SIMPLICITY

Satu tahun di Jerman pastinya banyak sekali pengalaman yang aku dapat. Sebenarnya sih gatel gitu pengen cerita-cerita ke semuanya, tapi kok ya...hmm..karena satu dan lain hal bloggingnya agak macet gitu. Nah, setelah ini, aku berjanji (pada diri sendiri) bakalan merapikan jurnal dan menuangkannya dalam tulisan yang lebih rapi dan layak baca. Tagihlah kalau tidak segera terealisasi. Aku akan senang dengan tagihannya. Haha... Di Jerman sudah musim panas lagi, sama seperti musim kedatanganku tahun lalu. Jadi lebih enak nih nulisnya, pengalamanku akan aku tulis sesuai kronologi musim. Semoga menjadi tulisan yang menginspirasi nantinya. Semangat!

It was like….exactly one year ago, when I started my…well...let’s call it “pilgrimage” That memory wasn’t at all vague. I still remember exactly what I wore, what I carried, how I felt, what I was afraid of and what I didn't care about. That day when I stepped my feet for the first time to that place beyond the ocean. I do not mean to be hyperbolic. Well, yeah, it’s your right to think that I am. Yet I will let this writing be my reflection.  A good friend of mine (I don’t know if I should give her a credit, I hope she read this post :P) asked me about the “resume” of my experience, that’s why I have an idea to compose this reflection. Oh well, this Ignatian pedagogy also affects me so much so that I thought it is highly necessary to put all my experiences together in a reflection. I write in English so that it can reach wider audiences; including the people I meet during my pilgrimage.  Just a week after my coming back from a place beyond the ocean, I started to not