My Experiences of Being an LO

My Experiences of Being an LO

Being an LO (liaison officer) of 26^th Sea Games become a wonderful thing to me. I was really happy I could participate in this great event. There’re many experiences when I became an LO. By becoming an LO, I could directly met people from another country and I learned many things from that.

In sea games, I became LO for Shooting Range. At the first time, I became LO for committee. They were from PERBAKIN (Shooting Community) Jakarta. But, there was new announcement said there were nothing LO for committee because they were still from Indonesia and they were the committee, they should handle us. So, I was an LO for Laos. They were 5 people from LAOS. There were 3 men and 2 women. I just remembered the women, they were Khongkam and Khamla. They were really kind person. But, they couldn’t speak English. So, when we want to communicate with them, we use gesture. When we wanted to asked them to eat, we practiced like we eat something then they understood what we meant. It was hard for me to do gesture all the time. I even try as I could to make them understood with what I meant but sometimes they still didn’t understand. For example, I ever asked what perfume that she used because I like her smell, I just want to know. Then I showed my perfumed intended to make her to show hers, but she tried to smell mine. She thought I wanted to show only, but I said “This is mine (point at me), where’s yours (point at her)”, she still didn’t get what I meant. But, one of them can speak English a little, not much. So mostly I spoke with her.

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