Bina Antarbudaya, The Indonesian Foundation for Intercultural Learning, partner dari AFS Intercultural Programs, mengundang calon-calon yang memenuhi persyaratan untuk bergabung dalam tim kami di Kantor Nasional Bina Antarbudaya untuk posisi-posisi sebagai berikut :

JUNIOR SECRETARY (SEC)

Junior secretary bertanggung jawab membantu dan memberikan informasi tentang organisasi kepada tamu yang datang ke kantor Bina Antarbudaya maupun melalui telepon Tugas dan tanggung jawab  mencakup :

1. Menerima Tamu / receptionist
2. Menerima, memfilter dan mangarahkan telpon.
3. Menerima dan menyampaikan pesan
4. Memberikan informasi umum kepada penelpon
5. Menjawab pertanyaan dari public atau pelanggan
6. Melakukan administrasi umum dan pendukung
7. Mempersiapkan surat dan dokumen keluar, order pengiriman
8. Menerima dan memilah surat datang dan atau pengiriman
9. Membuat jadwal janji
10. Mengorganisir Rapat
11. Memastikan keluar masuknya staff/volunteers

Persyaratan untuk posisi ini :

• Wanita dengan usia maksimal 25 tahun
• Single/ Belum menikah.
• Pendidikan min. Fresh Graduate atau Minimum 1 tahun pengalaman kerja sebagai Resepsionis, diutamakan D3
• Mampu bekerja di bawah supervisi minimal, pemain tim dan multi tasking.
• Berpenampilan menarik dan memiliki ketrampilan dalam customer service
• Ketrampilan komunikasi lisan dan tulisan yang baik; Bahasa Indonesian dan Inggris.
• Ketrampilan komunikasi dan interpersonal yang baik, diplomatis, komunikatif dan terorganisir
• Mampu menggunakan komputer (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)
• Mampu melakukan tugas-tugas administratif.

PR – Communication and Fund Rising

Responsibilities:

1. Menciptakan citra organisasi dan citra program yang positif melalui presentasi, media cetak, special events, televisi dan segala bentuk media lainnya sehingga Bina Antarbudaya mendapat kepercayaan yang tinggi sebagai organisasi non profit yang profesional dan mendapat dukungan yang kuat dari semua relawan, donor serta stakeholder terkait di dalam maupun di luar negeri
2. Mengumpulkan dana yang cukup untuk operasi, termasuk bantuan bagi siswa yang berpotensi tinggi sebagai pemimpin masa depan tetapi berekonomi lemah dan untuk perkembangan serta pertumbuhan Bina Antarbudaya sebagai organisasi yang merupakan asset nasional yang dapat dikemukakan di Indonesia maupun di dunia international

Requirements:

• Pendidikan min. S1 Marketing Komunikasi atau Public Relation
• mampu menggunakan komputer (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)
• mampu berbahasa Inggris lisan/tulisan.
• Minimum 2 tahun berpengalaman di bidang komunikasi / marketing komunikasi / Public Relation / Marketing
• Ketrampilan interpersonal yang baik, diplomatis, komunikatif dan terorganisir.
• Mampu menangani proyek secara keseluruhan, bekerja mandiri, berkerja dalam kelompok dan tim, dan mampu memanage dan memprioritaskan sejumlah tugas sekaligus.
• Memiliki ketrampilan dalam publikasi/marketing, perencanaan kegiatan dan event.
• Pengetahuan dalam merencanakan dan melaksanakan fundraising.

Bagi yang berminat dan memenuhi kualifikasi tersebut di atas, dapat mengirimkan surat lamaran yang disertai dengan CV/Resume beserta foto dan dokumen pendukung lainnya kepada:

Yayasan Bina Antarbudaya Jl. Limau No.22 Kebayoran Baru Jakarta 12130 atau via email : alvien.bakhtiar@afs.org, CC sri.lestari@afs.org

Hanya calon-calon yang dianggap memenuhi persyaratan yang akan kami hubungi.

The fun part of the day is INTERNATIONAL BAZAAR!!

In this international bazaar, every country is provided with one display booth for the cultural related items such as foods, clothes, souvenirs, and even some countries have their traditional music played during the bazaar. All of the workshops participants came and visited around the country booths and they can ask anything about the country. For Indonesia, we had many things displayed. We arranged kipas batik on the table for the decoration. We also brought lots of foods: keripik tempe, keripik singkong, manisan buah kering, kacang-kacangan. We even had drinks like kopi jahe! The most favorite part from our booth is the opportunity to take picture wearing our traditional clothe. We prepared one traditional clothe for people to try it on and take picture in it. It was very exciting! We also had angklung displayed and played. We also let the participants to try playing it.

