Beyond Expectation: The Magnifico International Culture Festival and Celebration

                Few days ago, Widya Mandala, a campus where I am currently studying at, held an event entitled International Culture Festival and Celebration. At that time, I was thinking about how the event would be like and I even lost my touch with reality. However, the event turned up to be different than my expectation. Before explaining my impression, are not you curious about my imagination?

          Down to the memory lane, the day when I was sitting at LMM to have a writing class session, I got informed by Mrs. Ice about why there were many students who were absent at that time. She explained that most of the students were chosen to be the representative and they were not able to attend the class. Then, she reinformed us about the Culture Festival and Celebration. Cling, it was light bulb which appeared above my head and then I started to imagine the event.

          At first, I thought that the event would be such a boring event because we would have to hear presentation from each representative. I had known that there were not many people who is born with an excellent presentation skill and it automatically gave me a doubt about how the event would be. How rude I was!

          However, thank you to the English Department Student Association which made my imagination gone wrong! They were so well-prepared and everything was beautifully set at it places. It took me for a while to convice myself whether it was for real or not. I was like: “Oh no, is this for real?”.

          Both EDSA and also Widya Mandala have put their biggest effort for the event and it appeared to be such an outstanding yet plausable event because they could arrange this magnifico (Italian, read: beautiful) event smoothly. My impression? Hats off!

          As my dream to be a Polyglot, a person who is able to speak more than five languages, this event such an answer to my prayer. Although, the representative only taught us about the basic one. At least, I have learned the way how they pronounce something and also their accent. Surely, it gave me something to learn.

          Surprisingly, I was more than proud of my country because our Widya Mandala’s representative has brought a very unique presentation about Nasi Pecel and everything related to Nasi Pecel. Honestly, I used to hate Nasi Pecel but since Widya Mandala has given their presentation, somehow it has changed my perspective.

          Last but not least, I hope this very meaningful event will be held again for the next year and it is getting more attractive than the past event because from this event, we, as a Widya Mandala’s student (and of course as Indonesian) can learn how to appreciate our country either neighboring country’s culture.