Stories from GYAS 2013
Jan 27-Feb 6 2013
27th
of January, 2013
We arrived safely
at Incheon Int’l Airport in 7am. After immigration checked and baggage claim.
We got a little bit confused about where should we go and where was the other
GYAS team. Then, we were looking for one of GOC that facilitated GYAS, and then
we met Jayoo and we go to the GYAS meeting point. At the meeting point, we met
the other team from Macau, Argentina, Venezuela, and Paraguay. Then, we took a bus to Kensington Flora in 11am. It took 3.5
hours, and we were very tired. So, We slept on the bus.
Then, we arrived at Kensington Flora in 2.30pm. We met Ron
and the GYAS Facilitator. After we got the goodie bag and the jacket, we went
to the store and ate some meals for lunch. We were very tired after 6,5 hours
flight and 3,5 hours buses, so after we went to our room, and then, we slept
there. We didn’t remember that we had to come to informal dinner in 6pm. We
woke up at 6pm and we rushed to come to Informal Dinner. We were late for
Informal Dinner. That’s how tired were we.
28th of January, 2013
In the next day, we woke up
earlier to prevent come late again. In the Odaesan Hall, we met Bahamas Team
and Philippines Team. We sat together with those team. In the first session, we
had to show the stereotypes from each countries or region. We prepared for our
culture and tradition. After we looked the other team, they showed one of their
culture in a skit. I think Indonesia had to show a skit too. I asked Kemal and
Ono to did one of our culture in Idul Fitri named “Sungkem”. All team showed
their culture, and all of the culture was awesome. The meaning of that activity
is by the different location and different culture, we went in the same place
and looked that difference by the similar side. Because by our difference, we
had one mission, to change the world.
In the second session, we drawed
the meaning of inclusive and what Special Olympics mean to you. We did it well.
Kemal drawed the meaning of Inclusive for himself in Indonesian. Unfortunately,
we didn’t take any picture of that. After that, we made something like mailbox.
It’s for send e-mail to someone in GYAS. And we wrote down our expectations for
next 10 days.
After lunch, we practiced our
Gangnam Style Dance for Global Youth Rally. For your info, Kemal loved Gangnam
Style very much. Kemal and I were very excited for that. The practice was
interesting, we practice Gangnam Style and we did some Friendly activities that
we had to go anywhere and when we met somebody we had to say hello and say your
name. Sometimes, said hello and clap, said hello and hug,. That was awesome.
All participant were very happy, but the Chaperone didn’t happy because they
had a Chaperone Meeting. After that, we went to the outside and of course we
played snow. For other team, playes with snow is normal, but for us, that’s
amazing beacuse that was the first time for us to see the snow. Awesome.....
We went to our room and took some
rests, after that we had a dinner with special guests, such as Mrs. Park VP
UNICEF Korea and SOI Board Member Ray Lane and Stephanie Lane. Their speeches
was awesome, very motivated. Love it.....
29th of January, 2013
In this day, we got Session 3, 4,
5 and 6. In Sessions 3 and 4, the facilitators and co-leaders showed the
presentation about Social Network and how to share about Special Olympics on
the Social Network. In session 5, we answered some questions, such as what was
going well, how to make it better, but we answered it from one table to the
other table, different table could be different friends. That’s cool.
After that, in Session 6 we had a
special guest, that was Mrs. Park and Mr. Wilfried Lemke. I remember his saying
"When someone is excluded, take them into
the group" and "When
someone is suffering, or having a problem, say 'I want to help you --
Partnership "
After that, we went to Alpensia
Concert Hall and watched Opening Ceremony whoaaaa..... That was amazing.
30th of January, 2013
In this day, we weren’t GYS
Participant. We were Special Olympics Reporter. That’s cool, wasn’t it? We interviewed
2 athletes from Speed Skating. They were Stephanie Cook from Canada and
Dominique from Netherland. They said that they were very proud because they can
took part in 2013 World Winter Games. They also were very happy beacause they
could see the amazing opening ceremony lively. They were very happy.
At the night, we had fun
together. Cultural Sharing... whoaaa.... That’s awesome..... We showed one of
our traditional dance named Poco-Poco. You can see that in the video GYAS
Cultural Sharing. Love It...
31st of January, 2013
In this day, we had the session
that we discussed about what does Project UNIFY and Social Inclusion look like?
We had a discussion with Romania Team and Bahamas Team. We shared our
experience about Project UNIFY in each country. After that, the facilitator
gave us a blank chart with 3 categories, such as Social Inclusion, Physical
Inclusion and Exclusion. With 20 options, we chose which category it belonged
to. That’s exciting, because we did something, we would get boring if we just
hear and didn’t do anything.
After that, we went to Alpensia
and we went to Festival Village and saw the alpine skiing, then we played the
snow, throwed snowball to other person. That’s cool. And then, we went to Music
Tent for preparation of Global Youth Rally. Global Youth Rally was absolutely
awesome. Kemal, Stanley and I were at the front of the stage when the Korean
Band were singing. We just jumped together and had fun together even we didn’t
know what was the song and what was the meaning. Over all, Global Youth Rally
was very amazing.
