here we go. Oh btw, since there's too much to tell and it
would take ages to finish, I will just copy some interesting parts of my
journal when I was in Thailand and paste them here. Alright alright
DAY 3
(Monday 2)
I met the
teachers of Watpreampreech school! And there was one teacher that always helped
me (even until now) that is the english teacher named Ms Jia. I called her Kru
Jia (Kun Kru or Kru means teacher in Thai) and the students called me Kun Kru
Hafizh hahahah.
with Kru Jia
My (Thai) Mom!!
This day, I
thought I would start teaching at Watpreampreech school but turned out the
teacher took me to Andres and Papi’s school just in case someday I feel lonely
I will be able to go there by myself. Before going there, he told me some
information about our school, how we learned thru the satelite, how the
students have to clean the school every morning, and all that. He also taught me
about the money used in Thailand, the coins and the paper money.
After that
he taught me to take the bus, and motorcycle. I wrote all those instructions
down in my notebook so I could remember them.
So.... their school’s name was Wathamnavva school (?)
I forgot. I then met Andres and Papi, and we had a little chat, then we had
lunch together with our directors and the teachers of Watsamnavva school. We
had... uhm, kwetiaw. Chicken kwetiaw if I’m not mistaken. Then me and my
director went back to Watpreampreech school. And then I forgot what happened.
Let’s just say the day has ended ._.
DAY 8
(Saturday 7)
UGH today was boring. Since I am staying here alone, I
have no one to spend time with during weekends. Other interns, they already had
plans with their teacher, relatives, and others. PLUS there is no other public
transportation around my dorm, there’s only a bus which only goes to the
market. Soooo I decided to go to this market this afternoon. Oh Ms Jia and Ms
Kun have ever taken me there the day before so I remember how to get there. I
bought broom, mats, food, and other stuff. Then I came back to dorm and did
nothing. Til I realized I still had e-books that havent been read. So I read
e-books until.....around 7 pm, some kids knocked on my door and I let them in.
THEY TAUGHT ME SOME THAI WORDS! HAHA. So they brought a book full with
pictures, they pointed to the pictures, I said the english words, they then
said the thai words, I repeated, and they would say “yes, very good!” hahahaha
so cute and sweet! Until around 9 pm they said goodbye.
DAY 9
(Sunday 8)
Sunday and
dont know what to do. Until at around 8 am these kids came again to my room and
they watched videos in my laptop. At 12 I told them I wanted to sleep and after
saying goodbye they got out of my room. But 1 minute after...... they knocked
on my door and asked me if I wanted fried chicken or grilled chicken (in thai,
of course and it took me long time to understand, I needed to ask my buddy and
my other friend first) I even got helped by some people in a diner near my
dorm. Then after I answered grilled chicken, the kids.......... WENT TO THE
MARKET TO BUY IT FOR ME. I felt so bad cos I felt like I was taking advantage
of them.... They were too kind.
And the
owners of the diner asked me to sit on the chair inside the diner. They gave me
sticky rice, dried squids, grapes, and more sticky rice. Are thai people always
this kind? Haha. Oh and some of them said some melayu words like “terima
kasih”, “jatoh”, and other words hahah I was surprised. Turned out one of them
was Malaysian if I am not mistaken. And after the kids were back from the
market, we went back to my dorm. And they ate all of my cupjok -______- which
were supposed to be my breakfast for the next days.
Theeeen the kids stayed until 4 pm and I said I was
sick and I needed to sleep so they said goodbye, and after they got out of my
room, I cleaned my room first because it was really dirty after the kids ate the
cupjok. Ugh but they were nice kids. After cleaning my room, I took a bath,
then tried to sleep. At around 7 I heard the kids knock on my door but I
continued to sleep because I was reeeeally tired. But at 8.30 pm I let them in
until 10 pm and I said I wanted to sleep again because the next day we all need
to get up early for school.
