Oleh: Noni Eko Rahayu
Hellooooooooooooo...
Good
afternon, Ladies and Gentlemen.
Such a white day here. I woke
up last night coz the dripping sound on my window and it was snow!
That was not my first snow though. My first snow was on 11th December
2009 in Goslar when I joined Cross-Culture Seminar. It was so fun.
The snow and seminar. But, actually I didn't expect that I would have
the snow. I didn't even wear boots or appropriate shoes to deal with
the cold. You know what I wore? Crocs.
Yup. Crocs layered with
some warm stuff (I don't know to say it). I also wear that crocs in
campus. It's pretty tacky, right? I know, but I like wearing sandals!
And people here can dress whatever they like and no one will make
comment, how cool is that? Haha.
My German friend thought I was a
tough girl coz I wore that crocs when it was snowy. It was so wrong!
I was just not expecting any snow when I came out of my apartment and
I didn't have time to change those sandals to shoes, so I just went
to campus...with frozen toes! And God, those crocs were really
slippery and I almost fell down when I walked on the snow. Since then
I wear my shoes or boots.
Back to the first snow in Goslar. We
(four of us - Indonesian, Vietnamese, Indian/Hindi, Philippino)
shared taxi to go to that place - it was in the hill and surrounded
by forest. When we went out of the taxi, I thought it was drizzling,
but it wasn't. It's snowing, light one. I was like, amazed by it. And
as usual, photo freak was on. But, dude, it was chilling! The
temperature in the mountain area was certainly colder than in
Goettingen.
The next morning the snow was not that much but on
Monday morning, everything was white and beautiful. The mountain
covered with spruce was covered with snow. The grass, garden chair,
road, everything was white. I suddenly felt like in fairy tale. I
should have thought about Snow White to make it wonderful, but
somehow when I saw that mountain and forest I thought about
Yeti...hmm...
During the seminar session I even took time to
really look at between trees, whether there was snow creature or Big
Foot or Gollum there. Weird, huh?
Anyway, Me and my crocs had
some pictures outside and the cold was killing me! But unfortunately
I forgot to bring syrup to make beverage out of snow like I always
planned when I was home...