What day is today? 11th of October. Hmm… It means i have got through 8 months here in Australia. What does it means? It mean, i am slowly directing myself to my finish line here. Due to the Exchange student regulation in Australia, i can only be an exchange student for a year. more than that, i must decide whether i want to go home or become a permanent student here. For one reason and other, i just can’t continue my study here as a full time student, especially for the “reasonable” price.

My visa will end at 9th of February, 2010. It is exactly one year from my arrival date.
But, because my uni back at Indonesia starts faster, at January, i might be coming home to Indonesia in early Januari or end of December, just see when the flight is available. . Talking about going back to Indonesia with my friends is just very stressful. Some of them replied with a “please-don’t-go” attitude, but the others are just like “finally-you-said-it” and “let-melbourne-be-happy-now” attitude. But anyway, both are still stressful to me .

In fact, there are lots of people that i will miss here, including but not limited to :
- my teammates from “the 9th team” and “LATUF”
- my KILaT (Komunitas Indonesia La Trobe) friends
- my housemates and ex housemates
- my neighbors
- my church family from PDKKI and Mudika Melbourne
- my partners in crime
- my classmates
- anyone else i can not manage to remember to mention

I will also miss a lot of activities, such as playing Ultimate Frisbee, Midnight Lab Sessions (yeah, assignment is what i am talking about here :p), those stupid-but-heavy chatters with my partner-in-crime, those PD night with PDKKI, those masses with Mudika Melbourne, and lots of things.

If i have to make the chronological list of “my melbourne life”, it’s pretty much going to be like this :
- 9th Feb, arrival
- 13th Feb, Welcoming Festival start
- 14th Feb, Valentine’s day, first City Experience
- 17th Feb, welcoming Cruise party
- 21st Feb, 1st PD + DineOut with PDKKI
- 26th Feb, Indonesian Stall @ Agora, winning the Bee Contest by Commonwealth Bank
- 7th Mar, 1st Mudika Mass + Moomba Festival
- 14th Mar, Alun-alun, Indonesian Consulate General
- 15th Mar, Indonesian Cultural Expo @ Immigration museum + Working as Committee of Election
- 26th Mar, 1st UNICARE Dinner
- 28th Mar, Melbourne Zoo
- 29th Mar, St Kilda Beach
- 1st Apr, Exchange Fair @ La Trobe
- 9th Apr, Parliament Election
- 15th Apr, Sydney Journey start, by myself, by bus
- 17th Apr, Meeting with Sydney Canisians
- 25th Apr, Ballarat Field Trip
- 3rd May, Camberwell Market, Mudika Melbourne
- 22nd May, Lunch + Photo Session for all exchangee
- 1st July, Melbourne Museum + transformers @ IMAX
- 4th July, Romo Simon Farewell
- 6th July, Southern University Games start (won 2 games, yay!), social bar with LATUF
- 9th July, Presidential Election
- 26th July – 8th August, Some exchange friends went back to Indonesia (Wenny, Jaki, Raysha, Irene, Fiona, Ruth)
- 16th Aug, Soundsekerta Performance, performing as “Number Two”. Project POP!!!
- 17th Aug, Independence Day Ceremony + Basketball with Yosi & Udjo from PPop
- 19th Aug, Another Basketball Session with Yosi PPop and some Monash Students + Farewell BBQ for PPop.
- 30th Aug, Old Kingdom Feast (thanks to melle’s sister.. )
- 5th Sep, MPR-Malam Penyegaran Rohani (Spiritual Refreshment Night, PDKKI), performing as “father” in the drama
- 19th Sep, Performing in Pasar Seni, Mudika Melbourne (as a koor and also duet)
- 20th Sep, Yosi re-coming, another basketball session
- 24th Sep, Nidji & Ran Concert @ Festival Hall, Soundsation Carnival
- 26th Sep, Artstract PPIA RMIT
- 1st Oct, Retreat with PDKKI
- 10th Oct, Ramen Ya “Malam Peduli Padang”, fundraising for West Sumatera earthquake

wow, quite a long list… haha…

now you know exactly why i am going to miss Melbourne…
After going back to Indonesia, will all be the same? i don’t know. I simply don’t know. I don’t even know if i want to go back here for my postgrad study.

Postgrad study, now that’s a topic. I will talk about this in my next post. But for now, i have a lot of assignments to do, and i have stolen enough time to write this blog post, haha.. That is one of the reason i haven’t blogged for some time already. So, altogether with this post, i want to say “i am back to blogosphere…”