Monday, February 8, 2010
Before i decided to be an exchange student, i thought that what a big world earth is. And i was stuck in Indonesia, I never went anywher further than Solo, Central Java. But after I arrived here in the US, my whole perception changed. Here I meet so many people from around the world, China, Belgium, Iceland, France, Japan, Sweden, Norway, Nigeria, Ghana, Thailand, Malaysia, Germany, from every corner of the world! I thought i would just met american, that was a big mistake! And the funny thing is, before I came here there was an AFS returnee in Padang that told me there is another Indonesian student in the school that I'm going to be in the US. That was so unexpected. And when i came here, the Indonesian student's mom invited me to meet Indonesian people that live here in Tennessee. There were 30 people or so, i was so happy to meet them! And what makes me think that the world is small is one day when I went grocery shopping in Nashville I bumped into 2 of the Indonesian people that I met in the Indonesian gathering. Ok, that's not a big surprise. But when I went to Washington DC I was walking toward the capitol bulding when I suddenly heard a voice that said, "Kameranya ditaro dimana ya?". That was definitely Indonesian language, so there might be Indonesian people around. And I was right! There were 2 Indonesian people that was working for VoA and I met them! I wished i took a picture with them! Beside that when i had a booth of Indonesia in the Celebration of Culture in Nashville TN, suddenly a woman approached me and said that she once lived in Indonesia for 2 years or so. Wow. And recently, i think it was 2 days ago, I went to Ravenwood's International Music Festival. I walked around and i saw booths of many countries! And guess what? I saw an Indonesian booth! And amazingly, the one that had the booth wasn't Indonesian, she was American that lived in Indonesia for 2.5 years, and she has so many Indonesian stuffs from all over Indonesia's islands. She told me on Thanksgiving day, instead of cooking turkey and other American food they cooked Soto Ayam! Hahaha. I told her i can't cook Indonesian food and she invited me to come to her house so she will teach me how to cook! It's funny that I'm pure Indonesian but I'm going to learn how to cook Indonesian food from a pure American. hahaha. What a small, weird world!
a moment of my life, 12:11 PM.
