Category: 2022 – SMA

Laura Amelia Group1 PEP Report

Name: Laura Amelia
Team: Team 1
Day & Date: Friday, June 3rd , 2022
Avenue: Petra 1 SHS
Time: 10 AM to 3 PM
Agenda: First virtual meeting with Dunman HS

I must admit, I was very nervous before my very first meeting with the Dunmans. I even did some warm-ups and exercises with my mouth before to have better articulation during speaking with them. Because, usually, when I get nervous, I tend to start blabbing and the words that I say get all mixed up. I also practiced doing some conversations with my foreign friends to prepare myself. To my surprise, the event was less-scary than I had imagined. My team and I had a small discussion on the topic with the Dunman students and we managed to finish the proposal on time. I find it really interesting that they are able to work on the given tasks so quickly and flawlessly.

Our introduction with the Dunmans went quite well. Honestly, it was awkward at first since it’s our first ever meeting together. However, we were finally able to discover each other’s talents and hobbies, which was very interesting. Apart from introducing ourselves one by one, we also discussed about our project in general. For instance, challenges we may face during the process, searching for references/ journals that will be used, the purpose of the project, and questions that might be asked during an interview with the informants. All those that we had discussed altogether are also written on our proposal.

I think we have enough preparation for this project. We’ve gathered as much resources, articles, journals, and references as possible. Each of us has also did a brief research regarding on Fashion and Design, our given topic. My team and I are fully committed to finish the project together until it’s finished and to give our very best into all of our work. I am very satisfied with this first meeting with the Dunmans. It was truly such an unforgettable experience and very memorable to me. I’m grateful to be able to experience this amazing once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Kevin Group1 PEP Report

VIRTUAL STUDENT EXCHANGE FIRST INTERVIEW REPORT

Name: Kevin Jiovanni Kuslin
Team: Team 1
Day & Date: Friday, June 3, 2022
Avenue: Petra 1 SHS
Time: 10 AM to 3 PM
Agenda: First virtual meeting with Dunman HS

