Bilingual #2 - One of The Last

 

One of corner of my campus, seen from the 4th floor of architecture departement building

Om Swastyatu.

Really, today is awesome day. I mean, every day that I live, always feels awesome. Do you know why? Because it's awesome, as simple as that. Okay, let's move on from that silly-cheap "elementary school level" joke. Okay friends, this morning, I came to my campus to meet my lecturer, Ms. Anggi Prajnawrdhi. Aside from being a course lecturer, Ms. Anggi is also my thesis advisor. And even honorable, she is head of my departement, the architecture departement. We promised to meet at 1pm, at one of the halls on my campus, the Wicwakarma hall. By the way, it's the only hall in architecture departement. And, as a good student, I always arrived ahead of the promised time. That's manners, my friends.

Long story short, I arrived on campus at 10am. After I parked my motorcycle - which looks like it need to be service soon - , I went straight to my favorite place to work, which is the "bale bengong" in the campus garden. I still have 2-3 hours to complete my paper, before doing an academic guidance with Ms. Anggi. So, I made a good use of that litlle time - even while holding back my hunger.

And, friends,  I don't know why, but, why is that when I work on campus, I can more focus then when I work at home? The task that I took 2 days to complete at home, I was able to complete that at campus in just 2 hours. Perhaps, this is what people call an atmosphere, an academic atmosphere. Okay, after I finished my paper, then I printed it out. And then, it was the time to wait for Ms. Anggi arrival. It was 12am, and still an hour before the promised time.

I went to my departement, and waited for her arrival by sitting in the open space of my departement. The minutes ticked by as I waited for her arrival. Honestly, I was quite nervous at that time. One who is on the side of truth, would never be nervous. And, the problem is, I'm on the side of troubleity. Yeah, I'm a troubled student. I haven't graduated yet in my 14th semester. It's sad, but, that sadness will be end soon, I promise, as long as I keep strugling. Come on, friends. 

The view of corner of my departement's open space

 

I observed the situasion of my campus. The campus, where I was for 7 years. It's a long journey, an academic journey. Here is where my friends and I struggled together. Yeah, most of my friends are finished for struggled here, while I'm still on it. You know, I'm the last of - maybe the last 5 of architecture student from the class of 2018 students. Back to when I started studying here, I've never imagined that I'm would be one of the last one to graduate. As the clock approached 1pm, I started to go up to the 4th floor. After a long time, I finally went back down side by side, where I used studied actively here. By the way, for the past 3 years, I mostly studied at home online, or...disappeared - yeah, I literally disappeared.

After waiting about an hour longer then a promised time - seriously? why did Ms. Anggi came so late? :') - I finally managed to meet Ms. Anggi at the promised place, in front of Wicwakarma hall. In the middle of our discussion, Ms. Anggi very regretfully asked me, 

"Why did you disappear for so long?"

I just rubbed my forhead regretfully, while answering,

"I'm sorry Ms. Anggi, there's a lot of pressure, especially from people around me."

Ms. Anggi still didn't fully accept my answer. But, whatever happens, she still encourage me, 

"Good luck!"