Tuesday 30 November 2010

This is Life!

This is what I call real life.

I live +/- 17,000 km away from home.

It took around 2 days 2 night to finally get here. in Brasil..

10 hours differences in time. 10 pm here, 7 am there.

First time living abroad and alone.

New friends, Brasileiros and others mostly coming from other Latin America countries.

Meet and make friend with Canadian, Colombian, Mexican, Argentine, Bolivian, Italian, Russian, Polish, Peru, Chile, Japan, etc.

New culture, different culture.

BIG differences

Culture shock (to be honest.. I still feel it)

New Food (but thanks god they eat rice also here :p)

Living in a Portuguese speaking environment, with really less people speaking English.

Living alone, but live in the same building with all 4, all boys, trainee mates!!

Start learning how to cook! yeay!

Flights to Indonesia are extremely expensive

and...no Indonesian in my city

Belo Horizonte, Vitoria, Ouro Preto, Rio de Janeiro, Buzios (some cities I have visited)

Working with my Portuguese laptop

Start learning Portuguese of course! Eu Falo pouco Portuguese

Parties! (They are partying a LOT here!)

Challenging work! really it is...in term of communication and the work itself.

Took buses everyday

Currently in Vitoria, I live like nearly 5 minutes to the beach

Language does matters

awesome beach, awesome parties, awesome people, nice friends.

Nice, small, not so crowded city and gonna move again after 6 months in Vitoria to I don't know where hehe

Expensive living cost compare to Jakarta, really it is :p



well... this is it...new world, new experiences, new friends, new life!

To be honest, It's been very very fun in Brasil!. but also challenging at the same time. Languange is different, culture is different, the way of working is different. everything is just different and in every differences that's where you learned, rite?. so still, wish me luck!!!


to people who are still wondering why I can be here...

I went to Brazil for working (my AIESEC Xchange experience!), I went into a program called management trainee program for a company named Vale, a mining company here. There are 20 people in this program. 16 Brazillians, 2 Canadian, 1 Colombian, and 1 Indonesian (it's me). We are working on Vale's overall strategy named VPS (Vale Production System)!

:):)

Beijos,
Lila

Monday 8 November 2010

Last days in Indonesia!

Since I am not updating my blog for a long long long (yap 3 times long) time.. there are so many things I want to share....but to be honest, I am a bit confused where to start.

Ok..maybe start from the last days that I spent in Indonesia, before leaving to Brazil.

As usual, it's been hectic days with packing and so on I enjoyed so much my last days in Indonesia, It was awesome, I got a very very nice surprise farewell party from my friends. This party dedicated to me and Dyanie, since Dyanie also gonna leave for her master in UK 1 week after me. SO SO HAPPY, there are so many of them in the party! my high school mates and my college fellows!..oh my god it's just like mini reunion! everyone is there!

Thank you so much for a very very special day, special kisses for Gangsta (Ok this one sounds so silly, but yes that's true that's our BB group name :p) and my besties since junior high, Lasty, Fetty, and Marcya...

But missing my crazy partner, Indrimon since she is leaving already to Belande! :(

I got this funny pictures of me as a present ...hahaha LO
L Definitely gonna miss all of them!






That is the last days before leaving to Brazil, tomorrow I'll post about my journey in Brazil!, there are so many to tell though!

with smile, BIG ONE!
LILA!

Sunday 7 November 2010

new life, new experiences!

Jajaja Ola!

I miss my blog. I have started my new life in Brazil! and It´s been 2 months so I´ve been through a lot of things, mostly nice things but there is also something not nice. Well, this is life.. Isn´t it?

a new life means new friends and new experiences....not to forget that I am struggling to learn the language, yeah Portuguese!!

But this is Life! a very very interesting one!...I give more updates soon..

Beijos!