a friend come along..

I'm happy to inform you that one of my college friends will joined me to be 'Lost in Beijing'..

Suddenly a few days a go, my friend text me to ask about my China Education.. She asked me, where and how much will it cost.. I'm not really hope she will join, because she told me she still thought about it..

And surprisingly, she text me 2 days ago, that she will join me at BLCU these march.. unfortunately, she with her friend will go with different agency as mine.. I thought to join her agency, but my new friends (that went to BNU n BLCU like me) encouraged me more to join my agency right now..

Yes, I apply my China Study through agency, why?

1. It's more easy and convenient... than applying by myself.. I know it's easy..!!
   
2. My first thought, that I will go to China by myself ( before my friend joined me), so through agency, I will come abroad with new friends that will be through all experiences with me, together.. (senasib sepenanggungan)
3. The Agency will take care everything.. from school application, opening bank account, visa, registration of dorm... so I can sit back and relaxed..
4. At least, when I arrived in China, I wont be alone and completely lost..
   

Right now, I'm so happy. My friend will come with me, in the same university, same city.. I hope we will stay in the same dorm.. Even the agency is different.. She is one my close friends through college.. She just graduated first in Diploma 3 program (3 years study) and went back to her home city, while I'm continue my study for one more year..

I think it will be a little awkward, but it will bring more nostalgic moment.. Hahaha..

I joined one forum in Indonesia, it's the biggest online community in Indonesia, that is Kaskus.. One of the topic in that forum, is China, where we kaskuser share everything about China.. In there, I was looking information about Study in China.. and in kaskus, I met 3 new friends who will go to China with me, ( 2 (BNU & BLCU) of them are already mentioned above, and the other one (BUU) is studying Mandarin in the same private course with me.. )

and while the application date near closed, more kaskuser showed up asked about the same thing.. I'm happy to help them, and to see blcu become their consideration.. It mean more new friends.. I cant help but excited.. ^^ even my private course teacher just found out that I will come to China next feb, she help me a lot, and she is shared more story about Beijing with class.. I cant wait but truthfully I'm also scared..

Back to learning Chinese

Why suddenly I choose to learn Chinese Language / Mandarin? If you do know me for longer time, I Hated so much these Language, even I'm a Chinese.. ( actually Indonesian - Chinese, believe it or not I'm javanese.. ) and I hated China... It's dirty-cold country.. I remember the first time I went to China, I almost died ( overr!!) nope, nope.. not that horrible, I just get asthma attack when I went to sightseeing in Jiuzhaigou.. The air was so thin, I cant breathe with the tight turtleneck clothes.. Somebody has to cut the turtleneck so I can breathe..

And horrible experiences!! My hotel in Jiuzhaigou wont turn on the heater.. My brother and I just stayed on the bathroom, we were sitting on the bathtub, drinking coke, while the hot water running on the bathtub.. I remember slept with 5-6 clothes on.. It's so cold, even I sweared to my self, I DIDNT LIKE CHINA!! The toilet is so disgusting, just imagine you doing ur business just in a small hole, without door, and it got flush just once a hour, and in women toilet.. so imagine if one of the toilet visitor got her period.. how disgusting in that hole.. OMG!! I can still imagine it..

(Right now, I've already told that only Jiuzhaigou, that kind of toilet is existed.. the city much more modern now.. If in the future I go back to the JiuZhaiGou, I will definetly took the photo of the toilet to show all of you.. Even I had horrible experiences in JiuZhaiGou, it still has the best view.. )

And now why suddenly I want to go back to China, and learning the one language that I already avoid for 22 years I'm breathing in these live? Because suddenly, I think I fall in love with these language.. I was relieved because my parents not like any other parents who want their children to learn mandarin in China.. But I was wrong..

When I just graduated, without job and anything else to do.. I asked my mom, if I could take some language courses to fill my free time.. She agreed, in that time, I just think to take English course to improve my spoken english.. but the courses is not open at that time, because it still waited more participant.. So I went to another courses, I was thinking to take Korean/Japanese/French.. then suddenly I went to Mandarin Expert, institution for mandarin courses..

They're just opened the new courses for beginner.. If I dont join then, I must wait for another one month.. so I joined.. My mom told me that went she told my Dad about me took chinese course, he said why I didnt go directly to China, much more effective than learning chinese in Jakarta.. I just laughed at that time..

Then one day, he asked me to choose, study for master program or language program, because he doesnt approve her daughter to work, he wanted his three children to finish their study.. My brothers already went their master program.. Even my 2nd brother asked to quit his job, so he could took the master program.. and he did...

I dont want to take master program, why? Because if I took the master program, it needed 2 years to finish the program.. When I finished, I already 24.. Left 1 year for me chasing my dream.. so NOPE!! and I dont think it's necessary for women achieve master degree, right now that what I'm thinking.. I dont know the future might bring..

So here I am learning Mandarin.. I fell in love after learning by myself.. because in Mandarin Expert, they teach only the pinyin, they dont teach us the hanzi ( the chinese characters )..

ex : Mother = mama (pinyin) = 妈妈 ( hanzi )..

Another reasons for me to learn Chinese are:

1. China is the big and powerful country, when the economy is much more stable than America, itself..

2. Many Chinese are spread throughout countries...

3. Mandarin Chinese is the 2nd most used languages in the world.. some chinese characters are also used in japanese n korean.. ex : Japan 日本 -> Chinese = Riben / Japanese = Nihon

4. I want to be able to apply Cathay Pacific, Hong Kong airlines.. looked up my seniors who already worked at Cathay..

5. to improve my qualifications.. 3 languages are more valuable than just 2 languages..

6. I'm a Chinese..

The picture is taken when I try to write Hanzy by myself, like children learn to write.. Hahaha..

I try to write full one page, and then I became bored, n stopped writing.. Hahaha..

Right now, I'm in 3rd beginner course.. Above picture is all the books I used for studying..

I have 5 books from courses, the blue one for 1st Beginner, the yellow in the middle for 2nd beginner, and the orange one for my 3rd beginner courses..

I have another book, the green one, but it's not in the picture.. Sometime, I read the green book while trying to sleep.. Just reading.. Sometime not always.. :D