IDU Reflection

Every school year, there is always a time where we, as a class

were given a time to at least go somewhere and experience the
ooutside world more then learning them inside the classroom. That
kind of thing is called as Field Trip. There, were not only going
somewhere for no reasons, theres always a good reason for us to go.
Field Trip helped us to discover and learn more not only by looking at
the pictures that are most shown at class, but we could actually look at
it realistically. By going along on the activities at Field Trip, were not
only learning and discovering things there, but experiencing them may
also be a big beneficial experience that we could have. The experience
that were having during Field Trips may be a big beneficial experiece
in our life because we get to know what, why and how it happens that
most of the people were experiencing, either good or bad. It helps us
on real life problems by first learning, discovering, then experiencing it
and use it as a life lesson as we grew up later.
We were having a Field Trip to Jatiluhur to go on a hike and
glamping at OBI (Outward Bound Indonesia). There, we were divided
into two groups that consist of eleven students per-group. My group
went on a hike before the other group and before we hike, I was
chosen to be the leader on my group to guide them in a right path by
using a map and a compass that are given preciously before we hike.
On the way, almost all of the paths were slippery and are dirts on the
smaller path. It is also at a time rained but suddenly it stopped. It
makes the path wet and slippery that causes my group and I having a
hard times walking through it. I should lead the way because I was
chosen by my group as a leader and thats the hardest problem. Im an
introvert person and I dont have the ability to speak in front, to wellenough communicate, and lead people. Those things are my weakness
and without confident, I was not able to communicate and lead my
group to the right path. If I wasnt able to communicate and lead them,
I do think that the first time that they would blame me on leading the
group on the wrong path instead of going to the right one. I was afraid
that I would not be able to lead the group confidently by
communicating and work cooperatively so that we were not lost and
arrived safely. I do have a hard time on reading the map as well as
using the compass but my friends were there to help me. I felt that I
was not respinsible as a leader, but I want to do my best for my group
so that we can all learn from each other about cooperation and that we
also have to have a sense of responsibility in terms of leadership. I
then reflected a little bit about myself on having a leadership and
being confident on everything that Im doing, especially with groups.

After a very long hike, we were taught on how to build a tent. On the
previous grade, we were also taught on how to build our own tent but
since thats the first time we have done that kind of activity, we were
struggling and were confused on how to build a tent. At OBI (Outward
Bound Indonesia), we were also got taught on how to build a tent, but
this time, we need to do it with our friends who sleep at a same tent.
Since its been around a year ago, I kind of forgot on how to build
them. Thankfully, the person who teaches and lead us at OBI helped by
first giving an example of his tent so that we wont make a mistake as
we were building the tent. Some of us did struggle a little bit and they
helped us so that we could also learn from our mistakes so that we can
do well the next time we did it. Building a tent together with our
friends are fun, but not only that because we also get to cook together
for our groups.
Those were not the only things that we did at OBI, not much but we
also get to ride a boat with our group and get to feel what its like
going on a boat to feed fishes and get to drink a coconut. I gave all the
fish food that I had and I got a coconut. I dont really like the water but
what I like the most is the coconut itself because its sweet. After
feeding the fishes and go on a boat, we get a shower and had a short
reflection of the day.
In the evening after taking a shower, Kak Gentur was his nickname
that we called who guided my group from the beginning of hiking until
introducing us to materials that are often used. He explained what it is
and how it the materials were used, which are cooking materials. The
next thing we were doing is what I really like the most at OBI, cooking.
At first I was incharge of washing the rice with my friend but then, I
helped most of the my friends on the food because they said that they
knew a little bit and some never cooked before which is hard for them
to cook and about it. I noticed that even though its a little bit hard for
them, they did their best and the food taste delicious for someone who
never cooked before. I am also proud of my group because we all
workd together instead of working individually. Our goal is to work
cooperatively as a group so that we could also build a leadership in
ourselves.
From all the activities that weve done, we were told that we should
gather as a group in the main hall to discuss about our groups
performance. Im not a confident person and I dont know what to do to
help my group for our performance about what weve learned there at
OBI. Some of my friends were having many inspirations of skit,
movements and also a song. We all planned on each part of role so
that its not a mess as we performed it to our parents also the guest
and the teachers. We dicided to do a skit and sing a song by also
having parts of the movement so that the audience (parents, teachers
and guest) are also ejoying what we show and would not feel bored
and unsatisfied on what weve worked on.

I enjoyed doing all the activities at OBI because it really helps me

to learned more things, not only about experiences but also about me.
It has helped me on overcoming my fears and it helps me to
strengthen the things that Im also capable of.
I had a lot of fun on Saung Angklung Udjo. I learned on how to make an
Angklung, what it is made of, and how to play and hold the Angklung
properly. This Angklung lesson makes me have more knowledge about
Angklung because it tells us the history of it. Making our own Angklung
is not the only thing that we did there but after we finished with
making it, we then get to watch a performance of Wayang and
Angklung Performances. At first, I thought that the performances were
boring and nothing interesting would happen but as the show goes on,
its not as the same as what I think before. The Wayang Performance,
which I would always think is boring entertained us all as the audience,
same way as the Angklung Performance. The Angklung Performance is
very awesome. They were not only playing some easy songs that kids
could also play, but instead they played many kinds of songs like
traditional and pop songs. The Angklung were played together and its
not easy for me because I think that theyre very well-talented people
who can play awesome songs by using a traditional music instrument.
What I also enjoyed is the event before the very last one that
happened at Saung Angklung Udjo. We get to play together as an
audience and not only our class but other people from other countries
were also joining to play the Angklung. It was very fun and very
awesome to watch those performances because Ive never watch
Wayang and Angklung before and this is the first time that I get to
acctually watch the performance.
In Taman Hutan Raya Juanda, we went on hiking for a long distance.
First, we go inside and get to see the Dutch Cave, then the Japanese
Cave. Its awesome but also scary. What I meant by scary is that Im
not afraid of going inside there, but what Im afraid of is on knowing
the history very detailed because each of them has different types of
room that some of them are used for the prisoners. The prisoners were
not only put in there, but some are killed violently by the Dutches and
the Japanese. For me, in some way the history of it is too violent and in
the other way, its also interesting for me to know and learn about the
history of my country and thats why I wanted to know and learn more
about it so that it can ad more knowledge on me about histories and
also societies.
What we should get rid of at that time of Field Trip is to be in our
comfort zone. They wanted us to be ouside our comfort zone and to try
new things and experiece the outside world that we may not learn or
know at school. Field Trip was a very beneficial thing to do as a
community at school because it really helps us to communicate and be

