Grown Up Experience

I have a great opportunity to study and live abroad—mainly in Malaysia. When I was graduated High School in Indonesia, I am continuing my study in Malaysia. Before came to Malaysia, I ever visited here, but I never think that I will study in here. When my mom’s friend introduced me coming to Malaysia, I feel so excited. At the time, my heart thinks that I will live abroad. After came to Malaysia, I need to stand alone with myself; I’m not more mom’s child at all again, I need to grown up. When something happened I need to solve it my self. But, if at home, I just ask to my parents. In Malaysia, want or not want, I need to learn how to cook because outside foods are not suitable for me. I also need to learn how to take care my self, how to together live with strangers.

For me, after come to Malaysia, I have increased my general knowledge. I know what Indians, Westerns and many others kinds of people are. I also know a little bit of Indian culture, Chinese culture, and Malaysian culture in here. It is totally different with what I know before. It helped me learn so much more about everything in their country better than when I was studying from a book. From this journey, my knowledge about this world increase a lot. Travel also is the best way to learn and know many things such as new or different culture, meet new people, going places that I have never been, etc.

For who want to increase knowledge, I suggest that we need to leave our home, our parents, or our family and independent our self. If we just at home, we will never learn how to grown up, take care yourself, and we also will never know about outside world. This is a great experience for me. I will still continued to finished my abroad journey..
Good luck for me.. Hope I can learn more things, and I can be thinking more mature..

Traditional and Modern

Nowadays Most of things such as fashion of clothes, structure of building are changed that is more modern but I think that traditional things are not disappear at all because some of the people still keep follow traditional. In addition, even spirit of people also change to become modern but still have traditional thinking like between my generation and my father of mother’s generation.

I don't think that parents should choose for their children who they are to wed because sometimes the parents themselves could not make those choices and therefore would be making the wrong choice for the child. Actually parents want their children marry with person who has the good background. Sometimes it can make their children become unhappy. I also feel that forcing a child to go to church is also something that needs to be modernized. Sure, you can baptize your child and teach them your religion, but if they grow up and realize they don't want to be a part of the religion, then adapt to it and change; don't alienate simply because you want them to share your beliefs.What people need to understand that tradition will not always be tradition because one major force exists; change? Change will make things modern, and as change keeps rolling through, some of those modern things will become traditional, like carrying a cell phone would be considered traditional in some cultures. Some traditions last, but other succumb to change, and change really doesn't care what traditional is and what modern is.The same can be said about segregation or even slavery; that was a tradition back in the day, and now generation is different, for example: in USA, they have a President who is partially African-American and they live in the country where everyone and anyone is free. I don't mind harmless traditions, but everything changes eventually, where traditions becomes extinct, moderns become traditions, and change becomes moderns.

Starbucks Experience

Starbucks is a famous coffee house in the world. It gives the good situation for people to enjoy coffee and feel relax. On 21st February 2009 (Saturday), the teacher brought my classmates and I go to Starbucks. When I came to Malaysia, this isn’t my first time go to there, but it’s the first time I tasted coffee. Before day, I ever visited twice with my friend but I never ordered coffee. I always ordered Mango Juice, is it funny? Usually people go to Starbucks to drink coffee, but I’m not. I don’t like coffee, so I don’t know what coffee taste is. After this experience, I know it. Even though I don’t like coffee but it is good opportunity to learn about coffee.

When we arrived at Starbucks, the teacher called all of us enter and take a sit, that time inside the cafe sit not only our class, but also other customers. A worker that will explain about Starbucks, he introduced himself first. After that, other worker gave a cappuccino with ice to all of customers. Then I tasted it, when it enter on my mouth, I feel like ice-cream but after on my tongue the sweet of cappuccino less. The lecture explained the coffee species, one is Arabica and other is Robusta. For Starbucks, they use Arabica one. It is the best bean and has high quality. They seek only the finest, richest and most interesting beans. That’s way Starbucks coffee is considering for the customers as the best coffee.

He introduced region which is growing coffee from Latin America, Africa/Arabia and Asia/Pacific. Then we taste the original Espresso, Sumatra, Robusta and Latin America coffee without put sugar. Before I drunk, he teach the four steps of coffee tasting: the first smell, slurp, locate the experience on your tongue and then create a coffee description. After I tasted I find that the four kind of coffees that I drunk have different flavors, but I think same aroma.

The Starbucks also provide the cake, biscuit and foods. Starbucks suggest that some of the foods pair with coffee which is more delicious if you eat together the food. Starbucks not only sell coffee but also have juice. After finish presentation, they give each person one door gift. I was so happy when accept this. The gift is a cup Starbucks and Espresso coffee. But I’m not drink the coffee. I gave to my friend because my friend loves it.

I think that going to Starbucks it’s a good experience, although I don’t like coffee. But I have learned history of Starbuck, how to taste coffee and also that I didn’t know before, whenever just go and try it.