"Wow,
it sounds interesting," was the first sentence that popped up in my head when I
heard about this programme from one of my friends at school. Moreover, I got even
more excited as my other friend, Nadira, told me that she was also interested
in this programme. So that afternoon, we went to the teacher room looking for
Mrs Emma, to know about this programme further.
I
got all the documents prepared for like two weeks because the requirements were
quite complicated. And after making sure I got all the things I needed packed,
finally, I boarded the plane which was heading to Amsterdam, along with Nadira
and Mrs Emma, and enjoyed the whole fourteen hours on the air.
Day
1: April 7 2015
I
woke up to the dark, cold morning in one of the biggest city in The
Netherlands, Utrecht. We have arrived at Schiphol on April 6, a day ahead from when the rest of the Indonesian delegates would arrive, so we stayed
a night at Mrs Emma's friend's house in Utrecht.
At
8 in the morning, we headed off back to
Amsterdam by a train. At around ten we finally reached the Stayokay Hostel
in Amsterdam, even though it was kind of a hard time for me to get there by bus
from Schiphol with massive and very, very heavy luggage by my side.
Irene,
one of the Global Exploration staffs, greeted us as we came up with a little
bit confusing at the main hostel door because we had no idea how to open it
(and we just stood there hanging like a statue haha). However, fortunately, we could
manage it with, of course, Irene's help.
There
had been the other delegates from Indonesia inside. After I quick-introduced
myself to Kevin and Madelon, the Dutch volunteers for this programme and they
explained the map of Amsterdam city they just gave me; we went out for a small
tour to some of the famous landmarks around the area of the hostel by feet.
I fell in love with the city in a blink of an eye. The structure of the city—whether it is the canals or the
roads or the tram lines—is very
well-arranged with an exclusive track for the cyclist on every side of the road, which
made me fascinated because, wow, there are a lot of bicycles there. People
seemed to prefer to go to work or school by bike rather than a car. I
think that is the most significant difference between this country and Indonesia if
you are talking about the city. People know that this country is
technically located under the sea level and the fact is that they still can
live in it. They built lots of canals, the canals which were surrounded by
beautiful scenery and I could not wait when Irene said that we would have a canal boat tour tomorrow.
Back from the small
tour, Kevin had already brought the Indian delegates to the hostel, and it is
time to announce the room divisions. We were divided into three rooms, I guess,
and of course, the boy with boys and girl with girls, and each room consisted of 6
persons in maximum. I shared a room with Nadira and four Indian students. I was
excited and a bit nervous about having such a—well, strangers—at
my room, but we could get along together at the end. After taking a shower and
preparing the bundle of things I might need for tomorrow's activities, I
drifted into a deep sleep with Nadira sleeping on the bed above me.
Day 2: April 8 2015
Poof!
Another cold sunny day greeted as I stepped outside the hostel, ready for
the canal boat ride. We stored our luggage in the luggage room, again, because
we were going to have another city tour by feet and canal boat until twelve, and
then have a lunch, and check-out from the hostel to finally head off to
Sittard.
The canal boat provided many languages, not only English or Dutch, but they
had Indonesian too, to be a speaking-guide while the boat was floating down the
canal for approximately an hour. We passed along some historical places too
during the ride. We were starting from the narrow canal to the super-wide one which
made people probably confused whether it is a sea or a canal.
Getting
off the boat, we made a quick visit to Rijksmuseum and had a group picture of
all the delegations taken there with the most popular background on our backs:
I (am)sterdam. We also explored the city to The Dam Square and had a free
twenty minutes there, so since I was not up for shopping or anything else, and
since the cold wind kept blowing, I slipped to the nearest Starbucks to
enjoy a cup of hot coffee to please my mood.
After we had lunch at Stayokay Hostel, we took out our luggage to the bus which was parked across the Vondelpark, and sit back on the bus with our minds for
the next three hours.
We were dropped off
at Trevianum, which would be the meeting point between the host families and us to pick us up, as soon as we reached Sittard smoothly. There was a 5-minutes a presentation about The Netherlands being held there, and after that, I met
Douren's family, the Trevianum student who would have me in her house for three
days ahead, and this time I shared a house, or to detail, a room, with Mrs Emma.
Day 3: April 9 2015
Angelique, Douren's mom, was a good
cooker. She cooked very well that the food always tasted delicious, at least
for me. Moreover, they treated me excellent. Angelique dropped us off at Gaia Zoo early in
the morning and said that Wil, Douren's dad, would be there for us at 5
p.m. because this programme always started at eight and ended at
five every day, except for the free whole day we were going to have on this Sunday.
