Now I am in Semarang, only for a couple of weeks. I am doing my fieldwork and having my Christmas break at the same time.
It's always nice to be at "home" with the people you know for yeaaarrrssss... but just like usual, I feel a bit estranged, a bit alienated...
Once I wrote...
"For people who go... things they left behind stay the same..."
And it's not always nice to experience changes when you are not part of it.
People talk about Shaun the Sheep (?) ... I don't have any idea about while I talk about Terra Nova, something they don't have any idea about.
People sing some 'Ayu Ting Ting' ... I don't know about ... when I talk about some summer concert they don't understand...
But above all... the worst thing is I have to meet people and to talk to them a lot. I don't really have time to write posts anymore, I am much too exhausted in the end of the day ...
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kapan ketemuan Ma'am?
No wonder you haven't been updating for a while. Anyway, It's the W-Curve of adaptation stage/culture shock stage, I've been learning. It seems most of sojourners experienced what you feel. LOL.
Welcome home.
and I just realized you posted in English when you're in Indonesia and posted in Indonesian while you're not.
Dear Ike,
I really like your life. Would you like to be my object of research?
madammm....yok ketemuann....hang out kmn gt?
@lingga: we met ... huahahahahaha...
@bybyg: yeah... I've just realized that too ... I mean that I tend to write in Indonesian when I am away from home ... it's kinda growing an attachment with the world you leave behind ... and another way around. object of ur research??? Sureeeee ... btw, what are you researching? #curious ...
@Glo: anytime next week gloo ... I've met some 2006 students already...
LOL.. I am studying Language and Intercultural Communication, and my latest paper was about the adaptation process that changed sojourners identity. Still in progress though... :D
How's your holiday?
@byg: wow Byg, u're studying a really interesting subject... and sure, I'll be glad to be an object of ur research ... I hope I won't confuse you with my unstable identity... hehe ...
My holiday? Speaking frankly, lately I feel like I am inside a surreal dream ... I don't feel like I do real things ...
I believe what you're studying is not less interesting than mine :D Well... I think if you want to observe someone, the more confusing the better because you know there's something to be observed, isn't it?
Anyways, I think holiday and not doing anything real is something I would say... normal :D But I think it's not what you have expected before you went home...
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