Indonesia Cultural Camp 2014 - Alternative Project

Let's start understanding, let's spread positive energy, let's build peace!

March 6-13th, 2014, I joined a cultural study camp held in Yogyakarta by Japanese NGO - Alternative Project. This project's participants were five Indonesian students (from Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia) and eight Japanese students (from Nippon Bunri University, Japan). In this project, we did some cultural activities like Indonesian religion workshop, contemporary puppet making, dancing, and playing gamelan (traditional instruments from Indonesia). We also had voluntary work in an elementary school - Sanggar Anak Alam - to teach Japanese dancing and cooking.

What I've learned from this camp was: STOP PREJUDICE.

Movie #2: Her

The heart is not like a box that gets filled up; it expands in size the more you love. Samantha (Her)

I expected nothing when I saw this movie. I didn't browse about it before. I just knew that it won 'Best Original Screenplay' in Academy Awards 2014 so I was sure this movie would not be disappointing. And yes, it was not disappointing at all.

Five days passed when I wrote this post and I still felt like broken-heart girl.

Five days passed and the Moon Song still played over and over again in my head.

As a strong and independent woman (wannabe), I always tried to hold my tears. However, this movie, in its very beginning scene, succeed inviting tears gather in my eyes.