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Well, di tempat baru, bukannya jadi semangat posting, malah males2an gini. How're u doing guys? I haven't got so much time lately, I am still trying to catch up with everything new around me. New friends, new jobs, new home, new culture, new language, lots lots of new things.

Ada hal2 yang aku belum bisa adaptasi dengan baik. Such as bahasa. Well, my english is good enough to understand what people's talking about, I can communicate quite easy with others, but still, it's pretty hard to understand the whole lesson, or to understand the whole meeting. And it's very hard to present our opinion, our ideas, either in speaking or writing. Huah, I think it'll be quite though.

Catching up dengan teman2 baru juga gampang2 susah. Thanks to Andi, my old college friend, I already have some friends from him. But newcomer is always be newcomer. I'm still trying to adapt, karena kebiasaan dan lingkungan mereka beda dengan teman2 lama saya, tempat hang out nya juga beda, hmmm, really different actually. Punya teman2 dengan latar belakang dan kebiasaan yang beda2 selalu menyenangkan. Apalagi di tempat baru seperti ini. On the other hand, I miss u guys, teman2 yang sudah kenal betul who I am, so I can be whoever I am.

Saya kangen teman2 kost saya (terutama Mbak Wien, Mbak Dian, n Ijoel), yang tau betul sifat keukeuh dan kelakuan saya yang suka seenak hati, they always take it without any hard feeling.

Saya kangen sama my best buddy yang cerewet, jadi saya tetap bisa jadi mita yang enggak perlu banyak ngomong, cukup dengerin dia ngomong, ketawa2, then tanpa sadar saya sudah di tengah pembicaraan yang tidak habis-habis topiknya. Ayo2 main ke Pittsburgh, I told u, di sini ceweknya cantik2 :p!

Saya juga kangen saling bercerita bacaan atau film terakhir, atau nonton festival film. Uggh, kalo diturutin, gak ada habis2nya kangen dengan kalian semua :)

Anyway, hopefully I'll find some new best friends here. Bukan untuk melupakan teman2 lama, tapi memperbesar lingkaran pertemanan, hmm, betapa mengasyikannya.

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