My preparation for 4th July story

I already finish my first week in Muncie for SUSI Program. It was nice to see everything here, the places, the weathers, the classes, the lecturers, and the assignment. Everything is great and makes me think how if it is happen in my country.

On Thursday, 4th of July, all the SUSI grantees are going to celebrate America Independence Day. The celebration is going to take place in Minnetrista, Muncie. There will be a fireworks and people for all over Muncie will gather there enjoying the fireworks decorate the night sky of Muncie.

It will be a great event especially for American citizen since they will celebrate their independence, their freedom, and their new life. I am going to record their celebration experiences from year to year and what value that they get from the celebration. I believe that people have their own perspective about independence: what does it mean to them, what do they perceive the government today, what are their hopes for better America, and what have they done to fill the independence.

I read a lot about America Independence day so that I can have a bit more knowledge about American history. It will become my foundation to get some more information from Muncie society. I hope so.


-an assignment from Adam Kuban's class-

Community Service Activity

MUNCIE--Thursday (27/6) eight students from Indonesia and Malaysia visited Second Harvest Food Bank of East Central Indiana. They were participants of Study of US Institute for New Media and Journalism, a program sponsored by The Department of State. This visit was one of their community service activities during their program here in the US.

The students amazed by the system of the foundation which established since 1983 because the foods stored in the warehouse were in very good condition and nothing wrong with them. The foods came mostly from department stores and food industries which have overwhelming storage or foods that no longer can be sold because of several reasons. They sent the foods to the warehouse to be redelivered to people who need them.

"They even still good and excellent," as Zacky, one of students from Indonesia said.

This institute has served 20 thousand pounds of food last year. this was done as an implication of the fact that in 2011, 46.2 million people were in poverty in America (feedingamerica.org) and 16 million of them are kids (www.nokidhungry.org). Second Harvest Food Bank provides food for unfortunate people who do not have food in Indiana, and sometimes another state as well. 80% of them were delivered to the agencies and the rest were taken by agencies to the warehouse by themselves.

There are several programs doing by Second Harvest Food Bank, such as Tailgate Program, The Commodity Supplemental Food Program, Emergency Shelter, Child Hunger Program, Emergency Soup Kitchen, and Emergency Food Pantries. For this 30 years Second Harvest Food Bank has struggled to keep provide foods for entire Indiana especially for Muncie.

Welcome Words

Welcome to my new blog!

This is the blog about all my experiences, assignment, opinion, and everything about my SUSI program. I'll try to put all my writing journalistically since it is Study of United State Institute (SUSI) for New Media and Journalism Program.

This program is sponsored by The Government of State. SUSI for New Media and Journalism program was held in Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. It is started from 22 June to 28 July 2013. SUSI Participant will learn many things about journalistic and new media with Ball State University lecturer especially from Department of Journalistic and Department of Telecommunication.

Well, happy reading and please give a feedback. Thank you!