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  • Hi guys.

  • Can I ask you what the words 'girls' day out' mean to you?

  • Fun, shopping, spending.

  • First of all, drink white wine.

  • Watching movies, love stories.

  • Oh yes, shopping.

  • Maybe go shopping.

  • No, go for beer.

  • Oh, go for beer. Okay.

  • Yeah I'd say they go shopping.

  • Okay, and anything else?

  • I'd say that'd fill all the day.

  • Right. Okay.

  • Pedicure and manicure.

  • We call it 'girls' talk' in Japan.

  • Girls' talk'. Okay.

  • I think it's more about spending the time together and ...

  • We talk about men and all the problems they have.

  • Going and having dessert.

  • High tea.

  • High tea.

  • High tea? Okay.

  • What do you think's gonna happen in the World Cup?

  • In the World Cup well, I think we will do ...

  • See, this is what boys' day - we want a boys' day out.

  • Yeah, boys' day they talk about soccer, especially being from the Netherlands, otherwise if you're

  • Australian you talk about rugby or something like that.

  • Well, we've heard a lot of different ideas on what a girls' day out should be and now

  • we get to see one up close, courtesy of Raisa and her mum.

  • Raisa grew up in Bandung Indonesia with her parents and younger brother.

  • As a baby she was fat.

  • She got skinny and liked to dance and play the piano.

  • She had a head for numbers and she won a lot of mental arithmetic competitions.

  • 368 plus 534 plus 235 would be

  • 1137.

  • She started a double degree in Indonesia but then won a scholarship to study international

  • relations at Flinders University in South Australia.

  • She now lives in a share house close to the University.

  • When she needs a break from study she sometimes goes into the backyard and does the hula hoop.

  • Living here has definitely made me independent.

  • I learned how to cook here whereas before I got here I've never even touched a stove.

  • I've never even cooked instant noodles.

  • Today's special coz I have my mum here who I haven't met for like over ten months.

  • She's been here the last couple of days for a holiday and I've been showing her around

  • Adelaide and everything and she's been liking it here so much.

  • The flower is so beautiful.

  • Yeah, Australia has a wide variety of flowers.

  • We don't have flowers like this in Indonesia.

  • Today I'm at King William Road and I plan to do a bit of window shopping with my mum

  • and then have a manicure and also have high tea, all of which, whom, I've never done.

  • I've never had a manicure all my life coz I don't really have nails.

  • I only go to the salon to, you know, cut my hair and everything.

  • And high tea, I've also never done that.

  • I presume that it's having tea in a more fancy way maybe but yeah, I'm looking forward you

  • know,

  • being a lady of the day sort of thing, yeah, and with my mum too, so that'll be cool.

  • I can do with a bit more dresses because we have, you know, a couple of weddings coming

  • up.

  • Okay.

  • I think today will be a fun day, you know, lots of self-pampering and lots of fun stuff

  • so why wouldn't it be cool, you know, for two girls to hang out and everything so I

  • think I'll enjoy today tremendously

  • and the weather's perfect, it's not too hot, not too cold so, I'm sure that today's gonna

  • be smooth and cool.

  • Suitable for me?

  • Not really.

  • Oh, no.

  • Bikinis and everything. Oh, they have lots of jewellery too.

  • Yeah.

  • These are probably going to be too big for me, as usual.

  • It's definitely different to spend time with my mum here compared to in Indonesia

  • because in Indonesia we're both like, you know, sort of busy with all of our activities

  • and everything.

  • But now is the right timing because like I'm done with all of my assignments and everything,

  • my mum's here for a vacation so we can really spend time together.

  • And Adelaide's like the perfect city for that because everyone here is so relaxed.

  • You really get the feeling of vacation here.

  • Raisa, look at this.

  • Oh, is it a pear or something?

  • Looking forward to show my mum how much I've changed over the last ten months because I

  • have changed a lot.

  • I'm more independent now and I can cook now and yeah,

  • I guess like she can detect those visible differences nowadays and I think it's change

  • for the better

  • so yeah, I'm looking forward to showing her that.

  • Oh this one's Aussie Bloke's Cookbook. I cook this before.

  • All right.

