jadi ceritanya hari ini gue baru pulang dari jambore sanitasi 2010. it's an event held by Kementerian Pekerjaan Umum with Inke Maris and Associates. it's an event with more than 100 junior-high students sebagai peserta. since i did an internship in IMA, i was asked to help on this event along with zefa and sinjay (my intern pals). we met sasa for the first time there. basically what we did was being the chaperone for 12-13 students to help them finish their task. they're not just an average junior-high student. they are 'DUTA SANITASI PROVINSI'. isn't that cool? buat dateng ke jakarta, mereka harus jadi juara 1 atau 2 di provinsi mereka lewat karya tulis atau karya poster. and you know what, it was all good. the paper was great and so did the posters.
anyway, gue megang kelompok BIRU MUDA. anak-anak gue ada dari NAD, sumatera barat, bangka belitung, riau, kepulauan riau, jawa tengah, jawa barat, DKI jakarta, kalimantan timur. they were sooo cute ahahaha. i actually took a picture with them.
the youngest is Verren. she's an elementary student from Kalimantan Timur. dia nggak ikut Jambore ini sebagai peserta tapi sebagai tamu undangan. she won a poster competition back then in Kaltim. Hebaaaat hebaaat.what we do? as a chaperone, we make sure that our 'kids' follow the schedule correctly. namanya anak SMP kadang-kadang suka bandel dibilangin haha. buat masalah tidur dan bangun pagi, dengerin materi. hey, it does sound familiar. hahaha, i guess i do it too :)
sebagai duta sanitasi mereka dapet pembekalan banyaaaaaak banget, dari materi tentang 3R, public speaking, sampe kunjungan ke tempat pemilahan sampah dan water treatment. selain itu, mereka juga ada kunjungan ke Kementerian Kesehatan dan Istana Wakil Presiden buat audiensi sama Ibu Herawati Budiono. how cool is that? i mean, how many kids in junior high in Indonesia, who get the chance to experience all of it?
hiburan pasti ada. anak-anak itu juga ngerasain dufan (since not all of them from Jakarta, they've been wondering what dufan looks like) dan pastinya belenji belenji di mall artha gading sama supermall karawaci. bahkan games yang dimaini sangat scientific, yang ngebuat gue and the rest of chaperone bingung hahaha..
what makes this event even more valuable for me is that i learn soo many things too. at first, i learn the the children in Indonesia is actually care about our environment. and they do a lot of little things to make their environment better. they are better than me actually. dari pengetahuan tentang drainage, sanitasi, sampe actionnya mereka jauuuuh lebih perhatian sama bumi daripada gue and maybe the rest of us. di salah satu presentasi, gue bahkan belajar how to manage sampah kesehatan atau apa gt. intinya gmn cara salah satu rumah sakit di salah satu provinsi, menyelesaikan masalah sampah rumah sakitnya, seperti jarum, infus, dll. dan gue baru tau kalo mereka buat bangunan tanpa udara buat nimbun semua sampah itu setelah dibakar dan dicampur dengan semen. cara itu jitu karena nggak akan membahayakan orang-orang di sekitar rumah sakitnya. dan anaknya yang ngasih info itu masih SMP!! WOW. itu ilmu baru banget buat gue.
the other valuable lesson dari acara ini adalah tentang anak-anak itu sendiri. karena berasal dari daerah yang beda-beda, background keluarga mereka juga saaaanggaaat bervariasi. and us, the chaperones, usually share stories about our 'kids' before we went to sleep. ada anak gue dari kepulauan riau, namanya asti. one thing about her is that dia sangat percaya diri dan easy going. two combination that will make someone great when you add 'humbleness'. dan dia punya semuanya. keluarganya berasal dari keluarga yang berkecukupan dulu. unfortunately, life didn't always go with our plan. rumah besar 3 lantai berharga 1 milyar itu akhirnya wasted karena usaha yang direncanain gagal. tapi asti tetep santai. kehebatannya dia adalah dia sangaaat sangaaat jago berpantun dan berpidato. even the ministry of public work (djoko kirmanto) salut sama asti karena jago berpantun. dari kemahirannya itu, dia mulai ikut lomba, bikin les pidato, bikin usaha membuat puisi, dll. and you know what, sometimes hadiah yang didapet digunain buat biaya dapur, biaya perjalanan ibunya, and other house stuff. hebat! yang membuat dy even more greater, is that kementerian kesehatan pun percaya sama dia. di tanjung pinang sana, dia aktif di salah satu program kemenkes. dan dia bilang, dia cuma mau bikin orang tuanya bangga. karena doa ibu selalu memberikan hasil terbaik buat dia. i salute her :)
masih banyak asti-asti lain di jambore sanitasi ini. satu yang pasti, anak Indonesia sekarang luar biasa. gue bahkan malu kalo inget sampe sekarang masih sering ngebebanin orang tua. salute for all participants in Jambore Sanitasi 2010!!
lesson 3 : mengurus anak ternyata sangat SANGAT SANGAT susah. menjaga mood anak, nyuruh makan, bangunin, ngejawab semua pertanyaan anak-anak. sangat susah. and for this, i salute every parents in the whole world. padahal cuma sebentar, tapi gue udah sangat kecapean ngurus 13 anak. kalo lagi capek, i imagine my own parents. were they dissapoint when they know they have me as their daughter? were they ever complain about taking care of me since i was a little girl? was i giving them a hard time? pertanyaan-pertanyaan itu terus muncul. when i took care of my '13 kids', no matter how tired i am, i could always smile. cause they were soo great. i even proud of them, even though they're not my own children. one of my 'kids' was sick. and i have to take care of her. brought food to her room, made a hot tea, accompanied her to hospital, talked with her when she was bored cause she didn't allow to do anything. wow. i salute my mom for always taking such a good care of me when i sick. i love you :)
i'm tired. of course i am. but i'm also happy and proud to be involved in this event. i hope one day, in a diferent way, i can make my parents happy just like 'my kids' made me happy. and one day, i hope my own child will make me happy as a parents and be a great and proud Indonesian children, just like 'my kids' did.
i love you all, LASKAR BIRU MUDA :))
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