Overall we had a lot of people visited our booth and we had a great time sharing Indonesian culture with them. Of course we invited them to the country presentation on Saturday to get more information about Indonesian value-related culture.
The bazaar was the highlight of the day. I also had some times to go around visiting other countries’ booth.
I had such a great time today and looking forward to other activities tomorrow! 

-Widya Ramadhani-

YES alumni – Utah, USA (2008-2009)
 

Lehigh University Global Village Scholarship for YES Alumni is once again available this year! As you’ll recall, this provides a full scholarship for a 6-week program at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania.

Important Highlights:

• Program Dates: June 24 to August 4, 2012
• Application Deadline:  FEBRUARY 15
• ONLY Alumni from the following classes are eligible: 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06, and 2006-07
• Application submitted On-line at: http://www.iacocca-lehigh.org/Iacocca/globalvillage/
• Additional information: www.iacocca-lehigh.org

The Global Village is an applied leadership, cross cultural training program designed for young professionals and experienced students who share the dream of building a leadershipcareer in business and industry, who want to make a positive change in life, and who want to form an active and global network.
Through interactive seminars, networking, business trips, consulting projects, and cultural experiences, Global Village interns learn the tools essential to becoming a successful leader. During the internship, participants will be among a diverse group of 100 interns, coming from more than 35 countries, representing a myriad of cultures, speaking multiple languages, and offering unique perspectives based on the group’s varied educational backgrounds.

YES participants’ tuition and travel will be covered in full and participants will receive a living stipend while on the program.

This continues to be a terrific networking opportunity for YES alumni in business and industry!

Day 1: December 9, 2011

Namigeri
Africa. The word appeared in my mind as soon as the Emirates landed in Accra, Ghana. I breath
the air of Ghana for the first time in my life. Many questions and statements popped up in my
mind: what are the people like, are they nice, what would the weather be like, what will happen
in TOT. After the ‘long’ journey at the airport, due to the problem with the visa, I finally got
to the hotel with other TOT participants and the trainers. Just several coffee talk with others
that I have done since I got to Ghana. The talks, however, already lightened up my perspective
about the world and Ghana in particular. The first day I arrived, I knew that Ghana is similar to
Indonesia in terms of the traffic, people selling things in the traffic lights, and the weather as
well. The process of getting knowledge did not end there, it continued to the second day which
was the first session of TOT.
The opening of the TOT was wonderful. The warmth of the AFS Ghana welcomed and comforted
us. It was really nice to know how glad they were to host this TOT, it seemed that they felt
appreciated by our willingness to come to Ghana and follow the TOT enthusiastically. After
the warm welcoming, then the first session of TOT began. The first ice breaking was fun: Trust
Walking. In this ice breaking, we learn how to trust new people and at the same time engage
new people to put their trust on us. This ice breaking in fact had something to do with training:
when we are going to design a training or do the training, the first thing that is need to keep
in mind is we as a trainer need to gain trust from the audience. Therefore, the material that is
been given will be effectively remembered and applied. Then, the second session was talking
about “The Recipe of The Training”. Not only food has a recipe, but also the training. The recipe
are: Problem, Topic, Assessment, Goals, Objectives, Content, Methodology, Practice, Evaluation,
Application, and Follow-Up. There is nothing wrong if we do not use the exact recipe in making
certain food, but still the ‘unexpected’ ingredients or techniques become a recipe as well.
Furthermore, when I got to know the recipe of the training, I kind of got the general idea about
what is behind a training, what steps should be done in designing a training, and what aspects
could be affect a training.
The details of the recipe would be discussed in the following days of TOT which I am excited
about. These first two days in Ghana, and TOT in particular, not only taught and gave me the
general ideas about what training is and what expected from this TOT, but also the skill in
getting engage in new surrounding, listening to each others, sharing different opinions, and
most importantly hold back a judgment on something that is totally new until knowing what
exactly the thing is. Ghana taught me not to underestimate different things.

