Kind readers, sorry for not updating this blog for quite some time now. So without further ado, here is a quick recap about what I have done in UK.
- I went for a trip to Stonehenge and Salisbury’s Cathedral.
- I also joined another trip to London: I visited National Gallery, passed Trafalgar Square, Big Ben, The Parliament Building, River Thames, London Eye, and lastly visited Natural History Museum.
- Those trips are arranged by International Focus.
- I watched a half-hour fireworks display to commemorate Guy Fawkes night. (remember the film V for Vendetta?) To reach the place, I had to walk for about an hour and made more than several wrong turns.
- To keep my sanity, I registered as a member of Reading Film Theatre. They show award-winning films on Palmer Building’s Theatre Room (one of buildings in which I had my classes.) With these membership, I got a reduced ticket price and I watched:
- Half Nelson (Young Hercules no more! for Ryan Gosling)
- The Night of The Sunflowers (very good Spanish movie!)
- Conversations with Other Women (split screen like you’ve never seen before)
- La Vie en Rose
- Water
- I got my Greek visa (yay!). In the process, I visited Indonesian Embassy and had a little walk around London.
- I had a very high fever, a sore throat, I am still coughing every now and then.
- I cook! (and I took some pictures of the food I cooked) Also, I cooked Soto Ayam for a not so fancy dinner for most of my unit-mates (who live in the same unit/corridor as me, we share the kitchen and the bathroom).
- My unit-mates (long live Q Unit Childs Hall Autumn 2007!) are:
- PH (England)
- EW(England)
- SC (England)
- ICG (Spain)
- FS (Italy)
- PS (Czech Republic)
- MDM (Argentina)
- AJMG (Honduras)
- ARB (Pakistan)
- Lastly, there are D and D (both from England), but I didn’t know them that well.
- Quite an international unit eh?
- I miss my family like crazy. Luckily, my mother learned to use Yahoo! Messenger and also Skype! My brother even bought her a web camera so that I can take a look at the new arrangement of my house.
- Thanks to Pak Lexy and his wife, Mbak Lea, I visited Cambridge and Windsor Castle, and also met other Indonesians living in Reading and surrounding area. Whenever you visit Reading please keep in mind that there’s an Indonesian community called KampoengReading.
- I miss her everyday.
- Oh yea, I also studied and had (well, actually still have) a lot of assignments.
What a recap eh? Probably this recap is incomplete, but I hope it gives you the picture of what I have done in UK in these three months. Do post comment and request which event you would like me to tell you in more detail.
Now? I feel lonely, most of my unit-mates have left for their Christmas (and New Year) holiday. There are only Fabio and I left. Moreover, the internet access from my room is broken, and I have to walk to the Child’s Hall Computer room to access internet. I still have to work on my assignments (yap! that’s plural) in which I have no idea where I’m going with a particular assignment (deadline in 2 weeks).
Finally, I will move to Greece in a week. I will take a London Gatwick-Thessaloniki flight on the 4th of January. Before that, I plan to go to London for New Year’s Eve (and hopefully to catch the mega-fireworks-display near London Eye).
