What matters to you?
Hallo!
Let me introduce her to you guys..
Well, actually this is my first time to spend the whole day with European family. I feel so thankful that they allow me to stay even welcome me very well.
It is so lovely, isn`t it? It`s literary they catch up together, having lunch, tea time, and dinner together, plus they left all their business and even their phone while having our meal together. It is so amazing and surprising for me, because not only meet and catch up together for lunch and dinner but they also share about what happen with their daily life, sharing and have a warm communication together.
Above here is our picture together after having our tea time together took by Manu`s mom. Look our happy face and it is so pleasure for me to meet and spend my holiday with them.
Thinking about European culture, makes me thinking about how I spend my time with others. Like thinking about how I used to spend my time with family. How am I used to have dinner with my family? Am I always "be there" when I was sit down together with my family? Do I "make my time" for them?
Initially, my motivation was to visit my friend who came far away from Indonesia to Europe. But when i got there, I learn and reflect a lot about my self from her boyfriend`s family even more I feel like they are my family just within one night knowing them.
Anyway, it makes me curious about how come they have this kind of culture and is it just in this family or most of European family like this.. Then I ask one of my friend in my workplace who is Swiss people and yeap she said so that this our culture, like its already their habit from their childhood. They will come together, having meal together and left their work first to get know more with each other and have a strong relation within their family. They even spend more time for their family to their friends. It is like so rare for them to hangout with their friends like most of the time they will have dinner and lunch with their family
Knowing this fact, makes me realize so much what is actually matters for me in my life. Is it my phone? Is it my social media? my followers? my friends? or my family? Because I used to play my phone and not even have a proper talk with my family. Even more, these days looks like so hard to have a complete members of my family to have a proper meal especially when we all are grown up and have a lot of friends who like to hangout together.
Well, from my sharing I like to share to you guys that we only live once that never know until when we will be alive. So, let`s makes time for what matters for us! Have a deep reflection and makes your life meaningful for others! :)
Thanks to God, I could find this culture experience which makes me realize and become a better person. Therefore, I want to share this all to you, my other journey that hopefully be a blessing for others~
God bless you..
or we can also say Grüezi! in Deutsch
This time I would like to share about my social experience here.
I found interesting things here guys!
Thanks to my best friend who allowed me to stay in one of family in Europe that makes me experienced the differences culture that I found really interesting.
Let me introduce her to you guys..
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| This is me (left) with my best friend, Lia (right) This photo taken in Stuttgart, Germany |
Just for your information, I am not really close with my best friend`s boyfriend who is Manu at first. We use to say hi and just have a small talk but the he is so nice and welcome me when I want to visit my best friend who stayed in his place during her holiday trip.
Anyway, beside Manu is super nice.. the surprising part is that his family who is not even know about me before are really warm and welcome me so well. Yeah, I am not expect this at all.
It is amazing and I can feel their kindness and their happiness in this family.
They not only give me a very nice place to stay overnight but they prepare meals for me and even for my day trip to look around the Stuttgart, Germany.
Unbelievable, right?
The most unbelievable and amazing part from this story is that I could learn a lot of things from this family that I`ve never realized before. Thanks to manu and his family, they reminds me about what matters to me. Is family still your first priority after God? or Is it friends? or is it Social media?
Maybe you must be curious how could I learn and think about this right?
Let me share you this story..
I thought that I will feel awkward and not being able to talk anything at first but then here comes the unique and interesting part when I just arrived, they prepare a very nice and warm meal for us already. Manu`s mom asked us "Are you guys hungry? Ready for the food?". Different from Indonesian people who will be shy to say no.. we need to say the truth "Yes, we are!!" to shows our excitement.
From here, I thought that maybe we will just have lunch with his mom but then when she said our lunch is ready, Every single person in the house were joining with us directly in this lunch who is Manu`s dad and Manu`s sister.
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| Here is me, Lia, and Manu (Lia`s boyfriend) |
It is amazing and I can feel their kindness and their happiness in this family.
They not only give me a very nice place to stay overnight but they prepare meals for me and even for my day trip to look around the Stuttgart, Germany.
Unbelievable, right?
The most unbelievable and amazing part from this story is that I could learn a lot of things from this family that I`ve never realized before. Thanks to manu and his family, they reminds me about what matters to me. Is family still your first priority after God? or Is it friends? or is it Social media?
Maybe you must be curious how could I learn and think about this right?
Let me share you this story..
I thought that I will feel awkward and not being able to talk anything at first but then here comes the unique and interesting part when I just arrived, they prepare a very nice and warm meal for us already. Manu`s mom asked us "Are you guys hungry? Ready for the food?". Different from Indonesian people who will be shy to say no.. we need to say the truth "Yes, we are!!" to shows our excitement.
From here, I thought that maybe we will just have lunch with his mom but then when she said our lunch is ready, Every single person in the house were joining with us directly in this lunch who is Manu`s dad and Manu`s sister.
It is so lovely, isn`t it? It`s literary they catch up together, having lunch, tea time, and dinner together, plus they left all their business and even their phone while having our meal together. It is so amazing and surprising for me, because not only meet and catch up together for lunch and dinner but they also share about what happen with their daily life, sharing and have a warm communication together.
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| from left to right (Manu`s mon, Manu, Lia, Manu`s dad, me, and Manu`s sister) |
Thinking about European culture, makes me thinking about how I spend my time with others. Like thinking about how I used to spend my time with family. How am I used to have dinner with my family? Am I always "be there" when I was sit down together with my family? Do I "make my time" for them?
Initially, my motivation was to visit my friend who came far away from Indonesia to Europe. But when i got there, I learn and reflect a lot about my self from her boyfriend`s family even more I feel like they are my family just within one night knowing them.
Anyway, it makes me curious about how come they have this kind of culture and is it just in this family or most of European family like this.. Then I ask one of my friend in my workplace who is Swiss people and yeap she said so that this our culture, like its already their habit from their childhood. They will come together, having meal together and left their work first to get know more with each other and have a strong relation within their family. They even spend more time for their family to their friends. It is like so rare for them to hangout with their friends like most of the time they will have dinner and lunch with their family
Knowing this fact, makes me realize so much what is actually matters for me in my life. Is it my phone? Is it my social media? my followers? my friends? or my family? Because I used to play my phone and not even have a proper talk with my family. Even more, these days looks like so hard to have a complete members of my family to have a proper meal especially when we all are grown up and have a lot of friends who like to hangout together.
Well, from my sharing I like to share to you guys that we only live once that never know until when we will be alive. So, let`s makes time for what matters for us! Have a deep reflection and makes your life meaningful for others! :)
Thanks to God, I could find this culture experience which makes me realize and become a better person. Therefore, I want to share this all to you, my other journey that hopefully be a blessing for others~
God bless you..
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