never before in all my life had I been told that I was beautiful! neveeer!!! you know that a girl with glasses is always underestimated!! it happened since I was in senior high school (superficial indeed! -_-). An in all, this was a dramatic transformation and the only reason why I decided to join this tourism and cultural ambassador because i just wanted to train up my public speaking skills and surprisingly i was chosen to be one of Depok ambassador!! yeeey!!!! xD (just coincidence i guess :p). The first selection was so tiring... we had to face several tests such as pschycologycal test, matters of common knowledge, foreign language ability and so on. And the people who have passed the first selection had to face the main judges on the following day, and there we discussed about some issues that they have prepared for us. First time i got there it felt like my blood was boiling and would extremly jump out of my body, silly!!!! -_-. I tried to calm myself down, took a really deep breath and finally I shyly stammered my name and told them my point of view about the first issue, and after that first bloody meeting everything became much more easier xD. I tried to speak gracefully eventhough I didnt really know what I was talking about :p LOL. After waiting for more than 4 hours, they begun to announce the result, and my beating heart danced with amusement as they annouced that I was chosen to be one of the ambassador!!! xD thank God!!!
we had to be trained for about a month after the selection. We were teached how to be eloquent, how to act with a good manner in every situation, how to wear "tumpal" and "encim" (our traditional clothes), how to wear makeup and how to walk elegantly in HIGH HEELS!! I could handle all of the rules including the fact that I had to put my glasses off and wearing that sucks contact lenses -_- but high heels is not really for me (still learning how to wear it until now).
Now i'm going to explain about the matter of the clothes "tumpal". first, one of our senior, Mpok Tami started wraping tumpal around me at hip to teach us the way we should wear it. Then she raised it slightly at every turn so that it formed a tight ascending spiral. I felt like a mummy folded in a shroud -_-. "You all will get used to it", she explained. For your information, in tumpal you can't take a long strides, it's really hard to walk and I had to be taught hard to walk slowly with the grace of this clothes. but well..she was right, when the day of grand final came we looked totally different with this clothes!! Never had i been the object of such flattering attention. Undeniably it gave us more than a touch of glamour. I couldn't thank you enough, i found it perfect!! ever since I started loving this clothes!! ;)
I learned a lot from this competition, met so many great people, and found a "new family" :'>
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