We went from Indonesia to London at 16 march 2013, you can read the preparation story here. While you can read my short post and photos when we transit at Doha here, and a story when I arrived at London after a week in wales here. Both are in Bahasa Indonesia
This is the published post in Antaranews , Thank you to Mr, T.A. Fauzi for the opportunity! You can read it HERE
All the picture here belongs to the participants, Kristos, Fred, Me, The Encompass Trust’s and someof the other participant I can not remember.
We arrived in Doha 2 am and that was a half of the journey, waiting for the next 8 hours flight to meet you guys, our brothers and sister from all over the world. We were so exciting and curious. We arrived in Heathrow early in the morning, that we should spent the rest of the days waiting the other participants.
I remember, the first participant I met was Rawan!! Rory said, she is from Palestine. Then, after Rawan came and sit, we asked her to look after our luggage because we wanted to go outside for a while, 4 of us. Why it is so clear in my mind.
We waited for the others and I met Abood, Hadeel and Noor as well. We sang outside the building and they brought the Tabla as well. That was very cold outside, our very cold degree for our lifetime (for some of us) 😉
After then I met Ethan, then I saw Anthony but I was not so sure if he was one of the participant, so I didn’t say Hi directly. Then I met Aaron and Fred from Israel. They were so exciting, especially Fred, with his infamous word “Yes Okay Yes!”. I recognized the honeyed eye Bar, and we had our discussion along with Nat, Fred, Bar and Aaron. After that we were introduced to Kristos, from US and Erica. They said we should wait for another 2 participants from US.
I noticed Noraiz and Usman but I was not so sure (again) they were one of the participant. When I said Pakistan, Usman said “I am from Kashmere” , I was a little bit scared haha, but then when I know he is a keeper with a tender heart, wow how lovely he is!. Then after a while, we were going to the coach bus and travelling to Snowdonia. While in the coach I heard that in the back it was so noisy and they talked interesting topics, what are they talking about? I noticed Alex! and I began to noticed the Dr.Dre Anthony. Again with Tabla, the Participant from Palestine sang beautifully, while Fred and his special Coca Cola was talking about the Pesakh, or Pass Over. I was interested because they has similarities with my former religion, Adventist Church. On the way, I was stunned by the snow all over the road. It was my very first snow ever. Then we arrived at the market to buy our dinner. It was exciting to meet other Indonesians in that market, as workers and as tourists. They said goodluck for our journeys.
We arrived at Snowdonia quite late, very cold and dark. I was curious what will happen in the next day. My name called in the first room of the girls, along with Haleema, Natalie, Michelle, Rayna and Hadeel, yes I remember what had happened that night and I said to Hadeel, she will be okay in the room with me =). That night I didn’t sleep because of the excitement. I went to the game room, there were Dr Dre Anthony, Noraiz, and Usman. I was talking to Usman a while and I find out that he was the youngest among the participants. Hey, I remember the details guys!!!
The First day
Sweta Rohita 