At Gaia
Zoo we had two lectures, the first one was about waste recycling from a recycling
company called Rd4. It was not very interesting at the beginning. However, when the presentation was starting to reach the end, it opened my eyes that
surprisingly, a waste that might seem useless to most people could be
transformed into something unique and worthy for you to spend your
money on. The company had been starting this kind of action since like four
years ago if I'm not mistaken, and they collected the waste from residents,
1000 residents per route. In the last several months they had been
successfully doubled the number of addresses to 2000 per route. For me, that
was such an inspiring starter to reduce waste, especially the unbiodegradable
ones. "Waste can be so beautiful. You just should have things around you that
inspire you."
The
second lecture was from Detara Foundation, presented by Kak Anis very well. She explained about Detara Foundation activities on creating a sustainable
living by local empowerment. They had been persuading their
let's-keep-our-planet-green ambition to many schools in Jakarta, Depok, Bogor,
and even Tangerang.
After
those two lectures and a small coffee break, we were divided into groups to
tour around the zoo and a worksheet for us to fill up the answer to each
question.
We were
divided into groups twice here. The first one was for the tour around the zoo
in general. Second, they gave each group a topic to be discussed while we were exploring the zoo again in a more specific way, depending on what
topic did you get. I got animal care topic, so we went around the zoo to
see how the sick animals are being cured, how their food is stored safely and
hygienically in good condition, and much more. They showed so much care to
the animals there, and I learnt many things here.
Today
was such an eye-opener.
Like what Angelique
had promised, Wil showed up at the auditorium at precisely 5 p.m., and with
carefulness, he drove us home safely. After a brief rest on the sofa,
Angelique took us to the nearest supermarket from their house for tonight's
dinner.
Day 4: April 10 2015
A few
days before the departure to Amsterdam, I watched the movie Big Hero 6 and my
favourite quote during the whole movie is: "Hello, I am Baymax, your personal
healthcare companion." Well, I think this is such a pointless paragraph because
I was just wondering if Baymax ever existed and had so many copies being spread
all over the world, maybe there would be no child mortality due to sickness. People would always be healthy and had a higher life expectancy. Those were the main topics that would be discussed by us today at Adelante, a local healthcare facility in that area.
At
Adelante, we had lectures about healthiness and child care. Before we began
to the main point, there was an explanation about healthcare in The The Netherlands. In The Netherlands, they provide a high standard of care in outstanding quality, and the medical facility is range from general practitioners to
specialists, which is separated to cure different types of illness because
every person has different needs. They successfully made the Dutch's life
expectancy one of the highest in the world with no additional fee for the hospital
admission. A lecture which came from Hilda, a delegate from South Africa,
was one of the most touching lectures I had ever had so far. She told us a lecture,
which I enjoyed very much because she spoke in the way as if it was not a
lecture, so it was not boring—about
the child care back in her hometown. I was a little bit surprised as she
said that the most popular-but-deadly disease, HIV infect more than 50% orphans in South Africa.
So she
built a house with well-cooperated volunteers, a house for them to be cured and
taken care of. That was such an inspiring example of a very well-done step to
reach the bright future for the next generation.
From
Adelante, we drove off the road to Op de Bies, a facility complex for disabled
people. So it was like a typical residential. What makes it different is, the
people inside the houses were not built with complete body parts, and some of
them had mental disorders, which makes them need a different and distinctive way to
live and to learn. In Op de Bies, they have several swimming pools for disabled
people to swim. They were even allowed to do some easy and simple works to spend
their time. When I entered one of the houses with a place like a cafeteria
on their yard, I was amazed to see a disabled woman could work as a cashier.
The woman has a mental disorder. When the customer pays, she matches the
structure of the picture printed on the money with the pictures on the
computer. When she finds it is the same picture, she clicks the picture on
the computer, and this goes on until all pieces of money match, after that
she pressed the green button so the computer will start to calculate the total
amount.
That
was unique because sadly, in Indonesia, most disabled are
forgotten; they did not even have a chance to speak and to socialize with
other ordinary people. I hope in the future we can have a place like Op de Bies
in Indonesia in the future.
As
usual, at precisely 5 p.m., Wil appeared at Op de Bies to pick
us up. Before that, we had informed him that we were going to practice for
tomorrow's Culture Night performance, so we were given about thirty minutes to
practice angklung.
