It's exactly a week from the last goodbyes with my fellow IB mates at the conference and I am feeling really sad right now that it is REALLY over and God knows when we all can meet again! The conference has brought me deeper into the multicultural world; meeting friends from all over the world and getting to know their cultures from their own perspectives, to name few of the perks being at the conference. After the conference, I too, start to think and live in a more sustainable way than I was before. In Indonesia, the habit of recycling and reusing old and used things has not been established so it is quite hard to maintain and implement such habit into the household. But after all the seminars and discussions I attended while at the UBC, I became much more aware of the environment and started to teach my family members how to correctly live sustainably not only to help us but also the world as a whole.
Moreover, I have been active in the Energy Warrior committee at school, leading all my juniors to conserve energy and be more active to preserve the environment. Inspired from the conference, I passed on the precious knowledge I obtained at UBC to my peers in hope that they will in turn spread the words to a larger community and start the sustainability move! In a matter of week, I will also be standing in front of the whole school to present the whole experience I had at the IB WSC UBC Conference including all the sustainable knowledge, Canada experiences and of course multicultural friends I became friends with while at the conference!
All in all, I am now having a mixture of happiness and sadness running all over my body knowing how it's been a week since it all ended and now I am back to the IB reality of IAs and EE but also quite excited and happy seeing how I can now start the sustainable movement throughout my school and the surrounding community in hope we can become the leading sustainable community in Indonesia!
P.S. REALLY hoping all of us can reunite again at a post-IB conference or something :(
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