Summer in Beijing Part 1: BICC Summer Camp, Gengdan University, and Happy Eid Mubarak from Beijing!

Hello everyone!!!!!!!!!
Yes, finally I'm back from Beijing :) that was the most amazing 24 days in my life that I won't forget, ever.
Well, I'll tell you my stories here, but it'll be divided to some parts, yeah, because it will be too long if its only one post. To tell you the truth, I still can't move on from my days in Beijing :") so....................... let's go back to the day we're leaving Jakarta.

Sunday, 3 & 4 July 2016.

It was a sunny day. I was that excited for this day until I can't sleep well enough, and that day was still Ramadhan days which I still need to wake up early around 3 or 4 AM, so after that time I don't go to sleep anymore, kind of afraid that I over slept and missed my flight, but I'm that excited that I can't even sleep anyway lol. Me and some of my friend take the 12 PM flight, so we gather at the airport around 9 or 10 in the morning, and here we are, happy faces, can't wait for the awesome journey:

left to right: Tania, Adenn, Amanda, Jasmine, Fariz, Ghendis, Al, me!, and Kak Grego

We arrived at Beijing International Airport around 1 or 2 in the morning, and we should wait about 6 or more hours until the people from the summer camp program pick us up at 8 AM. Yes people, we're waiting for that frikin' long hours, and even some of my friends that taking different airlines from us are waiting more long than us. So, we decided to trashing in airport McDonald's for damn long hours. While waiting those people, I got my first dose of coffee, and ate the most delicious chicken rice ball (?) I've ever tasted.  And 4 July 2016, around 7 past 30 in the morning the people from BICC arrived, give us name tags and we go to the bus that take us to the place where we stayed and learning for the next 21 days.

And I can't find this baby in my hometown's FamilyMart :(

Once we arrived at the place where we stayed, I was like, wow, amazed, because they really gave us the best place with pretty decent facility in it. One big room for 4 people with 4 bed, 1 bathroom, mini kitchen and a balcony, and full air conditioner. I'm satisfied.

This is what it's looks like when you entering the main hall of the dormitory

The right side is my bed, the other 2 beds are in the other side.

We arrived at the dormitory around 9 or 10, arranged some things like get our uniform t-shirt, room keys, buying-things-card; yeah we got a card with 400 yuan in it to buy foods, stuffs, and laundry at the campus. At 11 AM they asked us to gather at the dorm's lobby so they can show us how use our cards in canteen and some kind of mini market inside the campus. The distance from our dorm to the canteen was like............ well..... you can't say it was close enough when you starving to death. On my way to the canteen I met this Nepal girl named............ i'm sorry but I can't hear clearly her name..... but I always greet her when we met, really! sorry for not asking your name again, I feel bad now :( she was nice anyway, my friend said that we looks alike bcs we have this tiny body, but she was like... 18? she just graduate from high school and gonna apply for uni in the US, good luck anyway!

Tuesday, 5 July 2016.

Finally, I felt the real summer, when it's not only the sun that makes you felt hot, but somehow the heat of summer (?) idk lol, finally I experienced the real summer!

After the opening ceremony, all the students and teachers took a picture together.

Let's play find me game lol

Here's team University of Indonesia in BICC Summer Camp 2016

Wednesday, 6 July 2016.

It's Eid Mubarak, but sadly also the first time in class. At first we think we can ask permission to go to Indonesia's Embassy, but then it was not easy, we need to do this and than and so much more that can't be done in one day, so we decided to ask for a bit late to attend morning class, and we arranged everything by our self.

Team Eid Mubarak 2016!

This is what we looks like after taking that day's classes, yippe.

I guess it's long enough for today.

Just wait for another happy chapter from happy Summer in Beijing!

Love, Nach.

D-1

Who's up for le unforgettable summer? Me!

Finally, guys. After counting so many days since January, the day has come!

Can't wait for the new places, surroundings, culture, well even tho' I learn a lot about Chinese culture, language and history for the past 3 years, but still, experiencing it by myself would be another new level of learning.

Still can't believe it will be happening tomorrow, yay.

Wish me all the luck, hope I can speak Chinese well enough to buy a cup of cold coffee and McDonald's.

Decide

So, do it. Decide.

Is this the life

you want to live?

Is this the person

you want to love?

Is this the best you can be?

Can you be stronger?

Kinder? More Compassionate?

Decide.

Breath in.

Breath out

and decide

- Meredith Grey

十一天后见， 北京！

但是连一个东西，我还没准备。。。。。

I Remember

I remember clearly
The day that we met
The words that were spoken
The emotions left unsaid

I remember clearly
The excitement that was felt
The way you made me smile
The way my heart would melt

I remember clearly
The wonder, the anticipation
The way I was alive
With joy and pure elation

I remember clearly
All the ways you made me feel
As if it were yesterday
‘Cause after all this time
I feel that way still

author: unknown

“三一秋日”

Waiting For Rain - Candice Renae Williams

I love the rain, 
The way it gracefully falls from the leaves, 
To plop soundlessly on an unforgiving ground, 
Soaking up the rain until it fades away.
How many times does it rain? 
Are their many who know how I feel when it rains? 
The rain takes the problems of today, 
Which usually fills my day with an empty sorrow, 
The pain and desolute despair wash away, 
With the following of the rain.
Evanescently, 
The rain will dry up, 
As the sun’s rays pierce the sky.
They go into the air, 
To come again another day.
Life returns to normal once more, 
Continual breath with the force of change.
The rain washes away, 
Sorrow, pain, and for a moment 
It gives you the belief of innocence again.
So, here I am, 
Underneath the pale, 
Dropping leaves of an ancient willow tree.
Hoping anxiously for my rain to come.
Outside with the birds singing
The sun shining
The wind blowing
And the leaves rustling, 
Time keeps going on, 
As I await my rain to come. 

快来，我的雨。

Well, its been so looooooong since I posted something in here. hehehe. and I just want updated that I'm still alive even though hardly living (univ life).
Seriously. I think every lesson in my major little by little starts to get more complicated. When you're learning language, you need more than passion to passed everything in this university. But here I am, I think what I have is no more that my passion with language. I'm the type of person that easily get bored, sometimes giving up too soon, and a total crybaby. What's good with that? :(
Sometimes I think over and over again why am I here, learning these kind of things since what I desire the most probably not come from here? But I don't know. Still not sure. I maybe old enough to have plans for my future, but hey, that only my age. Even physically I still looks so young that people hardly believe me I'm in my third year in university.
Last term, sadly I failed one of important subject, which I think that subject is not even necessary for you to be mastered, but the rule is a rule, I still NEED to pass that bloody hell subject.
Learning this language, one of the most scariest language in this world, that people probably avoiding to this kind of language, especially this major is one of so called "Bermuda Triangle" in my univ. Sigh.
I think it'll take me extra time to graduate, maybe, but I hope not.
Here I am, barely gain more weight because all the stresses is killing me enough.
Cheers.