Road to HNMUN: Boston, We're Coming!!! Finally!!!

Hi Again guys.

After the loooong journey that we've like about 23 hours and we were transit in some country's airport which are in Changi, Singapore (about 6 hours and did the most craziest thingslike marathon competition in Changi :D) - Narita, Japan (about 1 hours and didn't have much times to explore Japan in Narita) -Minneapolis (about 5 hours,feel excited when the first time step this feet in the US!! And it's snowy outside the airport!! Damn we just wanna go outside!! :D) and finally.. Logan Airport, Boston!!!

Di dalam pesawat adalah hal yang sangat membosankan. Apalagi kalau sebelah kita pas ga enak (iya ga, ky? huhu), parahnya lagi, pesawat Delta Airlines kita yang dari Narita-Minneapolis tu even worst than the SQ or Delta yang dari Singapore-Japan. Padahal kan kita ngeluarin waktu paling banyak di pesawat Delta Narita-MI itu for about 11 hours. Udah ga ada TV set depan seat kita, sempit juga.. tapi dapet Rice disituu.. meal pertama yang keluar saya milih chicken rice bla bla bla and it was soooo delicious!! Beda dengan meal kedua.. saya bener2 lupa ada sausage pork-nya di menu eggs. They offers eggs/noodle and I choose the eggs..eh lupa kalau ternyata di egg-nya itu ada porknya..untung diingetin ma kiky..yaudah deh akhirnya ga kesentuh mealnya dan makan rotinya,fruits,yoghurt,etc.

Anyway,

Begitu sampai di Minneapolis, udah langsung kerasa banget bedanya airport manapun dengan airport US yang ketatnya minta ampun. Nadya yang baru ngeluarin camera-nya dan mau take picture aja langsung diteriakin ma security dari jauh.. "NO CAMERAS! NI PHOTOS!!" kita langsung jalan lurus ga berani ngapa2in hahahah. Padahal kan saljunya lucu, Sir.. huhu.

I dont know why they re so affraid of moslem, bombing issue, etc. Jilbabku emang ketutupan sama topi yang aku pake dan itu bikin aku bisa langsung antri buat check pasport, etc then go to the baggage claim buat ambil koper. Tapi, ary yang keliatan pake jilbab karena dia emang lagi ga pake topi masa langsung dipanggil dulu gitu dan kartu declare-nya dia langsung ditulisin apa gitu ga jelas. Tapi security for male is even worst and longer than female. Mereka para cowok2 itu masih harus diinterogasi dan ngisi beberapa form bla bla bla gitu buat meyakinkan they're ok and will come back to the home country such the schedule. Kita deh para cewek2 yang harus ngambilin koper2 mereka di baggage claim (berat..huff) trus kita tinggal gitu karena mereka masih lama sementara kita menuju ke pengecekan barang bawaan. Popmie ary sama mas buna disita karena mengandung chicken and they said we're country that has avian influenza virus so they can't let Ary and mas buna bring their popmie.. Besides, popmieku lolooooos!! hehhe.. itu ternyata usut punya usut karena mereka nyentang YES di pilihan yang "do you bring any food,vegetable,bla bla bla?" dan aku emang sengaja ga aku centang karena aku pikir popmieku ada di koper jadi semoga aja aman. Sementara foodku yang kaya sari roti,biskuat,oreo, permen karet terpaksa aku buang karena awalnya aku bawa di tas ransel.. huhu sayang banget.. coba aku bawa aja yaa.. ada kemungkinan lolos mungkin. Sekarang baru kerasa kelaperan malem2 ga ada camilan. Stokku tinggal popmie, milo, dan jahe wangi yang dibawain Ibu :)) Ohya, the first food that I buy in Minnesota Airport is.. as Stephanie (my lecturer) suggest: SUBWAY!! hehhe..and it cost about $7 includes taxes and water. Bingung banget tadi milih menunya di subway but finally we can eat that deliciously! :)

Well, sesampainya kita di Logan Airport, Boston kita langsung nyari shuttle bus kita dan setelah ada trouble dikit, akhirnya kita naik shuttle bus yang lain. Kita naik 2 shuttle bus..10orang di shuttle pertama, 6orang di shuttle yang satunya. It cost $12 per person to take us from Logan to our Hotel: Radisson. Ternyata emang deket banget dari venue 'Harvard National Model United Nations' yang diselenggarakan di Park PLaza Hotel. Thanks God.

And.. here we are in the Radisson.. hotelnya sama aja kaya hotel di Indonesia hahahah bedanya banyak bule aja hahah. Tadi anak-anak pada keluar ada yang cari makan, ke bar tapi ga boleh masuk gara2 belum 21 tahun *hahahah dodol*, dll. Tapi saya, ary, nadya, dan vivi stay in the room, enjoying the internet connection and some brochures about Boston. Get ready for tomorrow's trip! My God, it is almost 3 AM in the morning and I still wake up. I'm wondering this is what they call JETLAG or it just my another insomnia?? Hahahah no differences. Bedanya, kalau lagi insom di Indonesia ga sedingin ini (panas malah di Semarang!!).

Doanya ya teman-teman supaya perjalanan kita lancar dan conference-nya juga run well.. because actually that's the main purpose we travel here!! Hahahah.. sounds this note like indicating that we're in the holiday hahahah.. yea maybe that's the other purpose but just remind you, we're here for the "Harvard National Model United Nations" representing Paraguay as Universitas Diponegoro delegates. Wish us luck!! We'll have the conference on February 11-14 :) Me and Cresti are in the "Social Humanitarian and Cultural (SOCHUM) Committee". We have 2 topic areas: a) Rights of Refugee b) Ending World Hunger.

You wanna know more about HNMUN?? It's all in here: http://hnmun.org/

Prepare yourself for next year's delegates, UNDIP students!! :)

Already miss Indonesia,

Dini Hajarrahmah

PS. In Minneapolis Airport, there was a stranger from Lebanon that coming to me and he's so weird. He also knew I'm from Indonesia. As my dad warn me: NO TALK TO STRANGER. hahahah beware delegates!! :D