Nal's Slices of Life

   One of my excitements, after I knew I am accepted in Erasmus, would be the feeling of boarding abroad. I had never been in an international flight's departure terminal before. My longest boarding was only two hours and yet it still domestic flight. Once I got the ticket to Madrid, I was happy because that would be my first time. I checked back my ticket and my trip would transit for an hour forty-five minutes in Doha International Airport.    Before I departed, I asked my friend, Mutia - who had been experienced in international flight before, whether it would be enough for us to pass all the security posts in within a short time. She said it would be fine as long as we did it quickly. To shorten the story, I arrived in Doha around 12 am and the next flight would be an hour after. The line for security check-in was not long and I passed it quickly. After passing the security post, my friends and I could see many people with the same destination as us, Madrid, sti...

      Another critical-rush hour happened on Monday. I just went back from Andalucia trip to Granada and Cordoba. I arrived in Murcia around midnight and I planned to sleep directly after I came to my apartment. It was so tiring trip because, before Andalucia trip, I went to Italy. Moreover, the night before going Cordoba, I did not sleep at all. Contrast with Hesti, she would do phonology transcription for the next day before she went to sleep. I already did that before I went to Cordoba.       I set the alarm at 6 am and went to sleep. I woke up and checked the sky was still dark. I opened my phone and it was still 4 am. I continued my sleep because I thought I still had two hours more before six. Suddenly, I woke up again and it was already 8 am. Meanwhile, my class started around 9 am. I am a typical person that hate for being late and also it is only several times I do not take a bath before going to class. But because the time was already ...

     When I left my country and would start live in Murcia, there was one my mom advice she gave to me. It was to keep in touch and try to reply to her message as soon as possible. Thus, on the third day of my living in Murcia, I went to one of the department stores that sell some phone cards from different companies.      Everything was run very well until I stopped to recharge my phone. I did that because I thought mobile data was no longer necessary for me, because I mostly use wifi, either in public, campus, and my apartment. Then, a week ago, I came again to the store to recharge my card because the day I would go to Italy was coming closer. Clearly, I would need the data to keep in contact with my family when I travel around out of Spain. The first disaster came at that time.      I only purchased for five euros, but when I activated the mobile data, it wouldn't work. The network appeared and disappeared like in the blink of t...

       A weekend is a day that everyone is waiting for. It is the perfect time to chill out, hang out with friends, and gather with family. I planned to start my morning exercise on Sunday morning after a two-month break. Besides, for the past three weeks, I felt guilty to my tummy for feeding it with a lot of junk food. I thought my weekend would be perfect, but I never realized there was one thing that makes my weekend a little bit messy.       On Saturday morning, I already prepared myself with three Indonesian dishes I made with my friends for the potluck party. I went to my Polish friends' place around 2 p.m. The party ended at around 6.30 p.m. and I got a text from another friend, Tsarah,  that she would come to my apartment. I was so excited since it had been three weeks since she came to my place. I went home before the time she said to me and decided to have moccachino with Hesti and Mutia. At 8.30 p.m. Tsarah arrived. We tal...

     I ever lived in another part of Indonesia, West Borneo, when I was a child. I lived for five years since my father, he is an army, was transferred there. There are many things happened at that time, started from my experience saw the 'ghost', spent all the money my mom gave to me that supposed to be the money for buying a vegetable, and my experience in almost died because of my friend.      I lived in an army dormitory and my neighbours came from many areas from all over Indonesia. I still remember that my house was located near the street and had a little ditch with some plants next to the ditch. Every afternoon, around 3-4 p.m., it was a common thing that the mothers accompanied their children playing around near our house. While their children played around, the mothers talked and shared their own story about the household world or sometimes gossipping the other neighbourhood. I had many friends either they were from the same age or the o...

     What is the first belonging of a person who suffers nearsighted? For me who cannot use contact lens, the answer is glasses.  Most of the people will always wear their glasses even when they walk. In my case, I am not that typical. I only wear my glasses whenever I have to read books, work with my laptop and cell phone, and to see the blackboard as well as the monitor in the class. I know that is a bad habit, but I just do not want to rely on my glasses, yet I do not really like to wear it. My mom always quarrelsome if I do not wear my glass regularly. Whenever she knows that I do not wear it, she would mumble for at least an hour.       Although I do not like to wear that, the fact is I have been wearing this glasses since I was in second grade of my senior high school. The terrible thing, besides the amount of my myopia that is increasing every year, is when my glasses broke. It is either the frame or the lens come out from the ...