Summer Break 2016

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I used to thinking that after graduating from school then I have to get a job for a living, there will be no more vacation for me....

Thank God I still have that luxury here...
So I have three weeks vacation and I invited my parents to come to Sweden.
I think it is important for them to know what kind of life I am having here.

So with several hindrances, finally they could arrive safe and sound here.
Started from the missing baggage in AMS, so that my mom was so worried that the food she brought special for me would be rotten.... until the improper visa for some of our trip.
Wow, I think paying 50 million rupiahs for the travel company for Europe trip is still reasonable, because it was indeed lots of things to prepare!



lots of travelling, nice view and good food with my parents.


Compared to what they have done to me for whole my life, that was nothing incomparable.

It reminds me of how grateful I am to have them in my life....
I know that in my society to live this far is not a common one. I should have gotten married by now, breeding kids with someone maybe that my parents like.
But I am allowed to pursue my career, living the way I like here.
I forgot how, but I have asked my mom, if she didnt agree I will go home, because I believe all my blessings in life come from my parents' permission.
My mom herself is quite a conservative and old-school one. But she lets me go to spread my wings here.
I owe them so much.

After my mom arrived back to Indonesia, she sent me a short text message saying thank you and she said she is lucky to have me. I joked her by saying if she remembered the days I made her sad  in the past. She said I wasnt a naughty kid, never been, but she was the one who was too strict for me, for my own's sake.
It's true. and I think she can see me as a fully grown up lady now, not a kid anymore. We have an even closer relationship.

To be with the ones I love, at the place that I like, and doing what I enjoy.... is pretty much heaven on earth for me. I am that simple though.

Have a nice weekend! Ha en bra helgen!


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