BAKDES

Hi guys! How are you ? In this post I will tell you about devotional village or commonly called bakdes in my school. Bakdes is my school program where we have to stayed for a few days at the house of local residents to help their daily activities. In this year, Bakdes was held in Cibeureum village, Kertasari sub-district, Bandung on 3rd until 5th of January 2019. Before that, I'm sorry for just posting my bakdes story. Okay, let's start it !

The trip from the school to Cibeureum takes a long time around 3 hours, we used public transportation that has been rented by the school. When arrived at the Cibeureum, all students were collected at the village hall to attend the reception of the village head and and briefing to prepare for stayed at Cibeureum for a few days. After that, all students directed towards home of their adoptive parents. Finally, me, Iryn, Karin, and Fawwazti met our family in Cibeureum. They are Cika, Cika's brother, and their parents. I'm sorry I forgot the name of our parents there because we only called them "mother" and "father". 

On the first day we played with Cika also with her friends there were Fauzia, Muthi, Luthfi, Wika, Windy, and many more. They are very pleasant and also friendly, they were very happy with our presence there. We played to the tea garden and meet crazy people haha. On the way we talked about their daily activities, about their school and many more. In the tea garden we took some photos for memories. Because it was afternoon, and also was raining, plus they had a religious school, we have to go home immediately. Before maghrib, we accompanied Cika's Mother played volleyball and at night the air was really very cold so we just stayed at home for dinner together and helped Cika, Lutfi, and Wika did their homework. That night was a very good sight with good people, finally we go to bed prepared for tomorrow.

Second day. Today can be said to be very busy, we started the day getting up early then made breakfast for Cika's family, even though only corned beef sandwiches we tried to helped and made Cika's family happy. After that, today we will accompany Cika's father to went gardening. But unfortunately Cika decided not to wenr to school and went to garden with us. Really a very long and tiring journey, I couldn't imagine Cika's father have to take the road so far every day. Finally we arrived at the river and played for a while, really a very beautiful sight and refreshing air, we really enjoyed it! After that, we helped harvest the spring onion. Actually it was quite easy, but what's annoyed was a worm! Sorry, I really don't like worms so I can't... after that we walked again to Citarum 0 km, while on the road we took a lots of photos because the scenery was beautiful and the weather was very bright, what a perfect timing! After that we returned home and cleaned ourselves, we ate together with other children who had just returned from school. In the afternoon all students are required to go to the village hall to attend an education and at night we carry out social services for the local community, we gave groceries, decent clothes and books for them. Thesecond day was very tiring but also fun.

There were no activities, we just got ready to go home and enjoy the remaining time with our family at Cibeureum. In the morning we took a walk along with Cika and ate ice cream along the roadside for the last time. Cika asked us to stay longer, but we couldn't. In the afternoon, we began to say goodbye to mother, father, cika and other children, we were very sad and began to cry, they were very happy with us and we were too. It's very happy to meet nice and simple people, lots of lessons we can take while staying with them. Thank you for all, hope we can meet again and hope God protects good people like Cika's family, her friends, and all of Cibeureum's resident. See you..