Earthquake, earthquake and earthquake happened to many cities in Indonesia. The greatest happened in Aceh and Yogyakarta, my city. I experienced how scared and sad when the earthquake happened. I was lucky, because my house not full broken, but until now, I still feel the horror. Many house in Bantul and Klaten full broken. If we saw the housing there, we saw nothing but land. Only land. After researching, people knew that the reason why most houses there broken because every single house there did not built up by the right anti-earthquake-construction.
I realize that since long time ago Japan is the greatest country for developing an anti-earthquake-construction. It is because Japan experience lots of earthquake until now. So that, Japan developing its technology and then found an anti-earthquake-construction. It is the greatest reason that makes me want to study the construction there, hardly.
I really want to go to Japan for studying it. But I cannot do it easily. I must go for a scholarship if I really want it. Graduated from high school, I have tried applying for monbukagakusho scholarship, but I did not pass the test. So, I must go for it in my university. Finally I found this chance. I can do the student exchange for opening a way to reach my dream. I will found a construction from Japan that applicable in my city, Yogyakarta, so that it would not experience the misery again.
I know that my dream couldn’t be completed by only doing this student exchange program. But SPACE program absolutely will be the first step to my dream. I will get some plus score for competing after graduation. It will work out on my resume. I can make friends there that surely can help me to reach my dream later. I can improve my Japanese that I have already studied. I can also study Japanese traditional architecture. Indeed, I love all traditional architecture. I think it is great for countries that still treasure its traditional architecture. If I ever went to Japan, I just feel that I perfectly will be back there someday. And that will be the perfect-next-step.
After did the SPACE program, I will return to my country, my city, my university, immediately. I want to wrap up what I got there, all the things about house anti-earthquake-construction. I think I would like to discuss it with my lecturer, one of the activists of Yogyakarta-after-earthquake-reconstruction. Then, I built it until I get the final one. After that, I can exhibit my job, firstly in the hall of fame in my university. Usually alumni of Department of Architecture and Planning will see every exhibition there. I hope I will get some critics so I can improve my job and it will be useful for my department, hopefully for other people.