Day 2: December 10, 2011

Waskito
The second day started a little but earlier. The breakfast start at 7 am and the first agenda of the
second day started at 9am. After a very bad jetlag last night, today I woke up with excitement
and curiosity.
The first session we were talking about today was about the first two steps of making a good
training which are problem and topic. The trainers taught us about this theory buy giving us
two different games. The first game was called zoom game. The trainer divided all of us into two
teams and gave us many pages of paper with pictures in it and we have to arrange the picture
correctly. This game was pretty chaotic because we were in a big group and we all just screamed
and wanted to be heard. Even though at the end, we did finish the tasks. The second game was
much more fun and enjoyable. We have to build a construction using only straws, marshmallow,
and some playdoh. It has to be as tall as possible and as strong as possible. My team win, big
time. From the two games we learn that in order to solve a problem, we need to create an
environment that could support the dynamic of the group.
The second session after we had lunch with our trainer was how to set goals and objectives
and also what are the differences between both terms. This activity is very important because I
personally never realize how important it is to have goals and objectives.
The last session was about multiple intelligences. It’s about how people have many different
way of learning or understand something. We were given a questioner that could show us what
our way of understanding something is. From the questions I found out that I’m very logical-
mathematical people who believe in most everything that has a rational explanation and I feel
more comfortable when something is measured and organized.
After we know our character of studying, we were also asked to identify our least score from
the questionnaire. I was a person who is not “kinesthetic” at all. Kinesthetic means that a person
could understand something better when they actually do something like a demonstration or
a game. In order for me and my team, to be able to increase what we lack in, they asked us to
create a small methodology to deliver knowledge. There were who make a song about the topic,
there are also other participant who make drama about it. My team we made a very good and
fun game in order to make student not do hitchhiking.
The day ended in high note. We were taken to a big restaurant. The food was good, but the
portion of Ghanian people to eat is very different than us. It’s a lot.
Ps: im sorry I messed up my English, because I’m very tired.

Day 3: December 11, 2011

Dessy
This day began with session about methodologies. They explain to us what methodology is and describe the type of the methodology with games and it was really fun. After that we learn how to handle if we face difficult situation in the training and also reviewing the recipe from very beginning, problem, topic, assessments, etc. Those session was really important to make our train back session go easily. With those session, finally I know how to do training and do it in the fun way. Usually I just do presentation in the boring way, explain something with power point. But now everything change. I just know that I can do a lot of methodology like games, story telling, etc to make it more fun! After that, we back to the train back group to discuss little bit about our topic and goals and also deciding the turn who go first for train back in Tuesday.  I’m so nervous to do train back. Am I be able do it right? Am I be able to do it in the fun way? Those question like flying in my heady and I’m a bit scared of it.

We have independent work to planning our train back session for four hours. I talk with carolyn, my supervisor to discuss about my topic. Waskito also help me think to do my content in the fun way. Thanks to him now I had a picture to make my training fun.  After that we had daily feedback and we go to afs office to have dinner and cultural performance. That was awesome! We experience the public transportation called trotro and also walk to AFS Ghana office.it was thrilling because we sit with Ghanaian people and we experience the Ghanaian life for a moment. I’m so surprise when I saw a huge Indomie billboard. I ask Sani (my friend from Ghana) if they have Indomie here and he said yes and Indomie also quiet popular among Ghanaian. We met yes abroad in the dinner and having chit chat with them. The best session in this day was cultural performance! Ghana rock!!! We saw Ghana traditional music and dance. And also we dancing along with them!! Such an unforgettable moment!

We say Thank you to all the volunteers which help us in creating peace and worldwide cultural understanding.

You are the backbone of this organization!

Gerakan Indonesia Mengajar mengajak para volunteer Bina Antarbudaya untuk menjadi Pengajar Muda di sekolah-sekolah di berbagai pelosok negeri. Selama satu tahun mengajar untuk seumur hidup memberikan inspirasi kepada anak-anak dan masyarakat di pelosok. Sekaligus menjadi inspirasi bagi diri sendiri untuk menjadi pemimpin yang tidak hanya berkapasitas global tetapi juga memiliki pemahaman Indonesia sampai tingkat akar rumput.

Enam returnee Bina Antar Budaya telah terpilih menjadi Pengajar Muda. Profil dan cerita mereka bisa dilihat di:

1. Patrya Pratama
2. Nisa Imaniar P
3. Raden Roro Cahya Wulandari
4. Oktavina Qurrota Ayun
5. Ratu Ashri Maulina Fauzana
6. Diastri Satriantini

Jadilah Pengajar Muda berikutnya! Info lebih lengkap dan pendaftaran secara online melalui www.indonesiamengajar.org atau klik di sini. Follow juga twitter @jadiPM untuk update informasi mengenai pendaftaran Pengajar Muda.