What did you prepare before the event?
We as Petra Highschool students have prepared numerous amount of website links to make us more prepared for our first interview with Dunman Highschool students. I, personally have read a couple of the articles myself, and I was one of the students who headed 2 website links sent to our WhatsApp group. I also prepared what I had to inform to DHS students on what we are going to present, also I prepared for greeting lines that I had to say to express honor and respect to DHS students, which I genuinely glad I prepared those lines first. With these efforts, I was able to approach the first interview well and more coordinated.
What did you do during the event? Explain your answer.
In the event, I spend most of my time by listening and sharing my thoughts about certain topics given in the event. Whether it’s about my personal information and mostly discussing about our upcoming presentation project. Whenever the DHS students spoke and elaborated, I listened. Whenever we were having time to discuss about something, I shared my thoughts about that certain topic. On the other hand, I with other Petra Highschool students also prepared quite a lot of things before joining the event, this containing microphone, video, and signal checkings to provide the best possible situation.
What points that you’ve found interesting from Dunman HS? Explain your answer. I am personally impressed by how collaborative DHS students are, and I think it was outstanding to find that DHS students are so passionated and oriented to our project. Especially to the fact that they stay remain friendly and cheerful to PHS students who they just met. Other than the students, I’ve found that DHS’ garden and statue in the middle of their building are very interesting to see, because supported by the fact that DHS students can come out of their classes after their school sessions ended to breathe the fresh air and beautiful scenery of the garden.
What do you think about the introduction with the Dunman HS students? What positive points you’ve learned from them? Explain your answer.
I knew it myself that it’s believale hard for DHS students to adjust and get around with PHS students who they just met. However, they handled the introduction, ice-breaking, school-touring, and collaborative discussion very well, and their outstanding effort has made positive mindset in us on how trustable and reliable they are. I have learned that I shouldn’t be too shy when meeting people and most importantly remain calm when greeting them as I would greet myself, I have also learned that DHS students listen to every opinion PHS student have. Based on my experience, I find it quite rare for people to mind every problem adressed to them, but DHS students responded to all of our questions and confusions, which was genuinely helpful for us, PHS students.
What did you discuss with the Dunman HS students? What are the points? Explain your answer in detail.
We discussed about numerous of ideas that we are going to point out in our presentation. We mainly talked about what are the impacts to fashion and design industries caused by the pandemic, while we also discussed about the result of the impact leading to the progress or setbacks of industries caused by the pandemic. We also made a discussion about matching our presentation points to the theme and not to be too distinctive away from the theme. Other than that, we also prepared the questions of what we are going to adress to the industry we are going to interview to support the evidence aspect of our presentation. However, we didn’t quite discuss much about the source of our resources we are going to extract, nor the difficulties we had while doing the interview, this was probably caused by the limitation of time for pair-up-discussion, and the rest of our discussion was under controlled, and we were truly happy with what we have discussed so far.
What have you got in your proposal?
In our proposal, we have discussed to get the point of view of our presentation. We mainly discussed about how the pandemic impacted clothing industries and the sustainable effects from the impact. Besides that, we have also discussed about website links that we are going to use to support our presentation, from our discussion to finish our proposal, we agreed that we mainly are going to use online websites as our resources to provide information in our presentation. We have also chosen our group leader from both PHS and DHS and our members’ phone number to make it more possible for us to interact, coordinate, and prepare our presentation at our best for both country.
What things you need to prepare for the project?
I will need to bring myself my private headphones to help me hear better while we communicate with each other. Other than that, I will need to prepare the script for our presentation, so our presentation will exactly according to the reference we agreed. The script is one of the top things that is crucial to develop and control our presentation to the point resulting the results as we expect.
Do you have any commitments with your team in doing the project?
Yes, I do. I completely trust my team for finishing their own part with all of my trust ,and I believe that they will offer great results. I hope we all as a team can contribute to this big project together with trust, respect, hard work, and humbleness as one unity without doubt and distrust. I believe that we will have great result equivalent with what we have prepared for our presentation and mainly put our greatest effort for our project.
What do you feel after the first meeting? Explain your answer I was honestly pretty relieved after we have done our first meeting with DHS students and got to know each other for the very first time. Furthermore, I was relieved that we have also discussed the main parts of our presentation, especially we have figured out the sketch of our presentation, our editing app, and the color scheme of our presentation. Despite the achievement and relief I felt, I also felt a little bit depressed and a sense of inferiority due to the fact that my headphones did not function well in terms of very low volume. This means that I wouldn’t hear properly what some PHS and DHS were talking about, the issue was I could not hear what they were talking about neither I should respond. So in that case, I mainly remain silent most of the time, but I still give elaboration to particular questions that I could properly hear. To sum up, I genuinely felt relieved about the discussion we have made which surpassed our expectation, while I also had feeling of inferiority as a result of low volume received from my headphones.
10. Do you have any suggestions for the next meeting or the program?
Yes, I do. I mainly have suggestion to give PHS students access to bring their own headphones from home instead the ones provided by Petra. This is all because I don’t want to experience the same issue again on 26th August 2022. Other than that, the program and meeting are already astonishing and have already provided adequate assistance to assist our project.

Isabel_Group1_PEP Report

Name : Isabel Katryn Santoso
Team : Team 1 (Fashion & Design)
Day & Date : Friday, June 3, 2022
Avenue : Petra 1 SHS
Time : 10 AM to 3 PM
Agenda : First virtual meeting with Dunman HS

Before the event I prepared a lot of reading links for reference when we met with Dunman HS student’s. And we did a lot and we did a lot of activities like before we met with Dunman HS did a sound check on each other’s laptop so that the activities could run smoothly, then we listened to the introduction of Petra school from Petra representative students and not only that we also listened to the introduction from Dunman HS, which I’ve learned positive points from them such as Dunman HS are guided by the School Motto of Honesty, Trustworthiness, Moral Courage and Loyalty in every of their life endeavours and undertakings. Also Dunman HS srudent did some small tour and from that I also found some interesting points like I found out that Dunman HS has a canteen that provides a variety of food such as Japanese food, Chinese food and many more. I just think that is very cool and interesting because I just heard new things like their canteen. And lastly we did a discussion on our group project.

We discuss a lot for our group project such as Why did we choose Fashion & Design topic?, What do we think this research will achieve?, What Reference materials /documents did we decide to look for to complete this research?, Do we think we will have a problem on this project? What questions will we ask the respondents?, How would we let each team member play their strengths and work together to complete the project?, and we provide a rough project timeline for our team wich is at June 3rd we need to Complet the Group Project Template and before 26th of August we need to discuss a lot about of Fashion (Industry, impact, innovation). And I’ve prepared a lot of reading materials and also I’ve prepared a power point for the project, also our team commitments is can complete this project together, give our best for the project and can build good cooperation.

