7th day : The last day of Community Orientation Week

October 17^th 2012,

Since we arrived in Halifax, it was the first day of our COW or Community Orientation Week, in Bahasa Indonesia, we call it, MOS ama lingkungan baru.

That day, Yen and I went to our EAD space, and our supervisor presented the description about each work placement. We chose two best work placement that we prefer, and the supervisor will consider which one is the best for us. I think I chose the Elementary School and Nova Scotia Coral Federation. Well, none of them is my work placement. Lol.

Then we practiced some movement of Saman Dance, some of the Canadian were complaining about how painful their knee was, because of Saman Dance’s sitting position.

We also went to make our own “Spectrum Passport” in Zines Places, called Anchor Archieve, Halifax. It was a cute-overwhelming place, it’s a house, filled with art archieve, such as scrapbook, indie magazines, posters, booklet, and so on. The Zine Place reminds me of my childhood bedroom, because it was filled with posters, magazines, scrapbook, and some handmade decorations.

So each of us had to design a page for our Spectrum Passport. My task was designing the page of Skills and Knowledge. Daphne, the most artistic girl in the team made the cover of our spectrum passport.

Before we dismissed our session that day, Brad and Wilma, our supervisors announced our work partner and our work placement. I got Ariane Michaud as my work partner, and we will volunteering at the Adsum House, a shelter for homeless women and children. Well, the first thing that popped out in my mind was, “Ok, I did not get the work placement that I want, and I don’t know what will I face in this work placement, but well, I am sure my work partner will help me, because she’s older than me and I believe that she’s the cool person to hang out with”

On the way home after we went to Zine Place, Yen and I stopped at Wendy's to have a delicious-salty french fries in the kids meal. We went home, had dinner, and sleep, getting ready for tomorrow, the first day of Volunteering.

6th day : Scavenger hunt and Museums

October 16th 2012,

Early morning, after I prayed, I wrote a message to my Mom. I planned to contact her as wise as possible, because if I contact her often, then I might be having homesick and not enjoying the program. I wrote my journal after I had breakfast. 

Yen and I went to EAD space that day, unfortunately, the other participants and the supervisors already went downtown, so we continue to walk to Theodore Tugboat in Waterfront, Halifax. We had our scavenger game, per counterpart, but Yen and I, plus Ariane and Dhila decided to just stay in Tim Hortons in waterfront, Halifax to find out the answer of those questions. We asked people in there, and some of the question can be answered, but some are not. I even contacted the previous volunteer from my hometown, Daniel, via whatsapp, about where to find this image in Halifax :

yes, do you know this picture? feels like you saw it somewhere?

Unfortunately he did not know what's the answer. The answer still remain a mystery until  someday (I'll write about it later) I found it somewhere in Halifax, accidentally. For the rest of the game, we just chillin' together until the game is over. 

Then some of our friends joined us, Ona, Natasha and Tika

She really enjoyed her coffee..

When the time for scavenger game was over, we went out of Tim Hortons, and took a picture around the waterfront. I got sea sick after I got into the ship, the ship was not moving though, but I was so sick so I have to go to the public washroom to do my number three. gross.

strike a pose with cute little Theo :)

too bad beaver tails is not available that time :(

fake smile. I was nauseous that time. Sea sick sucks.

Then we continued our tour, at the maritime museum of Halifax. Titanic. Halifax and Titanic cannot be separated. We also went to the museum inside pier 21 Well, That day was my first experience to watch hologram movie, about immigrants that came to the promising land, called Canada. I don't have any picture of the hologram movie, because it was forbidden to take any picture during the movie. 

Brad gave us postcard. mom, wait for my postcard, ok, I'll send it soon!!

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