A touch of Indonesian Culture in St.Leonard’s College Primary Assembly

On Monday 2. 10 PM (Melbourne Time) we joined the Primary assembly (Prepatory until Grade 4) in Multipurpose Hall.  Carolyn Tudor- the Deputy head of Primary and also as PYP co – ordinator here at St. Leonard College – showed us where it was held. She also helped me how to link my laptop to the multipurpose screen. It was a big screen attached to the wall (similar to what we have at Sekolah Global Jaya- SGJ). While Tessa was  dressing up a pair of students from Grade one, I prepared the laptop and everything for Indonesian culture’s presentation. Few minutes later I saw students came in . Then assembly began at the right time.

Morning session in St Leonard’s College

It’s Monday morning, waking up very early (in Jakarta’s time). I was dressed up in my shocking pink Kebaya None. It was stiil quiet when Jane and I arrived in school. Carolyn (PYP Coordinator) welcome us warmly. I joined Reno and Bernadette, and we were intoduced to all teachers and staff in the Primary section.

At 8.20, we went to the satff room for a short briefing of the upcoming events throughout the week and also other important issues. Then when the school started, we joined Jane and Bernadette in their classrooms. This morning, I was in Prep Class. I saw moms taking their children in, and they supervised their children unpack the bags, return the reading folders. I also saw one parent sat with her child and assist her draw and read. Some parents came to meet and greet Jane, and talked about their children in a very friendly way.

Our first day in Melbourne

After the sacrry Saturday afternoon, the heavy rain that almost flooded Jakarta yesterday, we finally arrived in Melbourne around 8 AM Melbourne time. We were so lucky to have a nice flight, nice meals on the plane. Arriving at the airport, we were separated at the declaration area. It took us about almost an hour to finish all the declaration procedure. I tried to find Reno but she dissapeared. Oh – oh! However, relieved to be allowed to bring all my “oleh-oleh”, I went outside. It was crowded outside. I was lucky to find Reno amongst the crowd. Apparently, she had not met Carolyn and Jane too. So we went to the information area to announce Jane’s name (hmm.. what a problem solver!)  Then out of the crowd, we saw two Aussie ladies with very friendly smile approaching us both.

Hi everyone…

We have just finished with SLC today and everybody has left school. This is the craziest week ever!!! Here we are, struggling with our blog.

We’ll be leaving Jakarta tommorrow’s night to Melbourne Australia. We haven’t packed yet, but all of school stuff already in the pocket,hahaha phew!!

Australia….here we come!!!!!!! 🙂