Joining SEA-Teacher
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, and indeed the same thing happens with mine. Whatever I do, wherever I go, whoever I meet, anything starts with my decision. And this is how my journey has been going to be able to join the SEA-Teacher programme. April 3, 2023, I got a call from my supervisor, Mrs. Weni Dwi Pratiwi, S.Pd., M.Sc. who’s also the head of the mathematics education department. She informed me that I was proposed as a delegate to take part in a student exchange programme to the Philippines (yes, I didn’t know the programme she was talking about was SEA-Teacher). To be honest, I was shocked after hearing what she said to me, especially because I had never thought about going abroad before, and I wasn’t good at speaking English. Even so, I immediately agreed to what she said. I wasn’t sure why I agreed to this, but deep down I felt I wanted to try a new challenge and atmosphere. Two days passed, I received a new information from Mrs. Weni. She told me th...