Local Adjustment Training: Day 01

Upon reaching the hotel - Courtyard by Marriott - we had only 2 hours to rest before we start our hectic schedule. As usual, my partner, Saif and I shared the same room on the 9th floor. The room was amazing - 4 stars rating and cost around RM500 a room per night stay. Could not ask for more. It was surely my first experience staying in such 4 stars rated hotel. 

Courtyard by Marriott where we stayed for 4 days

The exceptional room

Sharp at 2.00 pm, we were brought to a restaurant located in the shopping mall, adjacent to the hotel. They provided a buffet dining style. Most of the dishes were alien to me and being a Halal Freak guy myself, I was quite worried about the ingredients used. So, I decided to go vegetarian mode and pick up any convincing food that is available - fruits and vegetables of course. 

After having the lunch, we were brought to the APCEIU building for our very first Local Adjustment Training slot. For those who did not aware, APCEIU (stands for Asia-Pacific Center of Education for International Understanding) is an organization under the supervision of UNESCO. They are the organiser of Korea-Asia-Pacific Teacher Exchange Programme for six consecutive years, and we are proudly the 6th batch of this same programme.

Goodies and Name Tag

As usual, we started our training programme with the ice-breaking session comprising all the participants from four different countries namely Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and Mongolia. After that, the APCEIU personnel had given some talks on the introduction of the programme (Asia Pacific Teacher Exchange, APTE) and the role of APCEIU. Next, we then registered for the local number sim card and also opening the local bank account, KB Bank.

The first-day training ended at 6.00 pm before we moved back to the hotel and had our dinner at a Thai restaurant, located next to the hotel. The food was great and reminded me of Malaysian food which I had already missed on my first day in Korea.

After having some rest for about two hours, we had our cultural dance training at the hotel for another three hours. I was totally exhausted since we just had a 6 hours flight on the previous night, which made us having not enough sleep and rest. But still, we were told to be prepared mentally and physically as the programme would be very packed. Hopefully, thing will go well until the last day of this Local Adjustment Training. 

HM