はじめまして！私の名前はイラファリシャです。１８歳 です。マレーシアから来ました。今年の３月から8 月２０１４年までは私が日本で留学生する。よろしく！
Hey! I'm Ira Farisha, 18 years old and I come from Malaysia. From March 2013 until February 2014, I will be going to Japan as an exchange student through the program AFS under a scholarship. I have been dreaming about going to Japan for as long as I can remember and being able to do so for a duration of one year makes me really excited & I am ecstatic to share my experience with you guys! I hope my blog can make a difference on how you view Malaysia and Japan. Enjoy reading!
The contents posted here are mine personally and do not reflect any position of AFS/Japan.
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The day has come forth!
written on Tuesday 19 March 2013 @ 07:43 ✈
Today's the big day! My flight is at 11:35pm and I'm so glad that we're riding the Malaysian Airlines. Free food all the way and I don't have to worry about starving to death. It's a 7 hours flight and I will reach Narita Airport at 8:00am on the morning of the 20th. I'm really looking forward to meet everyone else from all over the world that's going to be in Japan with me.
Even until today I still can't believe that I am actually going to Japan as an exchange student. It all still seemed like a dream to me. I remember how I almost gave up because this kind of thing was impossible for me. I really thank God and AFS for making this all possible. :)
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The day has come forth!
written on Tuesday 19 March 2013 @ 07:43 ✈
Today's the big day! My flight is at 11:35pm and I'm so glad that we're riding the Malaysian Airlines. Free food all the way and I don't have to worry about starving to death. It's a 7 hours flight and I will reach Narita Airport at 8:00am on the morning of the 20th. I'm really looking forward to meet everyone else from all over the world that's going to be in Japan with me.
Even until today I still can't believe that I am actually going to Japan as an exchange student. It all still seemed like a dream to me. I remember how I almost gave up because this kind of thing was impossible for me. I really thank God and AFS for making this all possible. :)
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we live under the same sky
Name : Ira Farisha Amir
Age : 17 years old
DoB : 13th November 1995
Horoscope : Scorpio.
PoB : Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Educations : SK Taman Bukit Indah, SMK Bukit Indah, SMK Seri Bintang Utara
Graduation : 20th October 2012, SMK Seri Bintang Utara Class of 2012, Science Stream.
AFS Involvement : Exchange Student Japan Year Program 2013/2014, Volunteer, unofficial promoter.
Placement in Japan : Midorigaoka, Tottori-shi, Tottori-ken, Japan. Tottori Keiai High School.
“Of course life frightens me sometimes. I don’t happen to take that as the premise for everything else, though. I’m going to give it a hundred percent and go as far as I can. I’ll take what I want and leave what I don’t want That’s how I intend to live my life, and if things go bad, I’ll stop and reconsider at that point. If you think about it, an unfair society is a society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit.”
- Nagasawa
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how it all started
  
“Every cloud has a silver lining” - John Milton Quotes
In the year 2011, I applied for a two-weeks exchange program to Japan through AFS also. I blew the interview and I know for sure that I wasn't going to get it. Turns out I was right, I didn't get accepted and it was practically the end of my life. But hey, I believe that every cloud has a silver lining and when I received this email from the Program Coordinator about two days ago, I decided that my silver lining was this.
Back then when I didn't get accepted to go on the two-weeks exchange program, I pretty much don't want anything to do with AFS anymore. If I had to put it in Malay it'd be 'tawar hati'. So this year, when the applications are open again, I decided to take my chances. If I wanted to change my life, it has to be now or it's never going to happen again. Thus, I applied and so did my best friend.
A few weeks passed and her interview letter came, but mine never did. So I kind of lost hope and started to break down like I did when I didn't get accepted the year before. So yeah after a million of tears later , I called my friend and asked if she would give up her interview for me indirectly. Ikr! What was I thinking. I couldn't recall what happened after that, but I went to the AFS office the next morning and turns out they lost my application in pile of the other applications. Thank god they've recovered it and I received my interview letter like 2 days before the interview session.
Somewhere in July or August, I had received the green light from AFS Malaysia and all that's left for me is to be accepted by AFS Japan. You have no idea how flippin' excited I was. My mom and dad were happy for me too at first, but then sometime in October they said this to me, "If you can't find the RM24000, then you're not going". The RM24k was the program fee which is around $10k, which my dad said that he would pay for it earlier and now it has come to this, I don't even know what to do. Dropping out of the program would be the best to do at that time was what I thought. But then I decided that I can't give up. Not when I am THIS CLOSE to achieve my 16 year life-long dream. So me and my friend brainstormed some ideas on fundraising activities to bear the program fee. Also some of my other friends also gave ideas on how to get sponsors and whatnot. Thanks for supporting me! You guys rock!
SPM happened and on the very next day after my last paper, I got an email from AFS Malaysia saying that I have been accepted by Japan and it has been confirmed that I am going there. Then, I had this problem to pay the flippin' expensive program fee. When I got the necessary documents that I was supposed to fill in, there's this file stating I have to pay RM7000 the next week and another RM7k the week after and another RM7k to finish it off by 14th January 2013. So I thought, it's impossible and I was just about to send an email to drop out of the program, but I just had to ask about the scholarship I applied when I sent in my application. And I got this as a reply..
Alhamdulillah, I never thought that this would happen. See another silver lining there! But yeah like my friend said, when you get something like this, a big responsibility comes in. Of course I'm a little bit scared that I wont be able to fulfill AFS Malaysia's expectations but you can bet that I'll be doing my best! So right now I'm working to pay off the money I owe my parents for the deposit they had to pay and to raise money for my expenses in Japan.
So yeah that was what happened before I went for an exchange. :)
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