Ive been
following @IDberkebun on Twitter since few months ago, and seriously
wanted to join if the community existed in Balikpapan. Stupidly, I never asked
the admin about it, and until last week, when I was in Pendingin (I will have a
special post for this one soon), I saw on Twitter that there is @Bpnberkebun!
Oh my, after almost 8 months staying here? Yes, kinda my fault. -___-
Alright, lets go
to the story. On last Sunday, after registration on Twitter (the event was a collaboration
between @Bpnberkebun and @akberbalikpapan) I and my super partner went to the
venue. I don’t really know where exactly it is located, I just follow my
instinct. Hahahahaha But thank God, I found it. It’s in front of my favourite
mall, Balcony (for the cheap movie tix, of course). The venue was Panti Asuhan
Ummi (an orphanage). As usual, me, a super shy Icha slowly gets into the
orphanage and standing in front of the door until the orphanage manager came
out and asked us to get in the house. The house was quite big and in my honest
opinion, it’s quite comfort (by looking at the living room) for the kids who
are staying there.
The orphanage
manager, lets just call her as ‘Ibu’ (fine, I stupidly did not asked her name) invited
us for a lunch. And we’re really sorry because before coming there, we already
had our lunch after playing badminton with Well Services KAL Team. We’re
seriously full. And of course, we’re on healthy diet program too. Haha :p After
having lunch, the committee are preparing the presentation. As far as I know,
@akberbalikpapan is part of Akademi Berbagi where they are focusing on
teaching. So, that’s mean we were having a class on that day. Yeay! :D The
class for that special day was about Urban Farming, the knowledge was shared by
Pak Widodo, someone who is expert about farming (he is working with a company
that provides plant seed and has his own business too).
He taught us how
to have our own small farm using poly bag and utilize the surrounding area of
our house with green plant. The steps are seeding, planting and giving
appropriate fertilizers for our plants so that they get proper nutrient. The
steps are so simple and I can practice it at home (but now Im still focusing on my
breakout & promotion steps, so maybe after I get my grade 8 I will have my
own farm :)
).
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| The class session |
After the class
finished, we’re invited to the backyard of the orphanage where we’re going to
have the farm. I helped to carry the sand and fertilizer (from goat waste, if
Im not mistaken). The fertilizers were really smelly! Haha :p But it’s okay,
the experience much more worth it than the smell of goat. Haha :) ) The backyard area was
so huge. The orphanage have their own space
(like a pond) that is full with cat fish (lele),
have chicken farm and also goat at their backyard. The chicks and goat are the
greatest enemy for the farm that we’re going to have, so that’s why they built
a fence all over the farm for protection.
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| Building the fence |
First of all,
before we start to put the seed into the poly bag, we have to prepare the sand
+ natural fertilizer. The ratio was 2:1 (sand : fertilizer). Oh ya, before
going to the event, I bought myself a shovel and handglove, that has flower
motif (I did not wear it because its too flowery, MALUUUUUU) -__-“. I used my shovel to help mixing the sand and fertilizers. I thought the goat waste smell
was the worst part, but its not. WORMS are the worst part! Oh God TT___TT I
dislike worms so much and accidentally tells it and one of the orphanage, Rizky
was really naughty and he keeps on giving me fresh worms that he found in the
sand. I shout and actually almost cry. Swear it. --___--
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| Mixing the sand + fertilizer |
Fine, lets
forget about the worms story. Now get back to farming session. :) ) After finshed mixing
the sand and fertilizer, we put the mixture into poly bag, the amount of the
mixture was ¾ of the poly bag. And then, we take the seed and take
out the plastic wrap and put in the hole inside the poly bag. Put it until the
level of the root so that the stem will not be rotten. And we’re ready to
arrange the poly bags at the farm! :D
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| Mbak Nisa planting the seed :D |
We spent almost
1.5 hours doing the farming. It was a good experience, where I got the chancee
to be part of a community that really care about the environment, education and
I could also get to know a lot of new friends and widened my circle of life. I
hope the community will continue to grow and brings out positive impact to the
society and environment, not to forget, to our nation. Apart from that, by
having the activity in an orphanage like Panti Asuhan Ummi, it makes me realize
how grateful I am to have a complete family and a very good life, compare to
them, the unfortunate kids. Oh ya, my partner and I have a special mission for the
kids there, hopefully we can make it real so soon. Aamiin. :)
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| The seeds, all green ^__^ |
That’s the story
of mine. A day where I getting involve in a community in Balikpapan, the city
where I was assigned by Schlumberger to work with (for, more suitable I think)
them.
Sorry if my
English is so damn bad. Hihihi :p Have a good day, peeps! :D )
Note : All photos are belong to Kak @saputrakingdom
-MS-
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