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Tuesday, October 02, 2007

First day in Stuttgart

How d y d my friends? Sorry not to tell you ASAP. I was striving to get Internet access into my room. But yes I did it. OK, i'm going to tell ya about my journey to Stuttgart and my first day there. Hmmm.... some of you might know my problem faced in Jakarta Airport. I suffered baggage overweight. And i had to lessened some of my belongings. Well, eventually i go through KLM counter successfully.

A moment before took off, my tears welled up on my chic. I couldn't bear to be away with my mother. Who is gonna take care in case something happen to my mother. Oh God, please take care of my mother. But, I have to go, no matter what. In the plane, I got acquaintance with Dutch lady. Her name is Maria. Fortunately, she can speak Indonesian, and she tried to comfort my depressed feeling. I told her, it was my international flight. My plane undertook transit in Kuala Lumpur. In Amsterdam Airport I got my plane changed to Stuttgart. FYI, generally, the plane over journey within Europa is smaller (i can't say worse) than cross-continent journey.

Immediately after i went out Stuttgart Airport, my Indonesian friends had awaited me. Yeah, praise to my God, they are so much helpful. They are Pandu and Ime (female). Pandu said, I better stayed at his room probably for 1 week till I get my room. We went to his dormitory in Vaihingen, near University of Stuttgart. I could not veiled my shock. It was real. I am in Germany. The scenery surrounded our train journey was not really beautiful, unlike Monic's journey to her dormitory. Oh ya, the weather was so bad, so cold. It's colder....colder...colder than Puncak.

Shortly after i took a rest at Pandu's room. I decided to go to my campus and ask about the whole administration to arrange. Here is the order needed to carry out :
1. Arrange Health Insurance
2. Obtain my Personalauesweis (Student ID)
3. Go to Citizen office to make notification about my presence in Stuttgart
4. The last, go to Deutche Bank and open a bank account there.

That's all I need to do for the first day. Oh ya, Mr Mueller (authorized person at International Office) said, unluckily, I was too early to arrive in Stuttgart because the reserved room would be available on day after tomorrow. Thanks God, I have Pandu, I could spend my night at his room. OK, that's all, sorry not to attach any photos.

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