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It’s been a week now, more or less, of me being in the gorgeous Edinburgh, a city that present scenes beyond my expectation as a mere dreamer. Edinburgh has a lot to offer, including the natural landscape that I’m afraid of missing for being detached from Indonesia. But then voila! I have a huge Holyrood Park and a set of hills namely Arthur’s seat, showing panoramic view of extinct volcano, with just a few walks away from my door. With the combination of these, who can ever complain?

There are many trekking routes for these hills. Among them there’s a nice pedestrian, a luxury that I long to have in Jakarta, lead to Holyrood Palace, the official resident of the Queen in Scotland. Feeling a little touristy, I bought my first ticket to blend in with this land of monarch and listened to the audio guide while – trying to – observed keenly on Queen’s gallery and took some usual tourist-like photos. The only different was that I am now entitled for the student discount in Edinburgh.

And the student induction week has over.

So here I am, 15 hours flying away from home, more than 7,000 miles away from those that I can depend on 24 hours a day, and six hours difference of breakfast hours.

Bid good night for Edinburgh stars and good morning for the sun in Jakarta.

PS: untuk para Tante Memels, gue arrange satu meja tambahan. Internet kenceng dan gue bisa bikin kopi enak. Kita kerja bareng as always Udah bisa pake remote karaokenya kan? Pesen RBE juga bisa sendiri ye? Jangan keseringan krisis pamulang yak. Titip nyokap. Take care.

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