My 1st Flight to Abroad

Thursday, January 24 2013 at 3.50 pm is the day when I go to Jakarta with LA JT 567. As I planned before, I want to go to Adisucipto airport early in the morning because there is culture carnival in Yogyakarta, but because unexpected problems, I have to take taxi and it spends Rp 90.000,- from KH Ahmad Dahlan street to the airport. One hour later, that is 4.50 pm, I arrive in Soekarno Hatta airport, waiting from my next flight to Singapore. Waiting for the next flight, I am looking for my friends, who are the Indonesian participants for MaD event. After taking the shuttle bus from one terminal to the other, I find them, right in the front of perfume shop. There are hikmah, dilla, astri, wahyu and musawir. The first two girls are from Universitas Negeri Solo, the next girl is from Institut Teknologi Bandung, the first guy is from Universitas Gajah Mada, and the last guy is from Universitas Hasanudin.

Thinking that our flight is still few hours to go, we are introducing each other because we don’t know each other before. Kindly of this guy, wahyu offers himself to do check in for the all people. Thanks a lot for you bro..On Friday, January 25 2013 at 10.00 pm, we arrive in Changi international airport of Singapore. There are three gate in Singapore and we arrive in gate 2. Change international airport is so great and it’s different with one in Indonesia. There, people can enjoy facilities, such as tap water, internet access and free trolley. Some people said that using your time because there is no second chance, that’s why we decide to take a walk when we are in the airport. We do sigh seeing to gate 3 without going to the immigration first. We use the sky train to go to the gate 3 and we play hard there, move from one place to another one and as the result, tired attacks.

We sleep in the sofa and the tired kills me so hard. Suddenly, there are group of people come to use and they greet to one of my friends. They ask why you are here, where is your passport, are those your friends, and many other questions that I don’t remember. It shocks me because in the time we have slept soundly; they come and ask us to move. With a half of soul in our body, we move to gate 3. In fact, gate 3 is far and the sky train does not operate it that time, so we should walk from gate 3 to gate 2. Deep in my mind I think, it would be better if I do practice regularly, why because in that time, I have to run from gate 3 to gate 3.

Arriving in gate 3, we have to seek the immigration first. The immigration officer said that there is no flight at that time. What’s going on? It is clear that in the ticket said that the flight is right now!! After talking for a while, they allow us to pass and we get our flight to Hong Kong. Three hours to go, we arrive in Hong Kong airport in terminal 2 and you know, there are so many things different among Indonesia, Singapore and Hong Kong.