Bakti Desa

Bakti Desa

So theres this event my school holds every year for 11th graders, its called bakti desa. It is held at desa Cibeureum. So what is bakti desa? its an even where the 11th grade students of SMA Negeri 3 Bandung stay for 3 days and 2 nights at a "desa" or village. So we, the students, are divided into groups consisting of 4-5 people and are assigned a "parent" each group. 

So the first day, we arrived at the village and went through the opening ceremonies, and then after that we were led to our gorup's assigned parents' homes. then we settled in, relaxed, talked to the villagers, played with the kids, and ate until the end of the day and slept.

The next day we woke up early and had some light breakfast, after that we went to the fields to help our "parent" in their work in the fields. after helping out, we ate breakfast at the field near a fish pond. which was actually very nice. the rest of the day we just played and mingled with the villagers. we even taught some of the kids math.

On the last day, we went to this lake near the village using pick up trucks to get there. there, we enjoyed the beautiful view of the lake. After that we went back to the village and started packing and saying goodbye to the villagers there.

Overall, bakdes was really fun. it was really nice to have spent some time with the villagers. i learnt alot about being humble and being thankful for what you have. cause some folks have it harder than us.