AOTULE Student Exchange: First Week

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After this story, I got a lot of experiences in the first week. I guessed I can write a novel, haha. I tried to tell about the first week of the AOTULE Student Exchange in this post, except the Homestay Program. I found a lot thing to tell about the homestay so I decided to make a special post… Then let me just continue the story…

Monday

Fang, Gu Yun, and Stephanie at Lab Visit

I woke up at 5 in the morning. Too early, right? I took a bath before subuh praying. I was diligent at the first day 

On this day, we had orientation/introduction to Dean and The Faculty. The Dean didn’t come because of another important activity. The orientation and free lunch were held in the conference room at level 4.  The orientation told us that UM is trying to get more international student, more publications, and higher education for the students. My campus should learn, I thought. After orientation, we were separated into several groups based on our major. The informatic engineering major  is under electrical engineering, so I went with Hwang and Jia Hao as our facilitator to the electrical engineering office  room at level 6. However we didn’t meet the head of electrical engineering major but we did have an interesting conversation Since we didn’t meet the head of electrical engineering, Jia Hao invited us to go to campus mini market. There we met our undergraduate friends.

We went back to conference room then we were divided into several groups again. Groups were supposed to make some performance at the end of the program. My group member were Lawrence, Gu Yun, Minkai, Hwang, Dowan and myself. My group facilitator was Ridhwan who changed his habits time to time from acting-cool to acting-funny. Yet at the end of the program group performance done by a group of students from the same university. The last groups I think were better because we could do any iconic performance representing our university. After forming groups, we had break and visited CADCAM and Biomedical Labs. Then we went outside to exchange money and buy Malaysian hand phone number. Done that

At night, I just got connected to the internet and had chit-chat with Indonesian friend while having dinner. My PC lost of battery and Fang was trying to give some help but I just decided to move back to the room.

Tuesday

group photo with UM symbol

We had lecture in the morning: Moral & Ethics in Engineering by Mr. Baharudin Khalid. I didn’t know why the lecturer seemed to like giving question for Indonesian student, especially me. May be because I use muslim cloth. My English is quite bad, so it took several minutes for me to answer his questions

After lunch,  we had campus touring with Jia Hao and Mahmood as the guides. Then we went to night market. The night market was just like Gasibu market in Bandung. I bought es air mata kucing (cat’s tears ice) and roasted corn. But I tasted a lot of food because my AOTULE friends invite me to eat what they bought together at Kolej’s cafetaria 

Wednesday
A Moral & Ethics in Engineering again by Mr. Baharudin Khalid. After the lecture, we visited electrical and mechanical labs. I didn’t understand about the labs  At the evening 9 pm, we had some games with our facilitators. The first game was pillow-hitting. The rule: we were divided into two groups, there was a curtain between first and second groups, one person of each group had to bring pillow and stand behind the curtain, when the curtain dropped the person behind the curtain had to hit the person from the other group and mention his/her name, the lost person had to move to another group.  The second game was using paper to describe ourselves then the person who took our paper had to find the paper’s  owner. My paper was taken by Kohei and I took Chisato’s paper. Chisato described herself as “I love sleeping” The last game was shooting game. All of us made a circle, one person in the middle of circle shoot one person at the circle. When a person got shoot, he/she had to sit and person who stand on right and left of him/her had to shoot each other. The slower, the looser. The winner of this game was Bryan and everyone had a great night

Thursday
At the morning, post graduate students were supposed to meet the head of study major. Hwang and I were guided by Cher and Chee Lit to visit the electrical engineering office and the laboratory. Since my campus didn’t ask for a credit transfer, I was not supposed to do some research, hehe. We still had enough time after laboratory visit so Hwang, Cher, Chee Lit, and I went to campus bookstore. The bookstore had a lot of new books but I just bought Malaysia map there

Visiting SMART Tunnel

We also spent several minutes sitting in campus garden near engineering faculty and took some photos before having lunch at science faculty. Chee Lit was so kind, at the lunch he treat teh tarik After having lunch, we went back to engineering faculty waiting for the bus. The bus took us to the SMART Tunnel. We got explanation from the SMART Tunnel’s builder about how SMART Tunnel can prevent traffic jam and flooding. I thought my country should learn from the SMART Tunnel’s project.

At evening, we had briefing about Homestay Malay Village at Papitusulem, Sekinchan Selangor. The next day we would go to the village at 11 am so we had to prepare everything during the night and the next morning. Visiting Papitusulem was a great experience for me even though I had visited village about four times before…

… to be continued…

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