Appreciating diversity of world wide community

by Randy Viryawan (Indonesia)

Making a local connection Indonesia

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This story started when I had to work at the airport particularly on Ngurah Rai Internasional Airport. I'm 20 years boy, still fresh and interested to communicate in English with foreign. For my work contract was 2 days, I decided to stay at hostel in Jimbaran. Why did I choose hostel? Hostel is a place, which we can freely associate with someone new. I got this idea from friend, which had an experience living in hostel. For some people maybe this isn't a nice and charming story. Because I do my travel in my own country. But it has something, which is remarkable for me. It's such an honor to be gregarious with foreign people. I met people who is from Canada, Columbia, France etc. I don't know why, but I feel so happy to share and discuss something with them. We talked about our culture, habit and many more. I have gotten new knowledge from there. First, I came up with a daily topic, trying to speak with a girl from Canada. And she knew very well when I was wrong placing my verb. I used verb 1 to ask something in the past with her. I'm so embarrased to screw up the conversation. But it's okay, I know if we never made a mistake, we would just stuck at one point. Like a machine that detect heart beating in a hospital. Just like one straight line all the time. I don't want to be like that. After ending my conversation with her, I met a man from France. He admited that he had the same problem with me. Sometimes he forget about the grammar rule in English but it doesn't matter with him. We made such a great conversation at that night. We spoke about each other culture and a lot of funny things that we did. From that experience, I'm so motivated to learn English again and again. Because I know for sure. The bridge, which is built between countries in this world can be connected with English language