Learn to live and work together in the Ganggangpanjang Dimension

By : Erlina Nurya Ulfa

This story is taken from my personal experience when carrying out KKN (Real Work Lecture) for several days in Luwung Hamlet, specifically Ganggangpanjang Village, Tanggulangin, Sidoarjo. Before that, let me introduce myself first, my name is Erlina Nurya Ulfa, the nickname is optional, now I prefer to be called Ulfa but my friends are used to calling me Erlin because my first name is that, so it's okay, that's welcome, hehe. I am an active student at Narotama University Surabaya Class of 2021 with the Management study program. I always participate in new environments in Ganggangpanjang Village. In my opinion, apart from the new environment and new friends, learning new things is also very fun and can develop my personality to be much better.

Okey gais, next this is my short story. During KKN in Ganggang Panjang Village, this story started with the formation of a group. Im join to a team of eleventh members which is definitely not a football team, friends, hehe, we are a team of eleven people, where this group consists of 2 (two) study programs, namely Management and Informatics Engineering. In between preparations for this KKN, I was also involved in a Campus Ospect committee which is usually called PKKMB (Introduction to Campus Life for New Students), apart from that I am also still taking several courses in the 3rd Intermediate Semester or perhaps known as the short semester in This time's teaching is before entering semester 7th, with this I really started to divide my time from several activities that are currently being carried out.

Immediately on our first activity, namely August 14 2024, that day was our arrival at Ganggangpanjang Village with all our necessary items which were deposited at the basecamp. For the basecamp itself, thank God, we were given a very suitable place, namely at the house of one of our field mentors (Mr. Pandu), he is also a resident of RT 06 and who happens to be a Ganggangpanjang village official. That day was Wednesday, on that afternoon I attended a big PKKMB meeting on campus, then my friend and I did permission to leave for the KKN by distributing invitations to RT, RW and village cadres or officials as our respect in the hope that they would come. At the inauguration of the opening of our group KKN in Ganggangpanjang Village, I had the opportunity to distribute invitations at RT 06 with two of my friends, namely Devi and Jefri. I always appreciate this moment because when we were distributing invitations, we were met by 3 small children who might be said to be a bit nervous but The positive thing is that they greeted us cheerfully and helped direct us to the houses of the residents we were going to give invitations to. So I would like to thank them and also don't forget to thank Mr. Al as the representative of RW 02 who also helped us and gave us a little story.

The next day came the day of the inauguration and opening of the KKN on August 15 2024 at the Village Hall which was attended by several invited guests including RT, RW and representatives of village officials, unfortunately at this opening the Village Head was unable to attend so he was represented by Mr Pandu as Village Apparatus and Our field mentor, the experience I got at that time was being a presenter, I was appointed to accompany as MC where when I was MC it was not optimal and there was a lot of improvisation, but after the event had passed, despite the support and appreciation of the parties around the inauguration and opening of the KKN The 2024 Narotama University Dimension in Ganggangpanjang Village continues to run well and smoothly.

Then August 16 2024 became a memorable day for me because here my partner Kida and I became noisy ultramen hehe. How did it happen? Here we really have to divide our time and make the best use of it. So after 2 days we spent the night at basecamp, this morning we had back to the campus to take part in the rehearsal for the Independence Ceremony and the 2024 PKKMB Pre-Technical Meeting rehearsal. thanksgiving in each RT from RT 5, 6, 7 and 8 which has been divided by the team per each RT, However, no matter how hard we tried, the afternoon traffic jam managed to block our way to participate in this activity. However, we didn't stop there, we continued our journey and thank God, nothing was wasted, even though we were left behind by 1 activity, we were still able to take part in the next activity, namely Tasyakuran at the Village Hall. There we learned a lot and mingled with local residents, helped document activities and cleaned up the location after the event was over. After leaving the Village Hall we went straight to RT 08 to help and enliven the competition in that area, even though it wasn't finished yet, we are very grateful to the lady from RT 08 who understood our activities and allowed us to return to campus, to rest and continue activities independence ceremony on campus.

Exactly on August 17 2024, we as a triumvirate (me, Kida and Juliana) back to the KKN place in the afternoon and arrived there. The competition at RT 06 was at the last second, namely the final, we immediately joined and here I really appreciate the cooperation of my group of friends. who always backed each other up and handled the competition from start to finish, also understood my committee activities, and after evening we watched fishing together at RT 05 Luwung Hamlet, Ganggangpanjang Village. This activity was quite busy and lively and was seen from the enthusiasm of the residents who always welcomed our presence there which helped to document the activity. After that, we returned to Basecamp for evaluation and prayer together for the smooth running of our solidarity and cooperation in future work programs.

August 18 2024, exactly the last day of our first week, the activity that took place was a Healthy Walk for all residents of RW 02, with a gathering point at the Punden Mbah Retjo tourist spot. A group of us always worked at our respective job desks and thank God it went together in harmony, plus the enthusiasm of the residents always shared stories. and draw closer to us KKN children. At the end of this healthy walk door prize drawing activity, we felt that we had a gift and good fortune because our KKN group received 5 door prizes at once. Mrs. RW and also Mrs. RT in Ganggangpanjang Village were always happy and gave us advice on stage.

That's it, we would like to thank all parties who participated in supporting, guiding and working together for the smooth running of our dedication in Ganggangpanjang Village. Our hope for the future is that our enthusiasm can continue to live and continue the collaboration until the end of the Work Program during our dedication to Ganggangpanjang Village, Tanggulangin, Sidoarjo.