Hey guys,,I would like to share about my experience being a moslem in my host country. I'm really grateful getting this chance to study abroad to the country where not so many people are moslem here. It's kind of cool when you experience to be a minority. Alhamdulilah, what i had experience, it makes me even more faithful and respectful to others. When I was at home I usually pray in my own room. and my host family always respect me and understand whenever I need to pray. Well I don't really have a problem with that when I was at home. But what if when I was at school or when i had a vacation? So, I always check islamicfinder.org to know about my prayer time. In my first coming, I didn't really have a problem to do my prayer especially dhuhur prayer. Because it's still possible for me to take dhuhur prayer( noon prayer) after school, around 3.30 p.m. at that time the ashar ( afternoon prayer) started from 5.30 p.m. But in the end of Autumn, the time has changed 1 hour earlier than before, and it turned out the prayer times changed either. So my prayer times are based on the sun. and I pray 5 times a day (Morning(subuh prayer),Noon(dhuhur prayer),Afternoon(ashar prayer),Dusk(maghrib prayer),Night(Isya' prayer). Since that time I wasn't able to do my dhuhur prayer after school. So, I have to do that prayer at school. Do you know what?? at that time i was talking to my german teacher about that. Because i think she is the closest teacher that I had at school. So I asked her"Is that possible for me to have a prayer at school ?" and i explained the reason why . and oh my goodness, what a nice of her! she sent email to the principal, and exactly the next day I met the principal and he said that I definitely could do that! Subhanallah:""). and fortunately I have Lunch C which is perfect to take dhuhur prayer. I always tried to have lunch as fast as possible and then do my prayer. So, where do I pray at school?? I pray in the nurse office at school, and there is a nice room that they provide that for me to pray. I got really close to the nurse there thou. Of course! because I always go there every day. hehe. and because there isn't any place for wudlu' so what i always do here is wudlu' by using water from the sink hehe. and fortunately there is a private bathroom in the nurse office which makes me much more comfortable with that. hehe. And what I'll do when i was away from home. when it's pretty urgent, I'll pray in the car. So, I do really often pray in the car whenever my host family and I were going on vacation. At least I always try the best I can do, i just don't wanna miss my prayer. And Alhamdulillah I always find the way to do that and people around me always respect and let me to do that.
In my international education week, I also delivered my presentation in my host family' church. I talked about interesting facts and s lot of things about Indonesia. In addition, I also share about being a moslem in Indonesia. Pretty much bridging understanding between moslem and christian. I'm really grateful because beside of being a representative at least i could be the one that answer their question about islam:) It's my pleasure to share and they'r all open minded and really respect me as a moslem. So don't prejudice somethin easily, please don't judge the religion because of only one person. Living with thousand of differences is awesome and challenging. well actually i don't have to go overseas to feel the differences, in my home country there are thousand of differences either. Being positive is the thing that we should do to face the differences. I do respect them and alhamdulillah they do respect me as well. Thank you YES program:) I learned so many things from every single moment or experience that I had here!:)
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