New Culture..

I have experienced with my neighbors, because I live in the environment of International School so there are many foreigners around me. I have a neighbor, besides my house. They are Mr. Collin, Mrs. Retno and Elicia is the daughter, they are English. When they lived there, there is no many differences of culture because Mr. Collin married with Indonesian women. They do the activities just like usual, because the wife has taught about Indonesian culture to Mr. Collin and the daughter. Eating rice for breakfast, lunch and dinner, but sometimes with bread or another western meal. Mr. Collin loves hygiene, so he asked the housekeepers to clean the house three times everyday. An English man is a hard worker, always on time, discipline. Mr. Collin taught his daughter to respect the others, especially the members of the family (Nanny, housekeeper, etc), for example when a Fasting day the daughter wanted to play all day long with the Nanny, but the Nanny is a Moslem and has fasting, so Mr. Collin asked his daughter not to played and allow the Nanny to take a rest until the time of Break the fasting. That is the new culture, I mean the foreigner culture that adopted Indonesian culture, and because they live in Indonesia they try to learnt the culture of Indonesia, try to speak Indonesian.

Another neighbor is Mr. Kirk’s family; they are Mr. Kirk, Mrs. Laura, Semmes and Gram is the son, they come from Montana, as an American they eat Bread and sometimes eat rice. I met them when Idul fitri, Gram through in front of my house and I we introduced ourselves, and immediately he and his family came to my house and brought cake as a introduction cake ^^, the things that surprised for them that Indonesian people are friendly, share food and serves drink, they love it.

They always open the window, although it’s night. They said that they love the fresh air, the night’s air, wow really different with us! And wherever they go, no matter the distance whether it’s near or far they still use helmet and another safety, which I know the kids love to hanging when they use public transportation.