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Main gate of the imperial city. Its located in the front area. this gate has open for the visitors, noble, elephants and horses. Two other gates are for soldier and the horses. This city also surrounded by brick walls up to 20meters to protect the kingdom. Reconstructed in 19century this building still stands in the heart of Hue City. HELLO GUYS! i am lisa delegates of Universitas Indonesia. now im staying in hue university, vietnam! for 6 months! I joined SHARE Scholarship programe batch 2! It is a fullt funded exchange students programe. My daily life needs, college, first culture exploration, accomodation and Everythings are being covered by share! In order to complete my mission as indonesia delegates. I want to share my daily life story and the fun i enjoyed in vietnam! You can find me on my tumblr! I update the post monthly : itslisafira.tumblr.com 💕💕💕💕 (di Imperial City, Hue)

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on the way to the international airport from my dorm, 11pm

just checked in to the international airport of soekarno hatta, where i need to pay 650 rupiah cause of my out of 20kg luggage

preparation, i still remember the officer took my hair tonics :’) cause i bring my other luggage with me, and they said no other more than 100ml bottle of anykind of liquid things can enter or carry with u, or u can just put it in ur cabin. i was like, hahaha it is also more than 20kg what i am supposed to say

shuttle bus

arrived in malaysia

AIRPORT :3

famous amous, YOU HAVE TO BUY THIS GUYS! ENYAK around 15 riggits gitu sesuai takaran gramnya, cookies yg gede itu 4ringgit

curry bread (?) not really recommended hehe.

i will upload another photo sooner! stay tune!

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I AM IN VIETNAM

First post in Vietnam!

Hello folks! IM SO EXCITED TO TELL YOU THAT IM NOW IN HUE CITY, VIETNAM! *horay*

I still cant believe that im here! Im breathing and stay in Vietnam woah I wanna cry just let me cry, *cry so hard*. Sorry, for my reaction!.okay continue to my post. Well in this post I would like to share you how I get here in Vietnam

My journey begin at 2 of February, that night my mom came from Palembang the previous day to make sure she always there whenever I need here to preprare everything. How sweet it is!. Also my boyfriend help me a lot a night before I go to airport. He came, have a dinner with us and help me to carry my things. My boyfriend surely so sweet to me. *I miss both of em.

Okay after Im done with all my lugages. Me and mom heading to the airport about 10pm.  Anyway I bring 2 lugage. One is bigger than another one, the medium size and normal size for each. For those who wants to have an exchange programe like me, moreover for a long period time (3 up tp 6 months or more). I really suggest you guys to bring all of the necessary things you probably hard to find in your host country and only plenty of your favorite clothes! Do not bring too much things and to much clothes! Trust me, you will thank me for tellin you this. I’ll explain you latter why.

My departure actually were arranged at 3 of February in the early morning, but since my dormitory wont let any cars enter the campus area to get in above 11pm we already leaving my dorm before that time. At the airport me and mom wait for about 5 hours. We are sleeping in the waiting room hahahaa. I might said. It wasn’t comfortable. Yes it is. Because anyone can see you sleeping and the room was so cold. So make sure if you wants to stay longer in the waiting room don’t forget your warm jacket! ^^

Finally it’s 5 in the morning. I already made some contacts with another share scholarship awardee from indonesia. (awardee: people that selected to honoured the scholarship). Couple minutes later, I found out two girl infront of me, and im sure that is the gurl from diponegoro university, kak putri and amal. Not so long, right after I go back from toilet. There are 2 girls gathered with us, they are kak yanti and maul. These gurl were my room mate in dorm. And absolutely crazy fun and kind as fuck. I LOVE MY CABE HEHE

Next, were heading to Malaysia. Of course after I hugged my mom so tight and listened to her advice as usually. The moment I check in before I finally reach the plan was so incredible. I bring to much things till I couldn’t take care of my luggage :’). Its like somebody always help me whenever my luggage needs to be check. LIKE I WANNA CRY. GOSH its really tiring, and also I need to transit to hcmc to hue sooner. God damn it. LUCKYLY, this gurl around me are so PEKA as hell. Waqaaa ee, whenever I need help, before I saidi it they are already put their hands behind my back saying im ready to help you. :’’’) LOL I compliment you guys, gw baikan? Ya iyain aja woi