  • I'm guessing this is a lamb roast and you put rosemary in it.

  • Yep, I've cooked that.

  • Oh.

  • One day you have to cook for me.

  • Yeah, buy me an oven first. A good oven.

  • So one thing for sure that hasn't changed over time is that I love purple, then and

  • now.

  • Purple's like the best colour in the world and my mum knows that and yeah, lots of accessories

  • that are different here from Indonesia

  • so my taste has probably changed a bit but I think, you know, it's pretty much the same,

  • overall.

  • So we've been window shopping, well, sort of looking around and everything.

  • We haven't actually gotten anything because either the sizes are too big here or maybe

  • we're too small.

  • And yeah, I think it'll be cool to get my nails done coz I don't actually give particular

  • care to my nails.

  • So what do you think of the manicure so far?

  • It's fun.

  • Because we're on vacation mode, there's no other things going on and we can really enjoy

  • it

  • and you know, really relax and maybe even fall asleep while having our manicure, so,

  • that'd be cool.

  • It looks nice on you.

  • Yeah I know, it's good colour isn't it?

  • Yeah.

  • I'm definitely going to get more manicures in the future now that I know the result.

  • Good, I'll put it on Facebook.

  • It's been interesting to have my mum here because the last few months I've only communicated

  • with her through like, you know, text message or email her or chat with her,

  • so none of the physical, sort of confrontation, contact and yeah like, I've sort of grown

  • closer to my friends these last couple of months and now ...

  • So yeah, it's another adjustment I guess.

  • Like when I go back and be with my family again after being independent, like you get

  • used to your own personal time,

  • and now like, you know, you sort of blend in with your family, lots of other influences

  • going in.

  • So it's gonna be interesting but I mean like they're my family so it's gonna be good, yeah.

  • I've never been to a place like this before so today has been like the girliest day of

  • my life probably like you know,

  • having manicures and then going for high tea and everything because like I'm usually you

  • know, just sort of like not girly, definitely.

  • So this is a tea cup?

  • It is a tea pot yes.

  • How cute is that?

  • Okay, I'll take one.

  • Wow, don't they all look beautiful?

  • Beautiful.

  • I don't know how we're gonna finish it though.

  • Australian sugar is not exactly sweet.

  • I sometimes need three or four.

  • Wow.

  • Look, it's a beautiful ...

  • You chose like the biggest cup cake.

  • Are you sure you can finish that?

  • Yeah, I try to finish it. It look nice and delicious.

  • She's more confident and one, I'm happy now she become a good cooker.

  • Before she can't cook anything but now she can cook variety food like Australian food

  • too.

  • It's, I think it's marvellous.

  • Everyone in our family get proud of her, yeah, she's doing the best thing I think, in here.

  • Had the best experience in Australia I think.

  • I'm definitely glad that I came to Australia.

  • Like, I have benefitted so much from this experience that like I think that the impact

  • would last me for a lifetime

  • because it's a life changing experience indeed and this may sound cliched or whatever but

  • I really do mean it,

  • like it has gone beyond my expectations and they're just so accepting to, you know, international

  • students or international people.

  • So when you hear that Australia is multicultural like I really do support that statement and

  • I've experienced it myself too.

  • I didn't even go through an adaptation period.

  • I think I just blended in straight away and when I do go back to Indonesia like it's gonna

  • be another readjustment

  • in terms of like climate and then going back to my friends and my family.

  • Although one thing like, the one thing that I'm looking forward the most is, you know,

  • having Indonesian food coz they don't have it here.

  • Like they have Malaysian food but they don't have Indonesian food and I'm totally looking

  • forward to that.

  • But yeah, like, I guess life is like that, you know, full of changes and everything and,

  • as human beings, the only thing we can do is just adapt and accept it and you know,

  • so I'll just go with the flow I guess, wherever my life leads to.

  • Seems like Raisa's girl's day out prompted some great reflections on her year living

  • in Australia.

  • That's it for the show. Time for me to go and get some high tea of my own.

  • Here's what's coming up next week.

  • Akki has a go at grape picking and earns some money

  • Weiping tries her hand at catching crabs

  • and Faye meets a group of people with green thumbs.

  • See you then.

Hi guys.

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