We’re very pleased to be able to announce YES Alumni are invited to apply to attend the YES Civic Education Program in Washington DC from February 26 until March 3, 2012.

Your role as outstanding YES alumni will be to share your lives after the YES program, and proven that your YES experience doesn’t need to end when you return home. American Councils will also ask you to represent the YES Program to State Department officials as well as Congressional representatives and their staff to promote the exchange itself as well as shed light on the achievements of a diverse and active alumni community.

Criteria:

• Able to talk extensively about their activities post-program
• Demonstrated commitment to community service
• Positive and enthusiastic attitude, flexible, responsible
• Demonstrated leadership skills
• Demonstrated commitment to the growth and leadership development of YES alumni and the sustainability of YES alumni networks in your region
• Open to giving/receiving feedback
• Team player
• Able/willing to reach beyond AFS/YES networks to impact and collaborate with others
• Ability to handle challenging situations; creative problem-solver
• Able to communicate effectively
• You have not attended an international YES alumni event within the past two years
• Must be willing to commit in sharing other alumni members and to promote YES alumni leadership development in the community upon returning home
• You are required to conduct at least one training/presentation within three months of returning from the workshop

American Councils will cover visa, transportation, housing, and meal costs associated with their participation in the Civic Education Workshop.

December ToT: Accra, Ghana, mid-December
App deadline: October 28

March ToT   : Alexandria, VA, mid-March
App deadline: November 17

Rafika
We are finally on our last day. Started at 9 o’clock with cultural performance from Indonesia. People were entertained and then we asked some questions about Indonesia in power point presentation, the winner got to pick up their own prizes from Indonesia but we just finally gave all souvenirs to everybody. After that, we had a challenge to make tips to handle something that happened unexpected during the session. Then finally, we had our graduation. We felt that we did not want to end this training because everybody felt that we’re a family. All of us than made a big circle then passed a ball of yarn to each other and when we got the yarn about our feeling no more than 5 words. After all, each person got the piece of the yarn to wear that shows we are all together wherever we are now. The web yarn also means our networks all over the world. After the closing, we then waiting for the bus headed up Hilton Washington Dulles Hotel to prepare the arrival orientation. We had a long night meeting the day before the kids arrive and every person has their own duty. My duty was to register the students that arrive in the hotel from midnight-2am.

Eva
The last day was mostly just a reflection of what we did the previous days. I call it the “wrap up” day.
In the morning, we did a cultural performance. I mean, we did, we as in we’re the Indonesia delegation. It was quite silly and definitely entertaining. We showed a video, and did a little game about Indonesia, then gave away prizes. Our fellow participants seemed to enjoy it a lot.
Then we moved to do a little session that we called “Challenges”. It’s a session dedicated to address challenges that we face during a training, or during session in particular.
And.. that was it. That was the very last session we had.
After that we had a “graduation” ceremony, with all the music and everything. It was kind of sad. We really felt bonded and were sad to know that the ToT was over.
It was a short day, as we were done by noon.
Then we waited for the bus to take us to Hilton, where we would help with the YES Arrival Orientation, together with other AFS-USA staff.
Goodbye, Madison… and helloooo Hilton!

Yeyen
Hola amigos! Yeyen aqui. Our last day was kind of a mixture between happiness, relief, satisfied, pride and sadness.  We were happy because we performed a cultural performance. It was very entertaining for other participants and the trainers because we showed them a hilarious video we made. We personally felt great that we could make them laugh after all. We also felt so much better now that we’ve completed the training and got certification as a trainer. At the end of the training, we all felt quite sad because we have to come to an end for the training. We felt that the emotional and friendship bond among participants are so strong that we couldn’t even imagine that the training should be over.
Our excitement got pumped up again as we will welcome all exchange students from all of YES countries’ partners including Indonesia.  Yay!! INDONESIA (prok, prok, prok, prok, prok!!!)

