Senin, 18 Juli 2016

First Arrival at Thailand (Week 1, Day 1&2)

Wake up at 02.00 I prepared to go from Bandung to Soekarno Hatta Airport (CGK) at Cengkareng, Indonesia. I go there by car with my family at 3 o'clock and arrived at 5.00 at CGK airport. We go to pray and have breakfast. I meet my friends Intan and Dinar, we are in same university and same flight. Check in at 08.00 after that go to immigration line, and we waiting inside.

At 09.29 we get in to the plane and at 10.10 the plane is take off. It took 3,5 hours to go to Thailand. We are arrived at 13.35 and go to immigration line again, after that we waiting for our baggage. When we walking to arrival waiting room there are big banner of Valaya Alongkhon Rajabhat University (VRU) and two beautiful Thailand girls hanging my name , they are Ing and Mat who pick me up at the airport. Then Nurul from UNY, Rahmi and Evan from UPI coming too. After that while waiting for the van, coming Meen and Pond (Ing and Mat's friends), so four of them are our buddy while we are in Thailand. The van is coming at 15.30 , it took about 20-30minutes to go to VRU. Weather in Thailand is so hot, I got weather  shock here because in Bandung the weather is so cold. We got nice and clean dorm, each room fill by two person, so I shared room with Nurul. After praying, I, Nurul, Rahmi, Evan, Ing, Mat, Meen and Pond went to FamilyMart to buy lunch, then we went to Tesco Lotus Supermarket to buy SIM card. For the number it's cost 49baht and for the internet it's cost 220baht for a month. We go back to the dorm by taxi at 18.30. I got surprised because it still bright at that time, i just knew that in Thailand the day is longer than the night even the time is same with Indonesia. So, if maghrib (sunset) in Indonesia at 18.00, in Thailand maghrib at 18.50.

The next day, at 08.30, I and Nurul decided to explore the Uni, we walk around and also take some photos. There are many building like the Demonstration school of VRU, faculty of education, art and culture department, library, language center, artificial lake and the 15th building.

Because the weather is very hot we decided to go back to the dorm at 13.00 and have lunch. After that the last participant of the program come named Olivia with her buddy Fatma, but Fatma didn’t bring the key of Olivia’s room, so she ask me and Nurul to let Olivia stay in our room for a while. Suddenly, the coordinator teacher from VRU come and explain that there is misunderstand about student participant data, so I think maybe it’s not too bad if three of us stay in a room together.
In the afternoon we decided to go to market outside VRU about 2 km from our dorm. It’s big market with hundred shops selling daily need and the price is very cheap.

We walk around and buy some food and drink. The good thing I learned that even the people can’t speak in English, they try to communicate with us using Google Translate or write the price on a notebook.
Then we go back to the dorm around 19.45 and then have a dinner together in our room.

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