Bule in Bule’s Country

We put name tag and met with the groups. We were (Indonesian team) in one group with French, Russia and Australia, and our tutor from Germany. As I can see around and on the lists the Asia continents are only from South Korea, India, China and Indonesia.

I pitied myself how our great great great grandmother could chose Indonesia as they’re hometown. We’re easily recognized here!! Short,black hair, brown skin,black eyes. So pity,what genes it is, people around me was like as you can see in the Hollywood movies.

We’re in the middle of bule. But now,we’re bule in bule’s country.

As I wondered around, I heard myself called

“Ririn!!!”  that sound not from Joice, Alfona, Lidya or Tata (The only Indonesian Team)

I looked at her whose called my name, that look that exactly look like mine (Short, black hair, brown skin,black eyes)

“Orang Indonesia ya rin?” She greeted me. See- I’m easily recognized here :D

“Iyaa.hahaha kok tauu” Replied me as surprised

“Iya, keliatan lah terus lo namanya Ririn (pointed to my name tag) Gw juga liat di list kalo ada orang Indonesia, mana lagi orang Indonesia nya?”

“Oooh, gitu. Lah ini sebelah gw juga orang Indonesia.hahaha” (Joice, Alfona and Lidya have Chinese blood, but Tata idk why she couldnt recognized her)

“Lo orang Indonesia juga, exchange juga?” As I curious about her

“Iya, tapi gw complicated.haha. Gw kuliah di Turki, terus ikut exchange ini, jadinya gw ditulisnya dari Turki”

I dont know why, but the first time I saw her, I knew that we could be friend easily.

As we chatted, the photographer wanted to took a picture of whole Exchange Students Falls 2012

And...as night goes on

It was my first party there. You can easily find me the “indonesian look” still handing the coat.

I didn’t know there was a locker room to put the coat. Hell, how could I know! In indonesia , we already came with backless, tank top, shorts, and mostly of the fancy clubs are in the malls. In here malls are closed at 6 pm. Well, so it must be in the seperate building, and the weather outside was like 18 degree at night. You could “masuk angin-as I say it” if wearing the party clothes without coat.

The interesting thing that I found that we didn’t have to wear formal clothes to party, yeayyyy!!! We can use sneakers, jeans, shirt. If you see me on that pict, I used white shirt,legging and wedges. That’s enough :D

There are some clubs that has rules we should wearing formal, no sneakers, no cap, etc etc.. 

But for now, the schedule was on club seven. Schedule? Yesss, it was on orientation schedule!!!