After a lot of discussion in our first meeting I feel happy because I can meet Dunman HS student even though it’s offline and also I feel relieved when the first meeting is over I don’t know why maybe because this is our first time meeting so it might be a little awkward. I don’t have any suggestions for the next meeting or the program because I think this first meeting is enough.

PEP Report – Wilbert (3 June)

After being announced to succeed in the first-step of the prerequisite qualification process, the persevering dream of mine, has been brought into reality. I was ecstatic, uplifted, rejoicing, and feeling this short-lived euphoria; to hear the enlivening news, the other day. I was enchanted, at the same time, honoured to be selected as the worthy candidate; to have such wonderful encounters and cultural exchange with Singapore’s Durham students. However, prior to the long-awaited moment to come by, we were enlightened and familiarized ourselves with the given compact instructions, a summarized version of the run-down, and most importantly, delightful events in which we’d be able to partake in—kudos to our beloved teachers, we had a vivid depiction of what’s about to happen on the D-day.

Since ‘Petra 1’ as our appointed gathering place is a faraway place for me to drop by, I was faced with an adversity, yet fortunate enough to have Petra 2 to facilitate my way there; alongside plenty of my peers. After our arrival, at 9:50-ish, another rather-short

preparation was held, then we’re set to go. Long story short, all of us were disassembled into our own designated rooms—while for me, it’s Room 3. The apparent 13:00 (local time) showed that our exhilarating exchange program would begin promptly. Firstly, we were enthusiastically greeted by the Singaporeans—our Petra’s representatives did the same in turn. Afterwards, we’re split into our assigned breakout rooms, and ordered to fill out this specific worksheet concerning our collaborative project. But before doing so, our first-ever discourse session wouldn’t be so felicitous and ethical enough, without the well-needed and essential introductions from each one of us, to generate charming first impressions.

At first, pure awkwardness and discomfort permeated the breakout room, as we chose to be reserved and tight-lipped, whilst adjusting to the unfamiliar situation. Not long after, the silence was bound to be broken, per usual. We started off with Durham’s magnificent architecture tour, then began to progressively transition our chatter’s topic, going from discussing habitual hobbies to retail services, our primary objective to accomplish. Coincidentally, we hadn’t really delved into our perplexing commissioned topic ‘retail services’, but we’re conveying our very own ideas of what actually defines ‘retail services’ itself. We’d come into a settlement that, the notion of this challenging topic, would be solely limited to the flourishing online shopping method, and the thriving delivery system to handle the current Covid-19 outbreak, where innovation and sustainability are prioritized. In a furious pace, we did an astounding job in completing the planner to assess our ‘retail topic’ as our main content. All in all, it was a thrilling rollercoaster ride in the process of it.

By Wilbert Nathaniel (Petra 2)

PEP Report – Felicia Bongkriwan (3 June)

Petra Exchange Program Report

On 3rd of June, Petra Senior High Schools’ students and Dunman High School’s students met each other virtually through zoom for the first time. I finally got to see the other team members from the other school. At first, I was nervous and anxious because I have never been in programs like this before. Truthfully, it was a little awkward between me and them at first since I’m not really good with meeting new people, but I started to enjoy it after the ice-breaking session.

Before the breakout room session ended, we managed to discuss a few things for the project proposal. Specifically, our main focus on the topic of retail services. We plan to research much information to be able to compare before and after the pandemic. We also plan to continue or discussion through zoom on Saturday, 11th of June.

PEP Report – Eunike (3 June)

Petra Exchange Program (PEP) Journal

1st meeting
The Petra Exchange Program is a very interesting activity for me to join. During the preparation, I was so excited and couldn’t wait any longer to start. In this first meeting, I felt really nervous, especially when it comes to speaking. I knew that confidence is the most important thing when we communicate to others, but to be honest, today was not as good as I expected. I actually wanted to be friends with the DHS students, understand them, and share everything with them like what I used to do. But then, I found out that I was not that active. When I tried to speak up my opinion, they didn’t answer me immediately. Instead, they looked a little bit confused and giggled most of the time. This made me think that my speaking was very bad and unclear. Even though they sometimes tried their best to communicate with us, asked us about the topic, I already felt unconfident.

This doesn’t mean I didn’t like this program since today. I know this is just a beginning. It can be hard at first, but as long as I work with them, I’ll understand them better. The positive side is that I feel like being urge to study more deeply, so I won’t say anything wrong or embarrassing. I hope I can perform better and contribute a lot to this group.