Day 5: April 11 2015
The first weekend days during this the programme was very culturalistic because today we visited Maastricht, a city in the southern Netherlands which has so many old-fashioned style building rise along
the roads. At 8 a.m. Wil dropped me off at the University of Maastricht, because
we were going to have some lectures and discussions and small tour around the
university building to see how the Dutch collegers learn.
There was a lecture from the headmaster of
Vankateshwar International School from India, Mrs Mrinalini, about how we
should change our world for a better future. There was such a quote that
inspired me, and I liked it a lot: "If you want to change a nation, you should
change the community. If you want to change your community, you should change
your family. If you want to change your family, change yourself." I agreed
to that because we all realize that if we want a change, all you have to do is
start from the simplest little thing: yourself.
After that, we were divided into groups
again based on the countries where we from to discuss some MDGs points
and what we think we should do to reach the entire goals, then had a quick
lunch on the bus on the way to Valkenburg.
In Valkenburg, we first
visited Stella Marris College to have such a small exhibition about our
cultures from each country. Then we had some rehearsal for the big flashmob
that would be attended by all delegates and Dutch students later during Culture
Night at a building called Polfermolen. At about 5 p.m., we arrived at
Polfermolen, and we separated our ways, boys to gentlemen's restroom and girls to
ladies' restroom to get changed into our traditional clothing. I slipped in a Javanese costume, kebaya with a batik-styled tight skirt, and the
other delegates from Indonesia each wore a Padangese, Balinese, and also some other Javanese costumes.
We performed the song Soleram with angklung, an Indonesian bamboo
musical instrument, and Yamko Rambe Yamko with one of the delegates from
Indonesia playing the keyboard. At the same time, we sang it in front of up-to three
hundred audiences, which consisted of some Dutch students' parents and our
previous and next host families. Because tonight we changed host family! It was
quite hard for me to say goodbye to Douren's family because they were very friendly and they treated me well, and I liked being in their house. I felt like I
didn't want to leave. But we had to, and that moment, when the flashmob and the
closing were done, and the lights were starting to dim and then gone, I met
Lotte and her mom, who was my host family for the next three days.
Day 6: April 12 2015
Feeling
excited as Lotte said today we were going do some fun activities to fill up
the day because today we had a day off! I woke up at eight because last night I was
exhausted and immediately dozed off to bed once I got to Lotte's house. All
you have to know is that Lotte and I were put in the same room together, but on
the separated beds, so we had such a conversation once we were up in the
morning. We could be stuck together easily because I found that she has the
same interests as me in music and movies. After I freshened up myself, I went
downstairs to the kitchen to help Lotte preparing for our breakfast because the rest of Lotte's family members had not been up. We had a croissant and a simple-but-tasty sandwich with Nutella before
we both rested our bodies on the living room sofa to watch some movies
together. As I said, we have the same taste in movies, so we decided to
watch Frozen and Begin Again even though we both had seen it before, but the
movies are too good to be missed, so why not?
Lotte's family all is a sportsperson. Lotte and her younger sister Emma are hockey
players and they were following their mom's hobby when she was at their
age back then, while her older sister and her dad, Tom, are rugby players for a
local club. So that afternoon after lunch, Tom, Emma, and I watched behind the
fence while Lotte was fighting a duel for her hockey club to win the match on
an outdoor hockey field.
We
spent the evening having some ice cream in a café and restaurant complex in
Valkenburg, just before we all headed straight off to a French restaurant for a pleasant dinner.
Lotte and I even baked some cookies in the morning before the movies, so
when we came home from dinner, we took out the cookies from the fridge and
started to feed ourselves with the movie Big Hero 6 playing on her computer's
screen, and then had a good sleep.
Day
7: April 13 2015
And for
the second time, I did not meet the other delegates from Indonesia except for Mr Koes,
because we were divided, again,
into groups and each group was sent to different elementary
schools to teach the students
about our culture. I was in the same group as Mr Koes, so
we both worked together to
distribute our knowledge about Indonesian cultures in front of
fifteen
students. Those fifteen students were only like a group of students who would enter the classroom together because since there were like sixty students attended. Of course, a single classroom
could not afford them all; they took turns.
