All along in my life, I like to
consider myself as normal, it means that there are nothing unusual and weird
about my life, whether it is about myself or what happened all along my life.
It is normal, peaceful life. Everything is ordinary.
I born in hospital, like many
other babies in this world are. I also normal, meaning I don’t have any sixth
sense or anything unusual to make me considered as an indigo. My parents are
normal, not too rich, not too poor either, background family is normal (except
I have two younger cousins that can be considered as an indigo because they can
see ‘ghosts’ but they are not me, so let’s not focused on that). My educational
background is normal too, I don’t have any pressure from my family to go their
way, I free to choose my own ways for my education, except in the religious
field, they chose Islamic-private school in my hometown for my elementary and
junior high school (for my senior I can go to public school). So…there is
nothing unusual to describe me and my life experience. If there is one thing
that can be considered unusual in my family…it is the tendency to choose
Universitas Gadjah Mada as the university we must go.
In my family, there is one rule
that applied to any child in the family, it is that they must go to study at
Universitas Gadjah Mada when we graduate from high school. Not believe it? But
it is real! My parents, my uncles, all my cousins, all of them had been
graduated from here (different faculty of course but all of them graduate from
Universitas Gadjah Mada) because of that since I was a child I had been told
that if I can go here and I have a requirement for this university, I must go
here. So…that’s why I choose Universitas Gadjah Mada at my university (it is
kind of like an obligation, right? But believe me, I go here in my own free
will).
Why choose English literature
department, then? Because here it is where my two passion, English and writing,
combine together. I like writing since I was a child, maybe it comes down from
my father. My father worked at Cultural and tourism department and he wrote
many stories, poems, even coordinate many cultural events in order to introduce
our local culture to the society. I like to read his works since I was a child
and I think that what triggers me to try to write my own story. My parents
always told me to explore and improve my writing skill better and now when
there is a department that gives me a chance to do that why I not take it?
That’s why since I heard that there is a literature department in university, I
always want to go to that university (but as I said, I choose to go here). And
English…I love English since elementary school (I learn other foreign language
too at school actually, Japanese and Korean), and since my grades for English
always good, I choose English literature because stupidly (I hope I am right) I
think between all the others literature department this is the easiest
department, plus I already have basic skills for enter the department (What?
Learn English since elementary and take course at junior high school, that’s
many skills to learn, right?) (I hate Arabic since junior high school, I don’t
like French, so I don’t want to go to French literature department either. And
I like Japanese and Korean but don’t have any basic skill to go with it because
I just learn words and several simple sentences at my high school, so I don’t
choose both departments).
So that’s why I come here,
become a student at English literature department of Universitas Gadjah Mada. I
hope I will not regret my decision to go in here, and true, until this second I
never regret it. I love to be a student in this department...and wish to learn
much from here before I graduate (which hopefully won’t take a long time).
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