#2 SEA Teacher Project 5th Batch: First Day in Chiang Rai. Orientation, Buddy, and Watching Football2/5/2018 A nice morning from Chiang Rai~ In our first day in Chiang Rai, mrs. Nok will pick us up to the CRRU for orientation and welome from mr. President of CRRU. But, for me, Diah, and Novita have to bring our luggage to the university because our school will pick us up to the hotel. We were introduced by CRRU international affair to the mr. President of CRRU. They gave us a thai name. And my thai name is Ekashaii. They said that it means one and win, i don’t know ha ha ha. After welcome greetings from mr. President of CRRU, we have an orientation class with mr. T. He explained us about tourism place in Chiang Rai, nearest mosque arround our school, and the location of our school. Buddy! We will have a buddy while we are in Thailand. They are a student from CRRU and they will help us while we are in Thailand. My buddy is north, he is english education student from CRRU. Then, buddy picked us up to looking arround CRRU by mini bus. The university is very big and has a lot of good facilities such us football field, basketball hall, library, and has a large garden. . Good bye, delegates! In the afternoon, it was time for me, Diah, and Novita to move to other hotel near by our school. Mrs. Sunny is a coordinatior from Damrongratsongkroh School, picked us up to the hotel and will help us during teaching period in Damrongratsongkroh School. I told to mr. T that there will be a football match in Singha Stadium between Chiangrai United against Bali United. Suddenly, mrs. Sunny took us to the football stadium to bought a ticket match for the evening match. I was shocked because i thought it’s ok if i don’t have chance to watch football because it was our first day. Nice hotel for a month in Thailand! Damrongratsongkroh School gave us a very nice hotel, with a nice service. The owner is very kind. Our room is at 4th floors, and they don’t have any lift to reach the 4th floor. So we have to go upstairs with our luggage. Some exercise in first day. Mrs. Sunny picked us up to the stadium. The atmosphere of the stadium was wonderful. I think we have a different football culture between Indonesia and Thailand. In Thailand, people are very enjoy the match with bring some beer, foods, and people are relax in the stadium. In my place, we are very totally support the team, and we are not allowed to bring a bottle of water. We always shouted every minutes when the game played. In Thailand, they enjoyed the match. Chiang Rai United defeat Bali United with scored 2-0. But i’m still happy with the amazing experience.
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Finnaly ! A time that i waiting for a month comes. It’s my first time i have a travelling abroad. I was very excited to be participated for SEA Teacher Project 5th Batch by SEAMEO. I prepared all things very well from passport, flight ticket, insurance, luggage, and remembering some thai basic words ha ha ha. Sunday, January 22nd 2018. It was time to leaving Bandung. My parents and my sister accompanied me to the shuttle station. The shuttle will pick us up to the airport. . . There are 3 students from Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia who will be a delegates for SEA Teacher Project to Chiang Rai Rajabhat University. Me, Salma (Elemntary Education), and Tias (International Program Science Education). We met at the shuttle station to go together to the airport. The shuttle comes, and time to say goodbye to my family. We arrived at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport at 12 am. It was too early and we have to wait for check in for about 4 hours. Our flight is at 5.35 am, and we will have a transit at Kuala Lumpur before touchdown at Bangkok. But, Salma’s flight was different than me and Tias. Her flights is at 6.30 am and touchdown at Bangkok directly at 10 am. But we will have a same flight from Bangkok to Chiang Rai. I’ve been on plane before, but it when i was 4. So, i still nervous for my second flight in my life. Me and Tias use Malindo air, and we have some breakfast on the plane. We arrived at Kuala Lumpur for connecting transit. We don’t have any time for relaxing at Kuala Lumpur because we have to check in quickly. The location of the terminal from landed to was next fligt was quite far. We rushed to the next terminal and use airport link train. That was cool! Touchdown! Finnally we arrived at Don Mueang airport, Bangkok. The imigration process at the airport was quite long, but the process went smoothly. Then, we met Salma again, with another delegates from UNS, Novita. But, Novita’s flight earlier than our flight because we choose the cheapest ticket flight hahaha. We have about 4 hours to wait our flights to Chiang Rai. We found a halal restaurant at the airport, taking pray, and check in. We are really happy to the airport facilities. They have a clear sign to find muslim prayer, although Thailand is not a muslim majority country.
. . Welcome to Chiang Rai !! We arrived at Chiang Rai at 7 pm. Mrs. Nok, coordinatior of SEA Teacher Project from Chiang Rai Rajabhat University waiting for us. They picked us up to the hotel and meet with another delegates from Indonesia and Philiphines. We went to Seven Eleven together to find something to eat. And me, i tried to bought a sim card and internet data. I spent 30 minutes to bought sim card, because they can’t speak english. I boought tourist sim card with 4.5 GB internet data for a month. After that, the boys in this project have a small talks in my room. Eric from Bantul, Winthrop from Philiphines, and me. We have a shared about our places, discussed some recent topic in Indonesia and Philiphines. Long trip, new journey |
Muhammad RetsaSEA Teacher Project Batch 5th delegates from Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia placed in Chiang Rai Rajabhat University, Thailand Archives
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