Last Day of YKFS Program

Today is the last day of YKFS program. After spending three weeks in the hamlets, finally they are ready for the farewell party and at this moment, they are still having a party in the Banjaroya village.

Unfortunately i can't join them in the farewell party because it might be my last chance to have a chat with the students from HK and AUS since the HK students will go back to HK by tomorrow night and AUS students will go back to Australia on Saturday.

Anyway, i'm quite satisfied with the results of this program. The students learned a lot from the villagers and they give their contributions back to the villagers as part of their service learning objectives. We had a hearing with the head of the regency this morning and the officials are happy to accepts the recommendations the students gave them. They will proceed with the next action to improve the situations in Banjaroya village.

Visiting Hamlets

This morning, me and some of my supervised students on international field school went to the hamlet that the students will live in for the next 30 days for our pre-initial observations. Some of the students went there using motorcycles and i decided to use my car because i have to make sure that car are able to get there because the luggage of the students will be brought by car anyway.

It took some time to get there because we got lost due to a variety of tracks available and the guide that we got from one of my students were different with what we got when we asked local people there. I guess not only there are so many ways to Rome, we only have a lot of ways to reach Slanden and the surroundings hamlets.

In our way back, we tried alternative route and it seems that it's quite far, but the road was smoother and less curvy. We ended up having lunch at Jejamuran, a local restaurant which is famous of it's mushroom menus.

I think it's a great trip even though we had to ask so many people to get to the destination :)