My Story in UIC, Philippines: Cultural Differences Unite Us

Different countries, certainly different cultures! I believe all people knew about that, they think that different cultures will caused an inside war, like misunderstanding about any action, talk, thought, and habit of someone. They cannot live a life together, stay in a home together, and in other words mix with each other. And finally will eventually result in a cultural separation. But.......
In UIC, Philippines, rather the culture that unites us, we never assume that different cultures will separate us. There we learned to respect one another, and helped each other. We learned from each other to accept the shortcomings of people, and what I like is, they will never get tired of asking me questions. Everyday, I got the questions of "How are you today? How was your day? Did you sleep well?" and that makes me became more comfortable to be around them.
In our opening ceremony, our dean introduced us about the campus and the school where will be my school to teach. They brought us to go to the basic school to see the condition of the school also to meet with our cooperating teachers. We also went to the Consulate Office to report our arrival as Indonesian citizens there. The next day, we started our class observation and there we met lots of new friends, who were also interns there. We made friends and also introduced ourselves to each other.

Opening Ceremony

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