Woodfield Mall : IKEA

So, finally after two months living in a small town without wallmart, commences ( even mall ), tempat cetak foto, dll, hari rabu kemaren aku ke Mall !

Nama Mallnya " Woodfield Mall " yang letaknya di Schaumburg, IL atau northwest chicago suburb. Yah sesuburb-suburbnya mah kataku udah bener bener metropolitan banget !

Rasanya kangen banget sama mall mall di Indonesia yang di satu jalan ada lebih dari 3 mall berjejer. ha ha ha ha -____- Tapi emang disini ekspansi mall bener bener dicegah banget ! Aku aja kalo mau ke mall yang setara sama karawaci harus driving sekitaran 35 menit dari Marengo ! Tapi gapapa sih, menghemat duit :p

So, Woodfield Mall adalah Mall dengan retail terbesar se-Amerika Serikat, tapi kl dibandingin sama Mall of America, terbesar ke-2 se-Amerika. Mall of Amerika tuh gede banget karna didalemnya juga ada wahana permainan kayak di Trans Studio gitu. kalo Woodfield Mall murni isinya toko toko yang keren keren abis. Woodfield mall tuh juga kayak komplek, bahkan didalemnya ada 4 Universitas swasta ! Kebayang banget gak sih kompleksnya kayak apa. Tapi didalemnya ada satu gedung yang gede banget yang isinya toko toko dan yang bikin aku terharu, diseberang gedung utama, ada IKEA ! Itu looh toko furniture asal SWEDIA ! di Indonesia belum ada tapi aku udah pernah kesana pas waktu aku kecil di Belanda.

Kebetulan Mom kan pengen pindah rumah next summer, jadi beliau ngajakin aku, Dasha&Bradly ke IKEA dulu buat survey.

Nyesel banget gak bawa kamera ! Akhirnya cuman bermodalkan iPod. Huhu, maap yak :p

di IKEA banyak banget barang barang yang lucu, desain kamar, desain lemari, desain dapur, desain lampu kamar, semua desainnya oke banget ! Rasanya pengen aku bawa pulang satu-satu terus ditaroh di kamar di Indonesia !

Lampu bohlam ! Aku pengen banget yang warna pink !

Lampu kamar, bagus banget, kayak snow drops

Aku seneng sama warna ijo lampunya, kayaknya bikin rileks batin

Lemari ! harganya $895 tapi ada 4 bagian. Keren banget ! bahkan ada tempat buat naroh sepatu tuh.

Diliat dari gambarnya aja keliatan banget kasurnya empuk ! Di IKEA kita bebas mau duduk nyobain sofa, kasur, bantal, dll, tapi jangan ampe loncat-loncat pake sepatu ya.

Chrismast aisle, can't wait for Xmas eve !

Petromak natal ! Lucu bangeeeeet, somehow teringat sama gadis penjual korek api (?) #Fail #Itupakekorekapimith

Salah satu IKEA quotes

Sofa bed yang aku pengenin banget, sesuai sama cat kamar di Indo yang sama sama Ungu

Blackboard for writing to-do-list, being an organized person gituuuuu :p

Proud to be an Exchange Student

So today i had a chance to copy and paste one of my friend's facebook status about Exchange Student which was soooooo touchy ! So, this is it ! :)

I am an exchange student. How do you know what is a dream if you never accomplished one. How do you know what is an adventure if you never took part in one. How do you know what is anguish if you never said goodbye to your family and friends with your eyes full of tears. How do you know what is being desperate, if you never arrived in a place alone and could not understand a word of what everyone ......else was saying. How do you know what is diversity if you never lived under the same roof with people from all over the world? How do you know what is tolerance, if you never had to get used to something different even if you didn’t like it. How do you know what is autonomy, if you never had the chance to decide something by yourself? How do you know what it means to grow up, if you never stopped being a child to start a new course? How do you know what is to be helpless, if you never wanted to hug someone and had a computer screen to prevent you from doing it. How do you know what is distance, if you never, looking at a map, said “ I am so far away”. How do you know what is a language, if you never had to learn one to make friends. How do you know what is patriotism, if you never shouted “ I love my country” holding a flag in your hands. How do you know what is the true reality, if you never had the chance to see a lot of them to make one. How do you know what is an opportunity, if you never caught one. How do you know what is pride, if you never experienced it for yourself at realizing how much you have accomplished. How do you know what is to seize the day, if you never saw the time running so fast. How do you know what is a friend, if the circumstances never showed you the true ones. How do you know what is a family, if you never had one that supported you unconditionally . How do you know what are borders, if you never crossed yours , to see what there was on the other side. How do you know what is imagination, if you never thought about the moment when you would go back home. How do you know the world, if you have never been an exchange student? i am an exchange student. Tanah Air ku, Indonesia ♥

Lake Geneva, Wisconsin

The beauty and the great scenery makes me never feel bored to come to this place. It's been 3 times i visited this place with Larson Family :)

Summer in Lake Geneva

Autumn in Lake Geneva

Uncle steven's boat

Ini muka capek, letih, lesu, terus maksa buat tetep sadar kamera, hahahaha.