For the opening, I explained the general things about
Indonesia like where is it located, how is the weather, the schools, in a simple way. After that, I taught them about wayang, traditional Indonesian puppet, and then I gave a printed-out picture of wayang
for them to fill the colours using coloured pencils. It was simple, but at
least I could tell them about Indonesian culture. They seemed to like it
because they kept attacking with a ton of questions about Indonesia.
After that, we drove to a different elementary school again, had lunch there, and
then replied the same activity as what we had done before: teaching the students. Because the students
at the other school were younger than before, I doubted that they would understand
if I did the same thing—explaining about Indonesia and colouring the wayang
picture. So I just
played some videos from Youtube on the big touchscreen computer's screen they
provided for each classroom. I showed videos about komodo, Kecak dance, the beauty of Raja Ampat, and at the end, I suggested them to sing Balonku together.
It was fun to
teach them about our culture. It could be the first step to promote the
uniqueness of our culture to the world.
Day 8:
April 14 2015
I woke up
with excitement flowing inside my soul because it was the day when we
travelled to Belgium and Germany. Three countries in a day (and of course The Netherlands because that was where we departed by bus)! For the first time in my
life because in Indonesia we cannot do that because seas surrounded us.
In Belgium, we dropped off in Liege, a city that is located only an hour car-drive away
from Heerlen to tour around the city. We were brought to Liege Cathedral; a
big cathedral explored its history while the other Indonesian students and I
were trying to copy one of the statues' pose and asked Ankit, a student from
Nepal, to take a picture of us posing.
After an
hour in Liege, we departed again for Germany. I had such a funny moment with
Nadira on the bus. Half an hour later, we got out of the bus to inhale the
fresh, cold air of Aachen, a city in southern Germany which is very very
near to The Netherlands. Not like in Liege, we were given much longer time to
walk around the Munsterplatz, and Madelon instructed us to gather in front of
the theatre building at 2 p.m..
I went shopping with the other Indonesian students because there were a lot of branded
clothing stores in that area. Since our money remained more than two
hundred Euros and just a few days were remaining until we leave the
country, we decided to spend our money on clothes. At 2 p.m., we found our way
to the theatre, although there was a little challenging to communicate with the
Germans; fortunately, we could manage it.
We headed
to the point of where The Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium's continents meet.
There was a not-really-tall tower built in that area. We could see the view of
the three different countries from the top of the tower for only like three
Euros per person. The other Indonesian students and I bought a pack of french
fries with extra mayonnaise for us together. We had free time for an hour
there, so the other Indonesian students and I did a small tour exploring the
woods beside the area. We enjoyed the lovely view of plenty of tall trees
with the enhanced sunrays stroked between them.
The last
destination before heading back to Heerlen was the American Cemetery in
Margraten, The Netherlands. It is the place where the American soldiers who
died during World War II are buried. After that, we went back to Heerlen,
Van der Valk Hotel, to find that Lotte had been there to pick me up.
This was the last night I spent at Lotte's house because
tomorrow morning I would leave her house with all of my luggage. So as a
farewell, that night we went to the cinema to watch the new-released booming
movie at that moment, Fast & Furious 7. Tessa, Lotte's friend, who also hosted two students from India, joined us too.
Day 9:
April 15 2015
After
saying goodbye to Lotte's family, we left Heerlen and continued to head
straight to a sports school in Eindhoven, Hogeschool. It was an excellent school with adequate facilities for many kinds of sport, either indoor or
outdoor. They even have some swimming pools too in a separated building. The
swimming pools are divided based on the needs: for the beginner, the seniors,
and for the ones who will join a competition—or let say, an athlete. After touring around the school with
some Dutch students, we did some dance and sports. We played football, hockey,
and basketball in groups (and somehow playing hockey reminded me of Lotte). At the end of the moment, we had in Hogeschool, we all played a game which was
still related to the sport but sadly as we had just started for five minutes, Derrick,
a teacher from Tanzania, told us that it was already the time to leave. So
without ever finishing our last game, we left.
The next stop was different for each
delegation. We were put into a city or an area based on our country. The
Indonesians were dropped off in Nijmegen, the furthest from Eindhoven comparing
to the other delegation's cities. It took about two hours of car drive to get
there. Once we got there, we were picked up by new host families on the
parking lot of Dominicus College. It was the last host families during this
programme, and realizing that in a few days we were going to head back home just
made me sadder. I did not want to leave this beautiful country. This time I
was put in the same house with kak Anis, with Vita as our host family's first
daughter. Vita has a younger brother and a younger sister.