Therefore, you have to know if my luggage weight was out of 20kg, so I have to pay Rp650.000 rupiah. You know, I have no choice. I cant leave my clothes out of nowhere. NO I CANT L. Not only me, this also happened to kak putri and amal. Their luggage was out of 20 kg. but luckily they have some totte bag so they open up their luggage back, and put some clothes to decrease its weight. And it’s WORK!.

 So guys, if you wanna go abroad make sure you always bring more totte bags or anykind of bags that light and can helo you carry things. And make sure (I just wanna remind you) only bring necessary things that u cant or find to hard in ur host country and don’t bring too much clothes!.

BEIEVE ME YOU WILL BUY LOT OF CLOTHES IN UR HOME COUNTRY, MOREOVER IF U GET PLENTY OF MONEY FOR YOUR MONTHLY ALLOWANCE. BECAUSE NOWDAYS I WANNA CRY, ITS BEEN A MONTH FOR ME TO STAY IN HUE BUT I BOUGHT SO MANY THIGS. GOSH

 After every obstacle that I pass during the check in prosses. We finally arrived in Singapore ^^. Yipiiii

Some of the officers are women, and I can say they are not really friendly to me. This is just my opinion guys, idk maybe they are on their period or maybe they just havin prob with his hubby L. I just don’t know or maybe they are hungry or dehydration so that they need aqu* (?)

So here I am with 4 girls that I never meet before out of nowhere stuck together and condition forces to smile everytime they are jokin even I don’t understand what they are sayin HAHAHAHA. No kidding, they are very kind, and its just me that being so quite. LOLS. We all wait in waiting room. I see a lot of foreigner in the waiting room. I wonder, why so many western people come to Vietnam? Well before I ever read some article that stated that Vietnam is very beautiful. Idk I haven’t arrived yet at that time, also I haven’t going out more in HUE. *ratapann anak baik-baik, pulang ngampus ke dorm, bocan*

Feeling bored and hungry at the same time. Me and anisah amalia (well her name remind me about the girl in my old junior high) just call her amal anyway, look around and try some food. But the things that happened was, we have no ringgit :V. LOLS. So we have to exchange our money first to ringgit. Its quite expensive I think T_T. 60 ringgits be like Rp100.000 rupiah (if im not mistaken). In the airport, I buy famous amous. Its kind of biscuit that is really delicious :’) I love it so much. But yeah it is expensive. I also eat some kind of roti cane :/

Finished with the food, we are going back to the waiting room and found out everybody has make a line to go through the gate ._. that was fast man!. So yeah I have to sit alone because me and my friend were not sit side by side idk why. Yeah I just sleep in the plan and look up to the sky and wonder am I dreaming or not, or how beautiful Vietnam is from above.

At first I was like, WOW THAT WAS HO CHI MINH CITY AND IT WAS AMAZING. I SEE LOT OF SKYSCRAPER AND ANYTHING SO BEAUTIFUL.

Finally we arrived in ho chi minh city. Kind of confuse to find the local airport, because after this we need to go to Vietnamese airline for the local flight. So guys, ho chi minh city and hue city is like sumatera and java island. Jaoh coy hehe.

AND FINALLY FINALLY WE ARRIVED AT HUE AIRPORT. YEEE.  The airport is actually quite simple and not crowded. After get our luggage we were greeted warmly by a man that is command by mrs. Huy (the one that responsible for share scholarship and the one that has a duty to manage the international relation in hue university) to pick us and help us to put our luggage to our dorm. He also take us to some places to eat some Vietnamese food.

