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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