AOTULE Student Exchange: The Preparation

Assalammu’alaikum
Yap, jumpa lagi dengan saya di blog ini. Hehe. Saya baru saja mengalami hal yang luar biasa dan terlalu sayang untuk tidak ditulis. Kali ini mau nyoba nulis pakai bahasa Inggris yang masih-acak-adut biar teman-teman baru saya bisa membaca tulisan ini… Ok

It was such an ordinary morning on March 30, 2011 when I woke up again (after post-subuh-sleeping) and check my Plurk account. However, I found an extraordinary Plurk status informed that there is a student exchange’s offer for 4 weeks in Malaysia at this link.  The link said: if you want to join this program send email to Mrs. Ayu (my lecturer) contained curriculum vitae, academic transcript, and TOEFL/IELTS… DEADLINE IS TODAY. At that time, I didn’t have any idea about what would I do during the student exchange program, who offered the program, even when the program would take place. I didn’t have my TOEFL score. I just knew that I wanted a new experience.  Any kind of experience.  So I sent an email to Mrs. Ayu and said: “I want to join, but I don’t have the TOEFL score yet. So how can I join?” Kinda reckless…

Mrs. Ayu replied my email and said that I should ask my adviser lecturer, Mr. Saiful for the recommendation. So I asked him but unlucky he wasn’t informed about the program yet. Then he asked Mrs. Ayu for more information but unlucky again, she was teaching until the time of the deadline. So at the end of the day I just threw away my dream of getting a new experience aboard.

Just because God knows my every little dream, the next day I received an email from Mr. Saiful that he already gave me a recommendation letter to the study program’s officer, Mr. Ade. Mr. Ade gave me more information about this program: when the program will be held, what facility I would get, and also the schedule of the program. The next thing I should do was having TOEFL examination. I got 560 for TOEFL prediction but only got 547 for the real TOEFL so I just sent the TOEFL prediction, hehe. Luckily, the TOEFL score was accepted

Several days later, I got phone call from international relation officer said that I could join the program but I should pay for my own airline ticket. I agreed to buy my own airline ticket since we can’t buy experiences, right? The next things I should do were sending health insurance (I already had it), filling the forms, making the passport, and buying the ticket airlines. I was sick when the deadline of sending the passport come. Actually the officer from international relation office never informed the real deadline except one day or two days before the deadline  But I got a lot of help so I could meet the deadline

About the airline ticket: I changed my mind to book Bandung-Kuala Lumpur (arrival 9.15) ticket instead of Jakarta-Kuala Lumpur (arrival 14.xx). I said to international student officer: “I changed my plan but I think I will go to the airport again so I can picked up together with Dea and Andreas”. I just had Dea’s email, I asked her phone number and I also told her that I changed my plan. I was thinking that since Andreas and Dea had the same flight, they should have each other number but I was wrong.. and this less-communication lead to the confusing day when we arrived in Kuala Lumpur…

… to be continued

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