it’s been long time since i posted the blog before !

now, i’m comin’ here for check what happen with my BLOG (hha, what a lazy I am !)

there ya, I wanna post picture that I got from Walmart !

Blood Pressure Machine ! yea, i know kinda weird ! we don’t have it yet Indonesia thou, especially in Public place like Walmart ! (actually, we don’t have walmart, we have different brand for super market in Indonesia !)

Felt like it was yesterday when I was doing a lot of aplication for my Exchange Student, also a lot of vaccine that shoot into my arm !! crapp… that was heart !!  IT WAS SO MUCH FUN ! doing all the stuff with 6 other friends of me. Being busy together, being learn together, get mad by the supervisor together and dreaming about our life would be like in USA at the future. It’s hard to believ that it’s already april, which is 3 more months left for me.

Go home later would be really fun too thou,meet with all pople that i’ve never meet since a year ago. But i can’t imagine i have to go back to school and then wear my BELOVED UNIFORM !! (such liar, hha). aaarrrggghhhh….. Beside that, it would more sad to remeber that no more Yellow School Bus in the morning, no more american history class, no more POP-TARTs (hahaha), and no more people kissing like crazy in school hall way !! hahahahah !! (dasaarrr.. MESUM !!).

anyway, april means “Easter” and “Spring Break” in USA, pretty fun, but not as fun as semester before thou. but i’ll talk about the different between this in next blog.

anyway, before I’m leaving I want to tell you that . . . . . . . . . . .  I . . . . . .  . am . . . . . . . . .  PREGNANT !! no way.. it’s not work, stupid me (it’s APRIL FOOL, but its not work !!), (actually that’s what my host mom say for her APRIL FOOL !).

School, 3rd Block, Computer Application Class, chaooooo — sign out !

Oh my gosh, it’s really crack me up when I know about this one creature (i mean, this ONE, sorry)!! hahaha

Well, one day at home (my host family’s house) I asked my host mom, “What is that Redneck?”.

actually, I thought that Redneck are the people that has Red Color on their neck, but actually Nope !!  not all in mind that i though was true, i also thought that Redneck are people that has some kinda certain alergy that make their neck itch so they scratch it and than it become RED !! hahahahaa, stop this dirty thiking. I can’t help it thou, you know, my host family was just describe verbally, until one time I ask my mom, “can you describe it to me again, i still can’t draw it in my mind” , and i guess she just tired to listen to me asking about Redneck all the time, and she just answer me “Tomorrow, we’re going to get grocery in Walmart, and I’ll point it to you as we comin’ through”.

well, i guess i’m done with this stupid topic that talk about Redneck, hahahaha, but beforer it, i’ve tried to search the defenition in Wikipedia thou, and the result was : Redneck is a derogatory slang term to refer to poor white Southern farmers in the United States. It is similar in meaning to “cracker” (especially in Georgia and Florida), “hillbilly” (especially in Appalachia) and “white trash” (especially among blacks).

well, that explain enough (I WISH !!).

Agustus 2009, bulan dimana penuh dengan sejuta kesibukan (hmm.. nggak sejuta jg sih..), dmana pada bulan itu penuh dengan suka, duka, aneh, oon, dan berbagai hal hal bodoh yang membuat hidupku lebih berwarna seperti warna warni cucian tetangga saya yang di jemur di halaman rumah mereka yang sering banget jadi salah satu object yang merusak view dari jendela kamar saya. Back to the point, at that time sedih banget karena harus ninggalin negeri tercinta indonesia sebagai TKI (tenaga keren indonesia) di negeri seberang, sebut saja negerinya “Om Sam”. besides that, jantung gak berenti bdetak detak kencang kek ditusuk jarum, cekiiit cekiit… cekiit cekiit… (wait, kalo berenti berdetak mati dong ? ), ada berjuta juta (hobbie yah saya pake kata “JUTA”, dasar mata duitan !!) kejutan yang belum tergambar sedikitpun di otak saya pada saat itu, seperti bagaiman bentuk  rumah majikan (dibaca, keluarga angkat), bentuk skolah dan bentuk jempol tangan mereka (??).

Jakarta, Agustus 2009, Wisma Handayani tempat dmana pembokat pembokat keren di bentuk jadi pembokat kelas papan atas bawah kiri kanan, gadeng… maksud saya tempat dimana Ambassador Ambassador cilikk (read,  exchange student) di karantina, dengar karantina jadi kek putri indonesia aja. Hari hari di wisma handayani membuat persahabatan seperti kepompong betul betul terjadi anatara calon siswa pertukaran pelajar dengan Balsem berbagai merek, mulai dari Cap Geli-banget ampe Cap Kaki-seribu. Kenapa coba ? yang pastinya bukan karena semalaman cuci piring dong, tapi karena kami CINDTOOH ma keluarga kami di rumah, kami pengen kasi seuatu yang bakal di persembahkan di malam jum’at kliwon, maksud saya malam perpisahan dengan keluarga sebelum keberangkatan ke negeri tujuan masing masing.

