With ICMA representatives and my friends I gain a lot of friends around the world by participating professional fellows program and the 3 day congress which conducted our last week of the fellowship program in Washington D.C. It was a wonderful opportunity for all the fellows to learn from each others about experiences on communities … Continue reading Participating Professional Fellows Congress

Profellow program is the place to let me meet people around the world not only from the Congress itself but also during a month in our host community. We met, we talked and shared our ideas, our initiative, we kept in touch for the future cooperation opportunities. With our non -stop conversations, I believe that … Continue reading Everything is starting now…

“Conduct yourself professionally at all times” This is the message that my senior fellow from Thailand saying to me before I depart to The State and this is one of the reasons why I always try to do anything with my best, no matter what everything uncontrolled has happened to me. I feel enjoy my … Continue reading Time to Fly’ With New Book of Life, Chapter 05: Live Life Balance

Every party has end even I do not want to say that. Remembering the first day I arrived Arlington town- my host community, everything is new for me, even this tree Then when I leave, everything became so close to me. I have more friends, more knowledge, more experiences to bring back and share with … Continue reading Home around the world

My host Marcos has been amazing - setting up meetings with all the right people, with their hearts in the right places, who recognized the problems and their urgency. While meeting with leaders has been such an honor and so informative, it is the meetings with youth that have been inspiring - and they are … Continue reading water bottles, water bottles, water bottles everywhere…

A Glimpse of Wonderful Story When Rock Unites Us "Creativity comes from nothing. This is a creativity."Damo Suzuki (CAN, DAMO SUZUKI'S NETWORK)-Part I Krautrock Romantic Warriors IV- I am not a big fan of Rock music, but naturally, I love to hear it sometimes because my second brother used to play this song loudly from … Continue reading From KRAUTROCK to NatGeo

It took us 4 hours travelling by Greyhound bus from Greensboro to Asheville, a city located to the north west of North Carolina. Our host is North Carolina Farmlink Director - Western Region, William Hamilton, he is so generous to giving us the warm and comfortable stay in his mother in law’s house and driving … Continue reading Asheville – beautiful town in the north west of North Carolina

In the blink of an eye, my stay in the City of Rochester has came to an end. As I reflect on parts of my journey, I realised that the experience went beyond the focus on environmental sustainability. As part of the city's plan to make it a premier medical tourism destination took great pains … Continue reading Week Five – Greening The Next Generation

The world has changed, the biggest thing that humans have ever done, climate change. It’s happening right now, this is the biggest emergency that every country faced.  I shared the different kind of emergency between Indonesia and Seattle (read: https://icmaysealifellows.blog/2019/11/06/what-should-i-prepare/) but both of them relate to one thing, climate change. The climate is changing faster, … Continue reading A Resilient Community