That night, after dinner, Vita's
mom asked us if we would like to go to the supermarket nearby with her, Albert
Heijn—it is trendy in The Netherlands,
and I said yes. So we went for it by bike. Five bikes formed a line; Kak
Anis, Stephanie (Vita's younger sister), Vita, and Vita's mom, and I. Vita
brought some tote bags from home because if we want to have a plastic bag from
the supermarket, we should pay for it, usually half a Euro each. Sadly, that
rule of plastic bags has not been applied until now in Indonesia. We still can
get a plastic bag for free, and that is making the plastic waste increased every
single year.
Day 10: April 16 2015
Yes! Another exciting day!
Today we had a 'normal school day' as
what was written on the schedule book. The school we attended was Dominicus
College. All of our host families are Dominicus College's students. There were
Vita, Jimmy, and Wies.
As I first stepped in Dominicus
College, the first and only impression was: "It looks just exactly as what I
always see on those teenagers-life Hollywood movies." The place was so lovely
and comfortable! I loved being there. It was a government school. If only all
of the government schools in Indonesia were like this.
After a coffee time and had a brief
chit-chat, we were divided into two groups to tour around the school. I was put
in a group which the members were kak Anis, Jimmy, and an English teacher. They
showed us all of the sides of the building, including the computers room and the
disabled students' learning area. Yes. They have it. Surprised? Because I was.
For access, they provide automatic doors for the disabled ones. The
classroom was also different comparing to the classroom we usually have. The
lights will turn on automatically without you even need to switch them on. If
you are disabled and you are not feeling okay, do not worry because they have some
'sleeping rooms' for them to take a rest. There were also some spare automatic
wheelchairs on the edge of the main room, in case of something terrible and
unexpected happens, who knows? Furthermore, that inspired me and made me think of how
they could so care to the disabled. They give the disabled a chance to learn,
to attend school, to have a normal life as an average person will be.
We got some sandwiches for lunch. That
was such a fuel-filling activity because after that we had some presentations
and a chemistry class with the Dutch students.
Again, divided into three groups, one
Indonesian student and one Dutch student in each group. I worked together with
Jimmy. All we had to do was make a PowerPoint about 1) food, 2) music and 3)
national holidays. We chose the topic, and later, the Dutch student explained
about Indonesian's and the Indonesian explained about Dutch's. We chose the easiest one, food (because I like to eat). So I had to explain about Dutch
food and Jimmy had to explain about Indonesian food. We worked together to set
up the PowerPoint, which will be presented in front of the class in the
computers room. It was a vast computers room with plenty of computers (of
course!). I told Jimmy about gado-gado
and nasi goreng in general, and then
the ingredients, so he could memorize it. In the middle of our work, a boy in a
blue shirt appeared and walked in through the door of the computers room. Meet
Bart. He was one of the Dominicus College's students too. After a quick
introduction between us, their English teacher told him to join our
group to discuss each other's food.
The chemistry class was the most
exciting moment of the day. We worked on some worksheets in groups, two
persons per group, and even did some experiments which I had never done at my
school before. Aside from the fact that they use very high-tech devices to help
the students learning such an iPad and a massive computer screen, I was amazed
by one of the experiments they showed us. They made bubbles by blowing some
certain substances mixed with water and placed them in a big bowl, then we took
some bubbles with our hands and hung it higher in the air to see the professor
firing it and then POOF! A quite-tall flame happened, and the bubbles were gone. For
this thing, I did not try it because I was nervous yet afraid if something terrible
happened to my hands, but an Indonesian friend tried it, and nothing terrible happened. Four words: it was super amazing.
After that, we cycled again back to
Vita's house. Tonight, as a farewell, we sightsaw to the heart of the city
Nijmegen with a friend of Vita and Nadira's host family joined us (and of course
Nadira too). Nevertheless, the sightseeing turned into shopping as soon as we found out
that there were many clothing stores in that area. Moreover, what made me wanted
to stay there longer is the fact that they have a basement parking
lot for bikes. For some reasons I chose to go there by bike when Vita asked
what did I prefer to go by, bike or car, and that was unique, I think. The
government seems to care and facilitate the cyclists, and that is very important
if someone wants their country least influenced by vehicle emission.
Day 11: April 17 2015
Technically, it was the last day of the
programme! I was sad yet excited because we went to Den Haag today. We
departed from Nijmegen Station to Eindhoven because it would take much time for
them to pick us up by bus, so we said goodbye to host families right at the
train station, and at around eight our train left Nijmegen. It took about an hour
and a half to reach Eindhoven, and once we arrived, one of the Global Exploration
staffs had already there to lead us to where the bus was parked.