Dek kapal kapal private. Harganya paling murah 100.000 US$ meeeeen

Inget banget Mom Jennifer langsung ngajak ke Lake Geneva once i got to their house, and it was such a great impression for introducing United States. Ngerasa guilty juga belum pernah ke danau toba sedangkan aku udah pernah ke Great Michigan Lake yg merupakan salah satu danau terbesar di Amerika. Gak pernah ngerasa bosen deh boating di Lake Geneva, udaranya, pemandangannya, klop banget deh. Untung aja adiknya Mom, Uncle Steven punya kapal, jadi kita gak perlu bayar buat boating di Lake Geneva.

National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine

Buenas Noches Amigos ! Btw, disini udah malem nih dan saya masih ngejos karna efek kafein yang cukup tinggi.

Anyway, alhamdulillah banget saya dinominasiin ikutan National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine sama Guru Health Occupation saya, dan alhamdulillah saya qualified dan bisa ikut forumnya next summer on june 2012 ! Alhamdulillahirobbilalamin :)

NLYF ini bener bener bergengsi, bakalan worthed banget kita bisa belajar tentang medical dari beberapa health practitioner terkenal dan ini tentu aja once in a life time experience. Kita juga diajak ngeliat operasi operasi secara LIVE di beberapa rumah sakit terkenal, such as John Hopkins Hospital.

Nah, NYLF ini bakalan diadain di beberapa kota besar di USA, like in Chicago, Atlanta, Washington D.C, Los Angeles, Boston, Houston, San Fransisco dan Raleigh-Durham. Saya milih di Boston karena beberapa alasan :

1. Waktunya gak mepet sama End Of Stay Orientation
2. Di schedule acara, ada kunjungan ke Harvard Medical School which is my dream for stepping on this university !
3. Harga tiket pesawatnya murah.

NYLF ini berlangsung selama 9 hari. Kalo di Boston, Massachussets dari tanggal 10 Juni sampe 19 Juni. Jadi agak agak mepet sama waktu pulang ke Indonesia, tapi gpp lah kapan lagi bisa ngedalamin ilmu ini, apalagi di pusatnya, di Harvard Medical School.

To be honest, ini masih tentative, takutnya ada urusan yang berhubungan sama AFS, tapi aku berharap bisa ikutan acara ini ! Amiiiiiiiiiiiin :) Next 15 years, i'm your future leading Obsetrician-Gynecologist in Indonesia.

( Boston Downtown )

Quality Time

I just had a great conversation with my boyfriend last night, and i felt really happy yesterday. I'd like to say that yesterday was the most quality time ever with him, yes, we promised to ourselves to keep in touch, but we knew our own bussiness, which means we could not always chat everyday. But by having quality time like in once a week it would last in our mind. For sure, it really helps me to deprive of being grumpy for waiting him to text/send me message on facebook.

Words of The Day : Trust.

What it would be if relationship does not have commitments ?

What it would be If someone breaks your trust ?

It's hard to collect the pieces of them

D+

As an exchange student, it requires to take English and US History. Last week, I just got my Mid-Term Transcript Grade for my English III. Gak usah ditanya ya nilainya berapa -__- Nilainya adalah judul daripada post ini. Yak, D+

Emang karena literature itu buat aku itu susah banget, butuh kerja keras buat menelaah dan menafsirkan maksud dari cerita itu. Di kelas English III, aku satu satunya Senior, karena kelas itu diperuntukkan untuk Junior. Guruku Mrs. Hoffmeister, dan kalo ngajar menggebu gebu banget, dan kadang buat aku gak enak aja buat nanya ampe sedetail-detailnya, despite the fact that I'm the only senior.

Tapi, senior/junior is not the problem. Bukan waktunya lagi buat gengsi gengsi-an sama status. Tapi karena emang bahasa ibu kita bukan bahasa Inggris. Banyak dari kita hidup di lingkungan yang berbahasa Indonesia. Walaupun aku emang suka komunikasi dalam bahasa Inggris, tapi jujur, buat ngertiin Literature dalam waktu 15 menit itu susah banget. Otak kerja keras dua kali. Nerjemahin dan Nafsirin. Pernah aku udah gak ngerti sama Literaturenya John Adams, udah pasrah, otak udah ngebul, aku give up. Aku konsultasi sama Counselorku buat get rid from that class, but still, he convinces me that i able to deal with literature, no matter what, it helps me to comprehend my English.

Dan aku kembali teringat, masa masa orientasi YBA kemaren, dimana 3 bulan kita di negara destinasi AFS adalah masa masa Adaptasi, kita harus semaksimal mungkin adapt ourselves supaya kita bisa bertahan dan bisa cepet terbiasa sama rutinitas disini. Gimana pun jug aku udah mau 2 bulan disini, aku gak mau nyia-nyiain kesempatan itu, dan cuman bisa nangis&ngeluh.

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim, kuatkan niat hamba ya Allah, berikan petunjuk di setiap langkah yang hamba tempuh. Amiiiiiiiiin

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Ditulis di Marengo High School. During American Government class.