socialized with other people like teachers and friends face to face
instead of using social media or any other devices that almost all
people use. Field Trip helps us also to learn some of the subjects that
we usually are learning at school, such as Science, Civics and Biblical
Studies. Those Subjects were included and can be learned as we were
on the Field Trip. What we could take from each things that happened
that day was also a lesson that we all could take. In science, we get to
learn on how the nature effects people or other living creatures, how
people adapts at that certain type of place like Tangkuban Parahu
which is a volcano that just erupts around the early 1900s.
We are able to learn civics because its questioning us about
Indonesian culture, the history of it, and what society was like when
the Dutch and Japanese took over Indonesia for years. The Japanese
only took over Indonesia for around 3,5 year while the Dutch took over
Indonesia for around 350 years. It may seem that the Dutches were
much more crueler, but they werent as what most people think. 3,5
years of Japanese colonizing Indonesia is much more suffering than the
350 years of the Dutch. Why, because the Dutch were still allowing
them to work by using Indonesian people to work for them and what
Indonesia has were taken and brought to the Netherlands. Mean while
at that time, the Japanese didnt use that kind of thinking, but instead
they put hundreds of men inside a small prison that could only fits 100
or less.
Lastly its about Biblical Studies. We always included Biblical lessons in
the Field Trip because we from the beginning we start activities at OBI
until at Tangkuban Parahu together, we all show caring. We care for our
friends whos hurt like falling for several times on the hike. Selfish does
not included because what we wanted to do is to grow and bear the
good fruit and not the bad ones. Trusting our friend might seem a little
bit untrusted when we tell them and said that we trust them, but the
best thing is to trust God no matter what.
During the Field Trip, there are many experiences that we all had
experienced. It is not only about having a trip together with friends and
teachers, but we all were going on that trip so that we could learn
more than before because we usally only looked at a picture or being
taught in a presentated way, which would not gave us enough
information about it. It is really helpful and is a very big benefit for us
all because we are not able to learn most of the things at school.
There, we are able to actually see it in real life of what it is and find
good sources like asking people who knows well-enough or really well
about it like the history of its societies and communities. We may find
it on the internet but some sources from the internet may be wrong.
Not only about that, there are many others things also that we may not
learn at school. We are not able to learn on how to overcome our fears
of something that we did at OBI previously. The classroom is not a

place where people were signing up to for overcoming fears. School is

a place to learn certain subjects based on what grade theyre on. On
the Field Trip at OBI, we were able to overcome our fears of heights like
some of us did, but as we did a trust fall, we get to feel better than
before. This kind of lesson cant be taught at school but some people
could learn on how to be a lot confident by having a presentation than
learning to overcome our fears.
On the Field Trip, we did learned a lot of things as well as experiencing
them. There are also several things that we werent able to learn back
then on the Field Trip. We were able to learn about Science, Civics,
Biblical Studies, and most of our subject at school but what we werent
able to learn or difficult to be taught during the Field Trip is language.
During the Field Trip, we werent able to learn languages because all of
the places that we visited on the Field Trip would always give
explanation either using English or Bahasa Indonesia. Both of the
languages were used because we cant understand if the explanation
wasnt in English or Bahasa Indonesia. Since our Field Trip is still in
Indonesia, we could probably learn a little bit of that certain place in
Indonesia because Indonesia has many different languages that people
used on a certain place like in Java, they used Javanese language that
only most people knew. Although we werent able to learn languages
during the Field Trip, I do believed that we all as a class did learned
something new and interesting. Nobody could ever stop us from
learning new things and finding new experiences, which we all could
do, especially if we were learning about something that has a good
influece not only for ourselves, but other people and the society as
well.
This Field Trip has given me many lessons not only about
Science, Civics, and Biblical Studies, but life lesson as well. Field Trip
was really great and awesome. Experiencing new stuff and overcoming
our fears is something that we couldve not done without the help of
our friends and teachers who guided and helped each other that makes
it all a very beautiful moment to remember. Challenges were given us
and we finally made it together. Willing to help each others makes us
even more stronger on building the good characteristics in each of us.
Hand-in-hand we helped each other to achieve the same goal and to
do what it takes for the benefits of us all. Encouraging our friends
makes us also become encouraged by our friends, just like trustworthy.
Trustworthy is involved in it because what we wanted to achieve
together is to also trust each other. Falling down from the barrel made
of metal is the example. We were told to fall and trust our friends who
were holding the mat for us to fall onto. All of us did and it does
requires trustworthy and courage to do it. It is scary but we all finally
did what has been told to do. All the things that we experienced on the
Field Trip were not only for having fun, but its a benefit for us to

actually experienced it so that we also may knew and remembered it

as we all grew up. Overall, Field Trip was really fun and memorable,
therefore, it would always be kept in our mind that it is very important
and nice to know all of this. Even though the Field Trip may seem
horibble, but the memories were unforgettable.