DAY 12
(Wednesday 11)
I threatened some boys from grade 9 today. They came
late and I said next time they came late again they would die and I would make
their life miserable. Fortunately they laughed. But honestly I was a bit
serious hahah jk. Oh btw, ONE LITTLE BOY FROM GRADE 3 GAVE ME A PIECE OF PAPER
and there was a writing on it saying “Love kun kru Hafizh” HAHAH sweet. oh, my
director cancelled my last class, because I need to go to Lotus dept store to
buy necessary things so I could survive another week here. Cool.
DAY 15
(Saturday 14)
Planning to
go to future park today. Okay I thought
future park was part of ayutthaya but turned out it wasnt. And I just
knew this when I had already been in the bus heading for future park hahah. I
arrived at future park, directly went to a camera store, bought this Panasonic Lumix TZ 20 which was actually
13990 baht but then I got discount so it was only 8990 baht. Then I bought a
16gb-memory card too so the total was 9580 baht. Then I realized I was starving
so I went to a curry restaurant, ordered chicken curry while waiting for my
buddy, Nan, who said would pick me up at future park. After eating I went to a
bookstore, read some part of catching fire then Nan told me she had been at the
parking lot. Then I went there, and found her with her sister and her
girlfriend.
Theeeen we went to a cinema, and watched the amazing spiderman. Actually
after watching the movie Nan told me that her sister and her gf wanted to take
me to a....pub? but then I decided not to go bcs the next day I would go to the
floating market with kru jia therfore I needed to charge my energy. Sooo then
we headed for someplace to have for dinner. Arroi. After dropping nan’s
sister’s gf at her house we went to Nan’s house and I stayed there for a night.
OKAY I gotta say this. Im so happy being at her house
cause that day I had a really good sleep cause the room was super comfortable (it
was nan’s brother’s) and the bathroom was great too haha. Nan’s family was also
very nice, theyre kind and friendly. Finally met people who speak english :”)
DAY 16
(Sunday 15)
After having
pasta for breakfast, Nan and her sister took me to hualomphong railway station
to meet Kru Jia. We went there by MRT. So then after thanking Nan and her
sister we said goodbye to each other. Here I met Kru Jia and her boyfriend.
From hualomphong station we went to Ayutthaya station by train, of course. Oh
and when the train stopped at Chiangraknoi station, Kru kun joined us.
We went to
Ayothaya Floating market! Nice place. After having lunch there (btw the fish we
had was sooo big) we went shopping around the market. The market was huge, lots
of place to shop. There were bags, keychains, hats, t-shirts, food, drinks, I
think we can find everything there. I found the things I wanted for my friends
in indonesia. I bought pin too for my sister. I also bought a hat cause it was
extremely hotttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt i was sweating like a pig.
Liat deh sinar mataharinya sampe bikin kayunya putih saking panasnya
Sunny day~
There was a
show too at the floating market. But we didnt watch it because it was in thai
and I wouldnt understand a word. Oh there was a part of the show where some of
the performers got on a boat and went round the market. I took their photos and
one of them confidently pointed to my camera and gave me a pose hahaha. And
then we bought ice cream, and other food.
Part of the show
Es krim!
Then we went
back to ayutthaya station and had to wait cos the train was delayed for one
hour......... hffft. And finally after arriving at chiang rak station, we took
the bus and said goodbye to each other.
DAY 17
(Monday 16)
As usual, I
teach. But when teaching the 7th graders, suddenly there was an annoucement (in
Thai, at first I dont understand but I heard some kids scream after hearing the
announcement). Turned out, there was a disease at the school. Hand-foot
disease. Then after lunch, the students were immediately sent home ANDDDDDD kru
jia told me that the school would be off for the rest of the week.
.............should
I be happy or sad? On one hand, its good to have some days off but on the other
hand, I dont know what to do. Hhhmmmm.
When I told
my buddy about this, she then told Vit (another friend from ABAC) and then Vit
bbm me offering me to join her and her friends to go to chinatown on Thursday.
