Be More Than What I Am Now
Monday, 18 May 2020by adminstube
Participant’s reflection on Communication Skills training 2020 batch 3
I did not know what Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta before, only after Kristiani Pedi, the activist of Ana Tana community where I involved in, told me about her experience to participate in Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta. Then she informed me the Communication Skills training held by Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta. I was immediately said ok, because I was looking for positive activities for my spare time, besides studying online during quarantine to reduce Covid-19 outbreak. Rather than just lying down, it was better to try something positive, right?
I am Rexine Yeralvany Riwu from East Sumba, East Nusa Tenggara, studying Tourism Destinations in Tourism Diploma of Merdeka University in Malang. In my mind Sumba island or often called The Hidden Paradise as a rich island in natural and cultural potencies has developed into one of the tourist destinations that must be visited by tourists both domestic and foreign tourists. The uniqueness of Sumba made me interested to work in tourism field. Apart from the lack of tourism workers, developing community welfare through tourism industry become my dream. I chose Malang, especially Merdeka University in Malang as the campus where I study because it had adequate learning facilities and infrastructures, as well as its beautiful city atmosphere that seemed safe for student from different region like me.
The Communication Skills training from Stube HEMAT has developed my speaking skills, even at the end of this training I was challenged to produce a short video that was entertaining (parody) related with Covid-19 or social reality. This is something new and certainly a hard challenge for me because I am a type of a person that is serious and "afraid of camera", I am not good enough to act something funny. Through deep thinking and discussion, I managed to conceptualize a parody video about Covid-19 and social reality related with "Impact of Covid-19 in Tourism Industry", a modern educative parody video based on millennial teenagers concept.
The process of making videos was a real challenge for me. It was so difficult, even I almost gave up. Fortunately, I received encouragement from my mentors, Trustha Rembaka and Putri Laoli, a simple support but it was very helpful. Finally I managed to make a short video with four scenes at once, not perfect indeed, but it brought a very big change in me. Sometimes the biggest enemy is myself, and I got more excited to defeat what I consider "I cannot afford". Through ideas and the mentors’ inputs and some modifications, the scenes were designed for the video. After going through challenging editing process, the video finally finished and uploaded on YouTube Channel of Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta with a link https://youtu.be/bCmSVN_UFRo
Experience is the best teacher, I found something valuable from my experience as a Communication Skills trainee: If you only do what you can do, you'll never be more than you are now. I used to consider incapable but turned out that I could make it well. Thank you Stube-HEMAT. (Rexine Yeralvany Riwu).
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