Tag: YCM
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Goodbye Indonesia: Last day at Work
My last day in YCM was a great day. Several events fell together. There was the movie-making, the Music Festival and of course my Goodbye Party. While the first two parts would be already enough for a blog post each on its own, I decided for now to only tell you about my goodbye. Many…
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YCM Activitites: Green Earth Indonesia
One of these days Green Earth Indonesia visited us. Their main work field is renaturation of former mining areas. The problem in Indonesia is, that dangerous chemicals are used in the mining process. Thus the earth there is literally dead after the mining ends. Normally renaturation happens on its own, but not under these circumstances.…
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YCM Activities: Football Day
I’ve been so busy, that I still couldn’t tell you about the football day yet. This day was some time ago when still all 32 teams were in the World Cup, so don’t wonder about the pictures. The tutors prepared a day full of activities all around the ball. From Quizzes to goal shooting. Everybody…
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YCM Activities: Australian Rules Football
Indonesia has three teams of the Australian Rules Football, colloquially known as Footy, playing in the AFL Indonesia. They are the Jakarta Bintangs, Borneo Bears and Bali Geckos. The Jakarta Bintangs promote the game around Jakarta by organizing local competitions. YCM has two teams in the competition: “Bogor Thunder” and “Pasar Minggu”. In total 6…
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YCM Colleagues: Rafting
Now back in Indonesia I finally have time to tell you about my adventures in YCM before I will tell you more about my famous Indotrip. If there is one thing important in en NGO its a good work environment. Many things are part of a good work environment, so is the teamplay of the…
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Too much to report
I greed you from Malaysia. Yeah you heard me right. I’m not in Indonesia any more. I’m not done yet telling out about my Indotrip. Further I had some activities from YCM, but first I’ll tell you about this Malaysian Adventures. For unknown reasons my visa wasn’t extended anymore, so me and Stefan had to…
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Indotrip: The Beginning is the End
This had been the three fastest weeks of my life, at least it felt like that. I remember like it was yesterday how I waited at the Jakarta International Airport for two hours because my two good friends Hanke und Adrian wouldn’t come out. But actually yesterday I saw them walk back into the Jakarta…
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YCM Activities: Welcoming VIDA
If you’re not from Australia you might wonder what is VIDA. To make a long story short, VIDA is an abbreviation for Volunteering for International Development from Australia. A governmental programm that sends Australians in the same way like the “weltwärts”-program. Well YCM itself is cooperating with VIDA and we offer an unique experience to…
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YCM Colleagues: Stefan
Well as you already know one of my colleagues is Stefan, like me a weltwärts-volunteer. On friday I sneaked into his classe for a while to give you an extra insight on how YCM works. Many of our students dream of operating a small business, some even do. Stefan found a wonderful article in the…
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Some Presents for YCM
So before my mom came to visit me she told many people about her planed trip. Under these people were Erika, Gisela and Gudrun which decided to go a step further in supporting the YCM. They donated games and books via my mom to YCM. Now everybody is excited for the new working materials we…