OK WHY NOT. Haha thank you vit and nan!
DAY 18
(Tuesday 17)
Today I went
to school cause the previous day kru jia said that I needed to come to have
some more details about the school condition. Then I waited for 1 hour playing
crazy taxi and downloading movies until kru jia said that she, with kru kun,
kru sengasi, kru cek, will take me travelling around ayutthaya that day!!!
Ahhaha
Then I asked
for permission to put my laptop at my dorm first and also to take my camera
with me. Thennnnnnnnnnnnn we went to ayutthaya historical study center! We
arrived at a circle room with the lcd monitor on the round wall, and a movie
about history of ayutthaya was played. It was a 360 degree movie haha cool!
Then we went to another room that had lots of historical things in ayutthaya.
Coolououoo.
Ayutthaya Historical Study Center
After that
we went to some temples and local markets! Bought ice cream, took photos, fun.
But really hot that we had to cover ourselves with umbrellas hahaha.
Then we went
to another market to buy me a shirt, that was a uniform for all teachers and
students in ayutthaya. I will use the shirt on Friday at the seminar at
chantaburi, with another interns and their school directors. Kru jia said that
although the name was “seminar”, we would actually travel at chantaburi haha.
Anyways, I cant wait for meeting my friends there.
After that
we went to a restaurant called good view. It was a floating restaurant on chao
praya river. The view was good, thats why its called good view. Here we laughed
at stuff, kru sengasi asked me to call her mom. Sweet! Haha she’s a funny
woman, she’s 59 but she looked like 40-ish cos she didnt have white hair at
all. they asked me about my family and house and then I showed them the photos.
Good moments. Im gonna miss them when Im back home.
Then we went back to school and we said goodbye and
thanking each other. Funnn.
DAY 20
(Thursday 19)
OHHHHHHH SO
EXHAUSTED. BUT I AM SOOO HAPPY. Today I met Vit and her friends at bangkok! So
i tried to get to Chiangraknoi Station at 7 and I took the train, then I arrived
at Hualomphong at 9.15. I ran to the mrt station, went to Sukhumvit, then went
to bts station, went to chitlom, and I met Vit and her friends from Vietnam in
front of big C at central world. You know what I am quite proud of myself for
making it from Ayutthaya alone ha ha.
Soooo first
we went to a royal palace in bangkok (I forgot the exact name), IT WAS HUUUGE
and beautiful! Exhausting. But fun. Oh btw I didnt wear trouser and I wasnt
allowed to get in, so me and one of Vit’s friends named Trang went to borrow
the trouser first, then we bought the ticket and we got in. We took a lot of
photos. oh there was a miniature of angkor wat! It was made with amazing
details. Other buildings were also really cool, like it was all made of gold (I
dont know whether it actually was made of gold or not, but the color was golden
and shinyyyy) then we saw the house of the king, which was really big, but no
one was allowed to get in. Yah maybe to keep it clean.
After that
we went to chinatown. We went to some temples, and we got 2 lucky charms! Vit
said that we were so lucky to have them. The lucky charms were given by the
monks themselves, and one of the reasons why we were so lucky to have these is
because the monks rarely stop to give the bracelet. They usually pray for long
long long time, and just stop for a while to give the bracelets to people. And
we got 2! How lucky.
Then we went
to another temple, we got a number randomly, and each number had its own
forecast. Mine said that I would have to live in another country because it
would be difficult for me to find a job in indonesia. I also would marry a girl
from another country hahaha. I might not believe it but it was fun to know such
things.
After that
we had lunch, then I said goodbye to all of them. Before I went back, Vit gave
me a keychain! Silver elephant. Cool. Then I went back to hualomphon train
station and went straight back to my dorm. TIRED.
DAY 21 (Friday 20)
Hah I got up
early because I needed to wait for Kru Cek to pick me up to join a seminar in
Chanthaburi. So at around 5.30 I was already at school, waiting with uncle koh
and his friend. At 6 Kru Cek came and took us to a place in front of bang pa in
market, where I found albert asif victoria and april. Yeay finally, people who
speak english.