1st of February, 2013
At Session 9, we did The Wagon Wheel Protocol. That was where
chairs are lined up in a circle facing outward. Another line of chairs face
those preexisting chairs, so that, each chair has another across from it.When a
question posed, the pair does quick introductions and discussed the question.
When switch, people in one row, would move to either left or right and sitting
with a new person. We discussed the question and sharing what one learned from
the previous person. That’s exciting, wasn’t it?
After that, we had a webinar....
Even we got the connections problem between us, we still can shared our
experiences at Korea with my schoolmates in Jakarta. That’s pretty good.
In the schedule, we should go to Alpensia.
But, I don’t know why we just stayed in Kensington and saw the drama from
Oregon, California, Romania, and Italy. The drama is funny and very entertained
us. Then, we discuss about Co-Chairs Nominations from each regions. We didn’t
make any decision yet. Then, we saw the video from team that went to Young
Athletes Program. In the night, we had a talent show that all participant had
fun and happy there. We danced together, sang together, whoow that’s
awesome....
2nd of February, 2013
At this day, we had travel to
Gangneung Community. First, we went to “Charmsory Gramophone Museum”. Kemal
took a lot of pictures there. We were very excited about Gramophone Museum and
also we went to Edison Science Museum. That’s interesting...
After that, we had lunch at
Traditional Korean Restaurant.... I miss Bulgogi..... Then, we went to the
Traditional Cultural Korean House. The house was very unique, because man and
woman live separately. Then, we went to the market and Ono bought Taekwondo
uniform for his son. We also tried some Korean market foods....
In the night, we went to the
waterpark. Before we went swim, we had dinner there. Unfortunately, they just
had pork menu for dinner. After discussed with another Moslem team, we decided
to just ate French Fries..... Then, we went swim. The waterpark is indoor and
the water is warm.... In the first, Kemal afraid to tried the river. After I
encouraged him, finally he tried the river two rounds.... Kemal also tried the
wave pool. While Kemal enjoyed the wavepool, I tried the slide and I met Tim
Shriver... They just have three slides opened in Winter. I have tried all.
That’s pretty awesome...
3rd of February, 2013
We went to Gangneung and we saw
Floor Hockey, after we saw our friend that played in Unified Floor Hockey.
After we saw Unified Floor Hockey, we went to Healthy Athlete Screening. Kemal
got his new eyeglasses. I got new sunglasses and skipper. And also we met the
Indonesian Athlete in Healthy Athlete Screening. Lilyanto very happy because in
the previous day he got a gold medal from Snowshoeing. He called me and he said
that he got gold and I congratulated him and the other athlete. They all were
very happy.
In the night, we had dinner and
Gift Exchange with Native Attire. Ono worn beskap the traditional clothes from
Java, Kemal worn the traditional clothes from Padang, West Sumatra, and I worn
the traditional clothes from Bali, also with rice on my forehead. South Africa
team just worn short. Kenya team worn their traditional clothes that doesn’t
suitable for winter. Serbia team worn their unique clothes, with also unique
socks and shoes. All teams worn their traditional and unique clothes. That’s
cool. After that, we show Ron video for him, because that GYAS was the last for
Ron. So, we gave him the video of “Thank You Ron” from our native languages...
That’s amazing...
4th of February, 2013
At this day, we had 4 sessions
and we took the leadership at 2 sessions. First, we had the presentation for Sessions
11 about EKS Day. And in Sessions 14, we presented about partnership between
Mattel and SOIna.
In the night, we went to Bowling
Center and we had fun there. Kemal also played game there. We all had fun
there....
5th of February, 2013
This is the last day we had time
in Korea for GYAS. First, we elected the new Co-Chairs that come from
Asia-Pacific, that’s Philippines. We congratulated them, and Raine make a video
to congratulated the new Co-Chairs. After the election, we had a Trade Fair. We
create our plan and wrote it down on the paper. We were the second group, the
first group sell their idea, and the second group ask them some questions.
After 20 minutes, switched and we sell our idea.. We had a lot of fun there.
After that, we did some
evaluation for last 10 days GYAS. And we discussed how is it going well, and
how was our expectations. Then, we went to Closing Ceremony and had a lot of
fun there. We saw an incredible moment there. That was absolutely amazing.
6th
of February, 2013
We
were going to go home at this day. We had to take the bus at 6 am. So, we woke
up earlier at the morning. We were at the airport at 10 am, even our flight was
in 3 pm. We used our time in airport to bought souvenirs in airport duty free. Finally,
we arrived at Soekarno Hatta Int’l Airport, and met Mrs. Pudji who wait for us.
After
that absolutely wonderful things we did there. We have learnt a lot of things,
we knew that we went there to make a dignity revolution, we have learnt, that
we as youth have more time to make the revolution, we as leader have to make
things happen. We are the youth leader....We
learnt that the difference barriers between us is not a barriers actually. That
is a bridge for us to make the similarity.
After
we did a lot of amazing thing in 12 days, After we made the friendship between
the other team, After we learnt so many things there, we conclude that our GYAS
in Korea is the most amazing experience ever for us...
Indonesia
GYAS Team : Kemal-Farhan-Sri
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