Hey, this is my first
post in this blog. But actually not my first post in blogging world though. I
used to have a blog but I forgot my password. So, I decided to create one
because I suddenly miss blogging due to my boredomness lol.
So
here I am right now, doing my internship as one of the requirement from my
department to graduate. I am working for a factory which produces powder drink
products in a city that is famous for its “Lunpia”. I am halfway done with my
internship and after 10 days working I do have some stories to share here. But
let me first share my “road to internship” story.....
It
is not easy for me to find a place for doing my internship because my
department kept on delaying the briefing about internship for the students. The
internship should be done between May-July but they did the briefing at the end
of February. We should get a fixed company at least one month before the
internship starts because we have to submit the proposal one week before
working and you know, the making of proposal and the revisions will take some
while. I started to contact some companies at the beginning of March but most
of them said that the quota for internship students for June/July already full,
and some others did not even respond me. I was really desperate at that time
and I was scared that I won’t be able to find a company to do my internship.
But then, I remembered one of my mother’s friend. We once went on a dinner
together and she told me that she had a friend in a company where I worked
right now, and the company often accepts students for internship. So I suddenly
applied for the company through e-mail. But it was not really easy though
because the HRD keeps on saying that they’ll contact me later because they were
so busy due to high demand. I only could wait in despair while trying to find
another companies as a back up plan for the worst scenario. But then, the HRD
called me one month after I submitted my application and said that I could do
my internship there. I remembered I was about to start my exercise at the gym
at that time and I was really happy until I worked out for a really looooooong
time without being tired lol.
The
making of proposal and the revisions went on smoothly for me, since I only
needed two times of revision. My internship supervisor said that I am the first
student under his supervision to submit the proposal, the others even had not
done any revisions when I finished mine! But another thing to worry comes,
where should I stay and how could I get there? My parents told me to just stay
in my little sister’s boarding house but I was like “OMFG SERIOUSLY THAT’S SO
FAR AWAY OKAY”. But I have no other choices since it’s better than finding
another boarding house for me and they told me to just grab a taxi.
And
the internship day came..... I went to
the main office to meet the HRD and she took me to the factory building and she
introduced my field supervisor there. My field supervisor is the manager of
PPIC department and he is definetely younger than my expectation (I was
expecting that he is an old man hahaha). I haven’t met him a lot because I am
not doing the consultation everyday (I know he’s a manager and he seems to be
really busy so I don’t want to bother him much, and I tend to try finding anything
I need to know by asking the supervisors on the plant) but I do have some
conversation with him and he seems nice though, and also knowledgeable (for
sure if he’s not knowledgeable he won’t be a manager hahaha). Until this day, I
have spend 5 days in production and packaging department and another 5 days in
QC department. So here comes the main story.....
So
one thing I feel all the time here is..... LONELY. Yes, baby I am so lonely
lonely lonely lonely lonely~ I was expecting that I will meet any other internship
students and be friends with them but well, there’s none </3 I do meet a
girl who is doing her “training” but I only see her during lunch break so other
than that, I am ALL ALONEEEE. Seriously I am not advising any people to do
internship alone unless you are sure that you won’t feel lonely. Well, I am not
a kind of girl who is really talkative (I am considered as someone who doesn’t
talk really much by my friends though). But still, I am really desperate to
have some nice talk and jokes during work time. For sure I do talk to the
workers there but well, it’s different right? I can’t talk to them as if they
are my buddies..... *sigh*
Another
thing that I feel is BORED. Especially when I was doing observations in
production and packaging department. For 5 days I just went to the same place,
watching same people doing same thing. I could finish my observation for 2-3
hours in each day and the rest? Just wandering here and there and half
daydreaming. I really wanted to sit down and doing the report, just like what
my friends do in their companies if they have finished their task at that day
but well, it’s quite different there. It’s like the internship system is “come
at 8, spend your time at the field, lunch break, spend your time at the field,
finish at 4”, so you should be on the field no matter what. I really envy my
friends who can do the report at the office hours though. Sometimes I did help
the workers, but I will take a reaaaaaaally long time to do what they do and I even
did a lot of mistakes since I am not used to it, so my attempt to help was not beneficial
for them hahaha so I chose not to bother them with their works. Things are much
better when I was in QC department, I always had something to do either it’s
measuring moisture content, weighing sachets, measuring length, and many
others.
And
another thing I feel nowadays is OFFENDED. I did not feel this when I was in
production and packaging. This starts in QC department when I interact with the
staffs directly for the whole day. They were talking about my race and some of
them were quite rude about it. The people in QC for packaging are the worst. I
understand if they are not used to see Indonesian-Born-Chinese people like me
(it’s funny though actually another blood runs in me but yeah, the Chinese gene
is muuuuuch more dominant). There are many IBC workers in the main office but I
haven’t seen any single IBC in the factory building, and the people that works
in the plant (the ones that are just worker and not supervisors/managers) are
(sorry to say this) low class people that might not taught to be well-mannered
and professional. But well, I don’t think that’s a good excuse for offending me
with racial stuffs. Bhinneka Tunggal Ika is our country’s motto, which means
that we are different but we are one. You should accept that this country has
so many people with different races, including Chinese. If you don’t like it,
go to hell dude.
And
the last thing that I feel is..... AWKWARD. All the people talks in FULL JAVANESE
here and I can’t do that. The people here might think that “ah what’s with that
girl she comes from Pekalongan and she doesn’t speak Javanese? She must be
really ostentatious.” But that’s not the thing, really. When I was a child, my
mom always scolded me whenever I said words in full Javanese and she told me
that it was really ugly. I grow up with that mindset and I only use some
Javanese words in my sentences whenever I talk to my parents and my friends.
And my Javanese is getting worse since I moved to Jakarta 6 years ago, studying
in international high school and in international class at university. I
interact with my teachers and lecturers in English and with most people here in
full Indonesian and Jakarta accent. So for now, it is much more comfortable for
me to talk in Indonesian or English. My friends from Pekalongan even told me
that I sounds really weird whenever I try to talk in Javanese. I do understand
what those people are talking but I just can’t reply in full Javanese like
them, I just reply in Indonesian and trying to put some Javanese words and a
little bit of Javanese accent. But I know I sounds weird and things will become
quite awkward lol.
And
there are any other things I want to say but I guess I don’t want to share it
here. Even if I want to share, it will not be at this time being. Don’t ask me
why hahaha.
Well
all the things that I had mentioned before are all bad, huh? But actually not
all are bad here. The traffic jam is still bearable here. The traffic is quite
bad whenever I get out from the factory due to so many trucks but I guess it is
much better than Jakarta’s traffic. Most of the staffs are nice though and they
always smile back at me whenever I smile at them and they don’t hesitate to
talk to me even I am just a stranger/outsider lol.
Well, this is quite a long post, huh? I guess I have to
stop here. I will share another stories soon! Bye for now ;)