IM SO HAPPY because my first day in hue at that time was amazing. Im so excited. And you know I never imagine my friend gonna be this awesome and funny. I hope we will always be friend forever *mulai baper*. And I start to think I don’t wanna leave Vietnam!! ><

Well guys if u want to know the truth, I just finished this post a month after I stayed I hue.so its kind of outdate. But later is better than not at all HAHA excuses.

I hope you guys enjoy my writing!

In the next post I will tell you some interesting facts in Vietnam and some photo of Vietnam!

SEE YOUU!

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Was It Real?

Part 1, Begin

it was November ,10. was the beginning all of this. everything start from that day, Thursday. i got a class at 11 am. i got to send my task to print and needs to check out my email. Unfortunately, i found such a unfamiliar name in my mailboxes list. 

its from Tran Nguyen, i really have no idea about who is that

so i check it out and found my LOAs [Letter Of Acceptance] 

*you can check my previous post about the LOA

I go crazy like hell, i couldnt say a thing. but my heart feel like about to explode.

i know this only the first step, nobody can gurantee if i gonna pass the next selection. sadly after i received this good news i got to knew that my boyfriend didnt selected and so does both of my friends. It trouble me somehow, the rest of us applied in the same university and have the same dream, me and my boyfriend also think we might have our first anniversary under the blue sky of Vietnam.

well, anything happen go under of my control. 

a moment after i finished read my LOA, i called my boyfriend.

I really have no idea how to tell him, how am i suppose to tell him? is he pass the selection? or not?  why dont he tell me if he pass the selection. 

he even knows about the annoucement from me and sadly said he have not receive any email or LOAs. this really torn me into pieces.

i kept on told him that i pass the selection and have received the email. 

all he did was congratulated me and hope for the best.

 i really happy but also sad at the same time.

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“Most of the important  thing in the world have been accompolished by people who kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all”

-Dale Carnegie

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letter of happiness, anyone?

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Was it real?

i just though i couldnt make it, even i always hoping so

life aint that bad for me, don’t you think so? 

so here’s the fact, me and 2 friends of mine and, my bf were applied for scholarship to vietnam. all of us hoping for the rest of us to get to Vietnam. because we all know, we’ve got a big chance to join to Hue University. Soon, the result from our host University just annouced, only two of us who gets the LOAs (Letter Of Acceptance). and i’m one of it. only one step away to get to Vietnam, the Scholarship selection. 

 I just can’t believe it. in the middle of happiness and sadness between cause of my bf didnt make it. we both make a decision, and he let me on going. Slowly, but sure i keep on focusing my self in the next selection. i just have to. i need to, this is my first step and a great chance for me to begin. 

done applying the form and uploading the docs, found my self counting days to the annoucement days. i have no idea about what to do else, except keep on checking SHARE Scholarship facebook page and sent an email to Share Scholarship about the annoucement.

lately, i’ve been keep my self busy joining some local events. till i forgot about the annoucement. Surprisingly my accquantance that i found on facebook, who applied the same scholarship proggrame, ask me whether i get the email from share or neither. 

right after read it, i open my mailbox and found myself crying seeing the good news  from SHARE SCHOLARSHIP. that i awarded the Scholarship and only need to confirm them whether im going to accept or nay.

OF COURSE, im so honoured to join the proggrame. so i confirm my self that i accept the award. couple minutes, ms karina (contact person for Share Scholarship Proggrame) replay.

she said 

congratulation and she advice me to contact my host university about the arrival, living cost and etc.

WAS IT REAL? llike gosh, i FINALLY MAKE IT! 

really cant wait to see vietnams beauty and its diversity. and so sad to left my sugar people for 6 months and this tasty indonesia foods and beverages. 

but it’s alright. we all know, there’s something to sacrifice for this, includes a whole 4st term. with overseas status. well, thats okay. we never know what will gonna happen in the future, let’s hope the best for me.

thank you SHARE SCHOLARSHIP for help me stepping my first step to be an international politics consultant, by letting me joining this proggrame.

im so honoured! and i’m still waiting for the latest update!

best regards,

Lisa Safira

Political Students 

University of Indonesia, 2015