Indonesian Cultural Nite @ Penn state

on 23rd march 2013 was one of memorable experience that i ever had, sooo excited that my host family and I could come to Indonesian Cultural nite at Penn state, state college. well, approximately it was 2 hours away from my host family's house. this event was held by the association of indonesian college student in US which is called PERMIAS. so the indonesian penn stater hold that event every year, and they also get sponsored by the US department of state. it was a really really fun day tho, the event was started at 6 p.m and they showed several popular dances from different islands in Indonesia such as Tari sekar jagat, Tari piring, Tari Saman, and they also showed us angklung ansemble. there were a small gallery about the traditional sword, traditional clothes, and several pictures about Indonesia. i know some of the committee there and we spoke bahasa indonesia, but too baad it was kind of awkward at the first time because we have different dialects hehe. for dinner, i had nasi goreng( fried rice), satay, lumpia, oh myyy i love them! i miss indonesian food so bad, coming to that event made me at least ate some of the indonesian cuisine hehehe. i hope while i was here, at least i could go to one of indonesian restaurant here. while i was thousand miles away from home, lotta indonesian here said that they are all way more proud to their home country and proud holding our flag and say " I love my country", everything that related to my home country usually give me goosebumps while i heard about it. i also love when people at school or everyone in my community ask me about my country, i'd love to share to them <3 well probably i could be the first indonesian that they ever met who could share a  lot about indonesia :) some of them had a hard time to figure out where indonesia is or even to distinguish between indonesia and india hehe lol. i always glad to answer all of their question, so enjoy being an ambassador for my country:) in the indonesian cultural nite i tried one of the head band from Bali, and my host mom and host dad also try the javanese mask ( Topeng) :3 here they are

Mom, Dad wearing javanese mask (Topeng)

:)