Shabrina's life presentation on "how my passion contributes to my personal and professional development"

An activity that I enjoyed doing. And

how it contributes my personal and

professional life

Shabrina Koeswologito

Travelling has always been in

my childhood calendar

activities in my family.

However the 1st time I

traveled without family to

foreign country was when I’m

11 years old. Participating in

an exchange program from

CISV in Sweden.

A month experiences had

opened my eyes to a more

rich and interesting culture.

Made friends with peoples from 10

different countries

Learn to adapt local custom and activities

Made my first international friends. Whom we still

keep in contact until today, thanks to technology

At the age 13, when most of my friends were

busy with school projects and spent their weekend hangout with

friends in the mall, I learnt how to delegate

and work in a team consists peoples from different nationalities.

Living outside of Indonesia has always been

my dream. Getting there is hard. First, there’s

not many information online/offline regarding

scholarship aboard. Second, the culture of

student spent a year abroad to finish high

school abroad is still new.

My application was rejected at first. Of course

I demand an explanation. When the judge see

my determination to get to the program, they

decided to accept me. From here on, I know

that it is not a matter of how smart you are but

how much you badly wanted it; and would go

the extra mile to get it.

Welcome to USA! where you would

find teenage life in films

not as accurate as it

looks5 things an exchange student would know…..

People’s stares don’t bother you anymore

You sign up with as many extra activities in school

you can

You attend all the local festival or celebration in your host

country

You spend a lot of time smiling and trying to say Hi to someone sit beside you at class

You’re first friend are other exchange student

In college I experienced my first internshipabroad. Joined an intern program fromAIESEC Manila to help local hospital raisefund for a concert. Goal is to have enoughmoney to buy an early AIDS detectormachine.

This experience pushed me to work inforeign country without directsupervision. Some of the activities myteam had to do was making cold calls,made proposal, and try to get a meetingwith them. My biggest achievement waswhen the meeting I scheduled led to

become the main sponsor of ourevent.

Solo voice of Zomatoprior launch in

Indonesia

Being a part of the core launching team for Zomato ID, theteam knows we’re in a tight deadline. Collecting and uploading12,000 restaurants information in less than a month is not aneasy task. Considering the other technical part we have tosolve, which is the Bahasa translation for our website. As I’mappointed as POC to handled all Bahasa translation directlyfrom India; had made me realize; when you’ve asked to be in astartup that plan to open 6 new markets in 1 day, you don’task questions. You get on fast.

When HeyShabrina.com has accelerated my network among Jakarta’s well-known travel and food blogger

The purpose of heyshabrina.com was to share my love on travel. Yet, it opened up manywindows of opportunities. Several articles I’ve written has been published by Jakarta’s leadingnews portal. However, the best think is I got to know many like minded people in travelcommunity and keep learning from them.

Now when people asks what is my next project. I

would proudly said: To build a travel community in

Indonesia, starting with building my own

backpacker hostel.

Thank You.