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COMMUNICATE WITH TWO LANGUAGES: KOREAN ENGLISH AND BODY LANGUAGE For the first time I had interaction with Korean participants in the ship to Kupang, I was a little bit shocked, because not everybody speaks English or if they do, they speak it with Korean dialect, which sometime I didn't understand . It made me wonder, how can I survive, because I'm such a blabby person, who loves to chats. And also, I must admit, that I'm not too patient, whenever I had trouble in communicating, I had less effort to translate in to any language (include body language). Now, I realize that I behaved badly; I should be more patient and give extra effort to speak so that the person I'm talking with understands what I want to say. In that ship, I talked with Br.Lee and Br.Song, but still, I haven't talked out everything inside my mind, and then with Sr.Kang Hye Suk, her major in Korea is Indonesian, so we talked in two languages, Indonesian and English. Hye Suk is funny. Later, on the ship back to Surabaya, Hye Suk told me that on the first time she met me, she said I wasn't a warm person. I'm so sorry. You know why, I was so afraid about my leaving (you know, about politic relation between Indonesia and East Timor), and also because yeah, blame it to my up and down mood!I also talked with Grace, Danielle, Sun Ae, Chul Opa, Paki, Kim Ju Young, Mathias, and some other participants, but not much. (By the way, Hye Suk! How about your plan continuing your school to Universitas Indonesia or Universitas Gadjah Mada? ) I really talked quite much for the first time in Los Palos, there was a meeting to arrange peace school schedule, cooking schedule and QT leading schedule with Thomas, Eric, Frits and Manu Ermundo. At first, I got confused every time Thomas talked; I wondered which language he's using at that time, is it english?(sorry, Thomas!)… It's just… well, I wasn't get used to hear Konglish dialect. So, when Thomas talked, I kept saying," what?" or "pardon?" later even Eric and Kak Jay also using that dialect, for jokes, but it's an exercise for me, coz at the end of the camp, I started to understand :P (wasn't it late? hehe). And now, may be Thomas is a little bit upset, coz I can't stop following the way he talked. During my stay in East Timor, I realized that we didn't have to communicate with words, for example, I communicated with Byeol using little words and soooo many face expressions! (But, Byeol in the last days, we chatted quite a lot, and I understood, why didn't we tried that earlier!…. If we met again, let's chat. And if we have trouble in translating, just give T sign and hope for someone's generosity to translate!) Me and Yuni also got the problem with communication, one day, after Thomas cooked, Yuni ran in to him and said," Thomas! I wanna taste your foot!". Me and Eric grinned, and we both showed our feet, and said,"Go ahead,Yun!". Yuni wanted to say,"Thomas!I wanna taste your food!" but she mispronounced the word food in to foot. :D. She also once said,"Let's buy snake!" well, she mispronounced (again) snack in to snake! Gimana sih, lo Yun!hehehe.. While, I sometime was not focus (especially when I was hungry and sleepy), and when there were meetings, other members had talked a lot, and I said,"yes.. I got it...okay!" but, several minutes later, I'd probably said,"excuse me.. what did you say?" (sorry guys!) Anyway, this language problem really gives me a lesson to concentrate and focus when someone's talking. Gosh, every single experience I faced really made me learn a lot to change. From patience, to controlling mood. Anyway, how many times should I join the Youth Camp so I can be a better me? :D
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