always 'something' in this life;)

^{January 17, 2011}

My Very First Day of School

Oh God, what on the earth is this school? Do I take the wrong entrance when I sit in the class? Friends I haven’t known yet. Are they nice? Or other way around? The teachers are strangers. Where am I? I need to wake up so I can end up this bad dream. I think I have got a weird dream and right now I am being trapped in this dreamland. Oh it might not be a bad dream but it is REAL! Cross Culture Understanding haunts me, I can not imagine if I have to deal with so many things in the new surroundings. So many questions rise in my mind, they need answers but which one should I answer? People are talking about curriculum, syllabus, lesson plan, KTSP, so on..What are those things? Are they brands of good things? I have no idea.My bad, I am the idiot one now. I do not know what the teachers are talking about. I wish the earth swallowed me this time so I would not hear about those words. I can describe what my facial expression says..Feel like I am a pig sitting on the grill, I gotta go! I don’t think this is the right place for me to have fun like I did in my previous university. I gotta go before I lose my mind!

I know this is gonna be hard for me to introduce my self that I am an input student from Brawijaya University. Oh it might be a bad idea, people here will not care for it. Well, I gotta tell them, or probably yell out that ‘I am Diah Galuh Sarimbit, I am an input student from the nearest-neighbouring college (kampus tetangga), Brawijaya University, please be nice to me because I have trouble adjusting new surroundings, please do not hurt me and take me when you go to canteen because each three hour I have to eat something otherwise I will faint at class, I will be very thankful for it. Oh something left..you will not find out my name on the first page of the attendance list because my name is on the other page so when teachers do round call, they sometimes miss my name or I just raise my hand and tell them that I haven’t been called yet. I feel like an illegal student but it’s okay’. Yes, this is the right introduction! I will give it a try! But when? Ah, maybe next semester! But wait, it is too long! Well, let me get down on my knees and pray so God will give me the exact answer!

Wait up! Students here are wearing T-shirt, is this allowed? Oh no, my eyes are observing them one by one. Are they going to hang out with friends or buy for dinner outside? Even some of them are wearing sport trousers like an athlete. I do not think this is sport faculty; it is next to this faculty! The classroom looks like playground with students in the T-shirt. I know it should be different as my previous university, I forgot that I am now somewhere.

Male students are speaking English very good, such an amazing discovery that I found in my very first day of school. They can possibly talk and they are alive, my first time I see Male students speaking English very good, almost perfect (Again, it’s different as my previous university that the male students, my classmates, were also speaking EnglishJ. I’m impressed! Good things covered!

I hear some students gossiping about particular lectures. I put up my ears to the conversation! Awesome, I need to know this one. So I have a basic skill how to deal with the lectures someday. Then, they are gossiping about some particular students that they should be avoided when work group is made up. Hmm, again this is worthy.

I believe that magic things happen at school/college sooner or later but I do not think that I love being here. This is my parents’ dream to send me to this university. Will I ruin their dream to see me, their daughter, studying in the best faculty? Anyway, I must be thankful for this opportunity as I am more blessed than kids on the street who do not go to school.