THE BEAUTIFUL FROG

So here I am. Sitting on my chair while enjoying my last night in Zlin.
On my last post I wrote that the hardest thing is when I dreamed to go home. But, this time I have to change it. The hardest thing is when you have another home away from your home and you have to go back to your home and you are confuse now. When you are already get used to everything here but now you have to leave...this is how it's simplified.

I'm trying to cheer myself up by saying that I'm going to live my 'real' life again. Being an exchange student is hard. You've got to have a 'temporary' life in another strange place at first. Meeting a lot of new people, being comfortable with them and then you have to leave. That's hard, right!!?

Last night I was having a pillow talk with my room-mate, Puput. She is also Indonesian who already stayed in Zlin for 2 years. It must be hard for her once someone ask her to go home, yes it is, she told me last night. Hahaha... sorry Puput.

Having a new comfort zone is very difficult. Even more difficult when you have to step out of your comfort zone. (again)

Since the first time I decided to go for exchange in Zlin, I asked myself, "Is this the worst or the best decision?".

Well, I have to tell you that It's worst because it gives me such a terrible weird feeling afterwards ( Like what I feel by the time I'm writing this ) . Terrible feeling to leave all of my friends, teachers, habits, favourite places, etc. You have to move out from the place which you called it 'home'.

Nevertheless I have to tell you too that this is also the best decision I've ever made in my life. Decision to push myself out of my comfort zone. To step out of my circle or maybe expanding my circle.

I met a lot of different people from around the world. I get to know their cultures better. It even breaks all of the stereotypes that I have in my mind all this time. I'm so thankful now. I'm so thankful to know all of you! ( for my friends from this semester who is reading this now ) You guys added spices to my life :)

Yeah... My life in Zlin is going to be ended by this night... I guess (?) Tomorrow I will leave for travelling to other parts of Europe and go home.

I will certainly miss Zlin. It's not only about the energy from this place which going to make me miss it. It's also the people who make this place become even more vivid, like all the bricks in Zlin! Hahaha

Last but not least,
I can't wait to go home and see my family. This experience makes me realize how I love them.




AHOJ!
NASCHLEDANOU!

I will write today's post in English... hopefully everyone can understand :)

          So.. during my first week in Zlin I found everything is nice... everyone is trying to welcome the erasmus students which is very warm and sweet :)





         My activities during this first week is just shopping, lunch with friends, and basically that's all. Still adapting with the weather here since it's my first attempt in winter. I'm not used to wear layers of clothes and bulky coat.

          But despite the weather I love it here. Like I said in the previous post that I will definitely like how quite this city is. The annoying thing is just on Saturday stores are opened half day, and in Sunday everything is closed except Golden Apple ( Like a small plaza in the city centre here ).

I also met a lot of new friends from around the world! That sounds a bit crazy...huh? Sometimes I can hear so many languages in one place. Hahah..

To wrap it all we had an orientation walk yesterday.. It was a very long walk and I wore the wrong shoes... it was really bad..with the flu I was very sleepy the entire time.. but the walk was very informative and fun since we got some challenges in every places that we visited.




and since I had my birthday this week here, I felt a bit different because I celebrate it with new people in the new place. But surprisingly I love it.

So here are some pictures about how we spent my brithday here. :)

Tips lain : 

•  Hampir semua instansi buka pada pk.08:00 dan tutup pada pk.15:00 dan tutup pada hari Sabtu, Minggu, dan hari besar.

• Datanglah sedini mungkin untuk menghindari antrian panjang, jam makan siang, dan mepet dengan waktu tutup. 

• Datang pada hari Senin atau Selasa sehingga jika masih ada dokumen yang kurang lengkap bisa dilengkapi tanpa tertunda akibat hari Sabtu dan Minggu. 

• Perlu diingat proses pengerjaan dokumen berbeda-beda ada yang 1 hari selesai, 2 dan 3 hari atau bahkan lebih. Jadi jika anda datang di awal minggu yakni Senin atau Selasa, anda bisa mengambil dokumen anda pada hari Kamis atau Jumat. 

• Jika anda datang hari Jumat maka dokumen anda baru jadi hari Selasa atau Rabu. Menurut saya pribadi ini akan menunda interview anda di kedutaan besar Ceko yang hanya ada pada hari Senin. 

• Jika anda membaca dengan seksama pengalaman saya di tabel timeline diatas, anda akan mengetahui bahwa kunci utamanya supaya tidak salah adalah bertanya. 

• Saat tiba disebuah instansi terkadang kita bingung dan terintimidasi oleh besarnya gedung dan petugas yang agak meremehkan anda karena anda bukan pejabat atau dari ras tertentu seperti saya.. hehe..  Tapi, santai saja dan ingat apa tujuan anda kesana.