Kindness and How it Goes Back to You

Eight years ago, In 2010, when I just graduated from UNG, I went back to Ampana. Stayed there for almost 1 year. There had been many times I saw most of the tourist guides in Ampana liked to rip off tourist; they had the perception that Europeans, Americans or people from western countries are rich, they would always double the price of something with western people. I tried to help most of the tourists who visited Togean by becoming a "volunteer guide".

I am AMSTERDAM

Dear world,

Today was my first day in Netherland. I live in Utrecht at Airbnb accommodation. I spent my day in Amsterdam. I left the house around 10 AM. It took me around one hour and thirty minutes to arrive in Amsterdam. I visited two famous museums in Amsterdam; Van Gogh museum and Rijk museum. They are very close to each other. I just needed to walk five minutes from Van Gogh to Rijk. I spent about one hour in each museum. Also got time to visit and take pictures at I Amsterdam sign which is an icon of Amsterdam, but the place was too crowded. I even saw so many tourists climbed the sign just so they could take the best pictures on the I Amsterdam sign. As an Indonesian, I know that we also have a culture to climb something but I never knew that people from other countries do the same as we do, I smiled when I saw that.

On My Way to Netherlands

Hello world,

I just came back from Amsterdam! I decided to write again because I know that in the future, this post will remind me about my experience. 

On Wednesday evening I flew from Milan Malpensa Airport at 9.44 PM. During the flight, I was so lucky because I got chance to see sunset. It was really beautiful, I cannot even describe how beautiful it was. One hour flight was not enough for me because I spent my time mostly looking through the plane window. Watching the sunset and the cloud. I love watching cloud as well. 

New Adventure in a Country Where Hospitality Was Born

Dear world,

YES! I just arrived in Switzerland! The country where hospitality was born.

Saat sekarang saya akan melanjutkan kuliah S2 di Swiss dengan jurusan Master of Science in International Hospitality Management di Cesar Ritz Colleges Switzerland dan University of Derby.

Kindness, it was great to see you!

Dear world,

I want to share what I just saw today. Something that made me have a strong believe that nothing is impossible.

Today, I just came back from my hometown. I traveled to and from my hometown, Pasokan, by using boat "Ferry" since it was Eid Ul Fitri last week. It took about  6 to 7 hours to arrive back in Gorontalo.

I had some kind of lessons I learned during my journey which I want to share to anyone who would love to read my post.

My first lesson of Life 

You know, I do not always talk with people like others. When I travel, I mostly spend my time reading books or just stand/sit in one place and watch people around me. But this time, it was different. I traveled with one of a kindhearted people, ka Lulu who is from the same village as me (she is always kind, helping me when I just started my study at the university, and she has wonderful attitude). She invited me to stay with her during our journey, so I did. I was talking to her when another person who is also from our village joined us. I started our conversation by talking about how things are in my village. We talked about how different the village is and how people have changed. We shared about things we face at our workplace, and when Andri, the man who just joined us talked about his experience with his students and the students family, I got really mad to hear his stories. He teaches Senior High School by only getting paid about Rp. 3,000 or equal to 50 cents/hour , can you believe that???

Knocking the Table???!!! Really!!!

Dear my wonderful kids,

Now, I am going to talk about attitude and I know that I have talked about it for 20 times or even more. I decide to write it because I just had something terrible happened here, at my work place.

I was doing my work in front of computer when suddenly the Executive Chef came and asked me " how many extra off do I get from my Manager on Duty schedule last month when I had to work on public holiday?" I answered him and said that I need to check it on my data first.

Wrong is Wrong & Right is Right

Dear my Children, 

This is another lesson I am writing for you. I am writing this for you because as I always tell you "I want you to learn from things I have been through or things I learnt from other people" I want you to learn all these because I hope that you will never face all the problems I had been through. I want you to read my posts carefully because every single post is very important for your future as well.