As an
Indonesian especially Balinese which known as the Island of Gods which has a
lot of traditional cultures. There is no doubt that Bali become the most
favorite island in Indonesia. Being a foreigner in Philippines made me realized
that I should know my cultures well, haha! It’s not funny right if other
countries ask about your own culture and you don’t know about it , lmao. There
was a program that held by the CLSU which explored many cultures from other
country that represented by the exchange students. “ASEAN NIGHT” that was the
name of the celebration for the ASIAN 51st founding anniversary of
ASEAN community, since the participants also from the exchange students in CLSU
there were also Chinese and African that also joined the event.
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| ASEAN Night invitation card |
As the
representative of Ganesha University which is Balinese I presented Balinese dance
along with Mandala. It was such an honor to show my own culture to the other
countries. There were Indonesian, Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese etc. that attended
the celebration with their own traditional culture. Each region, each county
and each province present different performance. There were also traditional
culture form Philippines that shown by CLSU students. Such an amazing view
which is “Unity in Diversity”. I learned a lot about other cultures as well as
the beliefs.
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| Keynote speakers giving general information about Philippines |
The
event not merely about the performance but also about the general information
about Philippines which really amazed me. Philippines which different from Indonesia
but has quite the same historical background. I know I like learn new things
especially Philippines when the keynote speakers explain about Philippines. As the
closing from the event the exchange students perform their cultural
performances. “Okay, this is my time to dance” I thought. FYI, I used to dance
when I was in elementary school, since in JHS, SHS and now a college student I was
not dancing anymore. But my fate shows me that I should dance and I can dance
by perform it. That time on August 20 I was dance again from my break. I was so
nervous yet other people in that place were so nice to me, they always shown
their warmth smile to encourage me.
I was
dancing in Philippines in front of many other countries, was that can be called
as goes to international? Haha! I am so happy both because I could do that and
saw the audience applause me. We also had our dinner on the closing event and
guess what, Sir.Gaboy, Ma’am Lalaine and Ma’am Yasmin bought something which is
special for us. BALUT! Yes balut the developing duck embryo that
is boiled and eaten from the shell. I was gave up, I couldn’t eat that. I kept
imagine the shape of the embryo and I eat that the fur, and all of the organ
which is really stressed me. Actually it was good but my imagination said no J
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| Unity in Diversity in CLSU Philippines |
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