Indonesian delegates wore batik
today. The other delegation did wear their formal outfits too because we are
going to visit the Dutch Parliament.
The parliament area was very
spacious. There were many rooms protected with a code lock and even some
fingerprint scans to enter. We toured around the building as the Dutch's party
member guided us along our way, explained about Dutch's political system and
to be honest it was quite boring, but it gave an experience.
After having a quick lunch at
Stayokay Hostel Den Haag, we headed off to the Peace Palace Den Haag. The Peace
Palace is an administrative building in The Hague. It houses the International
Court of Justice, the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the Hague Academy of
International Law, and the extensive Peace Palace Library.
We
were divided into smaller groups to have some discussion that took place at
one of their halls. The discussion was about how far those MDGs have been
running in our country and what our hopes and next steps to make it better in
the future. Everyone here could share their great opinion since they always
provided us a time to speak for every MDGs goal. I was put in the same group as
Lotte (she joined us today), Ankit, Richard from China, Pallavi from India, and
two Dutch represents. The discussion opened up my mind. Even though we lived in
different countries with different problems, our goal was the same:
to have a better life in the future. Through this discussion, I got some
inspirations because what would be better than listening to someone else's
opinions and share mine too. Opinions from a different point of views stuck in
my mind.
After that, we had a closing
ceremony attended by the Deputy Ambassador, giving a short speech. The night was an exceptional night for us because we were personally invited to the Indonesian Embassy house and then had
dinner together. There should had been another building-tour for us
like what the other delegations had. However, since the Indonesian Ambassador, Mr Ibnu Wiwoho invited us to like-what-I-just-said, we split up from the others
and went to the Indonesian Embassy by their private black van with a private
chauffeur, all in black.
I was so happy that we had
Indonesian dinner at a local Indonesian restaurant as we had not have it like
ages. At the end of our presence in The Netherlands, drinking Teh Kotak was
like drinking some water from heaven and eating soto ayam was like eating a fancy and famous-chef-signature buffet.
All my love belongs to Indonesian food. We had tahu telor, telor dadar, rawon, nasi iga, soto ayam, and bakso on the table as the food.
After that, we dropped off again
at Stayokay Hostel and thankyou-ed all the staffs of the Indonesian Embassy who
had given us a dinner experience.
That night, I really really wanted to spend the rest
of the time there by exploring the beauty of the city. So the other two
Indonesian students and I went out for some night-walking around the city, but
as we were about to open the main door of the hostel, my uncle showed up with a
big grin and my aunt by his side, cheered out as they spotted me. Yes, I have
some family members living in Den Haag, so they decided to see me. Lucky
for us, because with my uncle's presence, we were brought touring the city with
his car, even though it was exactly 9.30 p.m. and all the shopping
stores had been closed, we had a fun time together.
At around half to midnight, we
were dropped off again at Stayokay Hostel. We did not go back to our room as
soon as we arrived. We decided to chill out at the backyard of the hostel,
sitting calmly by the canal with small talk, and enjoyed while the icy night air piercing our bones. At around 1 AM on the next day, we were back to
our rooms, and I decided to take a shower at exactly half-past one in the
morning. After all, I did not want to have a hurry-morning at the time I woke up
because we had to leave the hostel at half to 8 in the morning.
Day 12: April 18 2015
Lotte,
Julia, Madelon, Kevin, and Jos from Global Exploration came with us to Schiphol
and we disparted by the outer main gate. I was despondent, especially as I
hugged each of them tightly. The days we had there seemed to be very short.
Time flew.
Our flight boarded at 4.30 PM, so, to spend the time, I went shopping around
Schiphol with Nadira. At 4 p.m., we were already standby by the gate to enter the
aircraft. The saddest moment ever is when the plane was starting to leave the Schiphol
building to the runaway, and I could not do anything when it left the ground.
All I could see for the next another fourteen hours were clouds and
blue-or-dark sky.
In
conclusion, this trip was very, very, very exhilarating and unforgettable.
Ever.
I
wish I could experience it again someday, in a different country.
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created by Salsabiella Ramadhanti A.
(Tulisan ini sebenernya laporan kegiatan buat pusat, makanya nulisnya niat. Daripada nganggur di flashdisk mending gue share sekalian ye gak hahahah)