TIBA saatnya, dimana pemandangan yang sering muncul di layar HaPe NOKIA (2 tangan yang saling tarik menarik kayak gaya gravitasi bumi, hmmm… not really) menampakkan diri di Bandara Soekarno Hatta. Lengkap banget, apalagi kalo Krisdayanti bisa nyanyi buat Backsound moment saat itu, “I”m Sorry Good Bye”. Bye All . . . . . .

Malaysia —-> Jerman —-> Washingotn DC, USA. Bule, kiri kanan depan belakang atas bawah naik turun, nah lho ? ngawuuuurrrr…. Sampe dehh di Negerinya “Om Sam”…

little step to the usa !

Satu hal yang paling gua tunggu tunggu dalm bulan bulan study abroad gua di USA, hari dimana rambut bisa gondrong. Buseettt, bukan gondrong gimana juga siih, setidaknya termasuk panjang lah dari ukuran rambut normal waktu di Indonesia, tau sendirikan, Most of the school di Indonesia strict banget ama yang namanya rambut, khususnya buat cowok cowok nya, kalo gua siih agak maklum dikit, gua kan skolah nya Boarding school (dibaca=pesantren).

anyway.. kinda fun thou, you know, when i was in indonesia it’s really hard to grow your hair as long as you want. ONE STYLE “SHORT BLACK HAIR”.. ngeeeehhh.. BORED ! so since I have chance to grow hair, i did it. kinda gross little bit, but if you take care of, it would be fun !! hahahahahahaha !!

Lincoln Memorial - City Tour - First time arrived in USA for Exchange Student orientation.

My host family's friend's Farm : Beautiful Farm, Cool cows !

I hate fishing, but fishing in fish pond is fantastic, only 5 minutes, you'll get a big fish !! but i hate when my host dad said "we can't take it home, just put it back, just for fun"

Golden Gate - San Francisco - Mid Year orientation for AYA exchange student. Awesome view from under the bridge.

San Francisco Down town, beatiful houses, beautiful city, love it so much.

Houses on water, little town next to San Francisco. awesome !!

Being an Exchange student is so fun, but actually, you will miss something besides home, family, and friend. “Food”, yeah.. that’s right, sometimes look at TV that show reality show about your country will remind you about much thing, especially food.

Thankfully, I got chance to visit San Francisco, and luckily, I found Indonesian restaurant, you can imagine, if you never met you home country food for 6 month… What a Happy us at that time,

Thanks for Syifa and your lovely host family Hilary, Jessica and David !!

Hilary, Syifah, Icut, Putri, Jessica, David and I

Borobudur, Indonesian Resto at San Francisco

Tempe (Bean Curd) with Peanut Souce

Sate (grilled beef) with peanut souce !

David eats Sate !

Bakso (Meat ball soup) !

Kangkung !!

It was fun to have chance to visit one of the beautiful city in USA. San Francisco made felt like I’m really really attend as exchange student in USA. There is a lot of thing that I found there, crowded American side walk, street musician, and a lot of beautiful view. I came from Kentucky state, place where you could find a lot of farm and grass field, a lot of truck, and a lot of red neck (hahaha not really a lot, just some,but.. no problem, they are nice and that’s fine).

Back to my Awesome weekend in San Francisco, I was so happy when I got there, “finally, San Francisco!! Wooo!!” I said. All the way to the Hotel, I saw a lot of cool buildings, beautiful houses, and a crowded road. It was kinda crowded, but compare to capital of my country, that’s not more than usually.

Arrived at hotel, like what I did when I was orientation in Washington D.C. I got name tag, and my room key. Well, like what I thought before, it’s really happened, there is only 2 bed at that room, and I was the 3^rd one that came, “Crapp!!” I said, so I’ll got the small bed again. Rrrrggghhh !!! I hate it ! but it’s OK compare to what I got. Thanks God !

Chicago airport !

San Francisco Airport !

WELCOME TO SAN FRANCISCO !!

After All that first impression that I got when I arrived at hotel, I forget it as time passed away, I had a really nice dinner at Hard rock Café at that night.

“After all you guys arrive at hotel we have meeting at the lobby”, the supervisor said.

When we arrived at the hotel, “SO, tomorrow, we’ll meet in here at 6.45 morning ok ? so sleep good tonight”, the supervisor told us after the meeting done.

Well, that was tired day, a long way from Kentucky to Chicago than almost left by plane to San Francisco (that was not my fouls, the distance between one get and the other gate was so far ! ). So I decided to go sleep earlier, than I set my phone alarm for 6.20 in morning.

SLEPT…slept…slept…z z z z t t t !!

“Ooooo…oooo.oooo.oooo….ooo” (bowling for soup-high school never ends.) my phone singing….. hmm… actually not, just the alarm . well I woke up and I said “well, that was fast, I feel like a sleep really fast”, I said it. I went to Bathroom, cause I saw the other two student (a.k.a my roommates)  at that room still fighting with their dreams, so I can use it first.

After that really nice shower, I get out from the bathroom with towel in my head, I look at my roommates, and than my eyes stop at the clock between their bed that told me 3.22 a.m. ! aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrggghhh !! what the FREAKK !! I forget to change my time in my phone to be San Francisco Time Zone, it’s still Kentucky time !!