My
Rush Time as a Journalist
I usually
woke up at eight o'clock a.m. and went to the Press Center to check the daily
schedule of briefings and press conferences. It was usually held by the United
Nation officials or disaster mitigation team.
It was
challenging to visit different refugee camps to find soft stories, human
interest stories. After that I went back to the Press Center to cover the press
conferences of the day.
It was
heart breaking when I saw these survivors fight for food and secondhand
clothing. Unfortunately as they said, the food and clothing were limited and
inadequate. Emerging to glaring, fool noon, it was time to go back to Press
Center to write stories and race against time. I was always fearing that the
internet would come crushing down.
After
everything was done, only then I remembered to eat. Most times, I only ate once
a day because I always had to rush and again it was difficult to find food. I
had to travel quite far. I needed to spend a 30 to 45 minutes by car just to find
fresh food.
Visit to Bali
There were so many places to see in Bali that my friend
decided to join the tours to see as much as possible. My friend stayed in Kuta
on arrival. He spent the first three days swimming and surfing on Kuta beach.
He visited some tour agents and selected two tours. The first one was to
Singaraja, the second was to Ubud.
On the day of the tour, he was ready. My friend and his group drove on through mountains. Singaraja is a city of about 90 thousands people. It is a busy but quiet town. The street are lined with trees and there are many old Dutch houses. Then they returned very late in the evening to Kuta.
The second tour to Ubud was a very different tour. It was not to see the scenery but to see the art and the craft of the island. The first stop was at Batubulan, a center of stone sculpture. There my friend watched young boys were carving away at big blocks of stone. The next stop was Celuk, a center for silversmiths and goldensmiths. After that he stopped a little while for lunch at Sukawati and on to mass. Mass is a tourist center
My friend ten-day-stay ended very quickly beside his two tour, all his day was spent on the beach. He went sailing or surfboarding every day. He was quiet satisfied.
On the day of the tour, he was ready. My friend and his group drove on through mountains. Singaraja is a city of about 90 thousands people. It is a busy but quiet town. The street are lined with trees and there are many old Dutch houses. Then they returned very late in the evening to Kuta.
The second tour to Ubud was a very different tour. It was not to see the scenery but to see the art and the craft of the island. The first stop was at Batubulan, a center of stone sculpture. There my friend watched young boys were carving away at big blocks of stone. The next stop was Celuk, a center for silversmiths and goldensmiths. After that he stopped a little while for lunch at Sukawati and on to mass. Mass is a tourist center
My friend ten-day-stay ended very quickly beside his two tour, all his day was spent on the beach. He went sailing or surfboarding every day. He was quiet satisfied.
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