Host Family (Keluarga angkat)

Where do we live in both Canadian Phase and Indonesian Phase in the youth exchange program?

In a house, for sure.

Host Family.

My counterpart and I shared the same house in Canadian and Indonesian Phase, In Canadian phase, we lived with Dr. Evelyn Sutton and Dr. Robert MacDonald. They have two children, our Host Brother James, and our Host sister, Ellen MacDonald. Both of our host parents are doctors. We spent three months together. There is a tradition in our host family, every Sunday, we have a Sunday Supper with relatives. I feel so lucky to be placed in their house, because I could met new people, and I interacted more. We also went to some tourism places, picking apples, picking pumpkin for Haloween, cut the Christmas tree, visiting beautiful places such as Lawrence Beach, Coves, Peggy's Cove, Swiss Air Monument, and so on. I also cooked Indonesian food once, just to introduce Indonesian food for my host family. I am gonna tell you a secret, my host mother baked the most delicious shortbread cookie on earth, I could eat the whole can without feeling guilty :D

In Indonesian Phase, we stayed at Ibu Entin and Bapak Gozali's House. Our host father has a furniture workshop, and working together to manage it with his wife. We have three host siblings, the older daughter named Nuri, the only son named Akmal, and the youngest one named Dewi. They were really nice to us. They also have a Saturday night tradition, which was to buy us food for dinner or dinner's dessert, Martabak (Indonesian pancakes), Sate (Satay), and another traditional food. Sometimes we went to tourism places such as the beach and the market, called Pamengpeuk. We also invited some of our friends, because our host family own an open-back-mini truck that can contain a lot of people, hahahaha. 

I'll explain more under the labels of host family, soon.