Day 4: August 5th, 2011

Rafika
Finally, today was the last second day of our Training of Trainers. We started with contemplation to make us more relax and calm because many people were really nervous about their trainback session so, Caroline tried to make us more relax and just enjoy our trainback session.  Many kids just couldn’t go to sleep because they worked hard for their trainback session or some just were so nervous about it. There was also a little bit review from what we just had from yesterday then we just went to our room and do our trainback session. One room for one group. We were given 30 minutes and after one person finished with their training we gave feedback. So, I was going for the third in my group. I was not nervous, I was just felt nothing at all. It was just about right but I forgot to do one thing in my training so I just jumped to the closing part. The most common things that I got from my group were I was calm and did not panic (because when I was doing my presentation there was a noisy voice came from the ceiling but I did not really bother it), I still have to work on couple things that I really have to give instruction more clearly. We all did a really good job at the end and felt so relief that finally we could do our trainback. Then after all the group finished, we came back to the room and took a big circle of us. Everybody’s happy. Yaaaay! and also tomorrow will have cultural performance. We’re so excited about this.

Yeyen
Guten tag! Yeyen is here again to tell you about the day where all participants finally felt relieved and satisfied with the trainback activity they had to do in front of their assigned team and an assigned trainer to get a sense of what kind of training they would hold in their home countries. I held a trainback activity with the title “The Public Speaking Training for AFS Campaign in The Local Chapter”. The training would be best given to fresh returnees and volunteers to prepare themselves in supporting campaign for recruiting new candidates for AFS Programs such as YES Program, AFS Year Program, being host families and volunteers. In my trainback activity, the participants were given a glance of the basic knowledge of public speaking, the types of public speaking and the components that support public speaking. I also had to go through AFS profile started by how it began during World War II up until the ‘nowadays’ AFS with other extended program such as Jenesys and Welwaerts program. At the end of my trainback activity, there was a small simulation on how to apply the theory we talked about previously and put it into a mini campaign by the participants. Once I wrapped up my trainback activity, my team and my trainer gave constructive feedback on my trainback activity J the whole exhausting day ended by a social dinner with the whole group in a Mediterranean restaurant and a little party. Yihaaa!!!

Eva
The second last day! I know it sounds pretty unbelievable, but that’s what it is.

The day started around 9 am, with a little talk about the train-back session that we were about to do. After that, we went to our rooms, according to our train-back groups, and then the session begins.

I was the second person in my group to do the training. My topic was “How to conduct a proper selection process”. We trained our interviewing skills as well as practiced the “culture of conduct” for the selection process, in order to conduct a better process and therefore send “better” students. It was fun, and felt effective.

The methodology that I used was mostly lecture and role-playing, with emphasis on it being as casual as possible. Since my audience would be fellow volunteers (with relatively same age and backgrounds) I want it to be a little bit not-so-formal, so that we can feel comfortable expressing our ideas. I also ask for feedback consistently, as we are all basically equal.

The train-back that I did went actually really well. I received feedback from my fellow group members that was mostly positive. I was just so glad it was over with J

To make the day even more perfect, we dined out tonight. We went to a Mediterranean Restaurant and had a nice buffet. The trainers left early after the dinner, but we preferred to stay for a bit longer. Danced a bit and more.. had a little party. It was a great way to end such a day!

Day 3: August 4th, 2011

Yeyen
Hola! It’s Yeyen! On our third day of ToT, we had the chance to analyze human intelligence types through Multiple Intelligences agenda. On the previous day, all participants were given a sheet of Multiple Intelligences quiz to be assessed by themselves in order to reveal their most developed intelligence skill, whether it would be Verbal-Linguistic intelligence, logical-mathematical intelligence, visual-spatial intelligence, musical intelligence, kinesthetic intelligence, naturalist intelligence, intrapersonal intelligence or interpersonal intelligence. Today the participants got the chance to explore more about their most developed and, particularly, their least developed skill through several activities.  We also learned about giving and receiving feedback by analyzing animals characteristics as metaphors of our attitude in giving and receiving feedback. At the end of the day, all participants had to prepare their training topic before the actual ‘trainback session’ tomorrow. So, I’ll see ya again soon with a more interesting report to write. Ciao!

Rafika
Today was a short day. We started with Game Show Monuments and then we continued to Multiple Intelligences Session: Howard Gardner’s Theory. We were given a home work the night before to find out which multiple Intelligences that fit on us. So, I ended up in visual-spatial intelligence and then we had to go to our least developed multiple intelligence then we had to work on that. We must create something with that and had to be related with 3 Golden Rules of AFS. I was in the same group with Yeyen, Tiggy, Abdelrahmen, and Naz. We learned about characteristic by using animal metaphors. There were elephant, rabbit, dolphin and tiger. We then switched again and at the end we created tips to give and receive feedback.  Today was short because we must work on our trainback session for tomorrow.