Then then we
got in the bus. Albert and Asif were in the 1st floor of the bus and April
Victoria and me were in the 2nd. April and Victoria introduced me to one of
their teachers at their school, P’Ay! She was my chairmate during this trip.
She was.....trendy haha she’s kind and fun.
p'ay!
Okay so
first we went to... a school in Chantaburi, an elementary school. Some people
talked about something in Thai and of course me and my friends didnt understand
so we sat in a circle and talked about random things, teased each others, and
all.
Oh! I almost
forgot, here, I met some people from adinda and crystal’s schools. They wore
hijab. They were kind and fun. And they were fasting that day. I only can
remember one name: Da. Other names, I cant remember :”’)
Oh after
that we went to one place which had a beach so we went to the beach and did
nothing, took some photos and were told to listen to a presentation but me and
the others knew it would be boring so we decided not to come in. So we just sat
in front of the building and...... asked each other “so we just wait here?”
like a thousand times. Then finally the presentation was over and everybody had
lunch. Not lunch, it was a cake. But delicious.
After that
we went to some kind of sea world, but so small. We just came to see some fish
in some tanks and then we went to another place.
And FINALLY,
we got to the resort where we would stay at night. It was located near a beach.
So after arriving, i changed my clothes and then went to the beach with the
others. We played for a while then april victoria asif and albert bought some
beers :/ me adinda and crystal decided to go back to the beach and stayed there
for some minutes. After that we went back to our room to take a shower. Then we
came back to have dinnerrrrrrrr.
the drunken! haha look at albert's red face, it matches his tshirt.
While we
were having dinner, some teachers went up the stage in front of us and sang
some thai songs. The dinner was good for me. Seafood, I love seafood. Asif
couldnt eat because he never had seafood in his country, he only had fish, not
prawns, squids, and other seafood. So he stopped eating and went somewhere to
continue drinking with april victoria and albert.
Me adinda
and crystal went checking them cause we were afraid they were too drunk and
couldnt come back to their room. But they were fine so we got back to the dinner
place. OH, and Adinda and Crystal were forced to sing! Haha adinda sang thai
song and crystal sang chinese. Coooool. Then all of us danced to the songs sang
by the teachers. So fun!!!!!!! Seriously, even the teachers taught us how to do
simple thai dance. Haha I had fun that night. After that we went to our room
and slept.
DAY 22
(Saturday 21)
So I woke up
and packed my bag because we gotta check out at 7 am. Oh I was fasting this day
although I didnt have sahur. So when the others had breakfast, I just sat there
and did nothing. After that, we went to see a dolphin show! The place was like
gelanggang samudra in indonesia but gelanggang samudra was cleaner and looked
more well maintained. Oh the show was really cool, really really cool. I wanna
have a pet dolphin. Hahaha.
After that
we went to see a waterfall. Okay here I almost got lost in a forest hahahahaha.
So instead of taking a normal way to the big waterfall, we saw another way
named “nature trail” and we took that way. We thought that way would also lead
us to the waterfall but then we got really exhausted and we couldnt decide
where the right direction was anymore so we went back to the normal way. Okay
you know I was fasting and the nature trail was full of rocks and we jumped
here and there, I was sweating, I couldnt control my breath. Haaaaah. But then
we arrived at the waterfall and IT WAS SO COLD I WAS SO HAPPY. Huhu I was
exhausted.
And then we
headed somewhere for lunch.......... since I was fasting I then went to a store
with Kru Da and others because they were also fasting. I bought lots of
sweetened fruit. Then we went back to the school but we had to stop for
dinner first at around 4 pm. I decided to wait at the bus because I as so tired
and I couldnt eat anyway. After that we got back to school. Huhu. Fun,but
exhausting.
SEGITU DULU YAH PANJANG BENER ENEEEE. lanjut ke part 3 yaah
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