Our teacher, Mrs. Nurmalahayati, S.Pd or we usually call her Mrs. Santi is one of Indonesian teacher who got a scholarship from Indonesian government. On January 2019, our President, Mr. Joko Widodo held a programme to send 1000 teachers to study abroad. This programme called “Short Course Guidance and Counseling for Teachers”. The institution of teachers made a selection for the teachers who capable and has a potential to got the scholarship. For the counseling teacher, they will choose only 15 teachers. The selection had a qualifications and Mrs. Santi is one of qualified teacher. But Mrs. Santi had to do a few more selection step like interview and make an essay. Through Mrs. Santi’s hardwork, she was chosen by the institution to go to Australia.

Mrs. Santi said that there were no significant difficulties experienced by Mrs. Santi during the selection. And for the essay, she often made essays so that she can made the essay easily. She thought that the process to translate the essay was easy because she had a lot of time and also a lot of sources like Google Translate and many other.

Mrs. Santi was in Australia for 3 weeks. There were a lot of activities when she was in Australia. Mrs. Santi attended the training programme from morning to afternoon every day. She visited 1 school for each week which means she had visited 3 schools in Australia. She also visited the Ministry of Education and Koala Pine Sanctuary.

Mrs. Santi has some sad experiences when she was in Australia. She was injured on her lips and knee. The injured was nothing because there was the other problem. Mrs. Santi’s laptop didn’t work for 10 days and she needed the laptop because she has to make reports every day. But there was something that warm her heart. When Mrs. Santi was in Australia, terrorist attacked Christchurch, a mosque in New Zealand. One day, Mrs. Santi went to a mosque in Australia and many people suddenly hugged her and said that they feel bad and sorry for the incident especially because the terrorist was from Australia. And that moment made her heart was touched.