`Hello World!
This is starting to be the fourth month I have been working as a staff and guide in a Museum, Museum Batik Danar Hadi Solo. At many times I feel my job can revive me a lot. I met many various people. My job is to acknowledge visitors about Batik and its development in Indonesia, as well as educate them about Batik process. This museum stored 1.038 pieces of batik out of 10.000 pieces of batik collected privately by Mr. Santosa Doellah, the founder of Danar Hadi brand and corporation, the legendary brand of Batik in Indonesia, from the city of batik: Solo.

Yesterday, I brought two bules (foreigners) from Spain looking around the collection. On the guestbook it is written Mercedes Perez. These rather-old couple really enjoyed the tour, the woman carefully examined every piece of batik she was interested in. The man asked about the significance of butterflies in batik pattern, and I replied: happiness is it. Back then, he told me that that he is a butterfly catcher. He loves butterflies, and whenever he visits a country, he comes to mountain, waterfalls, parks, places in which he can find butterflies in order to catch it. Interesting. He brings a package of catching butterflies stuff. After the butterflies died, then he will place it in a can to bring it back to Spain. I was curious how it could pass security inspection, I asked. He said if it is to USA, then he could not pass it. But to Spain, they passed! In their home, he strings the butterflies in a specific place, there are many butterflies with spread wings moving like flying when wind blows. He enjoys it and felt like he made a butterflies museum ^^

The second tour I led is for nine college students from Spain, some of them taking major of Dentistry, Physical Therapy. They were very very friendly. The fact is they have waited about twenty minutes to enter the museum due to we are lack of guide. But they listened quite carefully to my every explanation and kept smiling sweetly. They were in Jakarta to attend a friend's wedding party.

The last one I was with a nearly 40 years old woman named Indri. She is from Bali. A friend recommend this museum to her, raising her curiosity. I brought her through twelve rooms inside the museum. We had an interesting conversation about batik, industry, foreigners preference, and many others. She has opened my mind that young people MUST work harder, think out of the box, for Indonesia. Been in some European countries back then, like Italy, she realized that young people have to see the larger scope of the world. Not just trapped in the culture that just made them retarded.

So far I love my job. But I believe this is not forever. I have to break a leg for more and more opportunities to enhance my wellness and for a better personality!