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The First Letter: My Profile

Good morning, Malang! How are you? I'm fine and I'm excited to writing the first letter through this new blog. Actually, I was already writing this blog in the past years ago but haven't written in a long time. Yes, this is 2020 years, I shall opened new blog and that happened to me. I'm very grateful to God. 

I'm here in Malang because of YDAT (Youth Disability Advocate Training) training event in the Ibis Styles Hotel, Malang. Malang is an Indonesian city located in East Java, Indonesia. YDAT is one of events from the cooperation between La Torbe University (Melbourne, Australia) and Brawijaya University (Malang, Indonesia).

I will introduce myself. Do you know about me? I just make some of list of my life facts, e.g:

  1. I'm Raka Nurmujahid or my Chinese name is Li Raka (李)
  2. I was born in Sragen but raised in Surakarta, Indonesia
  3. When I was born with hearing, but only five days with hearing and being Deaf because of sick.
  4. I fluent speaking Indonesian Sign Language (BISINDO), Indonesian, and English
  5. Indonesian Sign Language is my mother tongue
  6. I still learning Chinese [Mandarin simplified], American Sign Language (ASL), International Sign (IS), and sure English. But, I hope I will learn Spanish.
  7. I’m a Javanese but technically I am not Javanese because I can’t speaking Javanese and didn’t know anything about Javanese culture. I felt to being Deaf person as my identity.
  8. I’m grew up oral communication when I was student in Don Bosco school (Deaf school but with oral communication method), Wonosobo for 9 years.
  9. I also studied in an inclusive school for 6 years  (SMP and SMA).
  10. My priority dream is want to move to the United States (US) because America has support facilities for the Deaf people and I also want to watch NBA games (American professional basketball league). I very like basketball and I'm a Toronto Raptors fans. This basketball club from Canada and being one of the Canadian club playing in the United States.

Yeah, finally, I finished my first letter for today. I hope you will read this post. If you find mistake, please fill out to below comment or send to my email (rakanurmujahid10@gmail.com).

Thank you!

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