Eva
Today was the third day. The Game Show Monuments was the first activity that we did. We were asked questions about our fellow participants, the one who knew of the most of us won. After that we reviewed our homework from yesterday where we were given a package which we have to do a self-assessment on. It’s called Multiple Intelligences, a theory developed by Howard Gardner. After we assessed ourselves, we were divided into small groups. I was the Musical type, who had Visual-Spacial as my least developed intelligence. So my partner and I had to do a training on Visual-Spacial.

After a break, we did the Feedback Session, where we talked about how to effectively give people feedback, as well as to take feedback wisely. Then we did an animal metaphor session, and went back to our train-back groups as tomorrow would be the day we’d be doing the “training”.

So we had an early dismissal today, at 3 PM, so that we would have time to prepare our training. Wish us luck!

Day 2: August 3dr, 2011

Rafika
Day second, the training was getting more formal and serious because today we were talking about goals and objectives. We got zoom books and learning centers activity, and the most fun thing was Kolb Learning Style session. We found out about our learning style then we were separated into a group with the same learning style and then we drew picture about ideal environment for learning. I am the diverging style with 3 others students. People with this learning style are best at viewing concrete situations from many different points. Our approach to situations is to observe rather than take action. I felt good being in the same group with people that have the same style so we worked very well on our drawing paper.  I think this is very important thing and useful because by taking this test we know what are we going to do for our own trainback.

Yeyen
Hello there! It’s Yeyen again. Our second day was about a bit of seriousness. We started to brainstorm the problem and topic for our trainback session which will be done on Friday and also analyzed the differences between goals and objectives. The fun part of the day was the group dynamics session where we got to do activities in a large group consists of 18 participants of ToT. Basically the group dynamic session was the chance for us to analyze which group that can work more effectively, the small group or the large group. Most people would vote for the small group since it would affect the members’ efficiency in work and explore the members’ participation more actively. We also started to get to know the Kolb Learning Style, it is a model to analyze the different learning styles that most people have. There are four styles of learning that most people have which would be accommodating, diverging, assimilating and converging. Tomorrow we will dive into the Kolb Learning Style more deeply. Can’t wait! J

Eva
Today was the second day. We started the day, again, by doing just a little ice-breaker, and then got down straight to the business:  The Training Design.  We had to come up with a problem, and then figured out the topic, audiences, and the arguably more important, on Needs Assessment. Then we moved to doing the Behavioral Learning Objectives by splitting into small groups.

We came back to our train-back group and discussed our own Goals and Perspectives; this is one of the practices we get before we have to do a pseudo-training to our fellow participants on Friday. After we were done with that we explored the Kolb Learning Styles and did an assessment on ourselves to figure out which type of learner we are. Once we knew, we made a drawing of what an ideal learning environment for us would look like. We did that with people who are the same type as we are. I’m an Assimilator, and from all the participants, there’s only one other person with the same type as me.

It was really interesting and today was, in a word, spell-binding.

Day 1: August 2nd, 2011

Rafika
From today, we started with introducing the trainers and ice breaking at the same time, which was so impressive and fun. We have learned to be a good trainer by learning from our own experiences. There was a simulation to be a leader and to be followers and the common things we have got were trust and there are many leading methods. There are scientific and art method. We need scientific method because we have to understand the basic and then it is going back and forth, the flexibility of the training and that will be the art method. There was also dinner with another YES alumni.

Yeyen
Hello! It’s Yeyen. The first day of ToT had been so exciting because all participants got to introduce ourselves, talking about certain topics that could get us together as a large group. Not only that, we also got some sessions about icebreaking, training and recipe for successful training. The most exciting session for me, so far, was the Trust Walk. The Trust Walk session was a pair game. So the participants had to work with a partner they hadn’t known before. Someone had to have their eyes blankfolded and the partner would have to lead him/her going through certain paths. We ended the day with a dinner with other YES Alumni from another sub-consortium. That was fun!

Eva
The first day, I honestly didn’t expect much, but I then I turned out to be wrong. First we introduced ourselves with an ice-breaker, then we went through an overview of ToT, a quilt a activity, a recipe for success, a chicken soup skit, a few games, and all those things that Yeyen and Fika have mentioned above.

I also learned about what is called “metacognition”, a cognition about cognition, knowing about knowing; how to put into perspectives what we are getting from the ToT: a perspective as a trainee, and as a trainer. It was probably the bottom line of what I learned today.