Me and monick was having a trip to Jakarta last Sunday. Thought it would be fun going outside town without parental guidance. But unfortunately it wasn’t THAT fun though we REALLY had our adventures. Congrats!! haha. -___-“
Since our application form’s for a scholarship in U.S deadline was sooo close, monick and I decided to give it straight to the office (IIEF in Menara Imperium,Kuningan,Jakarta). We didn’t want to put our dream,hope, and future on a postman’s hand. Sorry, that sentence is just so absurd. We had gone through many processes in completing the form. It was so tiring that made us both want to throw up. I don’t want to explain each of them. No no no.. I may throw up!!
The day before (it was Saturday then), I had to go to Puntang (it’s a mountain) to observe this place with my friends..you know…work thingy. I couldn’t feel my body because I was sitting on a motorcycle for hours and my clothes are wet. I got news from monick that our forms were brought outside town by our lecturer and we had to take them to her house at 7 PM (which meant that we couldn’t go by my uncle’s car because he said that he would go back to Jakarta at very THAT hour). Once again I was sitting on a motrorcycle in the rain. But one fact which was so pleasing. My lecturer’s house was beyond ordinary. It was so hard to find the right house because the door was hidden in like…you know.. a tunnel. There were so many paintings. In short, I knew it was my dream house at the first time I saw it.
We arrived at my house at 8.30 PM (still wet, and got the news that my uncle JUST left the house). We talked about many things then off to bed then bla…bla…bla. Sunday, we decided to go by bus because it was easier to reach my aunt’s house that way though we were craving to be on a train. I could tell we were so excited. Until we arrived at the bus station. First, we didn’t know how to get the ticket (do we have to buy it in a locket or just get on the bus). Second, we didn’t know which bus to take. Third, people were staring. All of them were confusing, but the last one was frightening. Asking the officer wasn’t a help at all. Then We picked the wrong guy to trust.
He said: ” Mau kemana neng?”
We: ” Kampung Rambutan”
Then the next thing we knew that a crowd of people came to us and kept saying something like “neng ini langsung berangkat neng”, and “neng ini ber AC”, and bla..bla…bla..! Then one of them snatched monick’s bag. I was so shocked and kept asking her why did she let the man do that. In short, we wre “dragged” to a bus. I thought “oh..air conditioner..fine then”. But when the bus stopped every now and then and there were sellers back and forth we knew one thing. We took the wrong bus, and economy class bus. What the..
Arrived at Kampung Rambutan’s bus station and the situation wasn’t better. It was raining heavily. The crowd of young men who rented the umbrella were shouting, wanting us to rent their umbrella. I didn’t want to get off the bus because I thought with such an attitude they’d able to eat us alive. But finally I could encourage myself. My thought wasn’t a far cry from the reality happened. I’d better not spill it. So traumatic. haha.
I’ll go straight ahead to our next important moment.
“Menara Imperium”
Imperium Tower
was beyond “WOW!!”
I feel like being transferred to another country when I got in.
Spesifically? U.S!!!
More specific then? NEW YORK!!
Just imagine it by yourself.. It felt like seeing my dream right in front of my eyes.
We got train for coming home. So glad!! FYI : lost at the train station and nearly lost the train also. I was running a the train station. Really fast. How cool is that?haha. That was such an experience, I couldn’t close my eyes.
Such an adventure!!
Hope our attempts will be paid, but if it doesn’t we’ve got the lessons.
Cause lessons and experiences are very expensive. And also Jakarta is so expensive.haha!
