Day 5 Indonesia

Today I started the day early and walked to MonumenNational- Monas. The Monas is a tower symbolising the Indoneisan people struggle for independence. On the top of the tower is a flame covered in foil. We had to wait in line for 45mins and then took a lift to the top. At the top you had an amazing view of Jakarta. 

We then took an hour bus trip to a Christian international school- Springfield. At the school we meet other teachers from different schools as well as had a workshop with the teachers from the scjo we are going to connect with. The teachers of St Johns- our new sister school had lots of questions about how schools in New Zealand work, what it looks like in the school and the subjects we cover. I have made links with the teachers at St Johns and we will continue to communcate when I return to New Zealand.

MonumenNational 

MonumenNational 

Jakarta 

View from the top 

Teachers from St Johns, St Frances Xavier.

Tommrow we are flying to Yogyakarta which is in South-central Java. 

Question: How long did it take in line before to wait for the lift to get up to the MonumenNational?

Day 4 Indonesia

Today I traveled in a taxi with two other teachers from St Frances Xavier, Tawa. We meet with teachers and the principal from St John Catholic School. The school has P-K, Primary, Senior Primary and Junior High.

They start the day at 7.30am until 1.30pm. They all spoke English and were very excited to have guests. We got to attend a special assembly they had called Out Reach. They had invited Elderly people for the local rest home to come and attend a special assembly. They children put a show with each year group performing a dance/song. The elderly then responded and sang a song. It was wonderful to see the children showing appreciation and respect towards the older generation.

The teachers of St John are very excited to make connects with our school and this will be a friendship that grows and develops once I return to New Zealand.

St John's the School we are going to make connections with 

Playground

Library 

Computer suite 

Year 5 children 

Canteen 

Computer suite 

St John's is a young school- they have only be open 9 years.

Question: Do some research and find out when our school St Joseph's- Upper Hutt opened and how long we have been a school. 

Day 3 Indonesia

Today we went on a 2 hour bus trip to SD GemalaaAnanda which is a elementary school. They have a model learning approach different to the Typical Indonesian schools.

I was lucky enough to visit 3 classes- grade 1, grade 2. Grade 1 is 7 year olds and grade 2, 8 year olds. The children don't start school until they are 7 years old. 

The children wear uniform like our school. They work in groups and pairs similar to our school. It was great seeing what it was like in an Indoneisa school.

This evening we are going to embassy for a special function 

The front of the school.

The school playground.

Children on the mat

Children colouring in.

Children writing letters to an imaginary friend.

Books 

Reading books.

Keeping their teeth clean at school.

Delicious lunch made for us.

This would not be allowed in New

Zealand but this is how many children trav.

Question 3 Day 3: How long did it take to get to the school on the bus?  

Day 2 Indonesia

Today I meet with all the other teachers from New Zealand. We learnt some basic  greetings like good morning, good afternoon. 

Tommorow is a busy day, we are visiting our first school and then in the evening we will be visiting the embassy. 

Thank you to all those that helped make loom brackets. The children are going to love them when i give them out tommorow.

Day 2: Question: Look at the picture and find the name of the tour on the front of the book.

Day 1 Indonesia

Today I have been settling in, I went to Grand Indoneisa Mall, it is 8 levels high and I got lost five times. 

It is very sticky and hot, imagine being a room with the heater on and that is what it feels like.

The people are very hospbiltiable: you could find the meaning hospbiltiable, new vocab word. So far all the people I have come across are very friendly and helpful.

There are a lot of scooters and it takes a very long time to get from one place to another because there are lots of people are on the road.

New Zealand has a population of around 4million. Now Jakarta, the capital of Indoneisa which is  where I am at the moment has over 4million. So there are more people just in Jakarta than the whole of New Zealand. 

Inside a huge mall.

Traffic jam

Food stalls on the side of the road 

I also went the National Museum and read about the history of Indoneisa. I saw a lot of things similar from Maori and Pasikfia culture. They use to use weaving to make things such as bags. The also made clothes out of bark- like the tapa cloth. I then went for a ride in a Tuk tuk. 

Tomorrow the other teachers from New Zealand will fly into Indonedua, I am looking forward to starting the tour.

Woven bag like a Kete 

Skirt man out of bark from a tree similar to Tapa

Tuk Tuk

Inside a Tuk Tuk 

Man driving the Tuk Tuk. 

I will get a better picture tommorow so you can see what one looks like. 

Day 1 question : Search on Google a tuk tuk, what is a Tuk tuk? 

Sydney stop over

The flight to Sydney was about 3.5hours. I watched the Night of the Museum 3, had fruit and yoghurt for breakfast. I got a few snaps before landing.  Also one of my bag coming off the plane. 

So my trip beginning

So I started the day with waking up at 3am. Check in this morning at 4.30am and I fly out 6.30am. The plane I am on is a Boeing 737-800. This plane will fly to Sydney- Australia and then I will get off this plane and wait in Sydney. 

I then get on a different plane - Airbus A330-200 and this will fly to Jakarta- Indonesia. The time difference is 5 hours so at lunchtime 12pm NZ it will be 5am in Jakarta.

I have a long day of travelling ahead. Planning to read my book, watch some movies an of course sleep.