In this day 15th of August,2019 I woke up early to prepare myself and get ready for my first day in school. Early in the morning I take my breakfast together with Mr. Anies and Mr. Alam, we eat nasi goreng or fried rice, fried egg, tempe and also a coffee. For my first time eating indonesian food I don’t what to expect but when I finally tasted their food I think it’s good but it was so spicy hehehe.
After taking breakfast Mr. Alam and Mr. Fahril accompanied me to go to elementary school to meet my resource teacher. I feel so happy to finally see the school and meet teachers and students too. Mr. Alam and Mr. Fahril leave me in the school so I can have my own time in the school. In the front of hallway of the school I meet Pak Usdani the Head Chairman of the school MI PKP Jakarta Islamic School. I am happy because Pak Usdani know how to communicate in english that is why he easily understand me. I introduced myself by saying my name, my age, where I came from and what school I am from. Together with Pak Usdani we go to the faculty room and I meet some of the teachers of MI PKP. Pak Rusdani leave me in the faculty room for a while and said that he will just call the teacher who will be my resource teacher. I finally meet Pak Alex Akyas my cooperating teacher/mentor for my whole stay in MI PKP. He was very kind and friendly and told me to be friendly too to others. He ask me to introduce myself to other teachers in the teacher’s room and greet them a good morning. Everyone is happy and so nice to me, I think they were so happy to see a new face in the school not only new face but also a new friend from other country.
For my first day Pak Akyas ask me if I am ready to start my journey in MI PKP and without any hesitaion I said yes. He ask me to accompany him to his classes for the day. We go first in class 3A where I was able to observe the class. After Pak Alex done teaching the lesson, he ask me to introduced myself to students. After I came in front of the class everyone was just so excited and so happy to see and hear me talking to them. They ask me a lot of questions and one thing surprised them is my nationality. I told them that I am a Filipino everyone was shocked, they did not know that I am a Filipino because I introduced myself in the language of Indonesia. I was able to go and observe in class 2A and class 2B also where I introduced myself too. For my first day in school everything was so fun and I enjoyed it so much.
After I go back to the dorm I take some rest first and when I go out of my room the Ustad or staff of the dorm ask me too eat dinner together with students. After we take dinner they ask me to introduced myself and they ask me lot of questions about myself, my school and my country too. Talking to them is just so fun, I am an only child so I feel like I have a lot of brothers now. They also told me that we can be brothers and we are now a family. I also teach them English vocabulary that night and I used to teach them every night.
JOHNRELLEMATTHEW 