19 February 2010:
I arrived in Belgium at 23 December 2009. Tourist visa (Categories: 3 months short stay, multiple enter, Schengen territory) as a pass ticket to enter this wonderland (before came here, I only dared to dream about). I had been here almost 2 months and I saw a chance to get higher education here. I and my boyfriend worked hard to find the right information from many resources. We got the information to start a procedure to change a tourist visa to a student visa. I needed some documents from Indonesia (Jakarta) which all document was arranged by Iyung (one of my good friend) and was ready to be sent to Belgium. I had a tight time because I had to register to Gent University before 28 February 2010. I was kind of doubting to send it via post Coz I was worried if It’s not arrived in time. One of friends from Indonesia would fly out to Nederland and maybe I could ask her to bring my document with her. I would pick up them in Schipol, Amsterdam. Here was our conversation:
Diana : Hii
efrata : Hi, btw kamu jadi berangkat ke amsterdam tanggal 26 februari?jam berapa, say?
Diana : Smpe schipol jam 6.30 pagi
Diana : Smp sananya tggl 27 feb
Efrata : aku mau titip beberapa berkas dari jakarta. boleh?
Diana : kalo ngga berat yaa Coz barang2 aku udh berat banget
Efrata : oh ga, cuma kertas-kertas surat keterangan aja
Diana : Kirimin aja ke alamat hum eke d jakarta
Efrata : mungkin janjian ketemu sama temanku saja yah, klo dikirim takutnya ga nyampe, berkasnya penting
banget soalnya *tidak percaya pada POS INDONESIA MODE ON*
Diana : Ya gpp asal ketemuannya ga jauh. aku masih tinggal di Pejaten. woookeeeehhhh deh.
Diana : Kl jauh2 males say
Diana : Lg musim hjn
Diana : Sorry ya
Efrata : oh klo begitu ok deh..
Efrata : mungkin lebih baik dikirim pake pos aja ke belgia, sepertinya aga merepotkan
dikau..thanks
Diana : Ga merepotkan ko, Yah pilih cara yg lbh baik aja.
Everything went smoothly so far. I sit in level 3 of Dutch course and wait for my student visa approved. Today I chatted again with her while studying. The course is getting complex and difficult so I have to study continuously. This was the conversation:
Diana : Hi say
Efrata : hi
Diana : Mau tanya donk say
Diana : Kamu bawa dokumen2 apa aja utk lanjut kuliah di Gent?
Diana : Apa aja yg mesti dilegalisir atau ditranslate?
She wanted me to give her some information how to extend a visa or changing it become a student visa and also how to register to Gent University and which documents are being needed. I asked inside me quickly: Should I give this information to her. I and Sven needed so much time to surf in internet, asked people around, sent email to friends that probably could give an information. In the other hand, Even to bring my documents along with her, she didn't want. A few simple reasons not to do that and I was upset coz of that. Huffff…but I wanted Indonesian become more develop than before. If this information helps one of Indonesian to reach her dream and to educate better, why not? Then I gave the information.
Efrata : Yowis...mo tny prosedur cr dftr kul disana& ngajuin visa studi dari visa turis pegimana? klo di belgia..tinggal ke citiy hal aja..bilang mau buat student visa, seminggu sebelum masa tuirs visanya habis.. klo disini syaratnya: 1. surat keterangan sehat dari dokter 2. fotokopi paspor 3. paspoto ukuran paspor 4 buah 4. isi formulir 5.SKCK dari indonesia 6. Surat keterangan domisili dari Indonesia 7. Surat keterangan registrasi les intensif bahasa belanda 8. pertama surat keterangan mendaftar master di gent university (klo udah dapat admission letter) langsung ngasih admission letter 9. garantorku harus ngisi beberapa formulir yang berbeda lagi dan harus ngasih slip gaji dan beberapa data lainnya lagi skg tentang bagaimana daftar di univnya bisa cek infonya di www.ugent.be/en
Efrata : sebenarnya disana semuanya sangat lengkap..akupun dapat info semuanya darisana.. 1. Formulir buat daftar UGENT bersifat spesifik dengan nomor koresponden yang spesifik, jadi formnya ga bisa didownload..mereka yang akan mengirimkan ke kita..jadi alamat email, nama kita waktu minta formulir dan nama kita sebagai pendaftar harus sama trus ijasah sama transkrip pake ditranslate ke bahasa inggris atau belanda oleh sworn translataor yang ditunjuk kedutaan belgia di indonesia dan dilegalisir sama kedutaan belgia di Indonesia. udah itu saja.. semoga dapat membantu.
I told her what documents which she is needed and I gave her the website of the University. I really wish that’s she managed to get everything in order and could study here. Then the conversation were going futher.
Diana : Wah terimakasih ef. Btw yg td km ksh info ke aku bs di copy dan tlg kirim ke email aku: dinadiana@yahoo.com.
What? So after she asked me that information, she didn’t even want to save or to write them down! I got surprised, a big surprised! She didn’t even please me to do it, I felt like she gave an order to me to send it L.
Efrata : kamu kamu copy aja yah
Diana : Aku cuma chat dr hp skg, masih jam kerja dan ga bs buka laptop
Diana : Maaf ya say
She said that she was chatting with phone and couldn’t turn on her laptop because she was working. I absolutely didn’t want to do.
Efrata : kamu lihat diarchive kamu aja nanti dilaptop..biasanya ada kok
Efrata : maaf yah..aku juga sibuk.
I was busy too, I took time to type all that information which she need. So I answered: sorry, I am busy too J. Is it me weird or her mentality? Am I changing too much? Does my mindset become a western or our societies change? Am I asking too much politeness or are our societies forgetting about manners and way of life? I don’t know and I have no time to think about it. So I decided to study further. My Dutch course is difficult enough for my ordinary brain and I don’t want this bother me so much.
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